The Ruling Class leverages crises to expand its powers
Theme 120: evidence of growing Ruling Class authoritative power; diminished human lives for the Surviving Class [updated 03 15 2023]
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” ― Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel is a member of the Ruling Class. He was a former Chief of Staff to a US President and former Mayor of Chicago.
Here is another insight from H. L. Mencken, an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely (early 1900’s) on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary: H. L. Mencken.”
Here are some examples of “crises” used as pretexts of greater Ruling Class control:
2016 President of the United States was elected and controlled by foreign adversary Russia.
The COVID pandemic in general. Best examples are tyrannical lockdowns, brutally enforced in Australia.
Vaccine mandates under the pretext of safety that will force thousands to be fired from their jobs or businesses to be closed if owners do not comply.
Global Warming as a pretext for worldwide regulations, centralized economic planning, wealth redistribution, and potential famine.
January 6, 2021 US Capitol “insurrection.” At this time, there have been countless news articles and 32,700,000 Google search results about an insurrection. Nevertheless, of the 725 people who have been arrested (to date) for the event, none have been charged with the legal definition of insurrection.
US Depart of Justice with the power of the FBI is insinuating that parents complaining at school board meetings need to be scrutinized as potential domestic terrorists and national security threats.
Pro freedom trucker protesters in Canada were actually far right radicals and white supremacists.
The war in Ukraine with Russia is an excuse for expensive energy and high inflation.
The banking crisis is a pretext for a government digital currencies???
I will go into greater detail later, nevertheless COVID, Climate Change, more COVIDs and Crime Waves are serving as recent crises for the Ruling Class to extend its power over the Survival Class. By the way, did you notice that it was primarily the Survival Class that was harmed by Ruling Class COVID edits? Very few Enabling Class members lost their jobs through COVID.
Foreshadowed in Nineteen Eighty-Four novel: The 1984 society engaged in a constant war - often changing enemies and allays. In fact, the constant war was baked in as a societal constant. Of course, the war crisis helped to justify Ruling Class authoritative control and to rationalize dire living conditions.