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According to The New York Times, “Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named ‘Jericho Wall,’ outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.”

And here I thought Hamas planned their invasion on the D.L., excusing Israel’s inability to prevent (or anticipate) the attack. Well, I guess I was wrong. Now, what does this mean for Netanyahu’s future? Hmmm. Let’s look at Bush II’s future after 9/11. He got re-elected even after it had become increasingly clear that Bush was made aware of the threat in an August 6 Presidential Daily Brief titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.” People have an uncanny way of doubling down on their support of the worst leaders because I live in stupid hell. It’s as if people refuse to be proven wrong, so they simply stay the course no matter how disastrous the ultimate outcome. I’m sure the same applies to Bibi because why not? Israel re-elected a knowingly corrupt and now proven incompetent prime minister. People never learn.

Well! Well! Well! It is obvious and evermore so manifest that Biden is the worst f***ing president possible for this economy. He is f***ing up America left, right, and center. Clearly, he can’t do anything correctly because the 5.2 percent GDP growth rate in the third quarter is destroying this country, at least in the minds of f***tard Americans, which is apparently about 67 percent of the country given recent polls indicating Biden’s poor handling of the economy. As CNBC sums up the disaster that is the Biden economy, “The U.S. economy grew at an even stronger pace than previously indicated in the third quarter, the product of a better than expected business investment and stronger government spending, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced during the three-month period, accelerated at a 5.2% annualized pace, the department’s second estimate showed. The acceleration topped the initial 4.9% reading and was better than the 5% forecast from economists polled by Dow Jones.”

I guess I should point out my sarcasm for those benighted readers who might be confused or, worse still, take me seriously. Economic report after economic report has evinced that the economy is nothing short of gangbusters quarter after quarter. Yet, f***tard Americans seem to be living on Earth II, and, naturally, everything is Biden’s fault. This begs the question: What the f*** is going on with Americans? Americans are just too f***ing G.D. stupid to apprehend the economy around them.

Sadly, you can’t tell people how to feel about the economy, even though they are supremely unable to measure (or understand) it objectively. (F**tard Americans look at gas prices and their 401K plan and think they’re a f***ing economist who graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in the subject!) Despite the Biden administration and Democrats trying to point out all the good economic news, it is the voters who are going to tell politicians how great or poorly the economy feels to them. And that is the operative word: Feel. Therein lies the problem. People judge the economy (and consequentially Biden’s performance) based on their feelings! Fan-f***ing-tastic! I’m sure people monitor their bank accounts, and their monthly bills are unavoidable reminders of budgetary pressures. And people, no doubt, are the first ones to complain about the price of gas, eggs, and rent. I’m sure all these things are just as true today as they were yesterday, last year, during traitor trump’s term, and long before. In short, voters have always been b*tching about the economy because it’s never perfect enough, and when it’s less than perfect, these same voters inappropriately place blame on the president because — as I said — people are too f***ing stupid to apprehend how the economy works. These f***tards think Biden must be sitting in the White House with his figure on the “higher inflation, please” button.

What’s more baffling is that people seem completely oblivious to an improving economy. And by improving, I mean an economy that was growing at a 1-2 percent annual rate a couple of years ago, which any president would find satisfactory, to one that is roaring along at over 5 percent. Mind you, this is real GDP growth, which is inflation-adjusted. Moreover, people really don’t understand the concept of inflation. They don’t understand the potential drivers of inflation and the theoretical mechanisms used to combat it. In fact, I doubt the average idiot voter can even define or explain inflation. Just to be clear, defining inflation merely as “higher prices” shows a real lack of knowledge. If someone gives you this vapid, terse answer, and that is the extent of their explanation, then he or she is an idiot who truly knows nothing worth knowing.

And I might add that people’s behavior — by many economic indicators — seems completely undeterred by a perceived poor economy. They’re still spending money on travel, dining out, and discretional (perhaps frivolous) expenses. They’re b*tching about inflation endlessly, but their spending is utterly unchanged! Square that circle!

