Control is All They Care About

Plugged into the news 24/7, it’s not difficult to become inured, even hardened, when reading or viewing what’s passed off as news. Stories that should genuinely shock our conscience slough off of us too easily. The list of truly astonishing crimes committed, a lack of consequences, and an entire society that whiffs out when everyone should be standing up and demanding change is both astounding and depressing.

We’re living in a country today where we’re intentionally sorted into more easily controllable buckets. Popularly understood as intersectionality politics, it’s much more than that. Intersectional politics is the practice of advocacy groups on both sides of intentionally overlapping identities—race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and more—to shape political power and build coalitions in ways that allow for the effective manipulation of discrete subgroups. It has become one of the most influential—and contested—frameworks in contemporary political theory.

 

Intersectionality Politics in practice accomplishes two things:

1. It is the most efficient way to target specific messaging to a group of highly persuadable individuals.
2. It creates an ability to activate someone to think and act in a certain way, thereby occupying their time and destroying (in the case of young people) their futures.

 

Let’s skip to the end, and then we’ll backtrack. The key takeaway of this piece is that we know today that millions of individuals under 35 are on a different path than previous successful generations. From education, working, marriage, childrearing, buying a home, or saving for retirement, many in the 18-35 year bracket have lost the most important years of their lives. They will find it difficult, if not impossible, to regain the momentum stolen from them by the forces that drive intersectional politics and social activism. It is impossible to believe that all those millions aren’t aware that they are unlikely to equal, much less be better off than, their parents. Consequently, they are angry, hopeless, and floundering; rich fodder for anyone who promises them a better tomorrow, or at the very least, revenge on the institutions and practices that failed them, creating radicals in the process.

Witness how much this group hates the rich, rejects politicians they don’t agree with, and holds diminished expectations for their lives. This makes them a receptive audience for those who hate us. It is the definition of a ticking time bomb. Made all the worse when you realize that this group is beginning to assume roles of leadership in many organizations, particularly governmental, that will determine our future policies.

 

We see a split along two consequential axes:

1. Women, who are genetically predisposed to be cooperative and nurturing, are increasingly engaged, while men, the traditional hunter-gatherers, see themselves as less relevant, almost redundant. Women are voting in greater numbers than men and are voting for guarantees of protection.
2. Immigrants—most without a history of pluralism and an understanding of what a Constitutional Republic is — like women, favoring protection, which they erroneously believe comes from the State rather than through their own self-reliance. Most misunderstand that the Constitution guarantees their right to try but not necessarily to succeed. Increased risk is the only guarantee.

 

Outside influences stoke the flames of division as a necessity to confront us, not head-on, but on our flanks and from the rear, tearing out small but important bits of what makes our system work, leading us to a literal death by a thousand cuts, as we forget what freedom looks like. Millions of laws and regulations that the government uses to control us and limit our potential. Freedom, which we experienced a hundred or two hundred years ago, no longer exists. Instead, the cancer of safety nets reduces everyone’s prosperity and allows intersectionalists to attach to every facet of our lives. Think for a moment what’s changed:

• Education is the most important aspect that the government corrupts. The majority of today’s graduates from public education can not read, write, or think at the same level as a high school graduate did in 1950
• We spend three times as much per capita on healthcare as other developed countries. Yet millions of our citizens are habitually sick or suffer poor outcomes due to mismanagement and fraud.
• Immigration divides us in a way that, until recently, would have been hard to believe. The concept that a country is entitled to control its borders and protect its cultural identity is now a subject of debate.
• At many levels, our political system (including bureaucrats) is broken. Congress is unable to pass budgets and pass laws under regular order We are plagued with shutdowns, demagoguery, and the election of American haters with no solution on the horizon.

 

All of the above leads me to a conclusion that many already understand: our cohesiveness as a people, our international power, and our ability to grow our economy organically, not stoked by borrowed money and government jobs, are trending in the wrong direction. Everyone in the know knows this and is either in despair, wringing their hands, or one of the cheerleaders licking their chops for our fall.

Circling back to where we began, the social, political, and even economic isolation and frustration we feel are not accidents. Both sides use us for their own purposes. Yet, the two sides are not equals. One side is manevolent and poses a grave threat to your and your children’s future in ways hard to contemplate or believe. The other side, ostensibly fighting for traditional America, too often fails us as they consolidate their power and protect their positions.

 

Conclusion:-

We must do better. America was founded on a simple premise. “We The People.” We should remember that our representatives in government are not our betters. They hopefully represent the best of us, but they are mortal and have the same foibles as the rest of us.

I am continually asked how to fix our malaise before it is too late. The answer is so simple that people won’t believe it. Get involved. Write letters to your representatives, attend meetings in your district and State, and, most of all, learn about the issues. Make it your business to understand history and what makes us so special in this world. And finally, we must vote. Not our selfish interests, but vote like every one of us were a Founder. Ask yourself how George Washington or Thomas Jefferson would vote on an issue. If enough of us would take the time to do so, we could reclaim our country in due course.

God Bless America!

Allan J. Feifer—Patriot

Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com. Read additional great writers here.