The “Upstairs-Downstairs Coalition”
- Brings together the most destitute with the most privileged in our society
- Expertly manipulating voters in the upstairs-downstairs coalition, they are destroying everything we love and everything we need.
- The top 0.1% control a total net worth equal to the entire cumulative net worth of the bottom 90%
- Every year, these billionaires and the corporations they control disburse billions to maintain standing armies of activist groups that conduct lawfare, fund civil disobedience, run massive propaganda campaigns, engage in targeted "get-out-the-vote" activities, prop up financially dependent media properties, and produce "expert" studies with paid-for ideas
The Weaponization of Mental Illness
- Co-opting potentially violent sociopaths, or as Shellenberger puts it, "weaponizing mental illness," has long been a tool of authoritarian regimes.
- In the USSR during the Cold War, during the German Nazi era, and in police states throughout the 20th century, recruiting thugs and turning them on their own people was a common tactic-as it is still in Communist China today. What's happening in America is only slightly more nuanced, and highly effective.
Pressure from Above, Pressure from Below
- Establishment institutions in America have falsely condemned Americans as racist and sexist, despite American culture for all its flaws being the most inclusive culture in the history of civilization
- The MAGA movement began to attract Americans of all backgrounds in 2016
- To cope, the establishment began anointing the most troubled individuals among us as pioneering saints, destined to redefine what it means to be "normal"
The Useful Lunatics
- For months on end, Antifa and Black Lives Matter ringleaders, fêted by the media and funded by plutocrats, orchestrated murderous rampages in dozens of cities.
- Climate militants, also a minute fraction of the population, have made common cause with BLM and Antifa militants, committing acts of performative vandalism, their protests block freeways, they harass targeted politicians and executives, they have shut down energy pipelines, and their attacks on vital energy infrastructure are escalating.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/06/the-tyranny-of-the-minority/
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