The intellectual disappointment

It's not the elite guys who can save America, because that's not their priority

These were not good days starting from Nov 8th. The midterm results were depressing, especially immediately after election night before it became clear only a week later that the GOP had indeed taken back the House (despite the best cheating efforts of the other side as displayed most brazenly in AZ and NV). The emotional distress befalling many who had hoped for and expected a humiliating defeat to the current DC regime was hard to bear not least because expectations had been pushed sky high by the public outrage machine over the previous weeks when some offered wet dreams of even AOC getting thrown out of office in her NYC district where a canned tomato soup would get elected with a (D) attached to it.

It seems now that some in politics and media had pushed expectations not just as a matter of general hysterical attitude but also quite deliberately because

• it served to set the bar incredibly high and even a decent outcome (retaking the House) could be painted as complete disappointment afterwards. As if it was all planned that way, as Raheem Kassam has convincingly suggested.

• And because it may have made a lot of people somewhat complacent, thus suppressing much needed votes.

• And because it supported the absurd rhetorics of the Dem machine, according to which a massive takeover of political power in America through the bad orange man’s “Ultra” MAGA movement, ending democracy for good, was an imminent threat.

Sadly, that narrative was supported by some of the supposedly good guys, too. No, I’m not talking about Bill Maher who fully supported that nonsense and poured it over his audience generously (in favor of the WH-led agitprop machine) … that’s not a good guy in the first place, only a man who wants old-style leftism without all too much of the woke stuff. To make such a guy into some kind of authority might not be the best idea ever. Just because he’s only half crazy and corrupt is not a convincing reason.

I’m talking for instance about a man whom I used to revere a lot (and still do to some degree), Jordan B. Peterson, who in previous years seemed to be somewhat open to the idea that after all, Donald Trump might be not quite the caricature the MSM presented. But in recent months, he repeatedly dismissed the 45th President as a deluded person who makes all the wrong decisions, in terms of public relations / communication strategy, and totally overbearing and generally unfitting for high federal office. On stage in the UK during Q&A, asked about the merits of a monarchy after the late Queen’s death, he chose to elaborate in obsessive length about a semi-public gathering in Kentucky, if my memory serves me well, where the president was a special guest of honor and according to Peterson’s perception extracted far too much attention by the higher-level-crowds present.

Gut-level intellectualism

It didn’t become quite clear exactly why that was a problem for which Trump ought to be admonished, but in this storytelling as much as in the emotional outburst of Peterson when interviewed by an Icelandic local TV reporter about the man it was crystal clear that there was a lot of resentment being harbored by the Canadian psychologist-philosopher-pundit. From titles of YT video clips with Peterson talking to his apparent new friend Piers Morgan (the Murdoch-media-personality known for his repulsive insults against the “vaccine”-skeptics), it seems clear that Peterson feels some responsibility not only for the cleanliness of random people’s bedrooms, but for the cleanliness of American politics from populist anti-elitists just as well.

Looks a bit like a crusade almost, but then again, Peterson is not necessarily to blame for being outspoken per se. He is to blame though for using his fame and perceived trustworthiness for political interventions that seemingly draw upon his professional standing as a psychologist, when in fact it’s not a set of subtle analytical points on which his assessment is (ought to be) based but rather a fundamental gut-level distaste for that vulgar outsider who just won’t fit into the inherited system of government.

In Peterson’s view, populists fighting “the system” are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, are cynical and unappreciative of the merits of the apparatuses of political power. If you don’t like it, become a part and help improve it! Presumably, in that general regard the political system of the US is to be held different from Canadian academia, from which Peterson has dissolved himself entirely now because it is so deeply corrupted that it must be replaced.

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In addition and surely not unrelated, the expert of all experts has also dismissed any notion that the 2020 presidential elections might have been significantly manipulated and practically stolen … how would anybody dare coming up with such ludicrous conspiracy theories? Only far-right rubes and other unworthy types. Laughable! Obviously! In this, Peterson closely allies himself with little Ben S. and the rest from the somehow “cool” yet elitist “Daily Wire”, the same platform on which the former “clinical” psychologist now relies in order to produce one high-gloss video of himself lecturing everybody about everything after another. It’s a pity, exactly because indeed he has fascinating and often inspiring takes on a variety of topics, and then he turns around and smashes the former president squarely into the deplorable basket, thus practically parroting HRC, only with even more contempt and righteous indignation.

