They/Them

 

The leftists/WEFists holding effective power in Canada and in the US and in the EU still seem to be aiming, as one Fox news banner briefly put it, for a “wannabe dictatorship.” However, I believe the moral ground has shifted. Their resort to overt bare-knuckle tactics, if anything, proves it. When moral force fails, what you have left is physical force. It’s old Bull Connor turning the fire hose on the freedom marchers.

They have lost the high ground, and the moral high ground is everything. 

There are multiplying evidences. 

One is that friend Xerxes objects, in his latest column, to the pronoun “they.” 

This is, in the first place, a 180 for someone on the left; they (sorry) have been promoting “they” for decades—first as an alternative to the offensive “he,” more recently also to the offensive “she.” And Xerxes was never concerned when “they” referred to some vague “patriarchy,” or “white supremacy,” or “corporate interests,” or “post-colonialism,” or “the system,” or, to use his own term, “Bible thumpers.”

It’s a problem for him now, I suspect, because the “they” he sees as liable to be criticized in good company is the group I call above the leftists/WEFists; the “Woke” elite. With whom, through his columns, he is associated. He seems at least in the first stages of pulling away. This is a miracle I thought I would not live to see.

Xerxes is right that we should be more specific. People should always be seen as individuals, not as members of some group. That is prejudice.

The problem is, the woke mob themselves hide behind anonymity. Avoiding personal responsibility is part of their ethos. 

To begin with, they literally wear masks. 

They also hide behind figureheads. Biden is nominally US president. But we know he is not really mentally capable of being in control, and we do not know who is. Trudeau is nominally Canadian prime minister. But we know he is unqualified, just an actor playing a part, only a front window mannequin. Someone is pulling the strings; we do not know who. Rishi Sunak was arbitrarily installed as UK prime minister. We do not know who is running him.

They also use moles. Erin O’Toole pretended to be a “True Blue Tory.” He was not; he was controlled opposition, an agent for the other side, whoever they are. Mitt Romney, who claimed, awkwardly, to be “severely conservative,” was the same in the States.

So they deliberately muddy the picture. If we cannot be too specific about who “they” are, nobody knows who “they” are, except, presumably, “they.” But there is clearly some kind of group think, relying on NPCs, people just going along with the agenda to avoid either being targeted or thinking for themselves. This latter group too deserves some blame as “they.”

It is this mass of NPCs who could suddenly turn, if it is more profitable or safer to argue the other side. They will then deny having ever been they. Then the walls come tumbling down.

The candidacies of Cornell West and RFK Jr. should hasten the fall of they. I assume “they” will not allow RFK to get the nomination, and he is a strong candidate with a strong case. They are going to have to play dirty to prevent it. RFK is sincere, articulate, and eagerly invited onto all the alternative media. When he is shut down, it will be obvios, and there is likely to be increased moral revulsion on left and right. His family history already gives him the moral patina of martyrdom and reminds us of the era of Martin Luther King.

Cornell West is an unusually prominent figure to be running for the Greens. He too will be listened to, and, being himself black, his candidacy may reduce the black tendency to vote Democrat as a matter of course. A legion of NPCs may turn.

The recent LA Dodgers “Gay Pride Night” was apparently sparsely attended, and there were boos when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were introduced to receive their award. There was, reportedly, a much larger crowd outside, praying and holding protest signs.

The ground has shifted, and morality is coming back in fashion.