I can't believe anyone who has been paying the slightest attention would be surprised by thorough Chinese Communist penetration of the Democrat Party. Of course, a hell of a lot of voters were kept in the dark about all this until the election was over.
For God's sake, did everyone forget about the Chinese nuns handing bags of cash to Al Gore? The Clinton administration handing China the keys to the high-tech future? Do you really think China wouldn't keep doubling down on political investments with that kind of payoff?
And look, how shall I put this delicately? If you're a Chinese Communist agent, you aren't exactly going to face a great deal of ideological opposition when you enter top Democrat Party political circles. Many of them openly admire and envy Chinese authoritarianism.
Democrat Party politics and the Biden 2020 campaign harmonized PERFECTLY with the Chinese Communist Party's political agenda on the coronavirus. That's no accident. Neither was DNC Media parroting every Chinese talking point and accepting their every claim at face value.
The CCP has understood the ease and tremendous value of buying American political influence for decades. They don't deal solely with Democrats, but Dems are much easier for them to manipulate - ravenous for campaign cash and very comfortable with support from foreign sources.
One of the key points of Dem ideology is their arrogant vision of themselves as Citizens of the World on a crusade to "fix" America, the worst nation on Earth. The Chinese are highly adept at flattering that arrogance and subverting the Dem hunger for globalism.
And of course the Chinese developed tremendous influence on Democrat media, and the party itself, by using its "sharp power" to control Hollywood. How many big-bucks Dem donors have NOT been in meetings with steely-eyed Chinese officials with millions of dollars on the table?
American voters accepted a huge amount of interference and outright control from the most hostile of foreign powers in 2020. They were kept in the dark about much of it, but have only themselves to blame for not connecting the very obvious dots the media couldn't conceal. /end
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Around the world, very much including the Western world, real power is measured by the ability to silence criticism.
The highest reaches of power are measured by the ability to force people to speak in politically-approved ways.
The ability to silence criticism is a signifier of power. It's how truly powerful groups and regimes recognize each other. If free people can challenge your ideals or mock you without fear, you aren't TRULY powerful, no matter how much authority you might nominally possess.
And if you can force people to speak, force them to use your preferred language, penalize them socially or legally for failing to signal their support for your agenda, then you've entered the winner's circle. Your government or movement has taken a seat at the highest table.
The U.S. central government grew relentlessly larger, richer, and more powerful during the decades that every problem faced by Americans got worse. Why does anyone think making the government even bigger would *solve* any of those problems instead of making them even worse?
This is not just a matter of government ineptitude and corruption, although both of those are major factors. Our problems get worse as the government gets bigger because the Leviathan State and its clients have a vested interest in making them worse.
One of the biggest lies of statism is that government and its employees are utterly selfless and immune to the incentives that drive people in the private sector. This is absurd. Every government agency seeks to increase its "business" and "profits," just like corporations.
Panic has always been a valuable political resource, but 2020 was the year our ruling class perfected the art of harvesting it, renewing it, and refining it to weapons-grade purity.
The bitter irony is that one reason panic became so easy for politicians and grifters to sow and reap is the great collapse in confidence caused by their own incompetence and greed over the past few decades. The political class found a way to profit from its own ineptitude.
If public confidence in government and major institutions had not been so thoroughly shaken by years of rampant corruption and incredibly expensive failures, perhaps the public would not have been panicked so easily - and profitably! - when the coronavirus struck.
In the space of half a year, a new class division was ripped through American society: those who can live normally through pandemic lockdowns and restrictions versus those who can't. The two sides have a great deal of difficulty communicating across that chasm.
Of course, media and political elites are, at worst, inconvenienced by lockdowns, so news coverage is heavily slanted against the people who are really suffering from these policies. They're already as forgotten as the designated losers of globalist trade policy.
Spend a day watching mainstream media pandemic coverage, then spend the evening with people whose livelihoods have been utterly ruined by pandemic restrictions. It's like traveling from the Earth to Mars. Completely different worlds, totally different outlooks.
Privileged elites always want to assert their status by indulging in pleasures denied to the lower classes. This often leads them into immoral, deranged, and even criminal behavior. They're desperate to flaunt their power by doing what lesser folk are forbidden to do.
This is one of the reasons for the wave of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and pedophilia among the richest and most powerful. They indulge increasingly depraved appetites to savor the sweet, sweet high of doing what ordinary people cannot, feasting on the food of the gods.
It's also one of the reasons high-living elites are drawn to puritanical secular pseudo-religions, like the Church of Global Warming and now the Church of Covid. They have a deep appetite for making aspects of modern life forbidden to the Little People, but not to themselves.
The great political struggle of the past 20 years is not nationalism vs. globalism. It's nationalism vs. authoritarianism. Nation-states are the only way common people have a chance to restrain the power of the elite and hold them accountable. The odds are still against them.
Of course individual nations can still become authoritarian horrors, but globalism makes it much easier for the elite to impose their will without having to worry about getting voted out of office or otherwise held accountable for their failures.
Only a strong and enlightened nation-state can provide the instruments needed to restrain authoritarianism: constitutional limits on government, sovereign rights for individuals, laws that bind both the powerful and powerless, meaningful elections, checks and balances.