Is Our Ruling Class Smart, Dumb, or Really Dumb Asses?
The question that keeps occurring to a confirmed regime opponent like myself in this First Year of the Great Biden Era is this: What is really going on? Is the ruling class executing a brilliant strategy to transform the political landscape for the next generation? Are they just fumbling along, trying to keep ahead of their wokist crazies? Or are they executing another of Baldrick’s Cunning Plans that will inevitably blow up in their faces?
Let’s look at Option One. The closest thing I have ever seen to a brilliant strategy is Bill Clinton’s 1992 “New Democrat” campaign: nobody here but us moderates. But HillaryCare proved that a lie, and so the voters gave us the first Republican Congress in 50 years. So “New Democrat” was just a tactic to win an election. Then there was the Emerging Democratic Majority from Judis and Teixeira in the early 2000s about the inevitable Democratic majority of the educated, the young, the women, and the minorities. How’s that coming along, dear Democrats, down on the border?
Of course, then there is Sundance’s Fourth Branch of Government theory, that ever since Obama, the U.S. has been ruled by the intelligence community that knows everything about us, and can send a Donald Trump to hell any time it wants. Maybe the lefties and the gumshoes think this is brilliant. I don’t. The whole point of politics is to have a safety valve to avoid civil war. So the whole place doesn’t blow up.
The Biden U-Turn on the COVID rent moratorium and the student loan relief extension and the continued unemployment bonuses suggest Option Two: trying to keep ahead of the peaceful protesters. 
If I were Mr. Big I would be saying to my aides that the longer these handouts continue the harder it will be to eliminate them. This is because the longer the checks go out the more people will adjust their lives around the monthly check and be really angry if it ever goes away.
See, if I were president I would be trying to get the economy back to normal as soon as possible because I would be worried that all the handouts would distort the economy, and unleash inflation, asset bubbles, and recessions that would wreck my presidency. I would bark at my aides that despite the narrative, FDR really screwed the economy in the 1930s, and the Great Society programs set up the inflation of the 1970s, and the slow recovery from the Great Recession of 2008 was a prime reason why the voters have been turning to Republicans in recent years, and that the massive spending proposals of my administration were bound to cause economic and political trouble in the near future, certainly before 2024. That’s what I’d be thinking, for all that I’m no genius.
Then there is Option Three: Baldrick’s Cunning Plan that turns out to be not so cunning after all. How about this:
Colorado federal magistrate judge, N. Reid Neureiter, “sanctioned lawyers who challenged the 2020 presidential election results, calling their election claims ‘fantastical.’”
Because if a lowly “magistrate” is doing this, then he is getting the word from on high. Imagine the outrage from high and low in our beloved ruling class if, back in the day, federal magistrate judges started sanctioning Democratic lawyers for pushing Hillary Clinton’s Russian Collusion fantasies. I mean, really! You guys want to go down that road, denying the courts to crazy Republicans? Surely, it would be much better to give them full rein to rummage around and come up with nothing and prove the regime narrative that there is nothing to see here.
And that is to say, nothing of the Five Year Plan to get rid of Donald Trump. Earth to Ruling Class: Donald Trump was not an insult to the noblest ruling class that ever bent the arc of history towards justice. It was a message that you guys got trouble, right here in River City, if you keep trashing and humiliating and utterly ignoring the religious and cultural and political and economic needs of the ordinary middle class.
You guys would get the picture if you just thought for a moment about your sacred Ally narrative: that you are Allies of the Oppressed Peoples against the White Oppressors. If you were real Critical Theorists you would at least try out a Critical Ally Theory: what if the Allies are really the most conceited and dumb-as-a-post ruling class in history; what if the Oppressed Peoples are just recent migrants to the city that haven’t yet built the skills to master life in the city, no thanks to the Allies; what if the White Oppressors are just the ordinary middle class that wants to follow the rules, go to work, and obey the law? And how would you brilliant educated critical theorists know which witch is which?
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The political tactics of progressive partisans carried out and nurtured through the political institution of the Democratic Party and its subsidiary organizations, including the higher education establishment, the media, and now in corporations, have become overweening, ruthless, acrimonious, and unapologetically extreme.
Rise of the Progressive Politburo
Over the past five years, the pursuit of progressive politics has gone well beyond intemperance. Progressives have the dubious distinction of successfully standing on its head Clausewitz's dictum, that war is the continuation of politics by other means. For the hard left wing of the Democratic Party, it is politics that is the continuation of war by other means.
