Political Rituals Entrench the Managerial State - Part 2: The Messiah versus the Scapegoat; MAGA as a media grift; The Swamp will never be drained with politics; DNC Oligarchy’s “Democratic” Coronation of Cacklin' Kamala

by Sean Jobst

25 August 2024

In Part 1, I argued that Biden’s sidelining after the Presidential debate is a ritual where an enfeebled king is humiliated and his successor anointed by the priestly class. My analysis is founded on the truth that symbols and myths rule the world, imbuing political events with meaning carefully given them by the gatekeepers. Their significance is taken for granted by these same "elites" who denigrate it for the masses since they know just how empowering and sovereign is personal Mythology, and the collective Mythos of a people. They recreate mythic rituals but invert their meaning toward a profane delusion about their own self-importance. With political synchromysticism there are no coincidences when it comes to those devoted to authority and control over others. 

I previously applied a dialectic where the thesis was Biden's humiliation and antithesis the attempted assassination of Trump. While there are many strange factors in that event, the sudden coronation of Kamala Harris now reveals more than just one antithesis. Regicide need not be a physical killing, whether it be Biden's symbolic or Trump's attempted regicide. We can consider the Arthurian legend of a Fisher King who is wounded and senile, rendering his kingdom a wasteland. He can only be replaced by a “pure” one who goes on a “quest” to save the kingdom. This is exactly how the media has anointed Harris – a messianic yearning for the latest “savior”; messiah itself means “anointed”. Her reputation is “pure” and unblemished according to an uncritical media which tolerates not even the slightest criticism of her; the “quest” is her carefully recreated life story turned into one of selfless service to the nation. 

They distort archetypal myths of the individual's spirit and journey, into a wholly material quest for authority since they are bound by their own narcissistic and psychopathic lack of true personality and depth. While they act out through rituals, they overplay their hands so are often forced to walk back some of their plans. For example, with the lockdowns and other Rona hysteria. Yet we can make sense of their objectives by knowing that they are bound by their messianic sense of themselves, and adding rituals and symbolisms to their actions since they know these could be more effective. The messianic impulse is embedded in recent American political discourse, certainly blatantly with this current regime. 

In 2020, TIME magazine named Biden and Harris as “Person of the Year”, complete with a glowing cover picture of the two as one. Naming their issue "Biden Our Time" as if to compare him with Kronos, the socialist magazine Jacobin greeted Biden's administration with a messianic cover showing a deified Biden surrounded by a four-tiered hierarchy: the three archangels Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton; lesser angels Fauci, Pelosi and Schumer; still-angelic journalists; and a diverse collection of common people wearing masks (unlike the other tiers with their Rona hypocrisy of those pushing policies on the masses they didn't follow themselves) and lacking the halos of the other tiers, at the bottom. 

Alongside building up Biden was astroturfing Kamala Harris as his anointed successor. In their joint CNN interview in Dec. 2020, Biden said to a diabolically-smiling Kamala: “If I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I will develop some disease and say I have to resign." In two separate speeches promoting the jab, he referred to “President Harris”. Biden's handlers carefully managed his public appearances, as admitted by his first press secretary in May 2021. They dragged his marionette strings down along with the country in a perverse ritual. The same media that turned on Biden out of expediency, praises his “selfless service” to protect his “legacy” now that the sacrifice is over – and palace coup successful. There’s no honor among thieves. 

Donations flowing to the Scapegoat billionaire, while political
prisoners languish in jails and dungeons of the Surveillance State

MAGA as a Media Grift

A constant is the fawning treatment the establishment media gives to whatever figurehead is placed over the Democrat Party, although they are not loathe to embrace a Neocon Republican as the other pole of “acceptable” public opinion. Their biases are obvious to anyone who can see and think for themselves. I have called out their hypocrisy as the most odious virus affecting American political culture, insofar as it excuses the vast majority of politicians from being affected by an “evil” that is reduced to only one or a handful of individuals. That is a classic definition of a scapegoat for that one politician takes on the repressed Shadows of his detractors so they can feel better about themselves. So it is that I introduce this dual meaning of TDS and the entire political charade as a contest between the Messiah and the Scapegoat.

Harris is clearly favored by the media, such as with positive headlines illuminating her Teflon shine beyond any reproach. Yet when it comes to the world of politics and show business, as noted by a famous American proverb: “Any publicity is good publicity.” What more a truism for one who combines politics and entertainment within his character?! As Oscar Wilde mused: “There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” We are seeing before our eyes the setting up of this Messiah/Scapegoat dialectic, ensuring through the TDS mind-virus that polarizing the public for or against Trump will entrap most minds safely within this dialectic.