According to The Hill, “Supreme Court justices are slated to delve into disputes surrounding abortion during their final session this year, revealing the legal battlefronts forming in the wake of the high court’s stunning decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Several key cases are headed to the justices. One is Idaho’s emergency request to fully enforce its abortion law, a ruling that is possible as soon as this week. At the justices’ Friday conference, they are scheduled to consider whether to take up an appeal seeking to overturn a Supreme Court precedent allowing laws that ban anti-abortion activists from approaching people outside abortion clinics. And at next week’s conference, the justices are slated to review whether to take up the dispute over the availability of mifepristone, the common abortion pill, which they will take up at a Dec. 8 closed-door conference. … In the matter of establishing abortion clinic ‘buffer zones,’ the Supreme Court 23 years ago ruled 6-3 that the First Amendment permitted a Colorado law prohibiting anti-abortion activists from protesting or counseling within eight feet of someone entering an abortion clinic. With most of those justices no longer on the bench, that precedent may now be on the chopping block.” Add to this list the Texas case that was argued before that state’s supreme court and you have a continued, full-on attack against women’s rights to control their own bodies. And to that, I say: Oh, well. Let them die!

Indeed, maybe women need to die. For the tens and tens of people who actually read my online, open-air therapy sessions, they will understand that I say what I mean and I say it plainly. I’ve been saying more women need to die since the end of Roe, not because I’m a misogynist or a masochist, but because this is the only way to move society. Death sells — usually — and apparently, no one pays attention unless — and until — the body count reaches some undetermined and amorphous tally. Although I will say in regards to gun control laws and the Second Amendment, there is no death tally high enough to dislodge people’s love affair with guns. I assume that the death toll of women from abortion-related healthcare will also be pretty f***ing high before voters act or care, if ever or at all. Again, as I say repeatedly: Abortion rights are always someone else’s problem. Society was completely asleep at the wheel for the years — nah, decades — leading up to the end of Roe. RepubliKKKlans were on a 50-year mission to undo the ruling, while Democrats and others were doing this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. So, these people brought it on themselves, but RepubliKKKlans are not done yet, and there is no way women are going to get anything that resembles nationwide protection of abortion rights for at least a generation (or two). Morons of America really f***ed themselves over when they elected traitor trump and allowed him to solidify a supermajority, uber-conservative SCOTUS for the next 20 years.

So RepubliKKKlans are on a mission — hand in hand with SCOTUS — to ban all abortions federally as well as ban contraception. In the meantime, SCOTUS will start rolling back other protections where they can, such as in this Idaho case. What could possibly go wrong when SCOTUS suddenly finds that women seeking abortions can be accosted and perhaps physically prevented (or sufficiently intimidated) from entering healthcare establishments, all in the name of the First Amendment? This is where we’re headed, f***tards. What are the consequences? A return to the bad old days when coat hangers were the abortion tool of choice. Unfortunately, no one cares until people start dying — in public. Sadly, morons of America simply are too apathetic to do anything until the bottom falls out of society. So, for the sake of saving society, more women need to die because that’s where we are in this sh*t-for-brains nation. Welcome to stupid America, where death sells, and everything else is just background noise to be ignored.

From NPR, “On Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court will consider this question: Are the state’s abortion laws harming women when they face pregnancy complications? The case, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, has grown to include 22 plaintiffs, including 20 patients and two physicians. They are suing Texas, arguing that the medical exceptions in the state’s abortion bans are too narrow to protect patients with complicated pregnancies. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fiercely defending the state’s current abortion laws and arguing that the case should be dismissed.”

