More and more it is becoming evident that we’re neck-deep in a battle of us vs. them.
It’s not really political right vs. political left, conservatives vs. liberals, capitalists vs. socialists, mask Nazis vs. mask haters, or even race vs. race.
Those are merely the skirmishes that stem from the root battle, which is elites vs. the rest of us.
It helps the cause of the elites who would control every aspect of your life that they can pit group vs. group.
Divide and conquer, it’s the oldest playbook for those who would rule the world. The elites love to see the infighting that advances their cause and allows them still to be able to profess their innocence
Sometimes the elites drop their collective guard and come right out with their disdain for the masses.
Witness Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment, or Barack Obama’s crack about his opponents being bitter people clinging to guns and religion. Obama’s remark is particularly illuminating because he was demeaning those who would exercise rights guaranteed them in the U.S. Constitution.
Our Constitution, and any similar guarantee of individual rights around the world, are the enemy of the elites. These rights prevent elites from completely subjugating those whom they deem inferior.
But the elites have been chipping away at the edges of our protections for some time and now, emboldened by COVID-19, they have put on a full-court press to render them null and void.
The evidence is all around you, if you care to look.
Consider the hypocrisy spouted daily by elites and crammed down our throats by media and big tech. That would be the same media and big tech that carefully suppress any messages running contrary to the mantra of blind obedience to power.
Just this week it was revealed – by a family whistleblower ironically – that Dr. Deborah Birx, a prominent member of the government’s Coronavirus Task Force, had preached limiting travel and Thanksgiving get-togethers only to travel and host a huge holiday gathering for her extended family.
Were this an isolated example, it would not be such a big deal. But it is a pattern of behavior by Birx and her ilk. The elites preach restraint and restriction, then flaunt that the rules don’t apply to them.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi needed a beauty shop opened to touch her up cosmetically, as did Chicago Lori Lightfoot, both actions having been taken while the “little people” were told to stay home and such establishments were closed for those of the lesser classes.
California Governor Gavin Newsom closed restaurants then attended a party at a restaurant. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo advised against holiday celebrations then planned one of his own, just as his little brother used his media soapbox to maintain his adherence to quarantining, which was called into question.
Also today, amidst generally good COVID-19 developments in terms of vaccines being issued and a financial stimulus package on the way, a report came from the United Kingdom of a new strain of virus that supposedly is 70 percent more contagious.
Predictably, there have been knee-jerk over-reactions such as travel bans, lockdowns and business closings.
But some are questioning this latest development. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence based medicine at Oxford University, is a skeptic,
“I’ve been doing this job for 25 years and I can tell you, you can’t establish a quantifiable number in such a short time frame.”
Translation: The elites needed bad news and some was conjured up on cue to keep virus concerns front-and-center. But that wasn’t enough. It had to be even worse that what we already have had on the plate,
And people like Heneghan will have their skeptical sentiments banned outright from dissemination, flagged as unproven, or ridiculed by the usual media suspects.
But the 70-percent-worse claim will be trumpeted far and wide.
Such over-reaches should be all the evidence rational people need to decide they are being manipulated and demeaned.
The elites would seem to have made similar mistakes by the degree to which they went overboard in trying to guarantee a populist politician such as President Trump did not get a second term in office.
The fact that elites can act in such obvious ways and not be called on it by the masses, instead of by just a select few contrary voices, indicates the war already has likely been lost.
Spoiler alert: The elites have won.
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