Trump benefited from the media attacking him constantly while the media benefited from a Trump who was their convenient scapegoat and Shadow projection. Independent journalist Matt Taibbi detailed how the media dumbed-down politics as entertainment and was already transitioning to an "audience-optimization" model when Trump appeared: They identified an audience and targeted them with a specific message rather than faithfully delivering unbiased information, herding people into their own echo-chambers. Taibbi notes how after Trump was elected, the media "replaced a million hours of Trump with a million hours of ‘Trump is bad.’” This was their desperate attempt to stay relevant as Gatekeepers in an age where alternative information is so easily accessible beyond their control. 

Although reaching the standard partisan conclusions of its class, a Harvard Kennedy School study from Dec. 2016 described Trump delivering what the media wanted by his “easily digestible and deliciously controversial” rhetoric, with the media thriving on an “overwhelmingly negative” tone while being “extremely light” in policy substance. “The news is not about what’s ordinary or expected. It’s about what’s new and different, better yet when laced with conflict and outrage. Trump delivered that type of material by the cart load.” Trump himself admitted in a 2014 interview with his biographer Michael D’Antonio that his worst fears are failure and a loss of public face, acknowledging “a thirst he has had since adolescence for the attention of the press as well as his own special talent for using it to provide free advertising for his business enterprises - a skill he has more recently applied to his political ambitions. The media that he excoriates on the campaign trail, therefore, has always been his ally. Offered a chance to appear somewhere, he would hardly ever demur.”

In his June 2016 Hollywood Insider interview, Trump lavishly praised not only Fox News but also "liberal" media moguls like Sumner Redstone, Leslie Moonves, Jeff Zucker, Andy Lack, and Ari Emanuel. He especially enjoyed a symbiosis with Zucker: As head of entertainment at NBC in 2004, Zucker launched “The Apprentice” show that set the stage for Trump’s political rise. Trump wanted to become a household name while Zucker wanted to improve ratings. As detailed in a New York Times article from April 2017, “CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It” (also available without a paywall): "Before long, Zucker was introducing Trump to advertisers as the man who saved NBC. But Zucker saved Trump, too. He had been through four bankruptcies at this point. And yet, in just a few years’ time, Trump would be dreaming of leveraging his new celebrity into a bid for the White House." I will quote from this article throughout this section, as it sheds light on what really goes on behind the scenes despite the public rhetoric against the same media that propelled him to political showman. 

 

Trump and Zucker, symbionts who made each other

Quite accurate, although I would reverse the roles

Taking over the helm of CNN in 2013, Zucker found a network with slumping ratings due to rising competitors and evolving technologies increasingly rendering it irrelevant. Trump was one of those who recommended Zucker for the job to Turner Broadcasting System’s chief executive, Phil Kent. Zucker’s unique approach as CNN President was modeling the network after sport broadcasts, on the grounds that “politics is sport”: “Trump, the trash-talking underdog who inspired raw feelings among supporters and detractors alike, was the ideal subject for this narrative framework.” This included “the procession of made-for-TV events – the always news-making interviews; rallies and debates — that helped turn Trump into the Republican front-runner.”

“And as it turns out, the only thing better than having Trump on your network is having him attack it. Far from hurting CNN, Trump’s war against it has amounted to a form of product placement, giving its anchors and correspondents starring roles in the ongoing political drama. It has also been good for business. Last year [2016], CNN’s average daytime audience was up more than 50%, and its prime-time audience 70%. The network earned nearly $1 billion; it was the most profitable year in CNN’s history. Ratings are up again this year, which is expected to be more profitable still.”

CNN was crucial in propelling Trump to the top of the Republican primary race, giving him far more coverage than all his opponents. They were setting up the election as a dialectic between Trump and Hillary Clinton. Even Cambridge Analytica – the svengali of liberal and leftist outlets – shifted its initial support away from Ted Cruz, to Trump after he rode the mainstream network news wave. At the height of Trump’s public campaign rhetoric against the media, Zucker flattered him as “the boss” and said without hesitation: “I have no regrets about the part that I played in his career.” The media continued to benefit throughout Trump’s presidency. CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News all saw their ratings rise 72% in 2019. That same year, Jacobin benefited from a threefold jump in its subscription rates. 

The media has only benefited from the ongoing lawfare against Trump, with more ratings for all the networks, but especially MSNBC which has positioned itself as the most anti-Trump network. Another beneficiary in this symbiosis is Trump himself, who told Variety New York bureau chief, Ramin Satoodeh: "It’s all about one thing: ratings. If you have ratings, you can be the meanest, most horrible human being in the world. There’s only one thing that matters: ratings. You can be nice or you can be mean. You can be evil. You can be horrible. You can be crude or elegant. There’s only one thing that matters, and that’s ratings. If you don’t have ratings, it doesn’t matter." Reflecting back to them the nature of this symbiosis, he fits the convenient role of the Scapegoat and Shadow Projection of his media creators.

