Back when Academia was still a respectable segment of society, Social theorists debated about how civilizations fell. Today, of course, Academia is more interested in taking over Civilization---actively participating in our downfall as opposed to analyzing or trying to prevent it from happening. But in the past, the two opposing theories centered upon whether cultural/national decline began at the ruling or th popular level.
The traditional view---and probably the most common one---is that governments became corrupt and that their corruption contaminated all of society. There is even some Biblical implication behind this view---the Old Testament often speaks of the sins of the rulers bringing disasters upon the nation. This view is almost unanimously held by modern Conservatives, and it gained a lot of currency during the 1970s to the end of the 20th Century. This was especially true during the Clinton Administration, which maintained a culture in Washington rivalling even late Augustan Rome in its degeneracy and debauchery.
The competing view came out of the Enlightenment Era and was based upon some of the social theories of British historian Edward Gibbon. This theory held that corruption began among the general population and spread into the ruling classes through the latters' built-in desire to identify with the people. The main proponents of this theory were Dead White Males scholars Jacob Burckhardt and Michael Rostovtzeff. Founding Father John Adams spoke of it favorably in some of his later political writings.
For obvious reasons, the Cultural Marxists bitterly opposed this second theory, and it was largely forgotten; but events of the last year and a half have led a few thinkers to re-examine its validity. Let us look at an example from recent news stories in Washington State. The State of Washington itself is populated by a degenerate and effete public; about evenly split between the lowest of the 'woke' Left and the most servile of the accommodating Right. The State routinely ranks in polls as the most friendly towards drug users, sexual perverts, and homeless bums; while ranking near the bottom of desirable places for families, small businesses, singles, gun owners, and church goers. It's largest cities are a snapshot of the character of its residents.
It's literally so bad that some bars and restaurants in Idaho are refusing service to Washington State residents because of Washingtonians' inability to behave themselves like civilized human beings. There's even been some moves there and in neighboring states to keep the kinds of kooks who destroyed Washington from settling there.
Democrat Jay Inslee, an embittered sociopath, is currently governor of Washington. Inslee seized control of the State Government and has been ruling by temporary emergency decree ever since. He's set up a camarilla of advisers headed by his vicious Attorney-General, Bob Ferguson. Both men are hated statewide, outside of the Left-Wing Whacko enclaves of inner-city Seattle and Olympia.
There have been petitions circulating to have these two scumbags removed from office even before the Scamdemic started. Inslee came up for re-election last November, and what happened? Officially, he won the State by a 2-1 margin, almost the same vote total as Biden. Areas that were usually split between parties overwhelmingly went Democrat and even a few 'Red' districts supposedly flipped. It was fairly obvious that massive voter fraud had occurred---or at least there was strong reason to suspect it. The State GOP, however, gave no support either to its gubernatorial candidate nor to President Trump; just as it has mounted no opposition to Inslee's dictatorial rule or any of his other crimes. So, yesterday Inslee and Ferguson announced that they were reinstating the Mask Mandate and imposing the most draconian Vaxx laws in the nation beginning next Monday. And Washington Republicans are outraged.
Outraged? I'm not certain about what. What did these pinheads think that Inslee was going to do? Did they suppose that he'd be so grateful for not challenging his authority that he wouldn't impose new restrictions? Granted we are talking about a population that couldn't decide whether armed terrorists seizing control of a entire neighborhood were committing a crime or not. Still, it's becoming increasingly difficult to believe that Conservatives in that State don't have some ulterior motives of their own behind all of this apparent complacency and apathy.
The excuse that Inslee and Ferguson are proffering for this new crackdown is an alleged nationwide spike in Media-generated hysteria cases of an influenza outbreak that 99% of people survive and around 60% show no symptoms. Allegedly hospitals are overflowing, although I live a block away from one and don't notice patients being brought in truckloads by the day. When the previous restrictions were finally lifted, our county's Ministry of Health shamefacedly admitted that we had experienced only about a dozen fatalities even related to COVID-19. As in the previous 'outbreak' there's no visual or statistical evidence that this 'pandemic' is even real; but that hasn't stopped the boobs from strapping on their cuck-muzzles and dropping to their knees ready to kiss Inslee's rump and do whatever he commands them to do. And that includes all of these outraged Conservatives too.
Let's be candid here. How many Conservatives have investments in Big Pharma, franchise food chains, and box-stores that profit from squeezing down smaller competitors? How many own properties, and see their values going up because of the housing shortage that the Scamdemic caused? How many of them are profiting off these fake shortages with price-gouging, slashing overhead and 'human capital?' How many do you suppose hold Futures and Derivatives on the Stock Market and waiting for the massive payoff when goods and services really get expensive. Think it's only Liberals doing that? No: many are in the church pews on Sunday; thankful to wear a Mask so that nobody sees the cynical sneer behind it.
The aforementioned President Adams remarked that our Constitution was suited only for a moral and religious people. The same is true of everything else the Constitution stands for: personal liberty, the free-enterprise system, the Bill of Rights---these things cannot co-exist with a culture of selfishness, lust for drama, and corruption. The whole 'woke' ideology is a contradiction of itself. The perfect metaphor for the whole movement was watching idiots destroying monuments that they claimed glorified slavery while demanding that financial oligarchs take their freedoms in exchange for security. The Right is no better, thinking that they can game these fanatics at their neighbors' expense by going with the flow and deceiving themselves that they are outsmarting everyone. When the time comes, the Elites are going to take both sides by the hair, slam their heads together, and take what they want. That's what is happening in Washington State right now and is coming soon to neighborhoods near you unless people start getting it together and facing reality.
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