Moving Back to America: Know Your Enemy

Know Your Enemy

Moving back to America will take a fight. Not an armed uprising kind of fight! (That would grant the autocrats and oligarchs justification to mobilize the armed forces. You can bank that most would obey the call to mobilize against U. S. citizens. Simply look at the numbers of law enforcement that follow unconstitutional orders. A paycheck to feed your family is a powerful incentive.)

This fight must be strategic in ideology, politics, and economics. And, the beginning of any fight is to identify the enemy.

“Know your enemy” means more than generally identifying them. It means we must catalog their attributes and tactics.

The Enemy

Professional politicians: These are the people who exhibit ambition without character. It is those who demonstrate a propensity to make their decisions based on the popular winds of the day. When popular trends change, these people change their positions accordingly. Unwilling to wait the decades required to build successful commercial enterprises, and then continually work for repeat customers, they seek the quick road by simply convincing a relatively small number of people they will produce whatever the people want. Their allegiance is to power–wielding it, and gaining more. These politicians exhibit the mantra: “A and B decide what is good for C, at the expense of thee” (thank you, Milton Friedman). They wield authority without responsibility or accountability for their action. Professional politicians are not independent; they owe favors to everybody who helped them attain their position.

Bureaucrats: Where the professional politician must undergo a reaffirmation every two or six years by his or her electorate, the bureaucrat is set after his or her hire. As long as the bureaucrat makes no major misstep, job security is a given–stability is the name of the game. This is a priesthood of technocrats, where coercion is wielded without accountability: “Oh my, you need this permit for that.” Or, “You’re going to have to shutter your business until we say it’s safe.” It is through bureaucrats and bureaucracies where invented rulings become law without legislation.

Obfuscating journalists: This may be the most disappointing abandonment of responsibility of all. The “freedom” of the press is a protection enshrined in the First Amendment. In the context of the First Amendment and a free press is the implication that the wielders of the press, the journalists, serve as the skeptics to anyone in any position of power or influence. Historically, it was journalists who raised questions about the influential and powerful through investigation. Now, journalists embark on information control, and news suppression. Rather than corruption investigators, they became corruption concealers, and suppressors.

Academicians: Personally, this category was the most painful to assess. This category includes the brightest among us who, through personal dedication, sacrifice, work, and research, became experts in some field of endeavor. In many, their academic achievement imbued a sense of intellectual entitlement, and arrogance. Since expertise was earned in one area, he or she now has expertise in a wide variety of fields that have no relationship to the original. Intellectual arrogance coupled with observations of economic disparity between academicians and successful (but “uneducated”) business owners fostered a “that’s not fair–I’m smarter than he is, but he’s making much more than I am” attitude. The combination of economic envy and intellectual arrogance, coupled with the opportunity to inculcate a population predisposed to rebel against authority, granted an audience upon whom to advocate and promote forced economic and social egalitarianism.

Social justice warriors (SJW): These are the “Robespierres” for those who ostensibly lack a political voice. By latching on to and aligning themselves with some form of victim-hood, either fabricated or real, they demonstrate their sacrifice of “ancestral privilege.” They exhibit furious anger over minutiae. Often willing to attack when anonymity is available, they frequently retreat when directly opposed.

Karens: These are the perpetually offended. In large part, they are SJWs who are simply too old for the movement. Driven by their own self-importance and sense of powerlessness, they vent their outrage over minutiae loudly and vociferously.

Myself: I am the one who did nothing to thwart these anti-Americans as they began their rise to position, power, and influence. Freedom is dependent on me. Lately, I came to realize that “liberty” is more than merely separation from an unwanted government. Liberty is the freedom to live as and how I choose without oppression and harmful restrictions.

Exceptions and Generalizations

I grant the claim that exceptions apply to the first four categories. I admit all these categories, except the last, are generalizations.

From Bill Whittle, “Moving Back to America: Know Your Enemy”