Another insider evidence for how the private reality contradicted the public face, is the article “Trump’s Fake War on the Fake News”. It details a cozy relationship between Trump’s White House and the press corps behind the scenes, while public rhetoric projected an apparent war between Trump and the media. Much like my own work, it evokes ritual, citing what anthropologists have observed in tribal societies such as Papua New Guinea of a “ritualized warfare” where a mock battle with insults and arrows is waged to vent emotion and advertise courage while never resulting in any casualties. Stripped down to the most primal human instinct, even in such a “progressive” society as ours can we see this with political theater. Excerpts from the article:

“Behind that theatrical assault, the Trump White House has turned into a kind of playground for the press. We interviewed more than three dozen members of the White House press corps, along with White House staff and outside allies, about the first whirlwind weeks of Trump’s presidency. Rather than a historically toxic relationship, they described a historic gap between the public perception and the private reality.”

“When he is not fulminating on stage or on Twitter, the president himself has mustered a number of cordial interactions with reporters since taking office, often showing them more courtesy than he grants his own staff.”

“As much as West Wing staffers might fantasize about breaking the backs of the mainstream media, they are too divided and too obsessed with their own images to do so. And for all the frustration of covering an administration with a shaky grasp on the truth and a boss whose whims can shift from one moment to the next, reporters have feasted on the conflict and chaos. The White House is a viper’s nest of intrigue and suspicion, a place where aides wage their daily battles via the press and eagerly devour the resulting coverage each morning. The great secret of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is that Trump’s war on the media is a phony one, a reality show that keeps his supporters fired up and distracted while he woos the constituency that really matters to him: journalists.

“‘He built his career by being media-friendly. The last 18 months have been something of an aberration in his approach,’ said Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a Trump confidant who has known the president for 20 years. ‘I’ve always said he’s just creating a negotiating position by calling the press the enemy of the people. I don’t think he believes that deep down.’”

- Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time, 1967

- Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

The Swamp Will Never Be Drained with Politics

I saw the grift for what it was early on during the 2015 campaign, as he incorporated around him the very sort of Swamp creatures controlling Washington – Wall Street robber-barons, Neocon warmongers, and Israel-Firsters. You can never “Make America Great Again” by giving those same Establishment creatures positions of authority to continue the status quo as every other Republican and Democrat administration. My criticism of his presidency was tempered by the much-greater threat posed by the TDS hypocrisy – and I still maintain that position regarding the current prospect of a Harris/Walz administration. For Trumpism is connected to one individual and lifetime, while TDS hypocrisy exposes something more endemic within the body politic (and repressed psyche).

With the last election, I made a comprehensive critique of a Biden/Harris administration while still criticizing Trump's subservience to Zionism, connections with banksters, and enabling Fauci and the WHO’s medical tyranny. (On the last point, Kamala's VP pick, Tim Walz, is the archetypal Rona tyrant and established a snitch hotline for lockdown "violators" in Minnesota. The juvenile media is now astroturfing this weird petty-tyrant as “Dad” and a “man’s man”). I saw some glimmers of hope toward the end of Trump's presidency specifically related to foreign policy and the War Machine apparently turning against him. I identified signs of a bureaucratic coup which makes more sense in light of what I’ve since learned about the Managerial class. Everything goes back to this class issue, not fake woke distractions; and to the very nature of power dynamics occulted via the entire dialectic.  

Dissident Right writer Pedro Gonzalez, assistant editor of American Greatness and Chronicles, has spoken of the Trump movement degenerating into a “MAGA, Inc.” grift. Trump tapped into the undercurrent of populism and promised to “drain the swamp” in 2016 but ended up being swayed by the Party establishment to ruling according to their orthodoxies instead of the populist rhetoric that got him elected. “By the end of his presidency, he was basically governing like Paul Ryan. That’s not how he campaigned.” Aside from entrusting those Establishment figures, he appointed and trusted the counsel of “people who would be at home either under a Bush or Obama administration.” These include various Neoliberals like his many picks from Goldman Sachs, and especially his son-in-law, Jared Kushner (who also brought links to Chabad and various media and tech oligarchs), who had a direct say over policies; or Neocons who had already been decades deep in the D.C. Swamp.

Aside from Kushner's Middle East activities overlapping into the next administration, and closely linked with his personal business interests, foreign policy was also given over to Bush-era Neocons such as Bolton and Pompeo, or revolving-door Military-Industrial-Complex generals such as Mattis, who were the very antithesis of “end endless wars” and “America First”. Nor did rhetoric match actual domestic policies, even much-touted efforts to end mass-immigration and deport illegals fell short of the reality, with even less border enforcement than his two predecessors, and included a series of “partial successes” and visa schemes of Establishment figures such as Kushner, Lindsey Graham, and Chad Wolf. Such rhetoric is more about optics than actual policy as also with the current “Border Czar”.

