Cast Away Illusions and Prepare for Struggle
Some of these countries have written constitutions, others don t it hardly matters. What they all share, along with the United States, is a near-identical ruling class of transnational managerial elites who believe they alone possess History s mandate to reengineer society. And what they hate and fear above all else is the nation: the existence and yes, the very idea of a distinct and sovereign people that lies beyond the reach of their totalizing hunger for conformity and control. Hence, they hate and fear democracy, too the self-governance of a nation. This global battle between transnational managerialism and sovereign democratic nationhood now defines 21st-century politics.
When a government deliberately abets an invasion of some 10 million foreigners across its borders, ordinary citizens recognize this isn t merely a violation of the rule of law. They correctly intuit it as something far graver: it is treason. Against the Constitution? Against rules written on a page? No, it is treason against the nation: an assault on the very body politic, which preexists the government and transcends its form. Ordinary Americans understand this just as the French or Irish do.
The Constitution was a very fine document, successfully codifying the unique character of the young Anglo-American nation. Many of us dearly hope it can yet be restored and re-enforced, in spirit and law. But the time for conservatives hubristic habit of quibbling over American exceptionalism or the precise meaning of America s founding has well and truly passed. Now is the time to cast away illusions and prepare for struggle.
N.S. Lyons.
A lot of us on the Right (but not me so much) are thinking this way. Mr. Lyons’s summary of the reasons they do so does make one pause. We may not be a totalitarian state, but we are definitely totalitarian-ish. And seem to be getting that way more every day.