At issue, in front of this all-RepubliKKKlan panel of justices, is whether to uphold a lower court’s injunction before the case can be fully heard in April of 2024. What these justices decide now is actually immaterial to what they will eventually decide next year, and I’m here to tell you that the April decision is already determined: Uphold the restrictive anti-abortion law, which limits the exceptions on abortions. Mind you, this is the same state supreme court that upheld Texas’ S.B. 8 bill — the vigilante bill. Of course, they are going to rule against the plaintiffs. That is a given. What I do have a real issue with are the actual plaintiffs. I can never find a news article that asks or states the voting positions of these females and doctors suing Texas. In my mind, this should be the first sentence in any article on the topic, ala, “Women seeking and doctors performing abortions, who voted RepubliKKKlan (or Democratic), sue Texas…” That way, I know immediately if I should care about these people to read any further. I have long, long been consistent on this matter: Voters should live according to their votes. If these people voted for RepubliKKKlans and if they voted for the same politicians and judges that enacted and enforced such draconian anti-abortion laws, then that’s their problem. I have no sympathy for them. I’m not sure why this is so complicated. If they die because of such laws, then so be it. Oh, well. I’m getting really, really f***ing sick and tired of people electing (and re-electing) politicians who act in women’s worst interests. Who is really to blame at this point? Voters or politicians. I say the voters. Welcome to stupid America!

According to The Hill, “Former President Trump over the weekend revived his calls to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act if he wins the 2024 presidential election. In a Truth Social post, the leading GOP presidential candidate claimed he’s ‘seriously looking at alternatives’ to replace ObamaCare, and that the failure to repeal the health law in 2017 while he was in office was ’a low point for the Republican Party.’… Trump reinjecting life into the health care debate could backfire for Republicans, who have largely given up campaigning against ObamaCare, an acknowledgment that health care is a losing issue for them. … Republicans instead have focused on issues like crime, immigration and the economy. Thirteen years after its passage, ObamaCare is popular and fully ingrained in the U.S. health system. Close to 60 percent of adults now have a favorable opinion of it, according to a KFF tracking poll.”

Right on cue, traitor trump has started whipping out all the greatest hits of policy proposals for his 2024 campaign. Unlike moronic political pundits and MSM commentators who think traitor trump dragging up the idea of ending the popular ACA is a dead letter, I beg to differ; I think, at best, f***tards of America aren’t paying — will near pay — attention to traitor trump’s genuine threats. What dumbass Democrats and other political “experts” constantly fail to remember is that in 2016 traitor trump campaigned on ending the ACA and replacing it (with nothing). And guess what? He f***ing won! He also campaigned on ending Roe in 2016. And he won! People didn’t care back then, and they certainly don’t f***ing care now because they keep mistaking the incompetence and failures of his first term as a natural stop-gap against the worst of his intentions. Un-f***ing-believable. Morons of America apparently have no problem electing someone who pledges to wreak havoc in their lives in the hope that when he gets elected that someone will stop him from actually doing the worst against their best interests. It really is a delusional electorate that hopes only for the best policies from traitor trump while somehow being safeguarded against traitor trump’s malfeasance and disastrous policies. You know, like what happened with Roe! (He pledged to appoint only SCOTUS Justices to end Roe. Yet, people didn’t believe him.) Only in stupid f***ing America do voters want their cake and eat it, too. Only in stupid America! I promise you! All the mistakes traitor trump made in his first term will not be repeated in his second. Welcome to stupid America! No one cares!

According to the Associated Press, “The Insurrection Act allows presidents to call on reserve or active-duty military units to respond to unrest in the states, an authority that is not reviewable by the courts. One of its few guardrails merely requires the president to request that the participants disperse. ‘The principal constraint on the president’s use of the Insurrection Act is basically political, that presidents don’t want to be the guy who sent tanks rolling down Main Street,’ said Joseph Nunn, a national security expert with the Brennan Center for Justice. ‘There’s not much really in the law to stay the president’s hand.’”