At the very least this indicates a poor choice of judging character – one wouldn’t have to fire someone if they weren’t hired in the first place. But seeing that conscious actions are downstream from the unconscious psyche, it also indicates Trump’s pattern of surrounding himself with various “yes-men” who have their own agendas, that what matters more to him is the psychological need of having a bruised ego massaged rather than any true commitment to an “America First” policy. We see this with the string of endorsements Trump has made of many Establishment and Neocon figures, often even over actual “MAGA” outsiders. As Gonzalez writes, “The problem with the Republican Party in the post-Trump era is that otherwise bad candidates can rehabilitate their images by pledging allegiance to the ‘MAGA agenda’—whatever that means. Candidates are weighed and measured on ‘loyalty’ to Trump rather than the substance of their political ideas.”

The myopic Trump looks too much at himself and is easily distracted by stupid social media feuds, extolling himself as the victim (which we will see more in the next article about Mimetics and the Scapegoat ritual) of lawfare, while this distracts from the thousands of political prisoners from the 6^th January psyop (who were led to that honeytrap by their own naivete and an entrapment set up by the State) and others languishing in the dungeons and subject to the financial privations of the Surveillance State. The shady (to put it mildly) factors surrounding the 2020 election were exploited to rake in tens of millions, whom small-time donors had donated specifically for litigation to contest the results, but only a small fraction were actually used for that purpose, the majority instead funneled into a new PAC called “Save America” and also put at the disposal of the RNC Establishment. So it was that big-money donors enjoyed the purposes for which their donations were given, while most common donors gave for a different purpose than how the money was used. 

Having actually governed one administration, any claims to be the anti-establishment outsider are redundant. The “magic was lost” from even the populist rhetoric of 2016, with a new swamp created at Mar-a-Lago that merely wants to return to the D.C. swamp. Even the recent RNC showcased such Neocon establishment figures as Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, and Mike Pompeo, who will apparently play some role or have some credence in a second Trump administration. I save the last words on this point to commentator Ryan Girdusky: “In 2016, Trump’s message to working-class Americans was, ‘You’re being screwed.’ Trump said to them, ‘You’re not part of the elites; I am, and I know how broken it is, so I can fix the system.’ Trump made immigration and trade central to his platform for that reason—because the people who are in control don’t care about these Americans. First, he views his time in office as a ‘Camelot’ period where everything was going well, and we just have to bring it all back. Second, the message went from ‘You’re being screwed’ to ‘I’m being screwed.’”

Alexis de Tocqueville's warning: "I know of no country
where there is in general less independence of mind and
true freedom of discussion than in America." (Democracy in
America, 1825) Now more prescient than ever with the DNC.

War is Peace. Servitude is Freedom....Willful
Ignorance and Shameless Compliance IS Joy

"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your
bed and believe whatever you want to believe."

DNC Oligarchy's "Democratic" Coronation of Cacklin' Kamala

If MAGA has degenerated into a grift more focused on optics than consistently honoring its own rhetoric, it yet has nothing on the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris, who have perfected depravity to a level that would’ve shocked Orwell and embarrassed tyrants who lacked the sophistication to hide under such “democratic” rhetoric. At the recent DNC circus in Chicago, the cackling sociopath was crowned in a bait-and-switch operation that will inspire future Postmodern coups. Greeting the lemmings chant "We're not going back" - a vain marketing slogan like "MAGA" or "Build Back Better" - this sitting Vice-President cackled with forked tongue about bringing something “new” (her website only soliciting donations and selling merch, with no policy proposals listed)….while crowned by the dynastic Establishment who gave her their blessings (and millions of blood-money); while her campaign has been inundated by the same Neoliberal Corporate donors who are the status quo; who promises to fight for “democracy” without even receiving any votes from the general public.

It was a closed convention, where only lock and step conformity was allowed inside; the cheap appeals to identity politics drowning out actual policies outside the scripted cliches of the vacuous cult inside. Much like the DNC held there fifty-six years before, Chicago was militarized, with streets closed and war machines flying above to ensure the people’s selfless gatekeeper can be heard ("I'm speaking!") in reverence. Massive protests were held outside, mostly by pro-Palestinian protestors who seem surprised that the Democratic Party is beholden to AIPAC. Appeals to “Abandon Harris” over Palestine, even speakers refused their dissenting opinions on that one issue inside, were an embarrassment to the DNC “They Live” show of Consume (of Orwellian poison masked as “joy”) – Conform (behind the Kamala personality-cult) – Obey (with the blue pill spoon-fed by the hyena den mother).

Politicians and celebrities Demosplained, pretending to speak for workers and "the people" despite their wealth, appealing to their own "victim" status despite life-long privileges. Social media "influencers" were wooed, or rather paid $20,000 to attend the DNC in a carefully-scripted optic to "make Kamala cool" with selfies. They were exposed in this by some influencers who refused to sell out to these intimidation tactics. Despite its "grassroots" persona, the Harris campaign has deep pockets from billionaire Wall Street and Silicon Valley donors, to Hollywood celebs, and various special interests. To cover their tracks, the bribes to "influencers" were funneled through various PACs. While locking out independent journalists, the DNC carefully gave out 200 "special access" passes to selected influencers, including many from TikTok oblivious to the fact that its the Biden/Harris administration that has been trying to shut down that platform to placate Silicon Valley donors who hate competition.

