Star Wars, racism, and progressives
By Todd Gregory and Erik Gregory
web posted May 20, 2024
Progressives believe there is no problem caused by big government that cannot be solved by even bigger government.
The Star Wars franchise is a cultural icon for many reasons, but chief among those reasons is the visual simplification of the Star Wars universe. Specifically, Star Wars helped the audience identify the good guys from the bad by simply making the bad guys look bad (i.e. Darth Maul with his horns and red color scheme, or Darth Vader in his imposing, robot-like armor, or the hooded and devil-eyed Emperor Palpatine, etc.). The audience knows who is bad and who is good based on their appearance, a comforting visual aid to know who to root for (and who to root against).
The Democrat Party apparatus has employed the same strategy as did Star Wars, but in the real world, with real world consequences. In the progressive universe, identifying the bad guys requires nothing more than looking at a person's skin color. If they are white, they are bad, indeed perhaps evil. If they are non-white, they are good (with dire social consequences for those non-whites who reject progressive orthodoxy; blacks such as Larry Elder, Candace Owens, and others are even slurred as white supremacists).
Progressives are astute social engineers and understand that most people need to have the complex world they live in simplified for them. Providing an easy-to-understand, race-based formula is the easiest way to do it. Democrat voters can take comfort in the fact they know who the good guys and bad guys are based on the person's skin color. The Democrats' anti-white political platform has proven enormously popular in multiethnic America, and a chief factor in Democrats' staggering electoral successes.
Concurrently, GOP pollsters wet themselves if the Hispanic vote moves on the margins from 33% to 35% Republican, or the African American vote moves from 6% to 7% Republican, as if such transitory eddies portend momentous changes in social currents or somehow demonstrate people are "waking up" to the Democrats' toxic racial playbook.
Conservative clichés about American exceptionalism, a silent majority, principles, norms, traditions, values, sacred texts, and documents are all quaint defensive maneuvers and abstractions; such repetitions of white noise only facilitate further retreat, and will not move the needle in a conservative direction.
Progressivism doesn't sleep. What moves the needle in the Democrats' direction? Television screens and Internet headlines depicting hundreds of thousands of university students as little Eichmanns braying into their Apple iPhones, demanding a literal, race-based color revolution in America. These modern Robespierres and their many benefactors in the Democrat party have made the Israel-Hamas war a referendum on race, which never fails to energize the race-obsessed Democrat faithful.
Study after study shows these student hipsters are miserable, resentful, entitled, angry people who wish (and quite often do) harm to others. Broadcasting frenzied anti-white and antisemitic propaganda on social media as they do, students and faculty are an army of Karens linking arms to promote racial violence, singing odes to the glories of terrorism, and the expungement of white people and Jews as they toast death to America and Israel. It is a toxic brew of narcissism and nihilism, and the live action role-playing (LARPing) imbues their otherwise pathetic and uneventful lives with a sense of meaning.
In the open-air prison (for conservatives) that is the college campus, only the cool conformist kids are allowed onto the trendy Progressive Quad. Thin-skinned and petulant as any sulking adolescent ingrate, these "revolutionary transgressives" are hectoring little harpies who get the cooties if they spot an American flag or a Star of David, or hear that a Ben Shapiro or Ann Coulter might be invited to speak on campus.
Liberated by the intoxicating madness of mobs run amok, and elated by what they perceive as an historic struggle, they're all down with The Cause du jour, they all vote, they all network, and they all want to do a Richard Jewell, Duke Lacrosse, Covington Catholic, Kyle Rittenhouse, and preferably much worse on anybody who dares to disagree with them. When progressives riot in the streets and on the nation's campuses, and when the rate of violent crime skyrockets in deep blue cities, conservatives need to identify these people as the racist Democrat voters they are.
