John Hayward

First Soleimani and now this. How many more Iranian warrior-poets will die before the Ayatollah's friends are back in the White House?https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1332331916637446144 …

Joe Biden will send a pallet of cash to the funeralhttps://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1332318994460798979 …

Conclusion: media has made it clear that giving them extensive access is a bad idea, and they are lapdog-content with completely opaque Democrat White Houseshttps://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/1332127430006411266 …

They reach for the fruit that no other hand could pick, to remind one another that they are gods, even while loudly posturing as champions of socialism, feminism, and the Little Guy. The difference between what they DO and what they SAY is part of the rush. /end

It's no wonder that some who dwell on the highest slopes of Mount Olympus are tempted to go even further, to indulge in dark appetites that would land lesser men in jail - a temptation that seems especially acute for male members of the extreme upper class.

And then the political elite will demand even more control over our lives, to "fix" the ever-widening "inequality" gap their own policies and cultural programming made worse!

Take a broad look at pop culture, political culture, and increasingly corporate culture as we head into 2021. Almost every bit of it has been crafted to make middle class people abandon their ambitions and program their children to fail... making Mount Olympus ever higher.

And our young people are taught to hate their own ambitions, to hate themselves for desiring lives that have big carbon footprints, to hate and distrust everything that could bring them prosperity and narrow the gap between their lifestyles and those of the elite.

Thus we have a culture that teaches young people to reject time-tested moral codes that would help them build better lives, instead making clumsy efforts to imitate the debauchery of the elites in ways that lead them to misery and ruin.

Meanwhile, the fanatical puritan and luddite ideologies of the elite inspire them to restrict the resources and technologies that improve middle-class life and help people become more productive, which helps them earn more money and amass more capital.

These elite appetites are useful to the Left because they fold neatly into its endless war against the hated middle class. The perversions of the elite inspire them to attack the morality that would otherwise help lower and middle class people improve their station in life.

But they have a deep desire to make planes, cars, and accoutrements of the First World lifestyle forbidden to the proletariat. They love how their ideology elevates them into a superior overclass, reaffirming their importance by asserting they "need" or "deserve" so much more.

You'll notice that high acolytes of the Church of Global Warming have absolutely no intention of compromising THEIR extravagant lifestyles. They jet set, they have yachts and huge cars, they buy beachfront mansions on property they claim to believe will be underwater soon.

It's also one of the reasons high-living elites are drawn to puritanical secular pseudo-religions, like the Church of Global Warming and now the Church of Covid. They have a deep appetite for making aspects of modern life forbidden to the Little People, but not to themselves.

This is one of the reasons for the wave of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and pedophilia among the richest and most powerful. They indulge increasingly depraved appetites to savor the sweet, sweet high of doing what ordinary people cannot, feasting on the food of the gods.

Privileged elites always want to assert their status by indulging in pleasures denied to the lower classes. This often leads them into immoral, deranged, and even criminal behavior. They're desperate to flaunt their power by doing what lesser folk are forbidden to do.

The notion of a crisis so severe that no one should be allowed to ask questions about its causes, or the prescribed remedies, is an essential building block of tyranny.

It's fun to watch the Church of Covid still trying to milk political power from the pandemic by blaming politicians they hate for not doing enough, even as the new tidal wave of infections rolls over states and nations that did everything the Church demands, and then some.

Our choice, then, is between nation-states where the government is constrained by law and has a real sense of duty to its people, or a globalist arrangement constrained by nothing, with a managerial elite that feels no duty toward anyone but itself and its convictions. /end

The emerging system is pretty much written from the ground up to give advantages to aggressive, self-interested despotisms. The less you have to worry about the opinions of your subjects, the fretting of international media, or the demands of NGOs, the better you will fare.