Opposing journalists were pushed around and shut down from asking questions. Vacuous cultists were so thrilled just to be invited to the party and administered their blue pill, they mocked protestors who named Palestinian victims: an affront to their cognitive dissonance. In so doing they adopt the persona of their messiah who awkwardly laughs whenever faced with harder questions or pinned down to provide more substance. Meanwhile, her campaign has been caught creating fake headlines to make her appear favorable. One of her spokesman admitted she "trusts the journalists" to explain her policies, rather than answer for it herself. After her appointment as Vice-President, she became known for her "mostly bland statements" at rushed public appearances free from having to deal with the Plebs. 

Her original presidential campaign was a failure after an epic debate takedown such that she withdrew before the first primary vote in 2016. She has now been crowned without receiving a  public, open vote. This is yet another indicator of the bankruptcy and corruption of the political process and its mask of so-called "democracy". Her efforts to shut down the ballot access of her main third-party challenger, despite all the fear-mongering about "voter suppression", honors the status quo of corporate duopoly. On the other hand, politics is also downstream from the psyche. As documented in a book I've been reading written by a dissident Marxist (who distinguishes his ideology from the Neoliberals and woke New Left who make up the Democrat establishment), Kamala Harris personifies the psychological drive for "revenge" both personal and by a cabal going back to Hillary Clinton's war against Libya in 2011, followed by a hatred of populism defeating her in 2016, and their "open international system" ever since then. Harris is a sociopath who revels in being their anointed one to carry out this vengeance against all who dare to challenge their authority.  

Political Rituals Entrench the Managerial State - Part 1: Biden's Humiliation Ritual, Coup-Mala Harris Anointed, Rise of the Managerial Classes, TDS Dialectic, and Trump as America's Shadow

By Sean Jobst

31 July 2024

    I recommend the work of political cartoonist George Alexopoulos

- Foreword to "Brave New World", 2nd ed., 1947

Three events in this past month reveals the persona of a Managerial class that will remain entrenched no matter the Shadow they project upon the masses every four years. I’m inclined to see these events as rituals – knowing that the world is ruled by myth and symbols, even if disguised in Postmodernist terms that dismiss the mythic and symbolic as antiques of a dark age before the last few hundred years or so of linear “Progress”. 

They know much has been lost by the disenchantment and loss of myth, yet the primal instinct of mythology remain deeply embedded in the individual and collective who seek to fill that void, if not by writing their own Myth and following their own Hero's Journey, searching for that in the external - in political messiahs and scapegoats. So it is with these ritual psyops, designed to harvest the energy of the populace - whether it be their emotions, passions, and actions - and create the latest iteration of a ruling mythology to ensure the status quo. These rituals and psyops are centered around a constant repetition of their intended message, to craft individual energies and collective reactions.

Viewing these events as psyops is not to deny their authenticity, straying down rabbit-holes of seeing a conspiracy everywhere which can often go down dead-end obsessions about details. Nor is it to deny a conspiracy, which simply comes from the Latin con- “with” + spire “to breathe”, so any gathering of two or more people that excludes others from their confidence can be termed a conspiracy. The term “Conspiracy theory” was invented by the CIA to discredit those who questioned the official narrative of the Kennedy assassination and afterwards State crimes generally.  

These psyops are very real events designed to forge a new ruling mythology. The State relies on psyops to demoralize the public (by inundating them with such a barrage of information they don't know what to truly believe), entrench their own authority, and curry sympathy for the rulers. We experienced that in the most visceral manner with 9/11, but more recently the 6 January psyop. Just as with the triple cycles of life, death, and rebirth within Natural Law, or the three-fold deaths of mythic Hero-Gods, the Managerial mediocres invert a three-fold dialectic of Thesis (Problem) -> Antithesis (Reaction) -> Synthesis (Solution), to expand and entrench their control structures.

Just as with the triple cycles of life, death, and rebirth within Natural Law, or the three-fold deaths of mythic Hero-Gods, the Managerial overseers create a three-part Hegelian dialectic to maintain their control structure, inverting the natural law of threes. The Thesis of an enfeebled King Biden required an Antithesis of a heroic, invincible King Trump surviving an assassination attempt to replace the humiliated scapegoat. Then will be forged a Synthesis where the ruling mythos will assume some changed features and pick up new adherents in the process, but the same classes will remain entrenched in authority (yet the choice is always ours to give them our powers).

Humiliation Ritual of the Enfeebled King

First was introduced the Thesis of Biden’s cognitive decline making him unfit for re-election. This was put on full display at the debate on 27 June, which can be seen as a ritual humiliation of The Fool. Obviously, Biden has declined and become enfeebled – one need only watch clips of him speaking in recent years and going back decades to recognize this reality. Yet it wasn’t sudden, as the same media stenographers of Biden Politburo directives who were constantly covering for him reported on an AP poll from March where growing numbers of Americans saw him as mentally incapable.

