On Cynicism

On cynicism in the political elite:

American politics is deeply cynical now. Elections are viewed with disdain by the politicians. It is something they must endure so they can get on with what they view as the important parts of politics. The important part of politics is advancing an agenda that serves the narrow interests of the managerial elite. This is why elections have no bearing on public policy. The office holders may change and the parties may swap positions, but the elites never change.

That is the source of the growing hostility the political classes of the West have for the people they theoretically represent. Macron is a prime example. He is in trouble politically because he carries himself like a man who is doing the French people a favor by paying attention to them. Not long ago he said that you are not French if you do not follow his rules with regards to Covid. He joked about using the administrative state to torment those who question his policies.

There is that cynicism at the heart of politics in the modern West. No serious leader thinks such things, much less says them out loud, if he has any regard for the people he claims to lead. More important, no serious leader acts this way if he thinks the opinions of the voters matter. When the game is rigged, or at least seems that it is rigged, then it no longer makes much sense to pretend public opinion matters. [...]

This is only possible in a deeply cynical system populated with people motivated by malice toward the public. The people running the global economic war resent that they have to pretend to care about public opinion. They can barely contain their loathing for the people outside the castle walls. Shark-eyed dingbats like Jen Psaki exist because she is actually what passes for a friendly face in this system. Even she can barely conceal her contempt for the public she is addressing.

In the West today there are many would-be Marie Antoinettes who have said the modern equivalent of "let them eat cake" many, many times already and are more bold and blatant about saying it every day. Only a fool doesn't see the spectre of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror looming in the near future of most countries in the West. If the elites think that the foreign legions that they have imported will protect them, they are almost certainly wrong. Those are mostly r-strategists who have come because, hey... free American (or European, or Australian, etc.) money. When the going get's tough, they'll get going alright. Right back to where things aren't tough anymore. Even Isaiah prophesied it for the last days: "[T]hey shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land." (Isaiah 13:14 KJV)

Many of them will carry off loot taken from the West as they return home, but honestly, I doubt most people in the West will be too bothered with it by that point, except maybe the Boomers (if they were involved at Disney, should they be called the Groomers? Think about how devastating it would be if anytime anyone responded with "Don't say gay" on twitter, they got flooded with a bunch of "OK Groomer" responses? We'll just be happy to have them gone.