Part of the problem with this sh*t-for-brains country is the inability of the morons of America to think creatively. The reason f***tards tell pollsters they favor traitor trump back in the White House is that they believe they’ll recapture the “roaring” economy under his tenure. But these morons have two failures of memory and vision. First, the economy under traitor trump was mediocre at best, not counting COVID. Second, traitor trump’s second term will be fueled by one desire only: To establish a military dictatorship whereby he’ll end democracy and remain in power until he dies. Imbeciles will undoubtedly find this prediction too far-fetched and ridiculous, but the warning signs are right before us. It is not the intellectuals who are missing the red flags; the idiots who lack the imagination to interpret the not-so-subtle clues of traitor trump’s intentions are missing the point. Idiots don’t take him seriously, and they should. Not only seriously, but literally. Everything he hoped to do in his first term — when he was a know-nothing incompetent moron — but couldn’t get done, he’ll be sure to achieve in his second term. Traitor trump will still be a know-nothing incompetent moron, but now at least he understands better; he’s already planning to surround himself with all the yes-men he lacked the first time around. That is the first and most important mistake he made six years ago that he will not repeat.

All that being said, armored vehicles and soldiers patrolling the streets in blue states and cities will become the norm as traitor trump begins to impose his military rule over half the country — and by half, I mean democratic areas, which includes the majority of the population. Does anyone recall the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests? I do. Although the demonstrations were 99 percent peaceful, there were enough anarchists to cause mischief that engendered the precautionary action by my governor to place armored military vehicles from the state National Guard in the parking lot of a major shopping mall near me. What an odd sight to see, especially since there was no natural disaster to manage. And this was by order of the governor. For about a week, the show of force was intentional and a reminder. (We never saw unrest in my area before or after the National Guard was activated.) Can you imagine what traitor trump would do on a whim? He will suppress blue states and cities. Get ready for martial law, f***tards. You think I’m kidding or being too melodramatic? Traitor trump has already made his intentions known. There will be no more protests or demonstrations against the fragile snowflake traitor trump because he will not allow it. This is how civil wars start. But whatever! Return to your TikTok, f***tards. Welcome to stupid, stupid America! Too dumb to care and endure!

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a ‘Psycho,’ Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a ‘tiny’ Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial, or seeing any PROOF, & used his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison Greenfield, to sit by his side on the ‘Bench’ & tell him what to do; & Crooked Joe Biden, who has WEAPONIZED his Department of Injustice against his Political Opponent, & allowed our Country to go to HELL; & all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. Have no fear, however, we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024, & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Traitor trump

I expected nothing less from this idiot, and, of course, this is the guy leading Biden in more polls than not. And you can tell this quote is pure traitor trump by its content, stream-of-consciousness flow, and random capitalization and punctuation, unlike other posts where you can tell he dictates the message because the presentation is polished. Yet, this is the guy that Americans want back in the White House. This is what a dying country looks like, f***tards. How many times must I repeat myself before people finally get a f***ing clue? America is simply too f***ing G.D. stupid to endure when the majority of people prefer a would-be dictator filled with nothing but grievance over Biden because the current president is “too old.” As I have long said, traitor trump is the reflection in the mirror held up to the American people, and Americans fell in love. America truly is a country filled with a bunch of grievance-stricken imbeciles. Welcome to stupid America! The end is here!

From the Associated Press, “Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote early Thursday, in a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance. The result will send shockwaves through Europe, where far-right ideology is on the rise, and puts Wilders in line to lead talks to form the next governing coalition and possibly become the first far-right prime minister of the Netherlands. With nearly all votes counted, Wilders’ Party for Freedom was forecast to win 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, two more than predicted by an exit poll when voting finished Wednesday night and more than double the 17 he won at the last election.”… Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who boasts of turning HunI’ve into an ‘illiberal’ state and has similarly harsh stances on migration and EU institutions, was quick to congratulate Wilders. ‘The winds of change are here! Congratulations,’ Orban said. … The result is the latest in a series of elections that is altering the European political landscape. From Slovakia and Spain, to Germany and Poland, populist and hard-right parties triumphed in some EU member nations and faltered in others.” It is never a good sign when dictators praise the win of a far-right party.

