The Oligarchy Takes Form

The news is suddenly moving very fast. Faster than anyone can really keep up with. Congress is starting to report their investigation findings and the Justice Department continues to stream highly scandalous texts from the agent who headed the Trump counterintelligence briefing and interviewed Hillary Clinton. During the election, a trove of leaked documents gave us great insight to the collusion between the DNC, Hillary's campaign, and the national media. The new scandal is opening eyes to the collusion between the DNC / Hillary, "deep state" bureaucrats, and the media. The Democrats funded the "research" and planted the conspiracy theory through the media. The government agents used it to spy on political opponents and leak whatever was damaging to the press.

I've noticed that you can always criticize the government just so long as you do it abstractly. For instance, there was a study a while back the concluded that America operates more like an oligarchy than a democracy. It was shared around social media. It's not controversial. In a conversation with anyone- left, right, or whatever - you could slip that into conversation in a way that the other person would agree with it. But if you try specifying what it is, you're liable to be looked at like some kind of lunatic. People agree with the oligarchy so long as it is an ethereal, mystical being.

Staying obscure serves the oligarchy's interests. If it can't be seen, it can't be destroyed. It's not some formal club, although some subnetworks are certainly formalized. The oligarchs are not just trying to trick you into believing they don't exist. They trick themselves as well. They don't believe they are subverting democracy. They honestly believe they are the ones preserving it. The oligarchy perpetuates as long as it is shapeless. I remember playing Zelda on Nintendo. They had these translucent ghosts, who could harm you but you couldn't damage them back. Every so often they would transform to a solid color, and that's when you could attack and kill them. The formless enemy must be forced to reveal itself.

I want to share three headlines I saw all in one day. I was already musing on the notion of the oligarchy emerging from the shadows because of their war with Trump, and these headlines, which normally would seem totally unrelated, all fit into the pattern.

First, on Thursday, liberals professed their love for George W. Bush. For anyone older than about 25 this is the most incredible thing to witness. The left used to loathe Bush. Not to the extent they hate Trump, but pretty close. They called him all the same names: racist, a Nazi, a megalomaniac. They had fake anti-war marches against him just like the women's marches today. Now they love him. Bush wants open borders, says Russia meddled in the election, says all the things they like to hear, and always insinuating Trump is wrong. He didn't do this to Obama. Is he a liberal? We'll come back to that.

Second, we on the dissident right have long pointed out that the media and government are in bed with each other; that the media is a propaganda arm of the deep state. I was saying that back around 2004 when I became a 9/11 "truther." It's also been apparent that whatever the deep state is, at its core is the CIA. How amazing is it to hear that NBC has hired none other than former CIA Director John Brennan, about the most blatantly swampy swamp-rat you could think of, to be their newest contributor? They aren't even trying to hide things anymore. Brennan at NBC. John Podesta hired by the Washington Post. Hillary does Hollywood awards ceremonies. For some reason they just aren't trying to obscure themselves anymore. Part may be they've gotten lazy since not many have even been trying to look. But it also fits the bigger picture of the oligarchy being forced to take shape to counter an existential threat. An army on the march is rarely discreet.

Third, Rob Reiner was in the news stating we're fighting the "last battle of the civil war." That's SJW talk, because they believe everyone to the right of Glenn Beck is a cotton plantation owner just dying to get his negro slaves back. He's wrong in all aspects except the real important one: there is a civil war going on. It's cold, but very real.

Alex Jones - whom I listened to a lot during the Bush years - always talked about the "false left-right paradigm." There was something about it that really hit home, and yet there was something wrong too. All observations indicated a left-right split that is very real and pervasive. It's not a false paradigm so much as it is an exploited or amplified paradigm. The oligarchy uses the natural left-right split as a fault line they can exploit to divide-and-conquer. They run Democrats who pretend to be liberal and Republicans who pretend to be conservative, but they all serve the oligarchic power structure. They may have their own political beliefs, but those are always secondary to power, no matter how much they convince themselves and their stooges otherwise.