Being nice is so important, right?

Of course, the DW guys and Peterson and more of this network (formerly touted as “intellectual dark web”) like e.g. the posh gay Brit Douglas M. must insist that the election was not stolen … because only then they can stick to their pet narrative that Trump has lost it deservedly because he’s such an impossible person and also, the mean tweets and suburban housewives. That’s the level of sophisticated analysis these intellectual heroes have to offer. Really.

Oh, and of course, Trump could have achieved so much more while in office if only he had chosen to talk more courteously to Mitch McConnell and John McCain. So that’s why Trump “the character” must not become the nominee again. Too uncouth! Not a “statesman”! Never mind what he did achieve despite the constant barrage of treasonous shenanigans by his detractors. Like the Abraham Accords, bringing peace to Israel and its neighbors … well yes, that’s admittedly fine, but still. Also, that was somehow done by his elitist son-in-law, so why give #45 all the credit in the first place.

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It is hard to understand, or virtually impossible, how Peterson – the outspoken critic of globalist climate scam schemes that actually endanger the mere survival of hundreds of millions of people across the planet – might imagine a successful political fight against the “elites” who are forcing these totalitarian politics upon the “free” West, nowhere more so than in his home country of Canada, whose PM & WEF poster-boy J. Trudeau he probably loathes even more than Donald Trump, but also and much more importantly via the current third Obama Administration with corrupt senile Joe B. serving half-consciously as proxy puppet in the Oval Office.

It appears as if Peterson believes that he, the enlightened teller of truth, impersonating the logos or something, can singlehandedly make the powers enforcing the Davos-globalists’ wet dreams go away by his scathing commentary videos, in which his facial expression and tone of voice project the rigorous resolve of a million traditional nannies scolding the kids for smearing the sauce bolognese on the table cloth on purpose. So, presumably, there’s not really a need left for any unruly populist uprising draining the DC swamp from all the corrupt types on the payroll of the CCP or otherwise beholden to Emperor Xi’s court in Beijing Peking.

Frankly, this appears to be an amount of naïveté not compatible with the intellectual capacities of the good man and his intellectual friends. It’s not even close, as the bad orange man would routinely say.

Speaking of bad vs. good men btw, Peterson considers the top Atheist proselytizer Sam Harris still a good man even if that guy – in his infamous interview with the “Triggernometry” couple from England – asserted wholeheartedly that brutal censorship manipulating an election outcome is totally fine if it goes against Donald Trump or other fascist endangerments of the American Democrats-y. The Biden crime family in contrast, that’s explicitly just some erroneous extravagance of the elites on the good side, so he’s cool with it.

And Peterson is cool with Harris. Doesn’t matter all that much if somebody allows for God to set the rules or if he assumes that role himself, as a matter of philosophical and political practice, or if he abides by the rules defined in the founders’ constitutional framework. These topics appear to be negligible when judging the moral standing of a public person, they must therefore rank at least lower than the first and second dozen of Peterson’s rules for life. Do pet a cat when you encounter it, but the deep state and leftist censorship, you can support that just as it suits your whim. One can only hope for Harris he will not break the cat-rule.

Trustworthy and successful: who cares?

The unmitigated hatred of the clear leader of the MAGA movement … also well known as Trump derangement syndrome … is obviously suppressing the ability to any kind of actually scientific, or just (more broadly) somewhat detached, critically-thought analysis of the abject abominations, the appalling abuse of power structures in the current state of the Western industrialized (well, decreasingly so…) countries. That of all folks in public discourse an excessively renowned psychologist with high moral standards should fall into this kind of trap is truly ironic. While it does prove that gut feelings, cultural (milieu) standards and emotional attachments are indeed powerful and guide the actions of the very smart fellows, too.

Now that was some detour from the original starting point, the disappointing and depression-inducing midterm results. Yet was it? Some of the disappointment, and a particularly painful part of it, stems from the insight that even among those who strongly disapprove of the current globalist-woke-left regime threatening to undo freedom and safety of the American people, there is a considerable faction that apparently still considers the common-sense-populism of the most trustworthy (in terms of fulfilling every campaign promise ever made in 2016, and more) and successful US President in our era to be more of a danger than the evil powers actually destroying the free West.

These guys are incurable intellectuals.
Too smart, too smug, too superior to acknowledge the obvious.

