“That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
What “men” are by their Nature! What “women” have been denied of their Nature! Trans-historical concepts are pernicious. Who likes all men? Who likes all women? I once dropped into a birthday party, with a bottle of French champagne, for a one year old baby. The aunt and grandmother of the child had, with pride, presented this unknowing being with “Baby’s First Book of Feminism.” I said, ‘That’s fine, as long as you also give him the Big Book of Bad Mothers.’ Those two women shot laser beams at me from their eyes, but they enjoyed the champagne. If you insist on exposing the nonsense of others, wise also to bring them a drink. ‘You hopeless morons are the craven and depraved subjects of a brutal empire. Yes, it’s a rare highland tequila...’
On the abstractions, an irrational goofball nation needs more: Eternal Racism. Fascism! We have to fight it. We have to. What fight? 10 million Japanese, 2 million Koreans, 3.4 million Vietnamese,1 million Iraqis. What fight against fascism? Well, Trump! We hate him! Here, with his near-set eyes is the tiny-minded Yale-bound Serious Man, Timothy Snyder, who lives in these terms. He wrote recently that one of the things that must happen, to forestall Trump’s fascism, is, “Big business should support democracy.” I’ll call them. If I could reach the late railroad magnate Jay Gould, he might reply with his famous quip, “The great thing about America is that I can pay one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
I don’t think Tim wrote that hysterically laughing when he got another check for being vigilant in his fight against “fascism”. When Tim says, “Fascism!”, he is calling to the source of his career to declare his loyalty. He is unemployable if he doesn’t moan about Putin and Trump. Serve power or serve nachos. He’s staying on the right side of New Haven.
Fascism? If it has a meaning at all -- endlessly abused as a term by these hustlers who, remember, do not care enough to examine their own prejudices, ever -- we know as the common practice of the endless bureaucracies of the United States of America and its formal, if highly symbolic, democratically elected government.
It is unfair to Tim. He is just an Imperial Pervert. He is passionate about what he says. He just doesn’t wonder why Lockheed Martin sends him care packages at the summer camp that is the American University.
But Putin! God and Dorks at Yale, shriek! Elites assume that they must control the masses, else chaos. But they forget that the masses can now listen to their plans. Tim Snyder would have lived, and been influential, in exactly the same way as his predecessors, the nightmare McBundy brothers and Walt Rostow (servants of the Democratic Party only because they didn’t know enough Mandarin to get in with Mao) but the internet puts him out there. You can see his position and bent of his interests. I don’t think I am the only American who knows that whenever someone tries to lecture you about any empire but the one we live in, reach for your wallet.
Let me explain what happened in 2016. The Clintons thought that there was no chance that their hold on African American voters could slip. For sixty years, the Democratic Party polled around 95 percent of the Black vote. So they thought: they can only vote for us. And the Clintons’ had experience: In 1996, several moribund trade unions, still choking on NAFTA, said they would not vote for Bill Clinton. He replied, “Good for you. Vote for Bob Dole.” And the unions backed down. So given their idea of captive voters, they pursued this strategy: the future of the Democratic Party is white suburban Republican women. And the Campaign, so in touch with reality, went for it. Who didn’t? African Americans didn’t turn out in Philadelphia, and Detroit and Milwaukee. That was it.
A Michigan Democrat congressman said that December, “She didn’t do any labor-specific events that I’m aware of.” Lots of those black people that didn’t go out to vote? Some current, many more former: union workers. Hillary ran no ads in Michigan, zero, until the last few weeks of the campaign.
This is all very mundane. It would take a miracle not to understand it. At present, Identity performs that miracle. When it fails, you hear things about Russia. Or, the new “two-fer”, Do you know how gay people are treated in Russia?!
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