December 18, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
What 2020 Means and
Why It is So Critical to Our Survival
During the past month, from shortly after the presidential
election (from November 9 on) until now, seven installments in the MY CORNER
series have been picked up and (re)published: over fifteen times…by LewRockwell.com, by The Abbeville
Institute, by Straight Line Logic, by CAIRCO.org,
Forums.TCM,
and FiftiesWesterns (!), and these are just the outlets that I am aware of. On my own site I count many thousands of
visitors—record numbers for a minor blogger like me and many of them new
readers; and on some other sites the number of readers of my pieces is far greater.
All of this is gratifying for me…although I wonder how long
this can continue without “cancel culture” coming after me, even shutting me
down. Already I have been
doxxed, once very seriously. The
Daily Tar Heel, over at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
has attacked me more than once. The old, discredited canards put out by Morris
Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center (e.g., that I am a racist, etc.) continue
to pop up from time-to-time. And I am now more or less used to the “hate calls”
and anonymous messages (many of which have come from Chapel Hill/Carrboro or “the
Peoples Socialist Republic of Durham, NC”) which occasionally show up on my
answering machine.
My reason for offering what I write has always been to share my
thoughts and ideas with others, if they should be interested. I believe that
most of the topics I address are important, and that certainly applies to the
2020 presidential election and its aftermath. For what has transpired not just
on November 3, but during this entire “pandemic year,” has been a kind of “The
Empire Strikes Back” episode in our American saga, a true pivotal point in
which the vast forces of our managerial elites, those elements of what we term “the
Deep State,” have indeed finally—they hope—completed their “silent coup”
against not just Donald Trump, but more significantly, against the growing
reaction that he through his election in 2016, unleashed. Since 2016 those
forces of the Deep State have done their damnedest to unseat and expel “the
Donald,” for in so doing that they figured they could also behead the
counter-revolution that he symbolized and incarnated. And somehow stanch that movement.
With the rigging of the 2020 presidential election, which we
know now beyond any doubt was incredibly corrupted, they appear—they believe—to have accomplished their cherished goal. With
the disgusting “fear and trembling” of the courts, with the pusillanimous attitude
(and treasonous collaboration) of the establishment Republicans, with the
complacency of millions and decades-old brainwashing by our educational elites,
the media and Hollywood, all the ace cards were held by the managerial apparatchiks.
And yet, despite that, it has become clear that Donald Trump actually won the
election—it took pausing the count in six or seven crucial swing states late on
election night for the minions of the Deep State to go “find” millions of
newly-minted and created “votes,” stuff the ballot boxes, and—voila!—declare that
Joe Biden, a senile empty-suit, had won in a landslide! When in actuality it
was just the reverse: Donald Trump had won and won big.
In other words, the nation—ours—that once touted itself as “the
world’s greatest democracy,” had and has become no better that an Eastern
European Soviet satellite state, circa 1950, when "elections” were a flagrant
and ridiculous farce. How is America, in this respect, any different from Communist
Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu or Russia under Josef Stalin?
Not a comforting thought is it, that the country created by
the Framers in 1787 with what they hoped would be sufficient safeguards against
the inherent tendency of “democracy” towards tyranny, would nevertheless throw
off those safeguards and embrace the inevitable totalitarianism that “egalitarian
democracy” produces. We have, at least since the conclusion of the War Between
the States in 1865, with almost all the various constitutional amendments
enacted since then, and with the defecation of so-called “civil rights”
legislation and accompanying court decisions, been on a downward spiral,
increasing inertially as we descend with apparent insouciance into what poet John
Milton called “the slough of Despond.”
The election of 2016 was a sign that a national voice, in this
case Donald Trump, had somehow made contact with millions of citizens who knew,
at least intuitively, that something was wrong, that things were “not right,”
that the promises of the Old Republic had somehow been not only derailed, but
perverted and defiled by the elites. At last, millions believed that they might
curb the power and control of the managerial class over the American nation.
Thus, President Trump became that bull-in-a-china shop, that
vehicle for an incipient counter-revolution. He was, perhaps, an unlikely
champion of that rebellion, for he came from the East Coast, New York
billionaire class. He was a rough-language, at times abrasive businessman not a
politician, and not someone who had studied profoundly or philosophically the
deeper issues. His attempts to incorporate members of the Republican
establishment (recall his entreaties to Mitt Romney, to John Bolton, to “Mad
Dog” Mattis, and others) into his administration and to often please that
establishment, were essentially disastrous, and would only undercut his tenure.
His failure to get rid of the minions of the Deep State, those professionals deeply
buried in his administration and in the White House, who actually despised him
and did their best to sandbag and expel him, was a major fault. But, then, he
did not come from the cutthroat political class. And too often he depended on it. If anything perhaps,
given the depth of penetration by those Deep Staters, such action, if he had
seriously attempted it, would have resulted in another probably successful
impeachment effort, or worse. But he should have….
There are a few Republicans in Congress—only a few—who plan to
stand and object to the farcical voting of the Electoral College when its report is rendered. But we should not count on success at contesting what
happened, for the great majority of GOP representatives will fall into line
with the pronouncement of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and
graciously accept their continued slavery in the Deep State.
Like the “democratic” deputies of the interim Russian republic
sitting helplessly in the Russian parliament, the Duma, in November 1917 (old
style October 1917), waiting for Lenin and the Communist to assume power, they
will accept their bondage.
There is a superb post-Communist Russian film, “Burnt by the Sun”
(1994), which in many ways is emblematic of this. Directed by brilliant cineaste
Nikita Mikhalkov (a monarchist and anti-Communist), the film tells the story of
Comrade Sergei Kotov, a loyal Soviet officer, who is accused of crimes he did
not commit, but due to his loyalty to Comrade Stalin, he makes his confession.
He has already accepted the Communist framework and template, he has, as it
were, already “drunk the cool aid,” and after that, there really is no option
left to him.
Our congress-people, and most of our political class, are like
the frog in a pot of water on a stove that slowly has the fire turned up under
it. At first the water is just fine, but slowly the frog is boiled alive. Thus it will be for many of those who protest
ever-so-loudly and insincerely that they “are with us,” that they “oppose the
Revolution.” Either they must actually stand against the Revolution, probably
losing their reputations and their lucrative positions, or they must finally
accede to it, and like the frog or Comrade Kotov embrace their fate and slavery.
For us we must go forth, like Colonel Mosby’s raiders—the “Gray
Ghost”—to harass and bedevil the Enemy, with all the hardships that means, with
conviction and commitment, knowing that “Nostra spes mea in Deo” – Our Hope is
in God.”
In the end evil must fall.
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