The Shadow of the Shadow
“As shocking as it may sound, the institution of the
State itself is the real enemy. It’s time to carefully
analyze your relation to it.” — Doug Casey
James Howard Kunstler
Sep 27, 2024
You have to wonder: has there ever been a country
that marched off to war with no head-of-state at the
top of its war machine? It’s exactly that bad in our
country, with a broken animatronic Halloween scarecrow
popping in-and-out of the White House to yell
incoherently at election campaign events for a putative
successor too scared of the predicament she’s in to
think straight. Really, no one is in charge — and if
any of the leading actors on the scene really were, the
situation could easily get worse.
Hence, the brainless wish roiling through the
NSC, State Department, and the various shadow councils
of the intel emeriti to lob long-range missiles into
Russia, apparently heedless of any consequences.
America, you are a headless horseman riding blindly
into chaos.
In fact, the entire Democratic Party and its Deep
State intel blob partners have melted down into a
desperate mob of political criminals frantic to evade
accounting for their acts. So then, setting the world
on fire is all they have left, a fitting act of revenge
for a faction thwarted in its mad drive to merely wreck
the United States for the sake of “social justice” and
“equity.”
The Democrats of 2024 made exactly the same
mistake that their predecessors, the Jacobins, made in
France back in 1794: they just couldn’t tell when
they’d gone too far with their insults against the
public interest and common decency. Their insults
derived from the age-old human impulse to demolish
society due to life being unfair, later codified in
Marxian doctrine, and then made into a play-book by
Saul Alinsky (with annotations by Antonio Gramsci,
Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven).
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As the French Revolution ground on and on, by 1793
the Jacobins gained control of the Committee of Public
Safety which actually carried out policy, while endless
quarrels occupied the National Convention — the then-
current legislative body. The Jacobins’ policy was
insane, just as the policy of open borders, lawfare,
war, censorship, pharma-terrorism, climate hustles, and
drag queens in the schools is insane under our modern
Jacobins, the Democrats. (Notice the Democrats’
constant invoking of “safety” and “safe spaces” as a
similar rhetorical device for justifying their deeds
and cowing the public.)
The Committee of Public Safety sought to remake
French society by turning its cultural norms upside-
down and by killing as many of its political opponents
as possible. Thus, the Reign of Terror when, for a
whole year, heads rolled and rolled off the guillotine
in the Place de la Concorde, usually without benefit of
a trial. The ghoulish extravaganza of gore and death
grossed-out those in the country who had not lost their
minds.
One night in July 1794, as the Jacobin boss,
Robespierre, took to the rostrum in the Convention for
the umpteenth time to denounce his enemies and announce
new death sentences, members in the chamber commenced
throwing food at him. That was the turning point, and
it turned so hard and fast that France was amazed.
Within forty-eight hours, Robespierre and many of his
cohorts got beheaded under the “national razor,” and
that was the end of Jacobinism and all its insane
measures to wreck what was left of society after five
years of revolution.
Our Democratic Party Jacobins have been harder to
defeat because government these days is vastly larger
and more complex, and the equivalent of the Committee
of Public Safety is now a huge network of cadres
toiling in scores of federal agencies and associated
NGOs financed by those agencies (or by their
billionaire henchmen such as George Soros, Bill Gates,
Jeff Bezos, and Reid Hoffman). Insane as they are, many
public officials understand their culpability for the
treasons and insults of recent years. They live in fear
of prosecution and, short of that, of losing their
cushy sinecures in the colossal bureaucracy that is
bankrupting us.
There are many in our country today who are also
not insane, just as in France circa 1794. This is
actually the chief appeal of Mr. Trump, though he often
expresses it clumsily, coming, as he does, from the
rough and exacting world of property development, which
is full of rough people in rough building trades using
rough language. Secondarily, Mr. Trump represents
leadership — the sheer idea that an actual person
should be an executive-in-charge of a national polity —
and it appears that a majority of the people in this
land are finally sick of a faceless blob ruling madly
from the shadows. Thirdly, Mr. Trump has become a
national father figure, a titanic offense to a party
run by women with daddy issues and to their Marxist
allies dogmatically bent on destroying the family
(along with every other institution). As it happens,
countries need fathers, both actual and symbolic. What
a surprise!
In the mad effort to evade judgment for their
acts, the Democrats and their blob cadres are either
trying to kill Mr. Trump directly, or are looking the
other way while other nefarious parties attempt the
wicked business. So far, no cigar. Who knows what
they’ll try next: a surface-to-air missile at his
airplane. . .a directed-energy weapon. . . a poisoned
cheeseburger. . .?
The candidate himself seems a little tinged these
days with the same aura of dauntless resignation that
was seen in Martin Luther King and the first Bobby
Kennedy in 1968 — who both went about their business
trying to rescue our country from war and wickedness
despite the threats against them. Many upright,
intelligent, bold figures stand with and behind Mr.
Trump this time, people capable and willing to pick up
the flag in the event it becomes necessary. Do not
fear.
Meanwhile, you have to also wonder: what on earth
possessed the Democrats to maneuver Kamala Harris into
this race? Everyone in the party and the blob must know
she doesn’t have an agile mind — beyond some ability
for reciting parboiled slogans — nor much acquaintance
with the workings of the world besides her dwindled
wiles in political amour, and that she may actually
have a drinking problem. She is left, finally, with no
one to cheerlead for her but the harpies on The View
and the degenerates on CNN and The New York Times who
all know the score but are too invested in years of
their own mendacity to even attempt to come clean.
Chatter arises that the awaited “October
surprise” will involve “Joe Biden” resigning from
office to make way for Kamala to become the First Woman
President just before election day, affording her,
supposedly, a magisterial prestige in the final leg of
the race. Don’t bet on that. When he resigns, “JB”
loses his power of the pardon. If he exercises it on
the eve of resignation and lets son Hunter, brothers
James, Frank, and other family members (including
himself) off the hook for their global money-grubbing
exploits, it will only besmirch Ms. Harris by
association. He has to hang in office until after Nov
6, no matter how the election turns, and then he can
pardon what’s left of his brains out.
Before we even get to that point, all you have
to worry about are unaccountable government factotums
doing something over in Russia that will make Mr. Putin
want to turn the USA into an ashtray.
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