It really does look like the Democrats are running some sort of protection racket aimed at the American public. The message is: Vote for us, get rid of Trump, and the riots will end. Otherwise, they will continue. Implication – the Democrats have some sort of connection with the rioters, i.e. Antifa, BLM, et al, and actually have enough influence over them to call them off at a moment's notice (the same way they can be mobilized at a moment's notice). Implication – Maybe the rioters have been working for the Democrats all along. They have certainly won the hearts of any number of Democratic mayors and governors, who look on approvingly as their own cities are trashed and burned and their citizens assaulted.
So yes, it would be tempting to predict – as some in the conservative commentariat have – that, indeed, the minute Joe Biden is inaugurated the riots will magically stop and the rioters vanish, in order to provide an instant reward to those who voted for Biden (and an “up yours” to Trump voters). And, by the way, that covid-19 will also vanish, since the main point of China causing the pandemic was to get rid of Donald Trump and put a friend of China in the White House. (Which kind of makes one wonder about all the other countries in the world that have suffered from the exact same ailment – is this their theory too, and if so how do they feel about it? How would we feel if we wound up with a pandemic that was aimed at unseating, say, the president of Botswana?)
Likewise, if the lockdowns and economic distress blamed on covid-19 were also aimed at getting rid of Donald Trump, we can expect all lockdowns and restrictions to be lifted on Inauguration Day, and the economy to spring back to life in all sectors, including employment. (Cue track of “Tomorrow” from “Annie”.)
Ah, if only it were that simple – vote for us and your troubles will be over. (Actually, this is the message liberals have been peddling for generations). But Kamala Harris isn't falling for it. Back in June she said, referring to BLM riots, “They're not gonna stop. And everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop... before Election Day in November, and they're not gonna stop after Election Day.”
How interesting! So did she mean that even if she and Joe Biden are elected, riots will continue? And if so, to what purpose? To make Trump quit prior to Inauguration Day? (Please note that there is another drive on to forcibly remove him from office based on the 25th Amendment.) But the riots have not had that effect up to now, why should they have it in the next 3+ months? And what would be the point, other than a primitive urge for vengeance? Plus, you get rid of Trump and you still have Mike Pence, even if only for a short time. Is that what they want?
The point is that Harris tipped her hand a bit with that statement. She's been called the most liberal member of the Senate, and is clearly the darling of pretty much every certified victim or grievance group in the country. (Her minority status is so multi-layered she had to attach a supplemental page to her driver's license application.) And right now she's in the precarious position of being Joe Biden's running mate, which means that she has to (1) hope he doesn't collapse in a heap before Inauguration Day; and (2) hope he does collapse in a heap as soon as possible after Inauguration Day. Timing is everything! She is, in short, the new superstar of the Democratic Party – not that she's above Obama on the totem pole, that would be too much to ask – but that she's at least the designated replacement for Hillary Clinton, which is no mean distinction. (And BTW, remember when they called Bill Clinton the first Black president? Hillary could have run in 2016 as the wife of the first Black president. Why didn't she think of that? Oh, wait – Michelle might have misunderstood.)
One question that comes to mind is, how about The Squad? Surely they're no more liberal than Harris; how could they be? But she has things they don't have as yet – things like experience, political seniority, and the smarts to drop out of the primaries before the first primary was held (a brilliant move which kept her from being tainted by failure, which in turn made her the best choice as Biden's running mate). (You don't think that was the deal? It seems totally obvious to me.) Plus she has a kind of gravitas – a kind of Big Nurse vibe -- whereas the Squad-ettes seem to be kind of an unstable bunch. So for now, The Squad has to wait in the wings along with the likes of Mayor Pete and Beto O'Rourke, but their day will come; they just have to try and exercise patience (not their strong suit). In the meantime, they can continue to act as firebrands and platoon leaders for the revolution.
So with that statement quoted above, Harris came right out and admitted that there is nothing temporary or situational about the current plague of urban unrest. She admitted that it's not going to stop, which is another way of saying that the revolution is on. It's on until... well, until it accomplishes its goal, which is, to cut to the chase, to turn the U.S. into a people's republic of some sort. (Think Soviet Union, except with the ruling elite made up of Silicon Valley types instead of government officials.) (I've discussed some of the difficulties with this model in previous posts, so I won't go over them again. Let's just say that our ruling elite might run into a bit of competition on the way to completely transforming our society.)
One of the many ironies of this scenario is that a key factor in its accomplishment is the election – with its subtext of people of color, victim groups, anti-phobias and anti-isms – of an old white male to the presidency – by which I mean a really old, really white male – more white than Mike Pence, if such a thing is possible. But that's... OK, think of a shoehorn. If the shoe is the seat of political power, Biden is the shoehorn and Harris is the foot. Once he's elected – once he's inaugurated – he'll be of no more use than a bulging can of tuna. Oh, he'll be allowed to sit in the Oval Office all right, and play president like George W. Bush did, but the affairs of state will go on with him or without him (and preferably the latter), Harris will be a good and faithful servant of the ruling elite, and The Squad will be kept at the ready as political attack dogs.
But the point is that the rioting and anarchy will continue because the dogs of war have been set loose. The ruling elite has decided that now's the time to make their move, and they have sent their pawns out across the American chessboard; they couldn't call them back now even if they wanted to. The riots are metastatic. They're now occurring in places we've never heard of (next stop, Mayberry R.F.D.). We can look forward to relative calm in the nation's capital (Harris will see to that), but outside the Beltway the strife will continue, for the simple reason that the populace has not yet been rendered sufficiently helpless and desperate – desperate enough to accept totalitarian measures and a complete overhaul of the federal government (including, but not limited to, packing the Supreme Court and eliminating the Electoral College – but even those are baby steps compared to the ultimate goal).
And, of course, when the ruling elite no longer finds Harris useful, she'll be eliminated – one way or the other – along with The Squad, Antifa, BLM, and everyone else with delusions of grandeur. History teaches that ideas make revolutions, but that pragmatism and cynicism make governments. When the radicals retire (or are removed) from the barricades the bureaucrats and cynics move in and take over. The Soviet Union was a pretty exciting place for the first few years – its siren song of secular humanism attracted any number of useful idiots from the U.S. and elsewhere. But eventually the charms of communism wore thin, and the USSR became a very gray, depressing, cold, and hungry place. Some of the true believers hung in and stayed there until they died of old age, but most returned to the U.S. and took up posts in the government or as university professors, where they went on for years describing the Soviet Union as a utopia, which they, regrettably, had to leave for reasons better left unexplained. Meantime, the hapless citizens of the USSR remained trapped there for decades – nay, a lifetime.
So as Kamala says, “Everyone beware”. (And she'd better take her own advice.)
