Divide and Conquer

THE political situation in America is pretty awful, and has been for probably up to a decade (although, I’d argue it has always been bad, and has only become obvious in recent years). Every month, every week, every day even, we must watch on in an ashamed stupor as the assembly of people elected to direct with steadfast loyalty our country act like toddlers left alone in a classroom. A simply net positive GDP growth means nothing, because the cogs of the machine have grown greasy and old. As a great exhibit of the condition of our country, recent statistics show a very legitimate desire for secession among certain Americans.

This is not good, it is as simple as that. Every nation-state, every civil society, is a human experiment. Locke, who I oft differ to, saw civil society as the consensual assembly of humans under common principles (Locke 2015, p. 77). The State, therefore, is consequently obliged to be sensitive of and accommodating to the human condition; not sensitive or accommodating to the extent of permitting its inherent evils to manifest, of course. The best way to do this, as observed by the various political theorists of the Lockean tradition, is to safeguard three basic rights inherent to Man: life, liberty, and property. A State which is healthy is one that ensures, without delving into libertine permissiveness, that all lawful subjects can live, exist, and possess freely.

I think it is unignorably manifest in modern America that this no longer is the status quo. Life has been trampled upon through the murder of tens of millions of children, along with the ruination of millions of other lives due to the baloney War on Drugs (an issue most certainly started by the government). Do I need to even make the case for how liberty is being trampled upon, especially with the articles I have already written on the matter? (The “Active Measures” series is a good resource; see part 1 and 2 here.) Property is another given, with the elitist and ChiCom-backed policies of Biden, so blatantly anti-capitalist and anti-property.

A famous quote of George Washington’s is, “‘...where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?’” (Fitzpatrick 2007, p. 301) The context of this quote makes it even more supremely applicable to the situation at hand, for prior to it Washington was talking about the proper maintenance of a civil society, and the very quote just used comes after him saying, “No man who wishes well to the liberties of his Country…can avoid crying out…” (Ibid.) We certainly need this nowadays, our men of abilities to show themselves, to make their loyalty to the glory of their country known.

However, in the contemporary hyperpartisan lens so many Americans are tricked into having, these men of abilities are considered nonexistent. In fact, about a good third of college-aged Republicans and Democrats see each other as evil. That is right, if the conclusions of this survey hold well, then a third of those who in a few years will be occupying positions in our society – and perhaps occupy some now – see each other as evil. Inflammatory opinions are often contagious (consider COVID fearmongering), and so in such a time frame, how many more will see each other as evil? Seeing how partisan and sensational the media is already, I honestly believe the number should be much higher.

Because of this rabid partisanship, which is not natural or becoming of a civil society, the men of abilities are considered but figments of hopeful centrists’ imaginations. However, that is not the case, for I strongly believe in the men of abilities reality, and I am far from a centrist. I can see merit in Democrats such as Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich, John Tanner, Joe Manchin, and, of course, John F. Kennedy. There are and have been a number of people among the “Others” who have been men of abilities. Why does this not seem to be the case nowadays? It is simple, and this article’s title betrays it.

The degeneration of any civil society has almost invariably been precipitated by the meddling of some fifth column, usually aristocratic. The Russian Empire collapsed due to the abuse, tyranny, and mismanagement of the Russian aristocracy, well-admitted by historians, but also – more meaningfully and secretly – the works of Western elites (Sutton 2007). The Roman Empire was plagued by conspiracies, assassinations, and civil wars mainly stemming from the aristocratic caste. And, in the great history of America in just two centuries, literally every bought of factionalism has been preceded by aristocratic interference.

Take the Civil War for example, which unfairly haunts America to this day. Would you believe that by the late-18^th century, America was essentially primed for abolitionism, but it was the workings of America’s earliest aristocrats that turned this tide around? The institution of slavery was an entirely elitist invention, sustained by them, too, and in a sense colorless, as the systemic oppression of poor Southern Whites also occurred in this heinous environment.

This means, very simply, the sociopolitical aggravations that would boil over into the horrendous Civil War was an aristocratic invention. The aristocrats always precipitate societal dysfunction, and always survive it, as was the case with Southern aristocrats, who retained their prestige even after their ancestral industry was abolished.

