One wonders when – if – the greater American Middle Class, on both sides of the aisle, will grasp the squeeze being put on them – us – from both above and below before they – we – are crushed. It is the crushing that is the goal, BTW, but we are large enough – for now – to stop it if we recognize, accept and act against the squeeze.
This cannot accurately be seen as a partisan issue. The Right, since returning from the wilderness in 1994, has not one time forced the Left to act as the minority the voters often purposefully have made it, nor have they, themselves, acted as the majority the voters have made them; it is difficult to see this failure to act on the desires of their base as accidental. Simply, it’s a uniparty: “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” (1)
As Professor John Searle, former head of UC Berkeley’s Philosophy department noted (2) years ago,
“If you’re a serious intellectual, you should not be comfortable on the left-right spectrum. The right’s so stupid it’s not even worth discussing. But the left is evil.”
From above, the ruling class / political establishment, we are removed from our land (3), prohibited from critical thinking, closed into our homes and out of our jobs and education, and prohibited from speaking against what are obviously, to every person still capable of critical thought, the hoax of “Climate Change,” the anti-biology of “trans,” the engineered biowarfare virus, “Covid,” the artificial DNA map “vaccine” (from which 1,223 died (4) in just the first 90 days of Pfizer’s pre-FDA-approval “trial”), the sheer unacceptable nonsense of porn in school libraries, the soon-to-be-outlawing of freedom of purchase via CBDC, and the illegalities of and by illegal aliens.
From below, we are forced to endure without complaint race riots encouraged and excused by federal, state and municipal governments in the streets and mass lootings in stores already struggling against online shopping and its destruction of jobs, said riots and looting resulting in un-penalized tens of murders and billions of dollars of property damage, much of which we in the Middle will have to pay for in taxes to rebuild destroyed government buildings, and the rest we will pay for via increased insurance rates. And, as parents finally are awakening to in NYC and CHI, the overburdening of municipal support as families are kicked-out of their homes, travelers kicked-out of their hotels, and children kicked-out of their schools by this rising flood of illegal aliens pushing their way through gates welded open (5) by those above.
These illegals are illiterate and cannot compete in a first world economy. (My mom taught in East LA for 25 years at a bilingual school. These kids can speak street Spanglish, but must be taught Spanish before bilingual textbooks are of any use at all.) Illegals from all over the world are here for freebies the establishment is only too happy to provide from Middle Class tax dollars as long as the bodies keep coming to alter apportionment (6) (this is not about illegals voting) and drive rural Red House seats and Electoral College votes to metro Blue.
The establishment right – which does not believe in enforcing the border laws (the right has held congress off and on several times in the past few decades and has done nothing to enforce the law) – either is in on the plot, too stupid to understand this or clutching their pearls.
Illegal aliens here are the same problem as in Europe. In America the problem is at a smaller scale and will arrive less-quickly as our fertility is not crashing as fast as Europe’s, but the fact of the matter is this: Below-replacement fertility means that in one (Europe) or a few (America) generations the majority of those entering the job market will be uneducated, illiterate and uncompetitive in any first world economy – including modern farming methods and technologies that feed the world. Once the taxpayers currently employed retire and die off and the welfare they pay for evaporates, only violence remains for these unemployable illiterates to feed their families. And there won’t be enough food.
As in Camp of the Saints (7), the attack on the Middle from the those below is existential. It only can be stopped by stopping those above.
If we still lived in a Constitutional Republic (ICYMI – we don’t), the laws passed by congress and signed by the president would be enforced and enforced blindly. Our immigration laws are NOT being enforced, the Border Patrol – whose ONLY job is their enforcement – is NOT arresting the person refusing to enforce the law (Mayorkas), and the entire nation is suffering from it, as are those dying and being raped on the way to and across our non-border.
For the Left, this is just the same old-same old (8) in a new flavor: Illegal immigration today, illegal immigration tomorrow, illegal immigration forever.
America cannot survive this. The Left knows this. They are not making “mistakes:” our destruction is their goal. Perhaps the only people still thinking the establishment right provides a working alternative are those in the employ of Conservative, Inc. No one capable of critical thought sees the GOP as having had any positive impact in stopping or even slowing the advance of the communist left across the West.
The point is this: no one in the establishment is on the side of the Middle Class that created and sustains – so far – this great nation. This must change or America is over – for us and, more importantly, for our posterity. If we don’t care more about our children than we do about ourselves, we have no business being parents. Or voters.
Two men stand in the way of the establishment: RFK, Jr., and Trump. The party to which each of these men belongs is doing their best – within and without electoral tradition and the law – to stop both men from gaining power. The not-quite-unspoken question across America – left (9) and right (10) – is, “How far will they go?”
The question we must put to ourselves is Solzhenitsyn’s comment (11) on how the Bolsheviks were able to take over Russia: “We didn’t love freedom enough.”
Do we?
People complain that our military is too big for us to be effective in changing what the establishment seems intent on prohibiting: non-violent change. Solzhenitsyn again (12):
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
President Biden yaks about needing F15s to defend ourselves from this accelerating authoritarianism. F15s need pilots, and tanks need drivers. One has no need to attack the weapon.
WE – the Middle Class – are large enough to stop this madness, this destruction, to save our childrens’ futures.
Will we choose to do so?
It’s getting late.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/its_a_big_club_and_you_aint_in_it.html
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/08/23/report-biden-admin-welds-arizona-border-wall-gates-open/
https://alexanderscipio.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-open-borders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/16/gunman-arrested-robert-f-kennedy-campaign/
https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-fears-trump-assassination-podcast-interview/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/143849-we-didn-t-love-freedom-enough