What is the psyop is the ease with which the same media that has fawned over Biden and covered for him all years, now joins the scripted chorus for his retirement on grounds of his “sudden” cognitive decline they were denying before. The calls for his quiet retirement, so he can “pass the torch” – itself a phrase steeped in myth and ritual, on the eve of the Paris Olympics – so he can “save his legacy”. This psyop is calculated to distract from his policies – a murderous, lying, scandalous legacy extending back to the 1970s as I documented in a comprehensive expose before the 2020 election. 

Court historians and stenographers, who spent years giving the senile Jester King excuse after excuse, admit that all talk of his “legacy” is about “rewriting the narrative”. They built him up only to knock him down, with the liberal-Democratic magazine The Atlantic now decrying “the destructive power of a stubborn old narcissist with something to prove” who is “acting like one of history’s most negligent and pigheaded leaders at a crucial moment.” That they would endorse, enable and defend a “narcissist” up to recently says a lot about that screed itself, but of course must step aside since “we are all pedestrians”. Its telling that Pedestrian originally derives from one of the meanings of Plebeian: “man in the street”. The Plebs are now invited to collectively witness the humiliation ritual of the enfeebled King.

The spectacle was designed to “Sacrifice Biden to save American democracy.” Indeed, Biden’s withdrawal from the race on 21 July was greeted with religious terms of “salvation” by the media and Democratic Party leaders. He was identified with America itself, so that his actions were ritualized for all and he “saved” them with his “selfless” decision. A leading New York Times columnist wrote of how Biden completely “reshaped America”. His Washington Post counterpart waxed messianically of Biden’s decision “to save the soul of America – again”. Using the same occultic language cited earlier, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on Kamala Harris “to take up the torch”. 

Speaking even more to the ritual, a “palace coup” by Democrat apparatchiks replaced the enfeebled King with a Hillary 2.0 astroturfed over a personal story constructed over fraud and fables. One insider report even says the elites of his Party "set him up to fail" at the debate. It took no time at all for the media to combine their memorials of Biden’s “legacy” with new messianic platitudes of Kamala Harris. They repeated the mindless, collectivist drivel of Identity Politics to anoint her as the paragon of history. What she actually personifies is the archetype of the dumbed-down, compliant, “brat” automaton who is superficial and follows the "Current Thing" outside consistent principles because the State and its mass-culture dictates it to their vapid minds.

As I documented in my 2020 article, their influence
in expanding the Police State cannot be denied.

The Anointing of Coup-Mala Harris

The reality is that Kamala Harris was born and raised in privilege. In the manner of one who lacks a true personality beyond the pure opportunistic impulse for power over others, she has adopted the persona of Hillary Clinton down to her psychopathic cackles and duping delight. She has always been a favorite of billionaires – including billionaire investor/war profiteer/”philanthropist” Soros and his spawn - who has promoted the same economic and foreign policy interventions that continuously serve their interests. Her cultists were forced to admit their projections did not match her reality as Vice President. I reiterate my 2020 article documenting her record as Police State psychopath in California:

"As San Francisco prosecutor from 2004 to 2011, Harris built a reputation implementing the same type of draconian crime laws Biden was sponsoring in the U.S. Senate. In 2004, she opposed a state initiative to ease minimum mandatory sentencing laws, further opposing sentence reform measures in 2012 and 2014. She began prosecuting parents of habitually truant students, even sending public school parents threatening letters, including a $2,000 fine or prison sentence. (Truancy in California includes "having three unexcused absences or being late to school by 30 minutes three times in one school year.") In 2010, Harris opposed Proposition 19 that would have legalized marijuana in California (it wasn't legalized until 2016). 

"She oversaw the city's crime lab which violated defendants' rights by hiding evidence that technician Deborah Madden purposely sabotaged the drug results of multiple cases, skimming cocaine for herself and mishandling evidence. Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled that Harris' office purposely hid Madden's recent conviction from defense lawyers, calling into question the convictions of nearly forty defendants; it has since led to more than 600 drug-related cases getting tossed out. Harris also challenged the release of Daniel Larsen, even after it was revealed he was innocent and nine witnesses were not called to testify for him. She admitted his innocence but worked to keep him imprisoned on the grounds he failed to present proof quick enough; his conviction was overturned only by the help of the Innocence Project in 2009.

"She continued her appalling judicial overreach throughout her career as California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017. During her tenure, at least 1,560 people were thrown in prison for marijuana-related offenses, according to data from the Washington Free Beacon. She laughed when confronted about them, even being condemned as a "disgrace" for a marijuana joke against her Jamaican heritage. Harris aggressively ensured that non-violent second-strike offenders were not paroled, arguing that California would lose "an important labor pool" and wanted to use them to fight forest fires. In January 2015, Harris appeared before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for her role in using a lying jail informant and covering for a prosecutor who perjured in a trial against Johnny Baca. 