Individuals who disregard the commandments of the political correctness religion are punished by being blacklisted and ostracized from civil society, forced to attend sensitivity training sessions, or engage in acts of public self-flagellation, complete with confessions for desecrating the inviolable provisions of identity politics, issued and enforced by progressive zealots in academia, the media, and the Democratic Party.
Just as the use of the term "counter-revolutionary" became entirely arbitrary and capricious in Soviet Russia, so too today is the ever-evolving definition of exactly what constitutes "racism." For the commissars of the Progressive Politburo, racism is a term, the definition of which is infinitely elastic and mutable, altered whenever necessary to support the preferred progressive Narrative of oppressor and oppressed. In short, racism is whatever progressives deem it to be at any given point in time.
Indeed, the success of the CRT campaign to date is that progressives have weaponized accusations of racism in the same manner as Stalin and his henchmen did with bogus charges of "counter-revolutionary" activities. Today's whimsical and perennial accusations of "racism" are raised with the same frequency and telling effect as Stalin's use of the sweeping term "counterrevolutionary."
CRT advocates use this tactic deftly, with the consent and approval of the Pravda media, as an instrument of trepidation and compliance; sometimes it's used as a cudgel, or sword of Damocles, against corporations, to extort money or browbeat them into pronouncing support for progressive political policies. From speech codes to overt censorship, enacted through the Orwellian concept of "misinformation," progressives are following a historical script that was used by the Soviet Politburo, to consolidate their power and rule with an iron hand to crush those dissenters in their path.
These noxious political tactics are most pronounced in the quest to root out the purported evils of systemic racism. The most prominent and telling manifestation of the power of the Progressive Politburo is in the current audacious plan to subjugate every aspect of American life under the aegis of racialism, which at present entails the attempt to coerce school districts and corporations to implement the teachings of CRT.
The New Democratic Party
History will record Biden's election as the date when the governing philosophy of the Democratic Party officially was taken over or usurped by the identity politics teachings, ideas, and recommended policy mandates of zany left-wing college professors, specializing in grievance studies and proselytizing the primacy of racialism. These philosopher-kings of the new Democratic Party preach endlessly about the menacing nature of "Whiteness" — the newest oppressor in progressives' dichotomous neo-Marxist world of terminal conflict. The CRT flock no longer cites Marx's seminal work Das Kapital, but rather their new chosen ideological bible, "Das Whiteness."
Large American multi-national corporations have joined with the government, as well as with the Democratic Party, to form a type of corporate state, where the belief in the strictures of identity politics and in the legitimacy of the socio-economic theory of racialism is ubiquitous and unchallenged. Many corporations cower in fear of being stigmatized with accusations of racism, for their opposition to or lack of affirmative support for Democrats' political issues. Companies today must be forever vigilant to monitor speech and policies that may be perceived as slights against members of identity politics protected classes.
The pernicious doctrine of CRT
In one sense, CRT as a social doctrine is merely old affirmative action wine in new bottles. CRT gains acceptance today by avoiding the "reverse discrimination" Achilles heel that has always plagued affirmative action practices; it acquires novelty by its pretensions to be a cogent, systematic political theory.
CRT is a strange amalgamation comprising a crude, bargain-basement version of Marxism, identity politics principles, and a dash of Leninism. This doctrinal smorgasbord is used to bootstrap or shoehorn their intellectually incoherent theory, to describe American history and society as inherently and irredeemably racist.
For the past two decades, academic institutions have been incubators for birthing new theories and concepts to feed the diversity beast's need for instances of perpetual grievance. The Democratic Party, as the vehicle for the Progressive Politburo, provided a safe harbor for these academic theories and novel paradigms of oppression, and they have now entered the mainstream.
In the Soviet Union, the commissars were omnipresent, ensuring that individuals and institutions complied with party dogma and policies. Politics had primacy because it was integral to every aspect of society, culture, and the economy. There was no escape from revolutionary politics or ideology because the Communist Party made it it's business to ensure that everything was politicized.
Similarly, members of the Progressive Politburo have now politicized every aspect of American society. They instill their divisive, partisan ideology, in sports, public schools, the military, and the arts and entertainment worlds, as well as in foreign policy.
Like Marxism, CRT promises a similar future-based utopia for its path toward a promised land of a racist-free society. The means to its professed ends, however, will balkanize the country along divisive racial lines, by fomenting conflict between those imbued from birth with "White privilege and those people "of color."
Recent concerted, if somewhat ad hoc, efforts to thwart the runaway CRT train and its desire for the tectonic transformation of the nation should provide some consolation for those who cherish freedom of thought, association, and speech. But what is disheartening — indeed, frightening — is that the virus of racialism, the Democratic Party's new omnibus governing template, has spread with such alacrity among so many Americans.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)
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