The cheat is on
By Erik Gregory & Todd Gregory
web posted September 2, 2024
Barack Obama is a private citizen who has held no public office for eight years. So why is the Golden Calf of the international Left still directing policy for the United States government? Walk into any federal building in America, and you can still smell the Obama support.
As cadaverous caretaker President Joe Biden shuffles offstage like C-3PO, Obama's willing water carriers in the federal government and national news media are working tirelessly to ensure Kamala Harris keeps the Obama imperium humming along. The global progressive project is too big to fail.
To this end, throughout the western world, illegal mass migration from the most undesirable nations on earth is given unconditional priority over everything else, to the point western governments and their media organs will unreservedly defend migrants who engage in murder, human trafficking, and child rape, among numerous other atrocities.
In the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the West, even muted criticism of government's mass migration policies can get you arrested, imprisoned, and charged as a "terrorist."
The public is scolded that millions of economic migrants are desperately needed in mostly Caucasian Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Curiously, these same European and other western governments have no interest in welcoming poor, white economic migrants from impoverished Christian countries in eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, etc.).
Instead, the European Union is committed to importing an endless stream of culturally unassimilable dependents from Africa and the Middle East (tellingly, European governments specifically want Muslims from these regions, not Christians) in order to provoke social division, and expand the welfare state's power and control over citizens' lives.
The American government welcomes the vast majority of its illegal migrants and asylum claimants from destitute, crime-wracked countries in Latin America. The predictable results of all this are by design.
Progressives are fond of saying "by whatever means necessary." The explicit statement means their desired ends justify any and all means to obtain those ends.
Develop and (perhaps deliberately) release a synthetic, government-created virus in 2019-2020, killing millions, crashing the world economy, and uprooting billions globally in order to win a critical election in America (the epicenter of the global progressive project) and establish a further predicate for government control? Yes.
Next, not letting the manufactured COVID-19 crisis go to waste, force citizens to take a vaccine that doesn't protect against disease but instead harms and kills many more, and puts much of the civilized world under the legal jackboot of supranational governing bodies (the WHO, the UN, the International Criminal Court, the American DOJ, et al.)? Yes.
Release recidivist criminal felons into the general population so they can prey upon scores of new victims, giving the government an excuse to further surveil, tax, restrict, and persecute law-abiding citizens? Yes.
Subsidize massive rioting throughout major cities, and destroy cultural treasures to sow additional chaos while protesting manufactured crises like "climate change," capitalism, and "racism?" Yes.
Permit scores of innocent girls to be groomed, gang-raped, and murdered by "refugees" and illegal aliens in order to destabilize western societies and give government yet another pretext to broaden the draconian security state? Yes, again.
Demand that trillions of dollars and euros be forcibly transferred from private businesses and individuals into government coffers to supposedly address a patently phony climate apocalypse? Yes, whatever it takes to further the global progressive project.
The progressive playbook is simplicity itself: It demands perpetual conflict and crises, backed by violence and other forms of coercion as needed. A divided population at war with itself is easier to exploit and control.
Isolating, ostracizing, and "othering" peaceful conservative dissidents with ad hominem messaging and dehumanizing language (racist! climate denier! insurrectionist!) is always de rigueur for the government-media complex — and is devastatingly effective in terms of mobilizing bigoted and credulous Democrat voters.
As the 2024 election approaches, election interference is proceeding apace on many levels, and not just the lawfare, ballot harvesting, and vote-counting fronts.
Google's manipulated algorithms will sway millions of otherwise persuadable voters to vote Democrat.
Government and social media (Facebook, YouTube) will continue to work hand in glove to censor and neutralize conservative voices and content, suppressing, demonetizing or memory-holing important free speech forums.
Yahoo! and Gmail will redirect Republican fundraising emails to users' spam boxes. And the postal service will have custody of mailed ballots, along with Republican campaign direct mail that might end up dumped in municipal landfills rather than delivered to intended recipients.
The IC (intelligence community) agencies are coordinating their efforts like busy little bees in the hive mind as they seek to throw the election to Kamala Harris (while euphemizing their efforts as an insurance policy, or a high-minded shadow campaign to "save democracy"). Perhaps the CIA is even developing a method to make J.D. Vance's beard fall off.
And no wonder the corporate world is in bed with the Left; when you donate money to Democrats and adopt their slogans and their ways, you are safe from DOJ prosecution, FBI raids, IRS tax audits, and so on. If you give money to the Right, you can reasonably expect nothing from your investment except you will make yourself a target for the Left. It is simply a survival strategy and self-preservation for corporations and individuals alike to veer hard Left with their money and their politics.