Now, the Netherlands has taken a right turn. Let me reiterate what I’ve been saying for years now: Liberal democracies are dying worldwide, and dumbass Democratic f***tards keep wanting to believe that America is immune from this incomprehensible global love affair with authoritarian rule and affection toward hatred. For where they hate Islam, the rest is sure to follow — hate the Jews, hate the gays, hate the Blacks, hate immigrants, and hate women. (I understand the resentment and wariness toward Muslims. Islam is currently the only major religion that seems to invite and condone terrorism wherever it exists. However, I’m not sure re-ordering national governments further to the right is the best tactic to tackle the problem of Islam. I’m just saying.) This is as certain as the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. As certain as night follows day; and, to be sure, we are entering a global nightfall that will last for as long as the shadow of dictatorship casts its benighted hold over the world. Just as the Nazis gripped Europe with its loathing and promise of order and conformity for years, the same evil tendencies have gained root across the planet. Recall, Nazi ideology flourished in America (the American Bund), Great Britain, and other nations that welcomed closer collaboration — if not downright full-throated support — with Hitler. History is repeating itself. I understand the constant references to Hitler make such warnings banal, but the comparison is most apt because, in a sense, we are not that far removed from this history. Indeed, much of the current world order directly results from the peace made after World War II. Yet this same world order that brought us nearly 80 years of relative peace is ending — nay, it has already ended! The alliances that have kept the world safe are crumbling, yet people have not a f***ing care in the world about what they should be fearfully apprehending.

This seems particularly true in Europe. European countries have become increasingly hostile to the EU and, apparently, to the notion of cooperation. The far-right party in the Netherlands won, in part, on the idea of “Nexit” — exit from the EU. Christ! I’m sure the Dutch have never heard of Brexit. You know, that time Britain elected to leave the EU, and now they regret doing so because it made their economy the opposite of better off, which the pro-Brexit crowd promised. What could possibly go wrong by leaving the second-largest trading block in the world? So, I guess the Dutch are about to f*** around and find out. Oh, well.

I guess it was only a matter of time before the EU would fall apart. Americans incorrectly believe Europe is one homogeneous country or a coalition of like-minded nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is a collection of 44 countries (or so, depending on how you count) with different cultures and languages, with each believing they are the most important nation on the continent. Where the disease of dictatorship and illiberalism infects one country, metastasis is sure to follow. A new world war is in the making; I’m just not sure yet if it already started in Ukraine coupled with the advancement of antisemitism (which is nothing new, really) or has yet to start in America with the return of traitor trump, for those who think another American civil war would remain contained within our borders are morons. An America at war with itself is a calling card for the likes of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran to make their moves of domination across the globe. Sadly, hatred breeds war, and the comforts of liberalism and peace over these last eight decades have bred complacency that, in turn, allows hatred to flourish. It is an unbroken cycle; we are making that next inexorable turn toward conflict. Mark my words! You’ve been warned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the previous post, I discussed the idea of The Great Chain of Being and how the concept was applied by contemporaries in early modern England to maintain societal and government order. I also discussed how the English people broke the Great Chain of Being when they executed King Charles I (1625 – 1649). After an unsuccessful trial run under the Commonwealth of England (1649 – 1660), the chain was rebuilt with the restoration of King Charles II (1660 – 1685). This return to a monarchy reminded me of the reversion to the mean; society and government revisited an order that they knew best. In the last post, I asked how this period of England’s history might be relevant to understanding America today. This, I will answer presently. But I must also qualify that I use the term “reversion to the mean” loosely. I recognize that the form of government societies “select” (or, more precisely, abide) is not accomplished through mere statistical chance. I use the expression as a term of art.