Returning to modern America, we are seeing the very same thing. I, in my articles to date, have established very concretely that there is a large, interconnected aristocracy that is working and arising globally. It constitutes the most advanced hegemony in world history, because it is the only global hegemony to ever successfully be established.

In this Weimarian period of American – and even global – politics, we are seeing the foreboding aristocratic meddling. The flow of information is dominated by a heavily concentrated media, which is indisputably controlled by an aristocratic hand, and which churns out volumes of divisive and fallacious propaganda daily. Even though many alt-media advocates, conservatives, libertarians, freethinkers, and such types of people put forth statistics showing how many Americans distrust the mainstream media, other statistics show how over half still use the equally elitist social media platforms as their news outlets. Furthermore, even online news is becoming heavily concentrated, with 50% of online traffic commanded by ten outlets.

Think of how Hillary Clinton, when she was still in the spotlight, called her opposition “a basket of deplorables”. Think of how the Left is blindly and baselessly demonizing the entire GOP platform, no matter what it happens to be, as racist. And the all too popular movement for CRT to be institutionalized, a heinous theory of rabid otherism that has been sugarcoated to excess, which is occurring internationally, has far more than its fair share of upper-class backing. These people are fanning the flames of tribalism, ostracism, and chaos. They are engaging in one big divide-and-conquer tactic.

Why? For their own glory, of course. Division and chaos have always boosted or accelerated tyranny. The distress of the Civil War led to an engorgement of federal power variously described by historians, but which definitely and surely constituted the powers a tyrant would have, not the restricted chief magistrate of a federation, even if was in the hands of honest ol’ Abe (Rhodes 1919, pp. 169-171). The ruination of the Great Depression allowed FDR’s grotesque New Deal, which was applauded by contemporary tyrants, and left a whole legacy of draconian ideology. And let us not forget the beautiful stepping stone that the 9/11 terror attacks provided to Bush’s PATRIOT Act. The timeless proverb is that, “Government, whenever possible, seeks to turn crisis into opportunity [for more government].”

So, with the acceleration of factionalism through so many fronts – race, public health, economics, basic ideology, etc. – what we see here is the priming of the populace for the ultimate Helter Skelter. (Interesting enough, the very originator of that apocalyptic term, Charles Manson, very likely was of CIA origins.) By turning everyone against everyone else, submerging even the most moderate in a stream of hateful otherist media, and carefully eroding the constitutional values of our civil society, a huge divide-and-conquer strategy is being carried out.

It is reaching a point similar to what Locke argued sanctions the dissolution of civil society (Locke 2015, chpt. 19), but with the vulgar amount of discord and hatred being stirred up beforehand, the essentially immortal cadres of the Elite are set to survive such a dissolution and set up their own. Such a civil society could not be described as anything better than, plainly, an aristocracy. It was the State that firmly ruled Man before the American Experiment was launched in 1776, and the same is what they have sought to destroy ever since.

If we wake up to the harsh, ironclad chains being ever so cleverly bound around our wrists, we need not love one another. It is impossible for everyone to love and agree with one another. However, we must cherish one another, namely our common nature as human beings, and our shared obligation to the defense and maintenance of our rights to life, liberty, and property.

However, this hate and discord makes it impossible for us to coexist and sustain a free society, but makes it oh-so possible for the Elite to establish its own self-serving tyranny.

No individual liberal, or social democrat, or conservative, or centrist, or nearly anyone is a bad person, or a sheep, or something ill-natured. Only those who willingly or stubbornly work against our natural rights are ill-natured, because, simply, they have ill-intentions toward the rest of us. The vast majority of society, especially America, is not like this, but the powerful minority is like this, and is trying to force this mindset upon the rest of us. How much time do we have left to stop them?

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.), The Writings of George Washington, vol. 14 (United States Government Printing Office, 2007).
• John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by Andrew Bailey (Broadview Press, 2015).
• James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, vol. 4 (Macmillan Company, 1919).
• Anthony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Buccaneer Books, 2007).