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Abolish the Academy

How Globalists Betrayed America

The ‘Defund the Police’ movement demonstrates how stupid people look for simple solutions to simple problems and still manage to mess things up. Considering that many of these individuals are college-degree-bearing intelligentsia, it emphasizes a point that’s been obvious for a while. Given the American education system’s ‘everyone is special, and nobody’s feelings should be hurt’ mantra, a college degree is, at this point, basically a certification that the recipient does NOT have donkey brains.

At this point, a degree from Harvard is worth less than certification from a mental institution that one doesn’t have donkey brains. The latter individual is at least sane.

To make matters worse, these institutions aren’t even training the next generation of Americans – they are educating the next generation of traitors. Look at the recent BLM protests. It wasn’t black people burning their own neighborhoods; it was NYU-educated lawyers. When our institutions are actively attempting to undermine our society, I think it’s fair to ask why we should continue to support them. This goes doubly considering that, given elite educational institutions’ unwillingness to upset anyone (except whites/conservatives/Americans/etc.), they aren’t even providing the value of education anymore.

College Kids are Dumb

But you can’t tell them they’re dumb because then they’ll throw a tantrum and the professor will lose their job. So, instead, they get coddled and passed through the system, “earning” a degree because their helicopter parents, school counselors, and college deans held their hands all the way through. For everyone else, it’s easier to just look the other way and go with it than it is to fight. These people then graduate and go on to run Hollywood and the New York Times.

What’s the harm? Like a herd, colleges and universities can only go as fast as the slowest student. When EVERYONE has to go to college, and EVERYONE NEEDS an education, the end result is that nobody gets educated because the smart ones get Harrison Bergeron’ed by the dumb ones, who, in turn, have had so much smoke blown up their ass they think they’re the next coming of Karl Marx.

Theoretically, the tiered university system should ameliorate this. Of course, elite institutions pack their classes with those who can afford to ‘play the game’. The remainder is filled with token diversity students to make the rich kids feel ‘woke’. And, of course, to serve the universities’ true purpose.

Academia Seeks to Maintain Its Power

This may sound obvious. However, universities SHOULD exist to benefit their students. At the very least, they should offer a service in exchange for tuition, which theoretically they do. The problem is that the service they offer could be obtained for the cost of the internet, and they charge enough to put people in debt for the rest of their lives.

They do it by creating education as a value in and of itself. From day one in school, we’re taught to value knowledge for its own sake. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that; in fact, it’s a position I wholly endorse. However, the purpose of seeking knowledge (apart from it being awesome) is to become a better, more thoughtful person. If done properly, ‘education for its own sake’ would provide some basic knowledge, the tools for one to think on their own, and encourage them to reach their own conclusions.

Instead of teaching students HOW to think, however, universities are more interested in telling students WHAT to think.

Cultlike Indoctrination of Diversity

Far from teaching students to think for themselves, most universities actively discourage it, at least on many issues. Look at the commitment to diversity and antiracism. Try to question the latest diversity initiative or any assertion of the antiracist crowd and see just how much these intellectuals enjoy an arduous debate.

If these academics’ cause is so pure, shouldn’t they be able to defend it? The problem is that these institutions, and many of the professors, have dedicated their lives to things like gender studies and fighting racism. Now that legal equality has been achieved and overt racism is taboo, what good are they to anyone? Who needs a social justice warrior when social justice has been achieved?

To avoid people seeing how worthless these people are, they need to keep upping the ante. Hence…

Intersectionality- A self-perpetuating scam

Racism isn’t dead – we just can’t see it because we aren’t smart enough. Worse, we’re racist. Sure, we love everyone and treat all races equally, but our ‘white privilege’ makes us blind to ‘microaggressions’. By pushing more and more obscure concepts (which, conveniently, they keep making up), they ensure that racism can never be defeated – thus, they will always have a role to play.

They then force this critical race theory onto our young people, indoctrinating them with the idea that America is an irredeemable, racist nation. In undermining our nation, they preserve their own social prestige. In exchange, college kids (who aren’t white/male/cis/etc.) are handed a convenient excuse for all life’s shortcomings; even the ones who don’t qualify get to be ‘allies’*.

Of course, like the parasites they are, these academics enrich themselves at the cost of the nation. They peddle snake-oil theories to keep themselves relevant and keep their students too dumb/scared to challenge them.

Conclusion

It’s not at all surprising that voices like AOC and Bernie Sanders are demanding free education for all. After all, what ideological crusader wouldn’t want the government to foot the bill for a four-year indoctrination camp?

However, for those of us who actually care about this country, this isn’t such a good deal. We’d pay for the next generation of BLM rioters convinced they’re helping the oppressed by burning down their neighborhoods. The idea that our government should pay for young Americans to be indoctrinated with anti-American ideas is absurd.

If anything, we should be tearing these ivory towers down, not helping to build them up.


*Meaning they do what they’re told, no questions asked.

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Destroying the Democrat’s Deep State

Bolton’s Book and the Deep State

For all of Brad Pitt’s Academy Award crocodile tears, everybody seems to have forgotten that John Bolton still exists. The book that caused so much pre-publication consternation has been published without making much of a splash. It’s not surprising considering that everyone who isn’t an idiot (i.e. not Brad Pitt) knew from the get-go that Bolton had nothing new to offer. Trump’s childish impatience at demanding a quick end to the impeachment fiasco (rather than calling Bolton and exposing impeachment for the sham it was) simply gave the Democrats a convenient talking point to muddy the waters. Republicans, on the other hand, don’t want to read anything by a “Trump Traitor”.