Compare President Bush vs Clinton. You have two open-borders globalists who support an imperialist foreign policy and a massive centralized bureaucracy. The only difference is one pretends to be for abortion and the other against. Neither actually gives a shit about it. But that is the difference that is broadcast to the masses, with some other token social issues to energize the electorate against itself. In the most recent election, it was quite clear what the oligarchy wanted: Bush vs Clinton. Again, not even trying to hide it. What would have been the difference between the two? Well Hillary would have been a vindictive petty tyrant set on destroying anyone who had ever slighted her, and Jeb would have been a waffling weakling who did whatever he thought would make people like him. Ultimately though, they'd implement the policies that pleased the oligarchy. What would have been the difference if Deep-State McCain had beat Obama, or if Romney had? Not much. In all cases the oligarchy goes unchallenged. Foreign wars, expanding bureaucracy, and rampant propaganda.

Is the deep state liberal? Trump's "conservative" opponents - Bush, McCain, Romney - sure sound a lot like liberals these days. That leads many to believe it's a left-versus-right battle. But what if Bernie would have won? What if he wasn't spineless and had not backed down in the primary, had won it, and faced Trump in the general? Well, that would be interesting. The oligarchy would already be defeated in the election. Even though the two are about polar opposites politically, the outcomes would be more similar than versus any oligarchic candidate. If Bernie won the Presidency, it would be the photo negative of what is happening now. Deep state "liberals" would come out attacking Bernie and would sound a lot like conservatives. (Again, assuming he didn't just totally cave, which is what would have actually happened.) The swamp creatures sound like lefties today because they are fighting Trump. They'd swing hard to the right if they had to to keep power. Yes, many are ideologically possessed zombies, but it is always power first.

Trump is the existential threat to the oligarchy. All the fear mongering has a source: the oligarchy is genuinely terrified of him. The Strzok texts use that actual word: terrifying. They also talk about the "secret society" within the FBI that was conspiring to exonerate Hillary and crucify Trump. They broke all the rules they were pretending to investigate. They leaked to the media. They contain the essence of the oligarchy. Secretive cliques that collaborate across institutions.

There is a civil war, but it's not between "racists" and progressives, as Rob Reiner would have it. The left-right conflict is real, but it's something more like a proxy war. The primary war is between the democracy and the oligarchy. The peoples' government versus the cabal's government. Look at the election. Total sham. On the Democrat side they engaged in all kinds of impropriety to ensure the oligarch won. On the Republican side...well I think they got lazy. Before, the Republicans could be brow beaten to death with the media. Run national headlines calling a guy a racist bigot enough times and he'll learn to stay in line. Trump was different. He took the bad press and made it the fuel for his popularity. Still, they were sure they could destroy him in the election. They used the normal tactics: he's a racist, a woman abuser, a power-hungry maniac. They continued with the unethical and illegal activities behind the scenes. And they got sloppy. FBI agents left a text trail that's practically a play-by-play of a palace coup...on company phones! It's the craziest thing. And they went and got what was effectively a license for unrestrained spying on the Trump campaign, with a pee pee dossier obtained by paying Russians to tell stories. They were all in to keep out the "populist" candidate.

The intangible deep state took form. The paper trail is revealing the web they have spun. The "secret society" at the J. Edgar Hoover Building is no longer a secret. We know who was in it and what they were up to. And the bulk of the investigative work has not even been released yes. The real question isn't if wide-scale treason was committed, but to what scale will they cover it up. They won't cover it up to save the oligarchy. They'll cover it up to save democracy! They'll be afraid the truth will tear the fabric of the nation apart. And they'll want to keep it from us, for our own good. But they'll only be ensuring that the oligarchy maintains its grasp on power.

There's a lot of malevolence in all this, but much more there is delusion. It is easier to deceive someone than it is to persuade them. Deception is now the norm. That's why rational debate doesn't work any more. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. This is the war where everyone wears the wrong uniform. The oligarchy think they are Team Democracy. The conservatives don't realize their war against liberals is just a proxy war with the deep state. The liberals think they and their plucky deep state allies are underdogs in a valiant fight against mythical Nazis, who are the real power holders. The only good news in all this is that the oligarchy is just as delusional as anyone. Where there is delusion, there is weakness that can be leveraged. The bad news is that as long as America remains divided the oligarchy wins. The left and right can continue to hate each other just so long as they agree we're all better off when government power isn't monopolized. That means conservatives don't support oligarchs like Bush and McCain, and liberals don't support the Clintons and Obamas of their side. But as long as the liberals remain mindless slaves of the deep state propaganda outlets, there will be division, and the dissident right will be the only camp wearing the correct uniform. Because our war with the oligarchy and our proxy war with the left will be just one and the same. Hell, it's starting to look like it might actually be a winning fight.