It is Impossible to Rule Innocent Men
If you don't have enough racists, bigots, criminals or problems, you manufacture them.
Undeniably, there are many different aspects of many different collectivist/communist theories at play today - and in a departure from times past, these are all out in the open.
Nobody is shy about their collectivist dreams any longer. We have gone beyond the practitioners accidently saying the quiet part out loud to the point where there is no quiet part.
Things that the left consigned to the “right wing conspiracy theory” dustbin are being implemented right before our eyes. Made possible by the deconstructionism of Derrida, the left will continue to call people conspiracy theorists even when it is patently evident the theory has transitioned into reality. The evolution of their positions on Critical Race Theory is a perfect example:
CRT is a right wing construct.
Well, it is a real thing, but only in law school.
We don’t teach it in the public schools.
Even though we don’t teach it, you can’t ban it.
OK, maybe we teach it - but not all of it.
It’s not Critical Race Theory, it is just Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.
OK, it is CRT and you are a racist.
As the saying about science fiction becoming science fact over time goes, the same is true for conspiracy theories becoming conspiracy facts, given enough time.
From the system overloads contemplated by Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife, Frances Fox Piven to the economy crushing "Modern Monetary Theory" to the "never waste a good crisis" global communism of the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset", every fevered dream of the faculty lounges in elite academia are being trotted out under a regime either too dumb to know better or, more likely, one open to anything that results in increased power for them.
We are seeing the archives of the Frankfurt School vomited all over the global landscape. No idea is too bad or stupid to implement as long as it results in more government control.
But perhaps the most striking, and the one ring that rules them all is something highlighted by Ayn Rand, a staunch enemy of collectivism and statism.
It goes back to the exchange between Floyd Ferris of the State Science Institute and Hank Rearden in "Atlas Shrugged".
At a meeting in Rearden’s office, Ferris told Rearden:
"There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Of course, we have our own contemporary Dr. Floyd Ferris in the person of Dr. Anthony Fauci, through whom the government has made criminals out of people not choosing to lock themselves in their closets, wear ineffective face masks, or submit to government edicts to be inoculated with a vaccine of dubious preventative value.
Another interesting parallel to Rand's observation is that the left, rather than staying their hands or dealing with real issues, they have set themselves to the task of creating problems they then waste resources and time to solve.
To paraphrase Dr. Ferris, "Well, when there aren't enough problems, one makes them."
But as Ferris related to Rearden, solving problems is not, was not, and never will be the primary concern - solutions are the last thing the left wants - the manufactured problems are merely vehicles the statists use to slide their undulating tentacles into every crevice of American society and attach their suckers to every aspect of American culture and daily life.
For example:
If every white person is racist, it opens the door to government defined and sanctioned racial morality.
If "disinformation" is rampant, "official truth" is required as well as state censorship and regulation of the free press.
If white supremacy is driving domestic terrorism, the DOJ and FBI have got to crack down on those domestic terrorists opposing CRT at school board meetings.
It doesn't matter if the problems are not real or the solutions ineffective, the objective is to create more opportunities for government influence, involvement and ultimately, more state control.
As Ferris said, one can’t rule innocent people.
Nor can one rule independent people.