BACK TO THE FUTURE

     Well, yesterday we all heard that Jeb Bush's hand-picked successor to the Florida Governorship announced a run for the White House. I had deja vu all day, remembering the RNC coronation-parties of 1992 and 2000. Those farces were designed to keep Reaganite populists out of the running; just like DeSantis is being propped up to marginalize Trumpian populism. To anybody who remembers the Bush Machine's policies and electoral tactics, I don't know why this actually needs explaining; but to the pot-soaked attention-spans of 21st Century Americans---to whom anything that happened before 2020 is about as ancient as what happened before Noah's Flood---apparently, it does. 

    The 2000 GOP Primaries fielded a wide range of Conservative candidates: Pat Buchanan, Jack Kemp, Dan Quayle, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, and John McCain. The Clinton Co-Presidency was term limited that year, and GOP voters were disgusted with the "Cave-In Congress" that our first modern 'Red Wave' brought us in 1994. It was widely believed that we needed an Executive committed to the Constitution who would at least motivate Congress to fight for the Reagan Legacy and policies, which Bush and Clinton had done their best to unravel.

   The Controlled Opposition Media and the Bush Machine went to work. Squawking that "we can't win on social issues" and that we had "to stop the Clinton Agenda at all costs," (despite slavishly going along with that Agenda for six years), they began beating the drums to draft then Texas Governor George Bush Jr. Astroturf campaigns came out---we know how the story ends. 2024 is being primed the same way. 

   By now, anybody should understand that US Elections on the national level are merely staged events to sow division and create the illusion of choice. Occasionally, the Oligarchy miscalculates like it did in 2016. But overall it's really a matter of indifference to the US Deep State which candidate wins because they own both Parties and look upon things like US Presidents in the same light that Corporate Boards look upon middle-managers. Ron DeSantis is cut from exactly that same mold. Besides being a product of the Bush Machine, DeSantis' background saw his rise to power come from Harvard Law School and the US Navy's Judge Advocate General's Department: both notorious Deep State recruiting grounds. In Congress, DeSantis was closely allied with Establishment obstructionist Paul Ryan---who is rumored to be among DeSantis' Presidential campaign managers.

   

      It ought to be telling that DeSantis announced his candidacy with the blessings of two globalist billionaires: Elon Musk and David O. Sacks. Musk, we've exposed here and on several other occasions. Musk's most recent move of course was appointing a WEF official to head Twitter. Sacks was one of the co-founders of PayPal---one of the WEF's Top 100 Strategic Partners. In 2017, Sacks founded 'angel investment' fund Craft Ventures. Some recipients of Craft Ventures' cash include Facebook (WEF); Uber (WEF); Palantir Technologies (WEF); AirBNB (WEF); and SpaceX. Like Musk, Sacks is part of the shady Silicon Valley circle hovering around billionaire Peter Thiel. DeSantis' largest (known) private donor is billionaire real-estate and aerospace mogul Bob Bigelow, who is an even bigger crackpot than Musk or Sacks. 

    It's no argument to claim that much of what DeSantis has said and done is (at least superficially) at variance with the Deep State/Globalist goals. Most of what he has said and done hasn't accomplished much of anything except to own the Libtards in the public spotlight while maintaining the Status Quo. Before he shifted on the Scamdemic, DeSantis was a brutal lockdown tyrant who abused his 'Emergency Powers' to include things like padlocking churches and arresting ministers. DeSantis even threatened to send the State military to seal the border with Georgia after Governor Kemp lifted the restrictions. Since DeSantis' 180 on COVID, not one of his 'reforms' has dismantled the Emergency Powers provisions. In fact, DeSantis declared another 'State of Emergency' over immigration. He's since threatened to close churches and arrest ministers who help immigrants, and has deployed the military to guard Florida's borders. 

   His feuds with Disney and the Florida Education Establishment have been just as hypocritical. All of DeSantis' speeches and policies seem to have that same kind of double-edge to them; he seems perfectly content with the present system but merely wants a different management and focus. This is at complete variance with a real Conservative approach as we saw with Reagan and Trump. Their focus was on 'draining the swamp', making Government accountable to the people. Reagan enforced antitrust laws and Trump fined, sanctioned, and jailed Corporate criminals. 

  DeSantis' character also evinces a troubling streak of fanaticism, with an accompanying ruthlessness. During his pro-lockdown days, he was positively thuggish in his enforcement measures against dissenters; since he switched sides, he's shown no mercy to the very people who followed his own orders but remained 'true believers.' He's also promoted using agencies like Child Protective Services against parents who believe in the whole 'pride business.' While I do believe that many lockdown proponents should be put on trial for their actions during the Scamdemic; and that children and even legal minors should be protected from homo propaganda, using government stormtroopers and secret tribunals to enforce such policies is off the table, as far as I'm concerned.

   

     As one of DeSantis' opponents summed it up: "Everything he's done as Governor boils down to him being an attention whore. He jumps into every single major culture war topic of the day, like a YouTuber or streamer chasing trends, so he can stay relevant to the news cycle and remind people he still exists. He wants to flex his power as governor, he wants to be the next strongman, and he wants to model his "imperial governorship" for a future imperial presidency."

    We do not need a Right-Wing version of Justin Trudeau or Emmanuel Macron in the United States. What a man like this would do with atomic weapons and the whole US Police/Surveillance State apparatus at his disposal ought to make people pause and think. We're not arguing, of course, that the Biden/Harris Junta doesn't need to be stopped; but think back to 2000. Yes, the Clintons were hostile to Liberty, committed many crimes under the Color of Office, and enacted many unconstitutional and illegal programs. But it's doubtful that anyone will argue that the successor Bush Administration didn't do more damage than the entire decade of the 1990s combined. Sadly, though, it seems that Conservatives learn nothing from history.