Too cultivated to be bothered to support the man from the golden tower who through his individual wealth (plus the fervent support by millions of ordinary patriots) is actually independent from the swamp he is intent on draining.
They’d rather ally themselves with entities beholden to the system, entangled influences and dependent on special interests’ money.

What a strange bed-fellowship between self-stylized, supposedly independent public intellectuals and the corporate networks.

In lockstep opposing the bond between a builder-billionaire and the blue-collar-world, on the opposite site.

But while the first coalition, that of mind and money, is not so surprising after all, albeit disappointing and rife with deceit, the latter one is inspiring and still holds the promise of upending the corrupt networks of power suffocating the American Dream.

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Speaking of corrupt systems, one more Peterson peculiarity: in his often voiced imagination, the conservatives wish to preserve power structures that first came up through merit but then unavoidably ossify and become corrupt, so that the liberals with their creative minds can come to rescue and reform what needs change in order to survive.

Liberal and conservative, switching sides

Strangely, it’s now the left who takes the whole of America hostage to their absurd phantasies of total power and control; it’s them who stifle any open discussion and cancel what is left of true cultural values. The metropolitan hubs all over the nation are ruled by mafia-type political networks, unassailable because the judiciary and prosecutorial powers are vastly in their pockets as well. They stick the “progress” label on it, but it still is corruption and ossified elites. (They can count more votes in an election than there are voters on the lists, which in turn are rife with non-existent local citizens in the first place.)

And it’s the right-leaning / vaguely conservative MAGA movement that fights hard to free the world of this unprecedented menace formed by the “Democrat” machine, corporate fake news, BIG Tech, BIG Money, deep state / three-letter agencies gone rogue and the CCP. Some righteous McCarthyism wouldn’t be that bad nowadays.

All of the above seems obvious, doesn’t it? But maybe it’s not quite “deep” enough a narrative for the leading intellectual of our time to consider and – dare one hope – announce a correction to his vague concept of the historic roles that conservatives and liberals are supposed to play. But of course, there are many instances when theory and reality don’t match and the theory is so extremely scientific that there must be something wrong with reality. The old fallacy of the intellectual per se.

Anyways, as the Canadians seem to say, eh… at the time of this writing, roughly a week has gone by since the midterms that were supposed to convincingly shift the political direction of the country. Not so much, sadly. At least, with a bit of luck and courage the House will be able to put a stop to the worst machinations of the current regime, and it has become still more obvious who is doing what and standing on which side. The 45th President will be running again for the WH, which has been plain to see for many months now for everybody paying the least bit of attention and not lying to themselves, and in all likelihood become the nominee of the GOP.

A party that actually doesn’t deserve the man, for all of the shenanigans of their remaining old establishment, the Uniparty adherents who find it always more worthwhile on the other side of the aisle, in a perverted play that has long become lopsided into one direction only, far left and down the abyss.

Let’s move on, go clean up the mess

This much is now as obvious as it gets: the intellectuals are unable and unwilling to join the fight. “We have to move on”, they suggest, meaning: stop looking back on the stolen elections, the police-state-style persecution of political opponents, get rid of the vulgar real estate guy at last. A new generation beckons! (At least that’s what gets prominent placement in the shop window. The back office, that’s another thing. String-pulling Rupert Murdoch is not exactly a juvenile.)

May I suggest otherwise. We have to move on, and leave those intellectuals behind.

Let them fight against the transgender nonsense, at that they are capable and reliable. When it comes to real politics and real power struggles though, that’s just asked too much, too much outside their comfort zones. You need the flyover country rube types for that, who travel and queue up and stand in the pouring rain just to listen to a man talking politics for two hours straight, in an amazing display of strength both mentally and physically, and who go door to door on a grass roots level to get their country back. That’s inspiring, that is reason for hope. The deplorables.

Those are the people who are trying hard to make America the best that it could be, who clean up the room (so to speak) and rise to a potential, to a level of agency as citizens not seen before too often in history. They are sick of the official “rules for political life” in America. Good for them. They are writing them anew, going back to the old narrative of “We the people”, with god-given rights and a government that respects and protects them from evil powers. What a truly deep story, isn’t it?

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[It’s strange how any number of proof reading exercises will still leave some typos in. Gosh.
Found another two late on Sat. 19th and corrected them.]