For all of my lamenting about the stupidity of Americans who seem hell-bent on ushering in the nation’s first dictator, a question constantly nags me: Could it last? I have written extensively about how once we lose our democracy, we won’t get it back. In truth, I must admit I think perhaps so or perhaps not. The only thing — the only solace, so to speak — that gives me the slightest bit of hope is the fact that Americans have no tradition of living under a dictatorship. People don’t know what they are getting themselves into, and I don’t think the majority will like what they’ve voted for or allowed to happen. As I look back to other examples, the histories of some countries make more sense when viewed in the context of people “electing” a form of government they know best. Obviously, England is the first instance. They flirted with a republic but restored their monarchy. However, the kingship was much changed — from an absolute monarchy under Henry VII (1485 – 1509) to the beginnings of a constitutional monarchy following the Glorious Revolution (1688 – 1689) under William III (1689 – 1702) and Mary II (1689 – 1694). And it’s been a limited monarchy ever since — England’s reversion to a (altered) mean.

Then I thought of Putin in Russia. Here, too, I see a reversion to the mean. Before the Russian Revolution (1917 – 1923), some form of monarchy ruled Russia for nearly a thousand years, specifically by tsars beginning with Ivan IV (1530 – 1584) and ending with the execution of Nicholas II (1894 – 1917), which, like England, was also done in the name of the people. Russians, too, flirted with a form of representative government under communism, but that quickly gave way to a dictator — Stalin (1941 – 1953). Even with the fall of the U.S.S.R. (1922 – 1991), Russians once again tried to implement a democracy (of sorts), but that, again, was eventually co-opted by another dictator — Putin (2000 – 2008, 2012 – present). Russians seem exceedingly fond of this style of government and societal order: A dictator (or tzar) leading their way with elections conducted only for show.

Germany is another example, which may explain how the likes of Hitler (1933 – 1945) came to power. For hundreds of years, the principalities that eventually formed the unified states of Germany as an empire (1871 – 1918) had been governed by kings and princes. It was only following World War I (1914 – 1918) that Germany toyed with a republic, which failed spectacularly — the Weimar Republic (1918 – 1933). In short, citizens clamored for a form of government they knew best and believed would work better: A dictatorship (also known as a non-hereditary form of monarchy). Enter Hitler, who swept into power through elections and then promptly made himself dictator without so much as a shrug from the people — a pure reversion to the mean. To be sure, Germany is not a dictatorship or a monarchy currently. (Although a line of the Hohenzollern dynasty still exists.) So, in some fashion, they broke the chain — for now. Even so, it took a world war and the utter destruction of a nation to oust their autocrat in favor of a democracy.

France is yet another example of a country that has not reverted to a monarchy, but even their history evinces that they tried to do so a few times. Indeed, the French Revolution (1789 – 1799) ended hundreds of years of monarchy with the execution of Louis XVI (1774 – 1792). They, too, attempted a republic (for about a decade, similar to England) that ushered in the Reign of Terror (1793 – 1794) and ultimately led to Emporer Napolean I (1803 – 1814, 1815), which, in turn, eventually led to the Bourbon restoration under Louis XVIII (1814 – 1824). Again, the people basically traded in Emperor Napoleon for the return of a king. Then France veered back to the Second Republic (1848 – 1852) under Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who crowned himself Emperor Napoleon III (1852 – 1870). This led to the Third Republic (1870 – 1940). What a mess. (France is actually in its Fifth Republic era.) But the point is the same: France reverted to the mean — a monarchy of some sort — a few times before finally settling on a stable republic.

