Dear Friends,
It seems to me, capitalism and populism are synonymous, as elitism and socialism are. Capitalism is individual freedom of economic activity, and populism is a philosophy of individual autonomy and as the atom of political power… versus socialism’s group as the locus of economic and political power. A populist then favors the free market, of free people, while an elitist would prefer the centralized economy, run by expert elites. Making elitism and socialism synonymous. Once we think of them in this way the actions of the elite come into focus. Politicians, judges, and bureaucrats, elites, that use regulation to bring every facet of human endeavor under their hand, are by definition, elitists, whether or not they claim to rule in the name of the people. It is rule by expert elites.. like the CCP.
The Soviet Union epitomized this paradigm. It vacillated between a tyranny and oligarchy its whole existence. No matter the hand or hands that wielded the power, it was the bureaucracy that got it done. Stalin couldn’t have murdered the millions he is credited for, without the bureaucracy to do it, in Stalin’s name. Just as Mao needed the bureaucracy to do his dirty work. Hitler had the SS to do the wet work as well. They are bureaucracies with a license to kill. Such agencies can only exist in an elitist culture, society and government. They must be wielded by an elite. Being wholly unsuited to be wielded by populists. Because the FBI is a means to centralize authority, not decentralize it. Just as the Stazi, Gestapo and the Red Guard were. Elitists centralize authority while populists decentralize it.
Compare the post war economy of Wilson and Truman. Both were democrats, but Truman was a populist and Wilson was an elitist. Wilson’s post war economy was a disaster. So much so it led to the election of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge… who’s free market reforms led directly to the roaring Twenties. Truman was despised by the elite for being a populist. Had Truman followed Wilson’s lead, and usurped every power he could get his grubby hands on, the post war golden age would never have happened, until another Harding/ Coolidge was elected to replace him too. Instead, Truman’s human heartedness led to the establishment of Israel, the post war expansion, the Marshal plan and had the elitist MacArthur followed orders, China wouldn’t have entered the Korean war.
Do you ever wonder why every dystopian movie is set in a socialist police state? Probably not, because we all know that socialism leads to dystopia, like rivers do the sea. Isn’t it odd then, that we don’t put two and two together and get four? Since elitism and socialism are synonymous, and socialism leads to dystopia, then why would we allow elitists to have unlimited power? Isn’t that putting us on a ski jump to dystopia? The language of socialism is the tongue we speak. We sort our fellows by their class, allow justice to be modified by an adverb, and our minds go blank in the face of appeal to authority, especially of The Science. Nevertheless, the elite barge ahead, knowing in their hearts where they are leading us. The elite figure, if dystopia is our future, in a century or so humanity will recover.
In the face of such overwhelming pragmatic evidence, self interested people and indeed wise elites, would embrace populism and turn away from elitism. Why put your children on the road to dystopia? Only a stupid fool would do that… and we are not stupid fools, are we? You can’t blame the elite, they are captured by their own propaganda and live in an echo chamber. Their god, The Science, demands human sacrifice, and with abortion, the trans movement, climate change fear mongering, wars, and gain of function… it is well fed today. The elite need the bureaucracy though. It does their dirty work. An unaccountable administrative state is necessary for the next Hitler, Mao, Lenin or Pol Pot to come to power. And the elite will get away with it too, unless those meddling populists get in the way.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
