I should give a shout out to Nick Steves at social matter, who have a week in reaction series that is worth going through. Some quotes for this time, as the US election gets close.

At the end of the progressive cycle, the aristocrats are conflated with the social welfare state, and run the foundations and rule the social agencies that give the dole out. Without care, without love, and without relationship. The older aristocrats were accountable for the treatment of their tenants: these people are not.

Without an aristocracy to pay for it, there can be no welfare state in the left’s system, and that includes sinecures and diversicrat jobs.

No rational aristocracy would spend as much time crafting and spreading propaganda to its low alliance members as our does.

America’s aristocracy does, however, because the court eunuch class and priests gain status from playing the role of the shining light for the masses. These priests demand that driving force, and the economic high will fund it to help control the masses. The rest of America pays for it in taxation via economic growth that in the last generation has all come via asset bubbles.

The high receives plenty from this arrangement by using cheap money/asset bubbles to inflate their wealth, which is seen through the funneling of asset bubble lending into progressive-desired ends.

This is echoed in Dark Reformation: who compares a monarchy — which is a family business — with democracy as currently practiced. Or Singapore and the EU.

Good governance, in large part, reduces to the following maxim: banish the barbarians and the best will come. The first principle is to provide good customer service by enforcing law and order and establishing and enforcing contracts. Good service attracts more customers, great service attracts a greater number of customers; more customers means more rent. More rent means more profit. More profit means more shareholder satisfaction. As a result, the value of the share price grows, which then attracts more investors and more investors means more resources. More resources will allow the state to provide better — more effective and efficient — customer service. Better service, again, attracts even more customers: thus a virtuous spiral.

Contrast that virtuous spiral with the vicious one of democracy. Modern democracy attracts barbarians and exploits, silences, banishes or kills its best. Law and order is breaking down and terrorism is on the rise. The state thus expands its power and reach, but because it is so bloated and internally divided, it cannot take effective and efficient action. Furthermore, government spending and debt continue to expand, and the tax-payer foots the bill or the government borrows more money and thus increases its national debt. Mass immigration and the outsourcing of jobs harm the lower and middle-classes thus causing friction (ethnic and religious tensions — which, of course, allows the state more power and control.) Diversity, equality and tolerance are promoted as a way of dividing and conquering the lower and middle classes. Welfare, furthermore, is used as a vote-buyer. State-provided education, meanwhile, becomes more and more politicised, but not effective in terms of knowledge or skills. More and more young, bright and enterprising people leave while more and more people go on welfare. As a result, taxes and or borrowing increases. Because of welfare, culture and the capitalist work ethos, people don’t start families or are soon broken up (no fault divorce) if they marry and thus demographics goes over a cliff. The middle-class, as a result, is further hollowed out. All the while crime, poverty and other social pathologies increase. Consequently, political tensions start to rise. Low-level political violence begins. Social order starts to break down even more. Then, we get to the stage where political paramilitary units form. The two political factions of left and right, consequently, move towards their inevitable final form: Communism and Fascism. The ultimate victory of one or the other must happen via mass violence or mass oppression – the results of either are clear— as history shows.

What is missing in this is power: authority: the ability to make changes and to take responsibility. It is in part a lack of a king, as noted below, but it is also a lack of liberty. Our homes are not our castle, people interfere in our families, and all must follow a process, set by the state, but with no human in charge.

We are suffering chronic kinglessness. Everybody has some power, but nobody has real power. All the men we think are powerful, think themselves powerless. Instead of a directed, functional state, we a hyper-powerful super-state throwing its tremendous weight around blindly, destroying everything in its path. The Constitution, which limits any man from having real power, prevents any man from exercising real authority, yet at the same time it is helpless to limit government, so the behemoth fumbles around blindly leaving a swath of destruction in its wake.

We should fear tyrants less than the process of a state, blindly running on inertia. Our laws should be simple, and the politicians accountable to their communities. Elaborate structures (the best example, which blights health in NZ, is 27 district health boards, all centrally funded, for four million people) and processes dilute this.

And then no one will take the blame, until there is warre, and a caste is eliminated as a consequence of injustice being institutionalized.

This elite are without power and blind. Do not blind and geld yourself to join them.