"She fought to keep him convicted even after the misconduct was uncovered, and the prosecutor revealed to hide evidence from the defense. Two months later, she protected Kern County prosecutor Robert Murray, who was caught falsifying a confession transcript to secure a life-term conviction. As with the Baca case, the conviction was overturned only against Harris' draconian efforts. Like Biden, she backed civil asset forfeiture - the State's blatant theft of property without a conviction. She refused to endorse a 2015 bill calling for a special prosecutor to investigate deadly police shootings, contrary to her BLM pandering."

There’s never accountability in American politics, whether its hallowed calls to “Lock Her Up” in 2016/2017, or excusing Rona authoritarians in a profane “amnesty” paid for with their ritual sacrifices of the blood, lives (including the Died Suddenlys), and treasure of millions. So will it be as the new regime takes his place harvesting the anger and discontent that will easily fade into the Status Quo. The pathological impulse for a savior remains entrenched within a compliant public lulled to slumber with the predictable lullabies of "Hope and Change" and "Drain the Swamp", all so they can project either their imagery of evil or messianic delusions upon the latest political Shadow.

Rise of the Managerial Class

Social classes are a fact that have nothing to do with its hijacking and perversion by Marxist rhetoric, nor is it the collectivist trinity of “Victim”, “Oppressor,” and “Rescuer” as within the mind-virus of Critical Theory. The tribes of today are structured around a multitude of shared interests and experiences, including but not limited to how they make their money. At the same time, the importance of economic classes should not be denied as it is by many Conservatives. Old ideologues of the Right and Left are unable to even understand the growth of Populism because they have failed to keep up with how the old social classes they still base their analyses upon, rapidly morphed with the rise of an ascendent Managerial Class.

As noted by prolific writer and scholar John Michael Greer, there are basically four economic classes in the postmodern United States, named after the way they make their money: The Investment, Salaried, Wage, and Welfare Classes. Aside from how they earn their money, these classes share values and experiences manifesting down to the political culture. Groupthink and the symbols of authority are dictated top-down by entrenched sectors of the Investment and Upper-Salaried classes who have a fanatical disdain toward the Wage and lower-Salaried classes, to such an extent one wonders if there is some envy at play there - the impulse to destroy what those classes have and level all to a mindless conformity that respects no true meaning and joy to life beyond mechanization. 

These four classes correspond to the “Managerial Revolution” described by political philosopher James Burnham in 1941. Disillusioned with Communism, he broadly moved to the Right but proposed many independent ideas outside both orthodoxies. Burnham’s ideas were so influential that Orwell named him a major inspiration for the managerial Big Brother in 1984. Burnham pointed to a crisis within Capitalism to suggest a Managerial Revolution marked by the conflict between two classes: The old Capitalist entrepreneurial, bourgeois elite who generally wanted to lessen the State’s control (while still enjoying their privileges); and the ascendent Managerial elite, whose goal is to eliminate any lingering distinction between the State and Economy. 

The Managerial Revolution propelled selected corporate managers, scientists, and government bureaucrats to the levers of State. While the old bourgeois were largely guided by self-discipline and delayed gratification, more prone to save their money across generations, the new Managers were for consumerism and instant gratification. Its little surprise then their rise meant America’s transition from a manufacturing to consumerist society, which has further morphed into a service and information-based economy. The State has swelled exponentially with every administration - regardless of Democrat or Republican - incurring a debt they borrow from Big Banks but pass off to the masses via the fiction of “national” debt and hidden tax of inflation, with the purchasing power of the dollar plummeting with each year.

Managerialism has entrenched itself through both parties, affecting the culture itself similar to how the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek warned of Scientism infiltrating economics and all other sectors of society. That is, not a spirit of honest inquiry and critical thought but statistical dogmatism dictated from top-down by select credentialed “experts”. These are “centralized, technically skilled elites that specialize in the usurpation of previously autonomous social functions.” Our post-2020 reality of authoritarian dictates masking themselves in the name of "public health" and paid for by fear-inducing bogeymen, are taken for the new "normal" by a public lulled by fear-cultivations of "trust the experts".

Burnham predicted the rise of technocracy, envisioning it based on the Managers' robotic behavior. It has been used to expand the Managerial State but, as I expressed in a recent article about how the State and its various institutions have an inverted magic built into their structures to spellbound people and harvest their energy for its own control system, we can use technology itself as a tool of freedom and sovereignty against them. That energy comes in the form of not only the blood and treasure, but emotions and fears cultivated from a visceral reaction from people inundated by such a barrage of constant information and stimuli that its designed to gaslight, obfuscate truth, and elevate falsehood. Just as Scientism has infiltrated all sectors reducing them to quantifiable, with Managerialism its no longer that politics is downstream from culture, but that Culture itself has become completely politicized. 

