Fetter(my good God), man!

Are we a country of representatives or a country of parties? November may well provide the answer

“I was agreeing with you up until the claim that he’s not capable of being in the Senate,” The Hill’s “Rising” co-anchor Briahna Joy Gray told her protege Robby Soave, who had just critiqued the disastrous — even horrifying — debate performance of PA Senate candidate John Fetterman (D). After admitting that Fetterman’s performance was “poor,” and watching it “uncomfortable,” Ms Joy Gray opined, “however, I also do think a lot of voters are looking for someone who is going to co-sign a Democratic Party agenda vs a Republican agenda, and — as many people, you know, who’ve been working on the Hill for many years will attest to — it doesn’t take a lot to be there to pull, to push that button, or pull that lever for an agenda.”

Revealing though that is, given that most commentators would be reluctant to so candidly say the quiet part out loud — in this case, that clear and recognizable brain damage doesn’t disqualify one from the US Senate, because even a monkey can be trained to pull the proper partisan lever — Ms Joy Gray is, sadly, correct when it comes to the qualifications for being a national Democratic Party office holder.

In fact, Fetterman, like Biden before him, is useful precisely because he’s a mere vessel for an agenda, something that those with the capacity for independent and coherent thought — along with what remains of free will — can often problematize. These troublemakers stubbornly refuse to bracket the harm their party’s policies bring upon their constituents in order to vote their conscience, or for the good of those they represent. And that’s akin to treason.

For Democrats, it’s party uber alles; and for them, canceling out a Joe Manchin with a great, mentally diseased ape like John Fetterman, who began his debate by saying “good night”, is a feature, not a bug.

Nobody believes Joe Biden is running this country save maybe Joe himself. But in his more lucid moments, even he knows he’s the stretched and veneered face of Obama’s third term, a drugged-up puppet run out on occasion to beat his chest and yell at clouds.

Biden won support from Democrats because Biden is, quite openly, a doddering old moron with a barely functioning brain. And as a moron, he would, many voters understood, be but a figurehead for the progressive agenda, one that has depleted our energy reserves, created dependence on foreign powers, opened up our border to all comers, created near record inflation, demonized half the country as latent domestic terrorists, weaponized the bureaucracies as Democratic partisan foot soldiers, and waged war on behalf of criminals and child groomers, while fuming against local law enforcement and parents concerned about what public schools are doing to warp the minds of their children — be it with their Marxist ideas about race or gender.

I appreciate Ms Joy Gray’s candor. It’s sad, of course, that our great experiment in self-governance has been turned, on one side, into a lockstep fundamentalist religion in which the State is God, and those who defy it, heretics who are increasingly being investigated for their wrongthink.

As I say, sad, but also not terribly surprising. To the left, “the personal is the political.” And it has been thus ever since the Democratic Party was overtaken from within by “progressives” who, back when they were being candid, openly called themselves communists or socialists. This “new left” detested the bourgeois Democratic Party of, eg., JFK. So the set about to change it.

And today we see the fruits of their long march: executive lockdown orders; inequality before the law; a decimated middle class, leaving behind the elite and the dependent in what is to become a neo-feudalist “Great Reset”. The partnership between big corporations and the federal government that is meant to destroy free speech and create outrage mobs to police against heterodox ideas which are sold as “misinformation”. And all the crime, all the chaos, and a purple mountains’ majesty that looms over ever-expanding tent cities, and open air shooting galleries paved with shared syringes and trampled human feces.

The lesson here is this: when everything is political, there’s nothing left for the personal that hasn’t already been inextricably contaminated. One who wanders away from the orthodoxy understands that punishment will surely follow. And there’s not much they can do about it, because it’s the expressed will of their God, and it is closely overseen by the federal elect.

— nothing, that is, except, perhaps, leaving the offending party. Thinking for yourself. Breaking free of a policed consensus that has been created using nothing more than a will to power.

But then, you know, red hats and populism and shit.

Ick.