Form Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish we get American Uprising
I don't like the term "elite." That is how they think of themselves. "The smartest guys in the room." These smart guys engineered the Dot Com disaster in the 1990s. The real estate collapse in 2008. And more. They were shocked when Putin did exactly what he said he was going to do, and invaded and annexed Crimea. There are more things that these self-declared smart guys have done.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
The elites told us to sit down and shut up. They called us Deplorables, and Garbage, and worse. They said we are bitter, clinging to guns and religion, while they are the high-priests of Progress. Or something.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The states fell one by one right down to Pennsylvania. The working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
Of course the fight isn't over, but Daniel Greenfield is hopeful. I'm not sure I'm hopeful, exactly, but I'm not as cynical as I was last week.
Go read the whole thing. In addition to everything else, it includes a recommendation, sort of, for a book to read. I will have to put it on the list of things to read. (Hat tip to DaleyGator.)
I don't believe we are voting our way out of this. Historically the collapse of civilizations is inevitable, but I am grateful for the temporary journey back from the edge of communism. I am seventy four and selfishly hope the darkness does stays it's hand for what I have left of life.
ReplyDeleteThere are collapses and collapses though. The British Empire Fell, and the UK was on hard times for while, but they didn't lose civilization. The Bronze Age fell and it was a few hundred years before civilization was back. Same for the Fall of Rome and Europe anyway. I think the American "empire" needs to fall. (Do we really need troops in over 100 countries?) I think Europe needs to pay for its own damn security. But I don't want 300 years of dark ages, or an equal time of a techno-dystopia.
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