With government backing, the progressive Golden Horde is overrunning the steppes of what used to be America, and they sense a final solution is within grasp. Tens of millions of fascistic Democrat voters who cheer these developments should be euphoric as their imagined totalitarian utopia nears completion. Instead, paradoxically, they are more enraged than ever.
They are egged on in their incandescent rage by government and media. In this era of mass censorship and fake narratives (fake but accurate, in Dan Rather-speak), the US government and national media are by far the greatest sources of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MisDisMal, in the government's own idiotic shorthand).
It is the US government, with help from the oxymoronic intelligence agencies and the national news media, that gave us white "xenophobia," pangolins, and wet markets as explanations for the COVID they unleashed on the world in the election year of 2020, killing millions globally with help from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Talk about serendipity. And to paraphrase the late Harry Reid, the Democrats won, didn't they?
Government's big lies about dastardly Russians using Rasputin-like alchemy to conjure a Hunter Biden laptop to make Joe Biden look bad; nonstop election denialism about the results of the 2016 election (anybody remember James "weasel moves/pee-pee tape/blackmail" Comey?); manufactured hysterias about supposed genocides being perpetrated against transgendered folx, blacks, and Palestinians by alleged white supremacists; and imminent climate catastrophism, are just a few examples of government-media MisDisMal. Such transparent serial lying doesn't even rise to the level of clever propaganda; it's just lies, all lies, across the fruited plain.
Bureaucratic insurrection at all levels of government, killing the 2016 MAGA agenda in its crib, sabotaging the will of the voters throughout Trump's term in office, is the reason there is no wall on the southern border, no meaningful election safeguards in place to prevent more vote fraud in 2024, no racial harmony, no fiscal sanity, and no culling or reform of America's profoundly corrupt civil service, the government drone class that seizes half or more of your income for itself.
Moreover, the notion that FBI desk jockeys are heroically risking their lives protecting us from Moms at PTA meetings, Catholics saying the rosary, election interference, and so-called white nationalists posting funny memes (memetic warfare — an invented term that sounds scary, like kinetic warfare) is laughable on its face.
The Left takes whatever is ugly or profane and declares it sacred and beautiful. Apart from glamorizing race-based terrorism and mass murder, Democrats enthusiastically undertake the heavy lift of normalizing pedophilia among public school teachers; we're reliably informed that untold thousands of teachers and school administrators are not pedophiles (unlike those icky Catholic priests), but rather benign-sounding MAPS (minor attracted persons). In the culture wars, which Democrats always seem to win, euphemisms work.
The pampered residents of self-righteous sanctuary cities and progressive enclaves like Martha's Vineyard scream like stuck pigs when a tiny handful of illegal aliens (migrants, undocumented citizens, newcomers, Dreamers, choose your euphemism) are bused in from overwhelmed southern red states. Uber-wealthy Marin County, California, has declared itself a sanctuary domain and should be compelled to accommodate at least a few tens of thousands of newcomers. Ditto for the progressive snobs cocooned in the Hamptons, and other tony Democrat locales.
An ever-growing constellation of acronyms and "experts," orbited by an entire taxonomy of euphemistic gibberish and academic jargon such as ESG, DEI, and CRT, all of it designed to bewilder and bludgeon, has taken firm root under the progressive imperative of subjugating – even eliminating – white people. The social science, as the unsightly Hee Haw "news" personality and thumb-sucking ditz Chuck Todd might say, is settled, it's beyond dispute, and therefore no counterargument will be allowed.
Yes, and geolocation cell phone data is a scientific, indispensable, unassailable tool of technology used by law enforcement to hunt down and incarcerate people accused of parading at the Capitol on J6. Except when the geolocation data implicates Democrat ballot-stuffing mules in swing states, then the technology is suddenly unreliable, highly questionable, and is probably being used for nefarious purposes. Heads, Democrats win. Tails, conservatives lose. See how it works?
