The Illuminati vs the Populists
November 18, 2022, 4:05 PM IST
Kevin R. James in Change Alley, World, TOI
Kevin R. James is an economist in the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics.
Taking a step back from the immediate results of the U.S. election, it is becoming increasingly clear that the deeper political struggle is between the Illuminati of the Left and the Populists of the Right. Thinking through the nature of the struggle offers insights into what the future might hold.
The Illuminati of legend are a secret society of elites who exploit their control over key political and social institutions to advance their ideological goals. Needless to say, they are at the center of centuries of conspiracy theories. By using the term, then, your author runs the risk of being tarred with the conspiracy theory brush. But there really isn’t another term that so perfectly captures just how the Left has infiltrated vital institutions (as I discuss below) to advance their goals. So, Illuminati it is.
Hey, it’s not a conspiracy theory if its true.
The Illuminati use their control of key institutions to shape the electoral battlefield. The Populists on the Right and the public facing wing of the Left then duke it out in elections. But, due to the pre-election shaping of issues and perception by the Left’s Illuminati wing, the Populists fight these elections at a considerable disadvantage.
You may be thinking: Illuminati? Seriously?
Seriously. Think about two of society’s most vital institutions: Science and Information Production.
The Corruption of Science
The disgraceful behavior of the Public Health Establishment during COVID shows just how corrupt science (at least as it connects to public policy) has become.
During the initial onslaught of COVID, the Public Health Establishment advocated draconian policies to enforce restrictions on social activity to stop the virus from spreading — closing down schools, shutting down non-essential businesses, etc. This strategy had enormous economic, social, and mental health costs. But given the (supposedly) deadly threat of COVID, there was no alternative. These costs just had to be paid.
And fair enough, one might think. This strategy was at least intellectually coherent, and maybe the risk of COVID really was so high that shutting everything down was the best choice.
Then along came the black Lives Matter protests. These protests involved everything the Public Health establishment viewed with horror — large crowds, social interaction, and infected participants spreading everywhere after the event. If COVID was potentially so deadly that shutting down society was a price worth paying to stop the spread, then surely the Public Health Establishment would rise as one and advocate banning the protests (and riots).
But one would be wrong.
The black Lives Matter protests advanced causes favored by the Left and offered a perfect vehicle to rouse support for the Leftist [nihilist hedonist woketarded cultural Marxist] cause more generally. So, all of a sudden, COVID was magically not as bad as all that and the protests could go ahead.
Really.
For example, Politico quotes a leading epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo saying, “We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus … in this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand the end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus”.
This shows that the “shut down society” policy wasn’t “science” at all. The Leftist-dominated Public Health Establishment just didn’t think that the economic, social, and mental health consequences of their policy were that important. Who cares if people can’t go to church? But once the policy adversely affected a priority of the Left, the policy changed.
This example shows that it is hard to trust “the science” when “the science” has a significant impact upon public policy. This is tragic for both science and society because that is precisely the case when it is most important to have an objective and politically unbiased understanding of the consequence of the policy alternatives in question.
The Corruption of Information Production
The 2020 Presidential election was very very close. [NO, it was not close and the CIA blatantly stole it for pedo-puppet Biden/Harris] Defeating Trump was obviously a do or die task for the Illuminati.
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