Ferocity of the fiercely left is growing by the day, and in the bull’s eye is a picture of our current commander-in-chief, Donald J. Trump. Populating the outer circles of this dart board are the deplorables who put him there. Participating dart throwers are the inmates whose lobotomies went astray and are “affectionately” known as Liberal Elites.
If you do an Internet search for identities of these liberal elites, there is no list of names to be found, just a general description of these malcontents who have way too much money or are educated beyond their capacity to reason. A few have public relations people who have brought them to the “not-quite-famous” stage whom we will discuss latter.
They are so shrill it makes one wonder about their end game, and there may be a clue in George Orwell’s “1984” with interesting parallels to today’s evolving culture.
“1984”
The setting is Oceania, where personal freedom doesn’t exist. The two percent of the population is composed of the Inner Circle while 10 percent comprise the Outer Circle; the Proles make up the remainder. Ubiquitous television broadcasts 24/7 with no way to turn it off. It can also monitor anyone’s activity at any time, any place. Big Brother is often shown but no one has ever met him personally.
Inner Circle folks run the place while Outer Circle people staff various agencies needed to operate the government. Proles inhabit the inner city and are ignored, left to do whatever they want. Their life expectancy is 60 years.
The central character is Outer Circle resident Winston, who works at the Ministry of Truth where his job is to modify history to be consistent with current Inner Circle pronouncements. People who don’t play by the rules simply vanish.
There are interesting parallels between this fictitious place and today’s real life.
| 1984 | Today |
| Newspeak – Words are eliminated which don’t fit Inner Circle prescriptions and new ones are added. For example, “Bad” is replaced by “un-good.” | Politically correct speech prescribes proper words for every situation and forbids the use of words and phrases that the LEs have designated as offensive. |
| War is the means of destroying wealth with no benefit for the purpose of keeping the population at subsistence level. | Climate change is a fictitious condition used to limit wealth of the general population. |
| Proles, short for proletariat, live in inner city squalor and are left to their own debauchery by Big Brother. | Inner city residents live in inner city squalor, their needs ignored except for every other November when they are expected to vote. |
| Monitored existence gives the Inner Circle access to everyone’s activities 24/7. | Spying on U.S. citizens has become routine. |
Who Are These Liberal Elites?
They are an amorphous agglomeration of mega-wealth and university educators devoted to political indoctrination. The 1960s hippie generation who disdained convention with the motto “Do your own thing” dedicated themselves to the development of a rigid set of rules with which to indoctrinate what became the millennial generation. Freedom of expression is limited to that which fits within the framework of politically correct speech.
One may wonder what the mega-wealthy have in common with these folks and the answer is, nothing — nothing except that the rigid conformity induced into their students dovetails perfectly with their goal of political control.
Which raises the question: Why would anyone who amassed a fortune using the advantages of free enterprise economics want to burn those bridges behind them? One who has never accumulated a billion dollars can only speculate, but it seems plausible that once one has more money than they can ever spend, a Type A personality may be inclined to pursue political power as their reason to get up in the morning.
If one spent a million dollars a day, which would really get monotonous, it would take two-and-three-quarter years to go through a billion dollars.
Since acquiring political power through election can be debasing as well as messy (ask Donald Trump), the very rich are accustomed to paying others to do their dirty work. An example would be Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager, who makes campaign donations to any candidate who supports the notion of people-caused climate change even though it is inconceivable that he believes in it. It’s a smart move that does two things: it acquires an interest, maybe even controlling interest, in a person who is inclined to do the drudge work of being a political candidate, and it furthers an instrument of population control.
Splitting the Democratic Party
Liberal elites have taken an increasingly aggressive role in Democratic Party politics. Their area of influence is concentrated in what is known as the radical or far left. It could also be called the authoritarian left in that the objective is government control of everything from healthcare to your means of personal transportation, leaving a large number of Democrat middle-class (non-deplorable of course) voters in limbo. They are the “useful idiots” seen by Vladimir Lenin as unwitting useable tools in the creation of communist Russia. The political party has articulated no central theme or program to rally around and they continue with identity politics as a strategy.
Democrat office-holders who dissent from liberal elite preferences are liable to find a liberal elite-funded primary opponent next time around.
Adrift
Liberal elites are people accustomed to being “the boss,” which is probably why they have gravitated to the Democratic Party rather than Republicans who foster constitutionally-required checks and balances. Obama, with his “pen and his phone,” initiated a whole bunch of regulations that brought government evermore entwined in our lives. The authoritarian aspect of this change seemed to be leading us toward the kind of life described in Orwell’s “1984.”
“ADRIFT: A Journey to George Orwell’s 1984” is a detailed look at those moves.
Had Hillary Clinton succeeded in her presidential election bid, the drift toward “1984“ would have accelerated which explains the vituperation toward President Trump exhibited by liberal elites and their mainstream compatriots.
