The American people have been the victims of a generational swindle. For the last hundred years and more we were sold on the idea that America was a contract between its people and those running the federal government. We would follow all the rules and pay our taxes and work the majority of our lives to keep the bureaucracy employed and they would oversee the process of making the colossal manufacturing and industrial capacity of a modern continental power work smoothly and benignly for us and our children.
We were told by the people in charge that ours was a nation of laws and being part of this exceptional place, we were guaranteed by those laws all of the rights and freedoms that the contract specified.
Well, the American people upheld their part of the bargain. We worked and paid our taxes. We and our ancestors and our children have fought their wars. And we believed in the exceptional nature of the American contract.
Well, we don’t believe it anymore. Maybe it used to be true. Maybe someone like Teddy Roosevelt believed in the sanctity of the American contract. But the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and certainly Joe Biden couldn’t give a damn what happens to us or our children. In fact, more or less, they just want us to drop dead.
You see, they don’t think they need us anymore. Who needs soldiers when you have drones and atom bombs? Who needs factory workers when you have China as your factory. Who even needs a professional class when you can import scientists and engineers by the boatload from Asia and at half price?
And so, we’ve reached the point where they’re chloroforming off our children’s generation with joblessness, homelessness, fentanyl and social dysfunction. They’re bringing in the Third World to cut their grass, babysit their kids, fill up the inner cities and contribute to the racial wars that they’re fomenting. And the last piece of the puzzle is the environmental racket where they tell us to turn off the heating and cooling of our homes, drive cars without energy and learn to eat crickets.
It’s quite a good joke on us. And maybe it’ll go as they hope with the middle class bankrupted and sinking into the underclass before disappearing altogether. And so, the millionaires and billionaires and their managerial class toadies can continue to live like princelings amid the Brazil-like squalor that the rest of us will endure.
But I secretly nurse the hope that they immiserate the country too quickly and it cuts across so many class and racial lines at once that they create a grass roots movement to displace the whole Democrat party, branch and root. And if there are enough smart guys ready to take advantage, maybe they can enact a massive purge of the elites. And I’m not talking about a reign of terror or anything monstrous. Just a populist uprising where the inhabitants of Martha’s Vineyard suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of some comeuppance from the likes of me.
Of course, I wouldn’t bet much money that it will happen. Those with all the money get most of the breaks. But look, putting Joe Biden in charge isn’t the work of a super-genius. It’s possible that the smarter elites have already died of old age and the ones left are dimwitted. So, who knows? Maybe my wish will come true. Stick around and maybe we’ll see in November.