THERE’S a neologism that ought to stick. From @CliftonDuncan on X:
The Bluegeoisie can never come back to the center.
Everyone is now fully aware of how contemptuous, how bereft of common sense, how dishonest and incompetent they are. It won’t work.
They can never build “their own Joe Rogan.” The notion is ridiculous–not just because it evinces their tendency toward top-down control, but because their cult renders intellectual, political and philosophical exploration outside of narrow ideological parameters impossible.
These people have psychotic meltdowns, blacklist peers, and cut off relatives over politics. They’re incapable of empathizing with anyone outside their congregation.
For all their fetishizing of credentials, their masturbatory exaltation of their educations, they’re violently allergic to intellectual curiosity–how on earth COULD they “build” their own Rogan, or a Lex Fridman, whose curiosity and openness are part of their brand?
How COULD they lower themselves to understand why they’re so despised?
Look at these people now, a month out from the election. They’re losers who are still lost, liars who keep lying. They’re throwing tantrums. Pointing fingers. Doubling and tripling down. The lack of reflection is astonishing.
They haven’t learned anything because they can’t learn anything. Learning would threaten their careers, reputations and relationships. Learning would require them to abandon the hubris that defines them.
They’ll never do that.
And even if they did, who would believe them, or be willing to listen, after they spent decades calling everyone racists and sexists, fascists and Nazis? Who’s going to forget such long-term abuse and slander?
We know power corrupts. The pendulum has now swung forcefully in a different direction. We need strong, sensible, rational opposition to check the excesses of those now assuming power.
Where the hell is it going to come from?
Excellent observation, and good question.
The last two sentences make me think this person is from the Left. They need “to check the excesses of those now assuming power.” Those now assuming power are affiliated with Trump, and not necessarily Republicans. And definitely not deep state.
Let’s ignore the excesses of those now LEAVING power.
I think you’re overreading it. It’s too late to check those leaving power. Anyone IN power should be monitored closely and regulated tightly. I’m a Constitutionalist and agree fully. Strong, sensible, rational opposition to power is a fucking requirement. Unfortunately the opposition now is off their meds.
If you look at the polls and stats and voting, there’s about 30% that refuse to even curiously entertain any thought outside of the propaganda and echo chamber slogans. They are truly convinced that literally everyone else is wrong, yet they will never allow their dogma to be challenged, and believe that anyone who even makes them uncomfortable should literally be imprisoned or (better yet) killed. Cognitive dissonance as a lifestyle.
I may be overreading the post, and agree with the requirement of supervision of those in power. But it must be applied evenly to all those in power, or it is a farce.
Those currently in power are reportedly taking steps to prevent the next administration from effectively performing their sworn duties. Should those people be sanctioned for their actions, even though they are leaving power, or deep state officials for whom there seems to be no accountability?
Perhaps we could send the top six levels of every agency and office home with a gold watch and a bar to any further service.
Twatwaffle… criminals need to HANG for what they’ve done. This is not the time for moderating a response. It will only beget a stronger reaction next time. You clearly don’t understand power. Enemies must be crushed. You don’t leave The Prince alive after deposing The King. Read Machiavelli you ignoramous. STFU and let the adults handle this. Your logic is compromised, you’re effectively one of them.
More importantly, I don’t think they can come back because every single die-hard 50-cat blue voter I know is well into their 70s and all the hippie boomers are dying off.
Referring to boomers is engaging in Generationology, which is just like astrology. You wouldn’t rail against Geminis for having split personalities, would you? Scorpios for having stings in their tails?
All the hippy boomers? What about all the non-hippy boomers? Most of the hippies were pre-boomers, I don’t recall what that generation was called, and I don’t care.
I’m just trying to point out that stereotypical thinking is always retarded, no matter how trendy it may appear.
Bottom line is, stupidity will not die out with the last boomer. I wish it would, but unfortunately history and life doesn’t work that way. Stupidity abides.
Ye; we need strong, sensible, rational opposition to those in power; today, yesterday and tomorrow. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Today this opposition first actions should be joining in with the reckoning for those who have committed wrongs in the last four years if this opposition wants any credibility at all.
Seeking truth begins with recognizing wrongs and mistakes.
“They haven’t learned anything because they can’t learn anything. Learning would threaten their careers, reputations and relationships. Learning would require them to abandon the hubris that defines them.”
I agree, as long as the people we are talking about are memetic leftist NPCs. Unfortunately many ‘on the left’ are deeply capable and connected people, who accept and believe the necessary lies for social reasons. And they have (mostly) real jobs that DOGE might be able to turn to benefit the people instead of the bureaucracy.
They can’t be tossed aside and ignored, because they control (or are) 85% of the Swamp. If you want a country that lives not by lies, you must get their buy-in to reform.
Just as normal people reacted against the seething contempt of the Bluegoisie, the normal swamp worker has the choice of getting with the program and making the world better, or sabotaging reform.
Our contempt increases the likelihood of their reactance.
In order to balance power with power one must accept the legitimacy of the other. Only Fettermen (D-PA) is willing to accept the legitimacy of the victors. The others are nihilists and must be politically destroyed.
We have the nexus of power by design and we have the nexus of power by operation. Which one should be more carefully watched?
Most progressives eschew the notion of a higher power; they are godless, which leads them, even if subconsciously, to assume the position for themselves. For instance, a central tenant of Marxism is to mould a “better man.” Concomitant to this thinking is an assumption of infallibility. Infallibility makes self-reflection impossible, or at least unnecessary. When you can’t or won’t self reflect, then learning and correcting are impossible.