Contemporary (D) progressivism is the Siamese twin of national socialism (Nazism), with its overwhelming, monomaniacal obsession with race. The ruthless, race-fixated Alejandro Mayorkas, the Marshall Applewhite of the DHS, has done his level best to accelerate America's social suicide pact by importing a new, government-dependent electorate from the developing world.
Untold numbers of illegal aliens have already sworn and attested — by checking a box on their driver's license applications — that they are US citizens, and many will vote. It's all done on the "honor system," and the national news media, lawmakers, and courts all look the other way and deny it is happening on a large enough scale to tip the election.
To be fair to Mayorkas, all of the intelligence agencies and federal cabinets are staffed primarily by time servers who failed up, their progressive ideological agendas augmented by taxpayer-funded COLA (cost of living adjustment) pay increases, early retirement if they wish, and hefty remuneration for life. Like the good little socialists they are, every progressive feels entitled to other people's money, so government "work" is a natural career choice for progs.
The US government-media complex is the Krakatoa of disinformation and conspiracy theories. If a Republican is a threat to win the presidency, America is always said to be on the verge of a Christian theocracy; a return to Jim Crow or slavery is imminent; women's suffrage will end; every GOP candidate (even hapless defeated candidates like Romney, McCain, and Dole) is literally Hitler; climate Armageddon is nigh; Pangolins and wet markets caused COVID-19; trees, highways, and the physical environment are all racist; Putin hacked the voting machines; et al.
These government-media Krakens are shamelessly presented to a gullible public as facts. While comically ridiculous on their face, such crude fruitcake assertions nevertheless spread throughout the populace like chlamydia rampaging through an Ivy League dorm.
In deciphering progressive pathology, there is an enormous focus on creating dissatisfaction, unhappiness, grievance, and a sense of victimhood. There is nothing life-affirming — just an endless cycle of hate, anger, and resentment.
Prog men tend to suffer from an emotional form of hypogonadism, with Mount Everest-sized chips on their shoulders. To compensate, they peddle Walter Mitty type fantasies of heroism (see Tim Walz, Richard Blumenthal, Brian Williams, John Kerry, countless others).
Prog women who indulge in misandry toward white males and reject family formation tend to be miserable and lonely, and they seek to make converts who will be as miserable and hateful as them. Without irony, many will denounce the so-called white, male Christian patriarchy as they simultaneously champion the male Muslim patriarchy (patriarchy on steroids; clitorectomies; no sex outside of marriage; stultifying burqas; no rights for LGBTQ; no abortions or formal education for females; stoning for adultery; on and on).
On Planet Progressive, "reality" is whatever progressives say it is. Joe Biden says inflation, gas prices, and crime are down from the Trump years on his and Kamala's watch, and so-called fact checkers will cherry pick or contextualize anything and everything (anodyne conservative speech is violence, progressive violence is free speech, etc.) to shoehorn "facts" into their progressive ideology.
In a real sense, Biden is right that America is enjoying its greatest economy ever (but only for government employees). Massive wealth redistribution is real — from the middle and working classes to the federal government employee with his no-show job.
The government class gets rich by plundering the wealth of the productive non-government class through punitive taxation, regulation, and confiscation.
It is quite a gig to be a DEI graduate offered a six-figure sinecure to "work" remotely in some governmental equity analytics department, producing useless reports (costing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars per page) of worthless drivel about "equity" and "environmental racism."
In terms of persuading any Democrat voters, conservatives need to disabuse themselves of the notion that the failed assassination attempt on Trump, or metrics on the economy or crime, will redound to Trump's benefit. Let's be honest and acknowledge that tens of millions of registered Kooks for Kamala would've celebrated publicly and privately had the assassination been successful.
On the mental health spectrum, Democrat voters suffer from a cluster of psychological disorders, ranging from neurotic to psychotic. The jaws of life cannot prise progressive harridans away from their doctrinaire faith-based belief system. Progs who remain insensate with rage that conservatives are permitted to exist at all need to put aside the crackpipe of resentment, wear the progressive millstone they voted for around their necks, and shut the hell up.
Alternatively, instead of again using their vote to rubber stamp progressive fascism, any remaining "blue dog" Democrats can own their complicity in civilizational destruction, and make partial redress by voting a straight Republican ticket this cycle. 
The Gregory Brothers are previous contributors to ESR.
