r3vo
12-17-2016, 02:59 AM
Trump fooled everyone into believing he was the change that was needed.
For each group that wanted change, he – like the outgoing Marxoid negro – conned them into believing he was it: despite these groups wanting radically different and mutually exclusive change (supposing they had even the faintest idea of what kind of change they wanted, which they almost without exception did not); and despite Trump having no principles or even vaguely coherent plans. Of course, he didn't actually fool everyone. He fooled the electorate, the masses, the rabble. They occupy not only HUD housing and trailer parks, but also the professional offices in the nicer parts of town, and even the premier libertarian (?) forum called RPF; the truth is that the vast majority of people, of all intelligence quotients and stations in life, are deeply and profoundly retarded when it comes to politics. Yes, some of us weren't fooled, because we aren't fools, but we were hopelessly outnumbered.
In other words, it was a typical election cycle.
But, it was atypical in one important respect. Hope for libertarian reform via electoral politics was publicly poked, prodded, adorned with a crown of thorns, crucified, burnt at the stake, and buried in a dung-heap. There will be no libertarian reform for the foreseeable future, because the only possible vehicles for such a movement have been hijacked by paint-huffing chimpanzees and crashed at full speed into a brick wall (in the case of the GOP) or left to rust out beyond repair in the yard (in the case of the LP). In all probability, the time for reform is permanently passed. It was always a long shot; now it's Polish cavalry charges c. 1939. People fighting against the very essence of democratic politics, i.e. it's inherent bias toward ever increasing outlays from the trough, do not get many chances better than we had this year. A once in a generation opportunity was squandered, but – what's worse, much worse, catastrophic, hope-shredding, and what I'm beginning to appreciate ever more clearly – it was probably bound to be squandered, by the very nature of this enterprise, and the way we have to try to win, and the types of people whose votes we need to win. Necessity, not contingency, finished us off. Sisyphus just can not get up that hill, can he? ...because things aren't arranged so that he can.
There is, however, one silver lining.
People are losing faith in democracy.
As some of you may recall, I've been a monarchist for some years. Consequently, I find this to be an interesting time. There are opportunities afoot. There is blood in the water. The Great Cancer at the heart of the what we still sardonically call civilization is maybe, almost, in remission. There might be a chance to finally excise it and restore health to the body politic before gangrene sets in. Of course, with some NAZI Trumpanimals being hostile to democracy themselves (for entirely different reasons than we liberals should be, mind you, Hitlers =/= Hohenzollerns), and quite keen on arbitrary imprisonment, and censorship, and warrantless searching, and torture, etc, we have to be concerned about this trend developing into a 1933 type situation. The good news on that front is that Trump, being a degenerate imbecile, is not remotely capable of seizing, let along competently exercising, real power. However, some of his hangers-on may be more competent. It's really hard to say what might happen. The main interests groups in the capital are obviously salivating at the prospect of a sede vacante Presidency run by mercenary non-entities – George Bush squared – in a few months. It's going to be quite the show.
In any event, there's nothing for us there: let us leave pleb politics for the plebs.
The thing to do at the moment, if it's ever going to be done in our lifetimes, is to do whatever we can to accelerate the growing understanding among thinking people – and the growing sense among unthinking people – that democracy is failing.
Because, obviously, it is.
And the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
...
Liberalism was ruined once by foolishly aligning itself with democracy.
Let's not do it again.
The future of liberalism must be:
-cosmopolitanism (contra the volkish nationalism of the Trumpanimals)
-meritocracy (contra the lumpenproletarian levelling of the triggleypuffs)
-and monarchism or oligarchy (contra...everyone [but no one whose opinion matters])
So, that's it.
r3vo out
For each group that wanted change, he – like the outgoing Marxoid negro – conned them into believing he was it: despite these groups wanting radically different and mutually exclusive change (supposing they had even the faintest idea of what kind of change they wanted, which they almost without exception did not); and despite Trump having no principles or even vaguely coherent plans. Of course, he didn't actually fool everyone. He fooled the electorate, the masses, the rabble. They occupy not only HUD housing and trailer parks, but also the professional offices in the nicer parts of town, and even the premier libertarian (?) forum called RPF; the truth is that the vast majority of people, of all intelligence quotients and stations in life, are deeply and profoundly retarded when it comes to politics. Yes, some of us weren't fooled, because we aren't fools, but we were hopelessly outnumbered.
In other words, it was a typical election cycle.
But, it was atypical in one important respect. Hope for libertarian reform via electoral politics was publicly poked, prodded, adorned with a crown of thorns, crucified, burnt at the stake, and buried in a dung-heap. There will be no libertarian reform for the foreseeable future, because the only possible vehicles for such a movement have been hijacked by paint-huffing chimpanzees and crashed at full speed into a brick wall (in the case of the GOP) or left to rust out beyond repair in the yard (in the case of the LP). In all probability, the time for reform is permanently passed. It was always a long shot; now it's Polish cavalry charges c. 1939. People fighting against the very essence of democratic politics, i.e. it's inherent bias toward ever increasing outlays from the trough, do not get many chances better than we had this year. A once in a generation opportunity was squandered, but – what's worse, much worse, catastrophic, hope-shredding, and what I'm beginning to appreciate ever more clearly – it was probably bound to be squandered, by the very nature of this enterprise, and the way we have to try to win, and the types of people whose votes we need to win. Necessity, not contingency, finished us off. Sisyphus just can not get up that hill, can he? ...because things aren't arranged so that he can.
There is, however, one silver lining.
People are losing faith in democracy.
As some of you may recall, I've been a monarchist for some years. Consequently, I find this to be an interesting time. There are opportunities afoot. There is blood in the water. The Great Cancer at the heart of the what we still sardonically call civilization is maybe, almost, in remission. There might be a chance to finally excise it and restore health to the body politic before gangrene sets in. Of course, with some NAZI Trumpanimals being hostile to democracy themselves (for entirely different reasons than we liberals should be, mind you, Hitlers =/= Hohenzollerns), and quite keen on arbitrary imprisonment, and censorship, and warrantless searching, and torture, etc, we have to be concerned about this trend developing into a 1933 type situation. The good news on that front is that Trump, being a degenerate imbecile, is not remotely capable of seizing, let along competently exercising, real power. However, some of his hangers-on may be more competent. It's really hard to say what might happen. The main interests groups in the capital are obviously salivating at the prospect of a sede vacante Presidency run by mercenary non-entities – George Bush squared – in a few months. It's going to be quite the show.
In any event, there's nothing for us there: let us leave pleb politics for the plebs.
The thing to do at the moment, if it's ever going to be done in our lifetimes, is to do whatever we can to accelerate the growing understanding among thinking people – and the growing sense among unthinking people – that democracy is failing.
Because, obviously, it is.
And the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
...
Liberalism was ruined once by foolishly aligning itself with democracy.
Let's not do it again.
The future of liberalism must be:
-cosmopolitanism (contra the volkish nationalism of the Trumpanimals)
-meritocracy (contra the lumpenproletarian levelling of the triggleypuffs)
-and monarchism or oligarchy (contra...everyone [but no one whose opinion matters])
So, that's it.
r3vo out