Elitism’s Failures
Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, 1/16/21
Today our national capital is armed to the
gills. Cops and troops are rightly everywhere, some even sleeping on the floor
of the Capitol building. Individual states are also shoring up security for
next week’s inauguration.
As
Democrats and their media outlets would cast it, more peasants are headed
toward the palace with their pitchforks. You know. The unwashed, uneducated,
cultish conservative thugs, those who, according to the elitist CNN “contributor”
Eugene Robinson, “need to be re-programmed.” Robinson wasn’t referring only to
the thugs who stormed the Capitol, however. He made it clear he was referring
to all of the supporters of Donald Trump.
How
sad, how despicable, that the lengths to which the federal government has gone
to protect itself were not extended to the business owners, cops, and other
non-elites in Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Why no rage when Black Lives
Matter and Antifa filled the streets and battled with police for three solid
months? The answer is obvious and two-fold.
First, simply because the little people whose
shops were burned down by the radicals during “the summer of love” were not
elitists but just normal folks. Neither were their places of work hallowed,
columned structures of marble. Second, because Democrat mayors and governors
not only turned aside from the summer violence but also defended the
destructive “protestors” as well.
Said
elitist Kamala Harris, “The protestors are not going to let up and they
shouldn’t let up.” This, while cars were being smashed, police stations were
being burned, and even government buildings were being destroyed. Elitist-in-Chief
Nancy Pelosi, when asked about the rioters, appeared to be at a loss for words
then muttered, “People will do what they do.” Ponder the double standard for
violence. Ponder who incited the summer violence, excusing it with the phrase,
“justifiable frustration.”
Compare
these comments to the words of President Trump just before the Capitol storming
took place, words I have read and watched three times. I challenge any reader
to quote me a single sentence from the president’s speech that incited anyone
to riot. Shortly after the storming of the Capitol, another elitist, Senator
Mitt Romney, used a word that has since been seized and repeated by
anti-Trumpers.
“Embarrassing,”
moaned the Senator. What, then, is the word for the action perpetrated upon the
little people of the cities named above? I doubt that the ordinary citizens
whose livelihoods were lost, whose lives were endangered and put on hold ever
thought about embarrassment. They were thinking about food, housing, mortgages,
their immediate future, and kids, things rich man Romney has never had to worry
about.
As
for the dumbing down of the word “insurrection,” a word Democrats need to look
up, the taking over of a section of a city and claiming sovereignty over it is
far more seditious than trashing the House Speaker’s office, engaging in
antics, and making fun of her. True insurrectionists don’t waste time with
foolishness. Ne’er-do-wells do. And every political party has its share of
ne’er-do-wells.
Yes,
the Capitol, the seat of our government, is hallowed and sacrosanct. But so is
the common man’s “castle” and workbench. Even the wealthy FDR made clear his
sincere belief in “the sanctity of the commoner.” That’s why he was considered
a traitor to his class. Regard for the common folks far away from our storied
capital city was what distinguished us from Europe in the first place. It was
the far away folks whom Donald Trump aroused, the huge middle class who had
been ignored by elitist, globalist Democrats and Republicans alike. The goons
of January 6th don’t represent this vast portion of America’s
citizens. To be precise, the beautiful Capitol they trashed is but a symbol of
what is hallowed and sacrosanct, namely our freedom.
For
four years uppity elitists in both parties have sullied every word President
Trump has uttered. With overwrought language they have attacked his family,
questioned his sanity, belittled his intelligence, rejected his election and
impeached him twice. It is they who incited the January 6th goons.
Anyone
who thinks Trump’s base will fall apart hasn’t followed politics and doesn’t
understand the power of numbers. 74,000,000 Trump supporters are not going to
evaporate. The tepid Republicans who bolted will fade. If they are truly
conservatives they will regret their lack of discernment within six months. It
has escaped them that because of Trump the middle class is doing better,
borders are now meaningful, Blacks are exiting the Democrat party, Arabs and
Jews are talking, and “America First” is gloriously infectious.
Trumpism
is not dead because populism is very much alive. To maintain their power,
Democrats and their elitist Republican sympathizers might need to look up populism
since it’s coming toward them. The Biden agenda will strengthen it.
Roger Hines
1/14/21
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