Punching Judy

 

Vancouver’s “Billboard Chris” is getting Canada international attention by being assaulted by a trans in front of police. 

This is an illustration of how most people do not act morally. The police stand by, then blame him for the assault. Why? Because it is easier and personally safer than challenging the power of the trans crowd.

We have governments is to protect the weak against the strong. But in practice, the police, like everyone else, are inclined to take the path of least resistance, to get back to their own concerns. Meaning they, and society as a whole, will generally back a bully. Until and unless the bullies become so demanding they feel they will be allowed, personally, no peace.

Women have been able to make demands for over a century, and governments will quickly comply. Beginning with issues like prohibition. They have the power. Not because they have the votes—although they do have a majority of the votes; this is relatively trivial. They were just as powerful before they were generally enfranchised. Because women have more disposable income than men, about four times as much, and more free time to organize and volunteer for political causes. 

If you doubt this, that women have more spending money and more free time than men traditionally, check a magazine rack. How many magazines are targeted towards women’s interests and how many towards men’s? Check book sales. Check a TV schedule. How many shows are targeted towards women, to sell things to women; how many are clearly men’s interest? How many shops cater to women, and how many to men? And so on.

With feminism and women entering the workforce, however, they have reduced their political power significantly over the years. They retain greater purchasing power, but have less free time to organize. So that they are now sometimes seeing their concerns lose out to other interest groups. Like trans athletes.

Gays have always had something of the same advantage. Because they do not procreate, they have, singly or as couples, usually had more disposable income and more free time to organize and volunteer for their political interests. And so this demographic tail has been wagging the dog; increasingly as the power of women has subsided.

Transgenders have the same advantages as gays: they do not procreate, and so they have the free time and disposable income to organize and fund their candidates and demands.

Seniors have always also had a powerful lobby: disposable income, free time. No politician dares mess with social security or medicare.

Wait. What about blacks and aboriginal people? They too, surely, have been getting their issues before government. What is their advantage? They may well have more free time for organizing, if only due to unemployment, But surely not more disposable income. 

But it is not really their issues, and it is not really them organizing and lobbying. Irt is powerful bureaucrats and bureaucracies claiming to act in their interests. They have by and large been kept dependent, wheeled out for sympathy as basket cases, to get more cash and power for these bureaucrats. Who themselves have lots of free time to organize, and all the money of the government itself to lobby the government itself for more power and money. They generally act heedless of the real interests of Indians or blacks—it is against the interests of the average Indian to maintain the system of reserves. It is against the interests of the average black to encourage open immigration or deny school choice. It is a con, suckering their charges, who have been taught to be helpless, in order to exploit the public sympathy for blacks and Indians. 

How do we escape this cycle? I suppose by seeing through it. As I suspect we are beginning to. Thanks to the Internet and the explosion of information it offers. And thanks to the demands of the privileged escalating to a point at which it at last becomes more obviously in the interests of the passive majority to confront the bullies than to appease and abet them.