While yours truly polishes up a scintillating column about the weather, yes the weather, readers should take in this essay by Daniel Greenfield of Sultan Knish. It deserves a thorough read. Our characterizations seem insufficient and our pull-quotes can not do it justice and keep within a responsible fair-use parameter. So please read it. It is titled The Three Types of People You’ll Meet in Liberal Hell.
Greenfield posits three classes in America to describe where we are and where we are going.
The first class is “The Party” it is vaguely akin to “the Establishment.” It is essentially liberal and rules for the time being.
“The People”
The People – For the most part the people neither fully accept nor reject the agenda of the Party. Some of it, mainly the parts about a social safety net and tolerance, sound nice to them, though they also don’t care much for the implementation of it. They are concerned about the deterioration of their societies, but fail to make the connection to the liberal social policies that flood their cities with immigrants and favor criminals and dole-hounds.
As he Party gains more influence, the People have largely learned to keep their heads down, to mumble the right slogans that are repeated on the evening news and to stay out of trouble. The People care very little for politics. They distrust the agendas of everyone running for office, but they have been largely taught to vote their very short term economic interests. And while they won’t call and inform on dissidents, they believe that most people who get caught up in the Party’s web could have avoided it by keeping quiet.
“The Ghettos.”
The Ghettos – Party law applies to those within the system. It does not however venture where the law does not go.
The rule of the Party creates three tiers. Those of the Party, the People and the Ghetto. The law only applies to one tier. That of the People. It does not apply to the Party because it makes the laws. It does not apply to the Ghetto, because the Ghetto does not follow the law.
The Ghetto is any tight-knit community with a common ethnic or belief system that maintains group solidarity and is capable of violent protests or mass civil disobedience. Some Ghettos belong to minority groups that are allied with the Party. Other Ghettos however are not. What they all have in common is that they are not really part of the country or culture.
Greenfield writes about the implications, the interplay. The article deserves much more reflection than we have been able to give it. So permit us to revise and extend our remarks after due deliberation. However at first read some thoughts came to us that may not be incompatible with what Greenfield posits. Read his article and then see if you agree.
There may be some larger undercurrents that he does not anticipate. A big chunk of “The People” have already been ghettoized — they just don’t know it. “Conservatives” — people of a Christian affinity or appreciation, traditionalists mostly white but rainbow to the extent of their acceptance of classic western Christian culturalization . . . constitutional republic believing Americans . . . comprise this “ghetto.”
For now the ghettos Greenfield recognizes predominate in big cities. That is true of the black and Muslim ghettos and the gangland element of the Latino and Asian groups and certainly the liberal establishment. To be sure exceptional elements within these abound. Cities much larger than 100,000 tend to devolve. A new political movement needs to form with an assertive demeanor. It could take the form of a sectional intra and inter state political alliance – – fiercely home rule and recalcitrant as far as Washington is concerned . . . a resurgence behind the Bill of Rights. R Mall
