In politics, nothing happens by accident

They are pitchforks and torches, not bugs of the system

I was planning to write this post for many years. Every now and then it boils to the top of my list (when my blood does) over manufactured problems, and the pathetic non-actions pretending to deal with them.

Although FDR is definitely not my favourite president, on this point, I am in agreement with him.
Every political decision is in someone’s very real and very personal interest and follows someone’s plan.
The interests and plans may have several layers of interconnections and do not necessarily require the full understanding of the details from every executor of the plan.
It also does not exclude a degree of opportunism. When Rohm Emanuel said “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, it did not mean that he intended to manufacture crises, only that he had a plan ready to take advantage of them.   

Understanding and analyzing what happens in politics, is often like pealing an onion layer buy layer. It is a fascinating process, but it is not the subject of this post.

What I want to talk about is a particular phenomenon that irritates me like the poison-ivy blisters on my leg. (I never had it before, but seriously, try to avoid it!)

Any time I see a fake protest I get angry about the dishonesty with which it is handled. How seriously phony the acts and the responses to them both are.

The best examples are the antics of the Letzte generation in Germany. Blocking roads, gluing themselves to roads, airport tarmacs and museum walls, destroying priceless art-works and through their nuisance activities causing significant financial damage. Some may see the problem, but when I look at this picture below, all I can see is the simplicity of the solution.

What you see on the picture is an impetuous, infantile idiot, doing the equivalent of holding her breath until you do what she wants. What is the solution? The same that you do with a child holding her breath: you just LET HER DO IT!!!

If she wants to be glued to something, let her! Erect a protective barrier around her, put there someone to watch over her and see how long she can do it. Find out how long will it take for her to beg for help after sitting there in her own p*ss and sh*t for a few days, thirsty and hungry, unable to sleep properly.

Give her a dull pocket knife, and find out how long it would take for her to discover her inner Aron Ralston and start cutting her fingers off to free herself. All on live-stream, for the whole world to see, of course.
Once she is asking for help, you can start negotiating about the cost of the situation that she got herself into.
She has a free hand, she can sign the legal documents accepting full responsibility for the costs and/or a plea-bargain of accepting a jail sentence in exchange for freeing her hand.

It's really not that difficult.

Letzte Generation is funded by the Climate Emergency Fund.  According to Wikipedia:

An example of a CEF-funded group is the Last Generation in Germany.
The Climate Emergency Fund pays some activists a salary of 1300 euros a month.

Let’s suppose, that the glued-down idiot above is a paid activist. Shouldn’t that make her employer financially responsible? Or even if she is not an employee? If there is a direct line from the donors to the damage caused, shouldn’t they be held responsible? Establishing the connection is not that difficult.
They are clearly accomplices. and it’s not that the likes of Aileen Getty and Abigail Disney don’t have the money. Rich folks like to invest in art. We should give the ruined art work to them on the “you broke it, you bought it” principle, for twice of what their assessed value was before the people they financed ruined them.

It's really not that difficult.

Or let’s look at Black Lives Matter and the various Antifa riots.
It is estimated that the BLM riots cost over two billion dollars. The hoodlums were bussed to some of the protests. Social media was used to target the ….. well, ……targets:

There were several reports of bricks and stones being strategically placed for peaceful protesters to find them. Luckily, these rumors have been thoroughly fact-checked:

Boston: Police were seen on video in an alley in Boston unloading bricks from a vehicle in what users speculated was for some nefarious reason. A Facebook comment on the video said, “Now we see who starts the riots and looting and blame it on others.”

However, Northeastern University police released a series of tweets on June 2 saying their officers were the people seen in the video. According to the department, the officers found a damaged brick sidewalk while on patrol on June 1 and collected the loose bricks because they posed a safety hazard.

Yeah, right. And Biden’s security team is mowing the lawn of the White House in their spare time.

Thousands of (mostly black owned) businesses have been destroyed and many chain stores just closed locations in inner cities. The riots and the looting were treated as spontaneous acts of nature.
I don’t think any serious investigation have been conducted to find out who organized the protests and who financed them. Soros alone spent 220 millions on them. We know that, it was in the news, but his involvement is still treated as innocent philanthropy. Any half decent detective could establish a criminal conspiracy case.

It's really not that difficult.

We can also look at campus protests. What are they about?
They are against free speech, and the free exchange of ideas; for racial discrimination, for identity politics and any number of poorly defined radical leftist causes.

While stupidity is a fundamental human right, violence is not. Yet, when violent protests happen in universities, their administrations do nothing, even when they clearly violate the rules and principles of those universities. Just look into the Brett Weinstein story. (The linked Wiki is atrocious garbage, but educational to look at.)

The universities are unfailingly pander to or even side with the violent protesters, even as they have the power to end it. All they have to do is to expel the perpetrators and stand up for their rules and principles.

It's really not that difficult.

But still, none of it is happening. Shouldn’t we wonder why?

The protests of old

My generation (I’m a boomer) grew up after the civil rights movement and during the Vietnam war and the peace protests. The cold war was raging with very clear battle lines. You were on one side or the other, but on both sides, the goals were clear. The ideology was clear. The aims of the civil rights movement were simple.  The content of your character vs. the color of your skin. The goal of the anti-war movement was – surprise! – PEACE.

Then the cold war ended, and in the course of the next few decades everything went nuts. The End of History set the tone for the unstoppable US hegemonic arrogance.
The universities have been taken over by critical theory and the bastardized Marxism of postmodernist relativism.

The USA got into one war after another and now seems to be ready to go nuclear.
All the while there is no peace movement to speak of. If anything, the opposite: bloodthirsty students in American universities want to eliminate the Jews “from the river to the sea”

During the cold war, the Western world was trying to be better that the communist world. Now it just wants to be the strongest.

When it comes to income inequality, the Western World is beginning to look like what we used to describe as the third world. A hollowed out middle-class between the ultra-rich and the hopelessly poor. 
The developed world is exceedingly run by unelected and often global bureaucracies, accelerating the trends already in motion.

Our lives are controlled by an elite that has nothing but contempt for us.
We are the deplorables.
At the same time, they still understand that there is more of us than them. We have to be divided, controlled, distracted and entertained so that we do not look behind the curtain.

We have to be scared, brainwashed, manipulated, bribed, cajoled and coerced into obedience.
Or just tricked:

We have real problems. The economy, the debt, technological disruption, our geopolitical position, demographic trends, the nature of our democracies, etc., etc.

Our pronouns, gender identity and gender politics, sexual orientation and its representation in popular culture, the weather and racism are NOT the real problems. We are distracted by them to keep us away from thinking about the real problems.

….and, unfortunately for us:

It's really not that difficult.

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