Clearly, I could find other examples of nations that permanently broke the chain, suggesting a reversion to the mean is not always fate or that nations can create a new mean. Nonetheless, what do these select histories proffer about America? To be sure, America has no history of a monarchy or rule by an autocrat. A democratic mean is the only form of government we understand and recognize. (However, some Founding Fathers begged George Washington to consider something more than a four-year presidency. And it is also not lost on me that the founding of our nation was entirely based on throwing off the yoke of monarchy — the penultimate action of breaking the chain.) In short, it is not in our national DNA to be anything other than a representative democracy, despite 40 percent of the population hoping to alter that genetic blueprint. Once traitor trump re-enters to the Oval Office, do we as a country act like England and return to what we know best — a democracy — or do we act like France, which changed their government forever? Note the counter-intuitiveness of this comparison. England struggled to keep their monarchy, while France struggled to shed it. We, in America, are struggling to keep our democracy. What does seem sure is this: The struggle will be long once traitor trump returns to the White House. (Note how diversions from the mean usually last about a decade. Witness the Commonwealth of England, the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and Russia’s post-U.S.S.R democracy.) As I have suggested many times, another civil war will likely be required to return to our governing mean. I would not count on a Glorious Revolution to win back our democracy. Sadly, I see no way out, only through (a civil war). And like all the nations above — that all f***ed around and found out (in some cases, repeatedly) — we’re about to do the same!

One bored day while on Amazon Prime, I perused the selection, looking for something — anything — new. I happened upon “A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts,” a 48-episode lecture series by Professor Robert Bucholz of Loyola University of Chicago. Dear Lord in all of Heaven! Where have you been all my life? Initially recorded in 2003, how on earth have I missed this master course in early modern English history? How has this Professor Bucholz been unknown to me? Watching his series made me wonder why I never became the history teacher I wanted to become while taking all those history classes in high school. Alas! The road not taken, indeed! (If you watch this course and don’t like it, then you’re an intellectual heathen. No two ways about it! You’re just a straight-up mindless Neanderthal!)

I binge-watched all 24 hours in about two weeks. What a refresher of everything I’m sure that I learned once upon a time in high school in two Modern European History classes — one regular and one AP. I must admit I was somewhat embarrassed that I had forgotten so much. However, one concept that Professor Bucholz discussed was the Great Chain of Being. That topic is definitely something I did not learn in any high school course. But it reminded me of our current history-making in good ‘ole America. Traitor trump, RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, and QAnon kooks are gaining power and popularity, all in an attempt to rebuild and maintain the Great Chain of Being. Indeed, it is the immutable hierarchal pyramid that Medieval kings and the Church relied upon to keep societal order and everyone in their place. Fast forward several hundred years, and nothing has changed! In American style, the Great Chain of Being takes on less Biblical significance — although I may argue not diminished by much (i.e., Mike Johnson’s ascension) — but a potent hierarchal desire all the same. Our Great Change of Being goes something like this: Instead of a king at the top, Americans yearn for traitor trump as “president” (read: dictator) with divine rights. Below him are white male Christian RepubliKKKlans — WASPs — who are the ruling elites. Below them is everyone else, who themselves can be tiered by their ethnicity (Black, Hispanic, other), gender (i.e., women), sexuality (e.g., the gays), wealth (i.e., the bottom 98 percent), non-Christians, and so on, all of whom must battle for a marginally higher rank in the lowest positions of society. Suddenly, the Great Chain of Being metaphor made perfect sense.

Of course, Professor Bucholz’s lecture series also reminded me — without much surprise or astonishment — that there has always been a struggle between those who rule and the ruled, and, indeed, among the ruling class and the class kings rule over. Social tranquility is the exception, rarely the norm. This is particularly true during the English Civil Wars, when, for the first time, the English people killed their king! Talk about upsetting the Great Chain of Being! After roughly ten years of England being governed by a republic, the country revived its monarchy. Indeed! How strange that after all the bloodshed of two civil wars and a clamor to end the corruption of a king, the people invited the restoration of a king. Why? Life seemed to be worse for people under a republic led by the English Parliament. (I won’t get into the whole religious aspect of this period, which played a significant and decisive part in the tumult of the Tudor and Stewart dynasties.) But what struck me most about England’s restoration of the monarchy is the country’s reversion to the mean, so to speak. Then, it dawned on me that societies and governments generally return to what they know best, and in the example of England, that would appear to be a monarchy. So, how does this relate to current America? Hmm. Good question. This, I will opine upon in another post.