The most important battle being fought in America right now is not between the races or the sexes… the most critical battle being waged in Modern America is a class struggle. It’s a war between the Managerial Class who wants to rule us absolutely, and regular Americans who still believe in their Constitutionally protected right to self-rule.
The Left has spent generations infiltrating America’s school systems. They started with the Universities and, having successfully captured them, moved swiftly on to the Public School K-12 system. And now that they completely control the academies that confer the credentials that can allow Americans to rise above their Proletarian Classes and join the Managerial Class, the Managers use that power over entre’ to seek more and more ways to control every aspect of our lives.
But all is not well in the Managerial Class. Yes they control who can enter and when and how, but they are still at the mercy of Democracy. Regular Americans from the lower classes, by which I mean people who did not go to Harvard, UVA, or Duke, can still vote to tell them to shut the hell up and leave them the hell alone, and that they cannot abide.
And so the Managerial Class has opened up a new front on those who would have the temerity to assert their right to self-rule. They have declared that they are the Experts, in Healthcare, in Education, in Foreign Policy… whatever it is that you think you ought to be able to control as a soverign citizen, they’re here to tell you that no, you cannot. That your personal preferences must be subjugated to whatever Fad the Managerial Class is currently embracing. And if you won’t step aside and obey the “Experts”, well… then they’ll sic the FBI on you.
When I was a kid, growing up, my Dad was a Diplomat. He worked on Economic Policy for a Federal Agency that I will not name. As part of his job he traveled abroad all the time. I would guess that he was gone at least one week out of every month. Over the years he built up so many frequent flier miles (back when that still meant something) that we rarely paid for plane tickets on family vacations. All of that Airline travel, combined with a lifelong fascination with airplanes, made my Dad something of an armchair expert on their operation, even though he had never flown one himself.
Decades ago as he sat on the runway in a plane that was waiting in line to takeoff, he looked out the window and noticed that the flaps were in the wrong position for takeoff. He called the Flight Attendant over and told her urgently that she needed to let the pilot know. She poo-poohed my Dad and told him that she was sure everything was fine, the “experts” were in control. My Dad was insistent and demanded that she speak to the pilot. Eventually the Flight Attendant rolled her eyes and reluctantly agreed. Later, once they were in the air, the same Flight Attendant came to see my Dad and this time she had her entire crew with her. They brought my Dad a glass of champagne and quietly informed him that he had likely saved the plane.
I was reminded of this story by a cartoon in the New Yorker this week, which was meant to be a response to the controversy over AG Merrick Garland’s calling in the FBI to deal with parents (nee “Domestic Terrorists”) who’ve had the gaul to question the Managerial Class members on School Boards who have determined that their children must be masked while they are taught Critical Race Theory. All this against the will of their parents and, indeed, the Science. In the cartoon, a passenger on a plane is standing up and shouting that the pilots have lost touch with the passengers and should be listening to those passengers who think they know how to fly the plane better than the pilots.
Someone, apparently, thought this was a good take.
Remember in The Godfather how Michael Corleone points out that after they kill the Police Captain who has been protecting Solozzo, that they can simply have “their newspaper people” put out articles exposing what a shitbird he was? Well, that’s all this is. The Managerial Class, almost all of them Democrats, have “members” at all levels of the Media (“their people” as Corleone called them) and whenever they need it, these useful idiots pump out out all the propaganda the Managers, these Mobsters with advanced degrees, require to argue that they know best and the rest of us idiots ought to just shuttup and do as we’re told.
But the fact is that no one is such an expert that they are above being catastrophically wrong, as my Dad proved all those years ago.
Things change… “facts” that we know are absolute truths today can become weird artifacts of a more supersitious time literally overnight. What this means is that “Experts” must temper their expertise with humility. But humility is a trait that is sadly lacking in our Managerial Class. Whatever they believe today is the literal truth handed down by the Gods of Science themselves. And if things change tomorrow, well no matter, those same “Experts” will shift their views overnight and claim that this NEW truth cannot be questioned, without ever acknowledging that they were wrong about the previous “Truth” just the day before.
This is dangerous, and the reasons why should be obvious. Our own history is riddled with cases where the Flight Attendant did not listen to the knowledgable passenger and the plane was lost (Pearl Harbor, 9/11, the Big Short of 07-08, and Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawl spring immediately to mind). Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Terry McCauliffe’s now infamous quote that parents should not determine what their kids are taught in school is the inevitable sneer of class condescencion from a lifetime member of the Managerial Class, and it’s emblematic of the kind of hubris that has crashed so many planes over the course of American History.
The ultimate expression of a society run by a class of Managers who are highly credentialed, but not very smart, was the former Soviet Union. The USSR collapsed so long ago now, that there are not very many of us who remember why it failed. Soviet society was run at every level by Managers for whom being a good Party Member was their most important skill. Being an actual expert in their field was a secondary or even tertiary consideration. Those who worked under these Managers, and in many cases knew better, weren’t just afraid to speak up, they were prohibted by law from doing so. What the Soviets got as a result of this ass-backwards system, was a society where brand new Army tanks spit out a pound of grated metal the first time their engines were turned on, and millions died of famine or in Siberian Gulags.
Any “Expert” who tells you that the science is settled and that you must sit down, shuttup, and obey, should be treated with mistrust at best, and outright hostility at worst. Because any “Expert” who would say such a thing has forgotten that humility must walk hand-in-hand with Expertise. They have forgotten it on purpose, because what they really want is the power to control your life, without ever having to explain why or say they’re sorry.
Don’t give it to them. Don’t let mediocrities like Merrick Garland and Rachel Wallensky, And SecDef Austin, and Jenn Psaki, and Gretchen Witmer and Terry McCauliffe and AOC and Brian Stelter and a million other useless credentialed experts installed all across the landscape of the Federal Bureaucracy, Universities and Media tell you otherwise.