Warning: the following contains jaded cynicism, hints of exhaustion, disappointment and possibly moments of anger or despair. In some rare cases, it may lead to independent thought. Readers are advised to consult with their doctor if suffering from suicidal thoughts or anti-social tendencies. Pregnant women should not be exposed to this information forty-eight hours before giving birth.

There was yet another clown show…er…debate last night.

I’ll be honest, I’m writing this before it takes place. If I have to revise it afterward, I’ll let you know. I don’t mind being proven wrong and it would be refreshing, frankly, to be taken aback and impressed.

But I doubt such revisions will be necessary. [Editor’s note: they weren’t]

I suspect the clowns…er…candidates actually believe they are in charge, calling the shots, running the show. More to the point, they have convinced themselves, and millions of other semi-conscious mouth-breathers, that they and they alone can “save” the country and that their opponent will initiate the Apocalypse.

It all hinges on this election…again. Until the next one.

It reminds me of movie franchises or TV shows that used up their one or two good ideas. But not wanting to let the franchise die, they simply rehash the same old plot lines with new faces, improved special effects, and fancy new marketing campaigns. Grab your overly priced popcorn, sit back, and please: turn your mind off or you might notice how paper-thin the story actually is.

I was already thinking along these lines in anticipation of the “debate” when I stumbled across an excellent post by Michael Lind at UnHerd.com titled “Trump vs Harris is just a front: America’s political parties no longer exist”. It is a good read.

He starts of strong right out of the gate:

When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris step into the ring this evening, America will be treated to an illusion. For the past month, we’ve been told that tonight’s showdown in Pennsylvania will be pivotal — that, finally, the nation will witness the chosen tribunes of its two parties slugging it out for the presidency…But appearances can be misleading.

Mr. Lind goes on to point out that the nature of party politics and how candidates are chosen has changed radically in the last fifty years, and not for the better of the average American. Initially consisting of “alliances of regional power blocs” beholden to the local interests and representing—at least to some tangible extent—the people electing their representatives, the party convention was where different factions hammered out their ticket. Comprise was the name of the game, and what is Democracy, really, if not the art of the compromise?

But now, thanks to the growth of party primaries and deregulation of campaign finance, parties have eroded and consolidated into class-oriented blocs, primarily “upper-middle class and rich primary voters”, who are only interested in promoting their self-centered values and material wealth. The country, American exceptionalism, and the traditional White culture that actually built this nation be damned.

American politics is now so exclusively focused on special interests, at the expense of the greater-good (in National Socialist parlance, the Volk), that for all the lip-service paid to “democracy”, only “15% of eligible voters participated in the party primaries that selected the presidential candidates.” And those 15% make up a narrow band of the electorate, both in terms of education and income. The result is little representation and even less care for the American worker, and more emphasis on “culture-war” issues.

Adding a nail to the coffin of Volk representation, unbridled large-donor campaign financing and contributions has “all but severed the link between local communities and the politicians…[who] represent them.” After the Supreme Court deregulated campaign finance in 2010, “dark money” donor contributions rose from $50 million in the 2012 election cycle to over $653 million in 2022. Now “a handful of Democratic and Republican Megadonors® who live in a few cities, along with corporate and non-profit lobbies, can pressure candidates even in state and local races to promote their agendas—to the extent that America’s parties are little more than fronts” for an ever growing, ever increasing oligarchy. This is true irrespective of party, or if your name is Trump or Harris:

Megadonors who flood both parties with money are less interested in political victory than in imposing their personal views — on climate change and gender ideology if they are progressives, or on tax cuts and Social Security cuts if, like most Republican donors, they are libertarians…The result is perhaps unsurprising, with an increasing number of American voters left without a political home. Last year, 43% described themselves as independents — a group nearly twice as large as self-described Republicans and Democrats. These independents do not share common values or views. They include libertarians who combine free-market economics with support for drug legalization and populists who are Left-wing on economic policy but conservative on social issues.

What they have in common, however, is the sense that they’ve been betrayed by the American political system — a system that hides the reality of oligarchic domination behind the façade of old-fashioned representative democracy.

I’m sure Mr. Lind had no intention of advocating for National Socialism. But his article inadvertently does exactly that when it traces the death of the American democracy and the rise of the American oligarchy baked into our political system. The above quote, likewise, highlights an opportunity for us, the proponents and promoters of a National Socialist political system.

There is a growing realization among the masses, the White Worker if you will, that something is wrong. That the train has gone off the rails. Now is the time to show them that there is another option.

Mr. Lind’s article resonated deeply with me because he was able to answer a question I was having difficulty articulating: does it matter or do any good if I vote for Trump? Part of me wants to feel good and believe a vote for Trump would make a difference. And I do believe he would make a better president than The Kackler.

But this nagging voice in the back of my head keeps reminding me that in the long wrong, it won’t. At best, a Trump victory might, and I do mean maybe, treat the symptoms of a broken system. Temporarily.

But it won’t cure the disease. A bit like taking morphine while you’re bleeding-out from trauma.

Which brings us back to the “debate”: Poor players, strutting and fretting on the stage, then heard no more. “It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” —With respects to the Bard.

Amerika Erwache!

Bonus: A quote from my 4th cousin (8 generations back)—