At the sphincter exit port directly above this maggot-infested dung heap, anti-white dog whistles proliferate. The late progressive celeb-tard Susan Sontag famously declared that white people are the cancer of human history, and her eliminationist rhetoric is now the unofficial battle cry of the modern Democrat party. Lamenting only black on black violence is a progressive dog whistle because it gives tacit approval to increasingly widespread expressions of violence against whites. Otherwise, why not just decry the ubiquity of progressive black violence?
In the post-truth milieu of the western world, where it is a cardinal sin to lack melanin (and a cardinal virtue to possess it, provided you toe the progressive line), it is only natural that many whites choose the path of least resistance and maximum social rewards. Hence, phenomena like Caucasians claiming to be BIPOCs (appropriating BIPOC privilege) to facilitate career advantage, or white males dressing, speaking, and behaving like wannabe urban gangsta playas, saggy pants evoking diapers full of human waste, with no ambition beyond getting stoned, playing video games, and angling for some random opportunity to copulate or sucker-punch a stranger. Acting black is the default setting for whites seeking admittance to the apex in-group, and to demonstrate both submission and "street cred."
The government-media complex is always in a five-alarm threat posture against white people; whites had better think, speak, vote, and do exactly as their progressive overlords tell them, or else reap the whirlwind. Refuse to be a good marionette and cooperate, and you are forced to navigate a harrowing gauntlet of personal, financial, legal, and social punishments. Or perhaps something even worse.
Meanwhile, the GOP congress, a majority in name only, continues to frag its own in the foxhole. Conservative and Independent voters who cite "principles" as a reason to avoid voting for Trump need to realize that Trump having an irascible and off-putting personality does not remotely rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, let alone necessitate the extrajudicial hellscape the government has woven to ensnare Orange Man Bad (OMB) in a legal straitjacket.
The Bill Kristols of the "conservative" movement are only too happy to set all their precious principles on fire if doing so serves their one overarching Principle. Besides, what is "principled" about helping to re-elect Biden, who showered regularly with his pre-pubescent daughter; who likely sexually assaulted former staffer Tara Reade and others; who lies and exaggerates far more, and about far more consequential things, than Trump; is a flagrant racist; stole and retained classified documents as a senator and later vice president; and who has bankrupted the US treasury to buy Ukraine's silence on his family's Promethean financial corruption? Surely, even a two-fisted drinker like David Brooks can understand the distinction between Trump's (alleged) jaywalking and Biden's eye-watering and transparent felonies.
In a concession to realpolitik, it is highly unlikely that Trump can make a dent in the government's inexorable and growing control over your money, your assets, your permissible sociopolitical opinions, your food choices, your travel, your social credit score, your carbon emissions, your consumer consumption, your job and life prospects, your health care, and much else. But theoretically, Trump might at least forestall or reduce such harms.
Thus, nose-pinching voters on the fence need to coalesce now around OMB, and vote as early as possible this autumn, even knowing their legal votes may be nullified by illegal Democrat ballot-stuffing and other forms of fraud, and that every institution of government and society is arrayed against Trump.
Given what transpired in 2020, any conservative who doubts the government's ability to again manufacture fake crises, massive urban rioting, or hundreds of thousands of ballots in deep blue districts (i.e. Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta) has lost touch with reality. Is anybody even remotely curious about how deep red California, with its electoral windfall, suddenly became deep blue Crapifornia virtually overnight around 1992? As the Democrats themselves are fond of saying, it's not about the votes, it's about the ballots. And who counts the ballots, as Biden namesake and fellow leftist Joe Stalin wryly observed.
There will be nationwide rioting and government-sponsored insurrection if Trump somehow overcomes the margin of fraud and eeks out a narrow win. The government will do everything in its power to prevent – and then undue, if necessary – a Trump victory, including the unthinkable.
The hour is getting late, and conservatives, as always, are behind on points. Whatever their stripes or internal squabbles, conservative voters need to throw their Sunday best punch this autumn. 
The authors are brothers and previous contributors to Enter Stage Right.