Above – An ‘enlightened’ individual, if enlightened means ‘capable of blindly parroting left-wing propaganda’.

This is unfortunate. Though Bolton’s book provides no new information on the Ukraine scandal, it does provide a detailed roadmap of how the “Deep State” (or the bureaucratic oligarchy, if you prefer less conspiratorial terms) operates. By showing the inner workings of the Trump Administration, Bolton proves the Deep State exists, how it operates, and how it has handcuffed this Administration.

Obama’s Unelected Oligarchy

Nowhere is the modus operandi of the Deep State demonstrated more clearly than in the description of Secretary Mattis. For a former Marine, Mattis seems surprisingly comfortable ignoring orders from his commander-in-chief. Repeatedly, Mattis not only stacks the deck for his preferred option; he fails to provide the President with feasible alternatives. At times, he goes so far as to fail to provide options the President had specifically asked for. If Mattis still didn’t get his way, he simply dragged his feet, failing to carry out the President’s commands until it was too late.

Whether or not POTUS or Mattis was right on each specific policy issue is irrelevant. President Trump, like it or not, is the man who was ELECTED to make the call. Mattis wasn’t. His job is to inform the President of his full range of options and give his opinion on which to choose. If the President chooses another, so be it. Failing to provide options you don’t like or failing to carry out orders you disapprove of* is clearly not the job of the Defense Secretary – yet it reflects a disturbing trend of behavior among unelected bureaucrats throughout the Trump era.

*Unless the order is illegal

Difficulties in “Draining the Swamp”

Mattis’s pattern of behavior appears repeatedly at lower levels of the government bureaucracy, and this is where the willingness of bureaucrats to substitute their own policy preferences becomes truly frightening (for anyone who likes democracy). As a political appointee, Mattis could have been removed relatively easily*. The frightening thing about DC at the moment is the number of career bureaucrats who are willing to use their positions to pursue political purposes.

Theoretically, these people are nothing more than bureaucrats, trained people capable of providing the political appointees (who make the policy decisions) with information and advice. Unfortunately, once in these positions, their (supposedly) apolitical nature and general government inertia make them nearly impossible to remove. When they are removed, it provides political ammunition for the opposition (see, e.g., State Department IG firing).

*Political reasons precluded this, and Trump showed uncharacteristic restraint in wisely keeping Mattis around due to his reputation even as Mattis failed to live up to said reputation.

Embedded Activists

Of course, people like Lisa Page didn’t get into government to do their jobs. They did it to make a difference – which, to them, means promoting liberal policies. They are activists first; their actual jobs come in a distant second if they’re considered at all. The ends justify the means, so if you can use your position to send a political adversary to jail (as Comey and Judge Sullivan did to Flynn) or use your access to classified information to lie and mislead the media and the public (ala Brennan), so be it.

This, of course, is not the proper role of the American bureaucracy. However, it’s not just improper. It undermines democracy. Democracy means sometimes the person you don’t like wins, and you have to accept it. Obamaites don’t like this, so they decided to replace the will of the American people represented in the election of Donald Trump with an unelected, unaccountable oligarchy of elitist bureaucrats.

We Need Bureaucracy…Right?

Not necessarily. It would be reactionary and unadvisable to simply say abolish the various agencies and organizations responsible for the “Deep State”. Keep in mind that the purge of East Asian experts during the McCarthy Era left a gap of expertise that helped this country bungle its way into Vietnam. American bureaucracy provides an important source of information for political appointees with a lot on their plate (and, at times, a lack of expertise).

At least, it did. During the Industrial Age of human development, our behemoth of bureaucracy provided an invaluable source of expertise and information at a time when both were difficult to come by. Things moved slowly and deliberatively, and that was a feature at a time when information moved across the globe slowly. It’s become a bug in the reality of our present Digital Age. As businesses have quickly learned, the Digital Age requires slimmer, more agile solutions. Our government should adopt the same approach, updating our bureaucracy to respond more quickly by streamlining and modernizing its approach.

At the same time, we can kill two birds with one stone by using this streamlining to purge our government of political activists masquerading as career bureaucrats. Simply put, if the bureaucrats won’t follow orders from Presidents they don’t like, then we won’t have bureaucrats. Simple.

Keeping Tabs on Trump

The really unfortunate thing about all this – pretty much regardless of political ideology – is that, by muddying the waters, these bureaucratic oligarchs have made it near impossible to check Trump’s corruption. Take the firing of the State Department IG mentioned above. Normally, Pompeo firing an IG who was investigating him would be a major red flag. Because of the history of using baseless investigations and prosecutions as political weapons and the prevalence of people like Comey, Page, and Strzok in the executive branch, it’s more than reasonable to believe the IG was fired for abusing his office for political purposes.

I’m not taking a position on who was right – Pompeo or the IG. What I can say is that what should be cause for alarm has turned into a footnote – nothing more than a messy ‘he-said, he-said’ situation that no person can make sense of. It’s Pompeo’s word against the IG’s, and the IG’s credibility is shot because of the actions of other relative unknowns in the executive branch. All I can say about this case with confidence is that, if you can say with confidence which party you believe, then I can say with confidence that you’re an idiot.