Tag: Napoleon Bonaparte

It’s getting close to midnight and I just got home a little while ago.  So, I’ll cudgel my brains for a few minutes and come up with an idea.  Napoleon Bonaparte is the author of the quote of the day (in fact I’ve got a solid month of them together).  And if we look at his era there are some things to think about.  Napoleon came into prominence because a great nation was reduced to chaos by a popular rebellion.  The existing regime foundered and the revolutionary conquerors were totally inept and allowed their movement to spin completely out of control and turn to anarchy.

Well, that’s not where we are now.  But there is a regime running our country that seems to be either unaware of or unconcerned by the impoverishing of the American middle class.  And so far, this regime has suffered essentially no ill effects from this policy.  Our elites and their lackeys are doing great.  Their material condition has never been better.  But I think they underestimate the changes that will occur if the Unted States become Brazil.  I think they assume that things like a stable currency and the personal safety of wealthy people can exist under the conditions they are fostering.  I think if they allow the devolution of the country to continue the way it is currently going that many of the advantages of the American system will quite simply disappear.

I was thinking about Friday’s quote of the day, “Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”  They are encouraging anarchy.  But they don’t have a way to insulate themselves from the results of anarchy, not in the last resort.  If we continue to slide toward lawlessness, places like Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard will just be places for organized gangs to swoop down on and pillage.  And what happens when the Mexican kidnapping gangs start snatching the children of millionaires and billionaires?  What if they snatch the grandchildren of George Soros?  Will his defund the police prosecutors turn around and beg the cops to go back to doing their jobs?  Well, even if they wanted to, once things slide too far, it would take draconian methods to fix things again.

And that’s where I was going with this discussion.  Basically, if the elites let things go too far, then the result will probably be a strong man.  He probably won’t be as brilliant a general as Napoleon.  But he will have to be quite ruthless.  How something like that ends up is usually not good.  When a democracy or a republic turns into a despotism it doesn’t typically go back again.  How all of that would go for us is not clear to me.  At this point I’m not particularly optimistic to say the least.  The rapid deterioration over the last twenty years has been so bad that I wouldn’t be surprised that a Harris presidency might be the catalyst that initiates the collapse.

Well, that’s a cheery thought here in the depths of the night.  But this is what happens when I have to work too late.  It encourages black moods.  Tomorrow will be better.  I have this whole weekend off before the two weeks of enslavement finally engulfs me on Monday.  Well, good night.