Twitter Agonistes
To those of us paying attention, the Elon's Twitter drop is really not a surprise, it is just a little shocking to see our "conspiracy theories" confirmed in print.
Of course, in conjunction with the document drops from Elon Musk about how Twitter willfully influenced a presidential election at the behest of the party in control of government at the time, the Democrats, it makes one consider what causes such a vile violation of American rights and how to fight on a battlefield where every institution of power is corrupt.
Of course, institutions are anodyne until they are controlled by corrupt people.
I immediately started thinking about James Madison and Federalist #51:
“But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other — that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State.”
It occurs to me that people who are completely incapable of governing themselves could never be expected to understand the need for government to be controlled.
As someone of the left once said to me, they want the government to handle the “mundane things” – but there are no “mundane” things. A government, being made of people, when given an inch, will take a mile. As there is no such thing as being “a little bit pregnant”, there is no such thing as ceding a little control when it comes to government.
People who crave power over others are more than happy to use “mundane things” as a lever to expand into other areas that are not so mundane. That’s how a government goes from providing public utilities to telling you how much water you can use to flush your toilet and what kind of light bulb you can buy.
Gun “control” is another example. The anti-gun left can’t see why they would ever need a gun in the blameless, excuse ridden, “nobody is really bad”, Utopia that they have created, so automatically, nobody should ever have a gun.
Madison and his contemporaries had experienced what it was like when a government refused the will of its people, they couldn’t conceive that people would want more of it.
Progressive Democrats assume that because they can’t resist these impulses that everybody else has the same issues - and therefore government must be used to control everybody, once again proving that they have no concept of what the Founders put in place.
Madison clearly explains in Federalist 51 that it is the people who must constrain government.
Why don’t we? Why aren’t we in the streets like they are in China, Iran and in cities all over Europe.
I think it is rooted in the government convincing people they have no power. There is a class of elites who believe they have stripped the American citizen of his God given rights and power. Proof in the pudding is Biden and the Democrats assertions that none of the Bill of Rights is “absolute”.
Pardon my French, but that is total bullshite. If the Bill of Rights is not absolute, it is nothing but a collection of worthless platitudes.
Tucker had James Woods on last night and Woods said something that struck me as the way back - he said that Biden, his cronies at the DNC and in the tech community know the real danger, and it is a regular citizen who does not fear them.
I hope the validation of what we all knew about what Twitter was doing and has continued to do and the fact we are now seeing the anti-Constitution, anti-freedom, “no right is absolute”, fascist Democrat Party stripped naked in the town square will galvanize citizens to understand it doesn’t have to be this way.
We all had lives before Twitter and social media. Somehow, we were able to communicate without mobile phones and the internet. This is not Brokeback Mountain – we can quit them until they clean up their act – or something that is more effective, we can Cloward-Piven their asses in reverse until they submit.
The citizen has immense power that we have been conditioned not to tap.
It is only the way it is because we allow it.
James Woods’ words have been my mantra for the last two years — “the real danger, and it is a regular citizen who does not fear them.”
During Covid, they found they could control America through fear. And it worked. But what kind of existence did they leave you — locked in, behind masks and without the ability to protest? When do they come for your money and your guns? And what is their endgame?
We can see it in play all around the world.
They have no right to rob people of their freedom. And they will if you let them.
Come on “Regular Citizens!” Wouldn’t you rather go down fighting than to let them win?
Mahy citizens don't pay attention, and many others believe the bullshite.