Managerial State Created Woke and Critical Theory to Kill the Occupy Rebellion

America has been in decline ever since it ironically embraced the delusion of “Progress”. Its no accident the Managerial rise coincided with journalist Garet Garrett’s prediction that America “crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire.” While sharing many features with Rome – many of which will be discussed about Caesarism in Part 2 – one difference is the American Empire arose alongside an abstract “Democracy” never mentioned in America's founding documents and political philosophy, which were unanimous it was founded as a Republic. Much can be said about Natural Law as noted by such great minds of the anti-statist American tradition as the great Lysander Spooner, but certainly even those who make the case for "limited" government can attest the Managerial State is a Leviathan repudiating those foundations aside from empty lip-service while mocking it by their policies.

The rising Plutocrats and their Managerial successors realized it was easier to rule by giving people the illusion of political choices. Caught up in their own mediocre procedures while also driven by their own authority and profits, beholden to various special interests, and being rootless in their worldview – feeling themselves part of a transnational “elite” exhibited by its institutions and blinded by their hatred of the Wage and lower-Salaried classes – the Managerial State has overseen various economic policies that have wrecked the nation. Just to give some examples, I will cite some analyses of these policies made in John Michael Greer’s excellent book, The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2021):

“In the early 1980s, a set of economic policies – among them, free-trade agreements, tacit encouragement of unlimited illegal immigration, and ever-expanding government regulations that benefited big corporations at the expense of small businesses – got assigned the role of the fixed direction that economic progress would thereafter follow. About a decade later, the Rescue Game, with its allotment of the roles of ‘victim’ and ‘persecutor’ by gender and ethnicity and its systematic erasure of the realities of class interest and class prejudice, got assigned the same status in terms of social and cultural progress.” (p. 156)

“Outside the bicoastal echo chamber of the affluent, the U.S. economy has spent decades in something close to freefall. The much-vaunted ‘recovery’ of the Obama years benefited only the upper 20 percent or so by income of the population; the rest were left to get by on declining real wages, while having to face skyrocketing rents driven by federal policies that propped up the real estate market, and stunning increases in medical costs driven by the Affordable Care Act. It’s no accident that death rates from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning soared among working-class people. They were being driven to despair and destitution by a bipartisan policy consensus from which only Donald Trump was willing to dissent.” (p. 30) 

Another bipartisan policy consensus was bailing out failed big banks and corporations from the stolen resources of the Wage and Lower-Salaried classes. This alongside opposition to their endless wars, led to a grassroots outrage that swelled into the Ron Paul Revolution and the Occupy and Tea Party movements that transcended old categories of “right” and “left”. I come from this political heritage, awakening broadly as an anti-war, anti-corporate Nader progressive during my teenaged years and early twenties, then whose research into economics and the root causes of war led him to actively support the Ron Paul movement while also involved in a small local branch of Occupy. After a decade of protest votes for Libertarian and Green candidates, I rejected electoral politics with a more awakened, principled Anarchism.

This spontaneous uprising against how the Investment and Upper-Salaried classes were raking in profits at the expense of the others, sent seismic political shockwaves. Already caught up on Narcissistic perceptions of their own moral superiority, Managerial Technocrats used their Ivy Towers to introduce Critical Race Theory and Woke to kill off Occupy. I saw this personally with Occupy movements misdirected away from banking and corporate welfare – there is a direct correlation to when those theories really took off in the culture, and the neutering of Occupy. Meanwhile, the Tea Party was co-opted from its libertarian roots by the Neocon wing of the bipartisan consensus. 

One of the main purposes of these distractions was divide and conquer: the Wage and Lower-Salaried classes segmented into other categories attacking each other around “identity”; those classes directed their ire against the Welfare class, while the latter saw those two classes as their “enemies” while dependent upon (and thus reliably supporting) the Managerial State. Not only profiting from the divided energies of the others, but the Managers also benefit from anointing themselves the “Rescuers” who must “protect” the declared “Victims” and punish the “Persecutors”. It’s a perverse ritual where the Wage and Lower-Salaried classes can be tarred as “privileged” while the Managers elevate their own moral “superiority” beyond reproach, but dictate the terms of the game:

“Ritual works by setting up a microcosm of the world and, within that microcosm, enacting whatever it is that you want yourself or others to experience in the world as a whole. In the ritual theater of the Rescue Game, the privileged enact a repetitive drama in which they get assigned the permanent role of sympathizers with the wronged and punishers of the bad. This allows them to defend themselves against the unwelcome recognition that their own behavior toward working people will not necessarily bear scrutiny in moral terms.” (Greer, op. cit., p. 75)

Another more insidious reason behind Woke and “Current Thing” virtue-signaling is a test of loyalty to see just how far people will comply. Those ideas were floated around social media, where mob mentality joined with the dopamine hacks of “likes”, the symbolic “slacktivist” profile pic trend, were a test run that arose just after the time of Occupy – this is no accident. From Corporate Socialism there is but a natural mutation into Woke Capitalism as the latest synthesis that entrenches the Managerial State across the Left/Right dialectic. Its a set of behaviors and beliefs to condition people into the absurd so they will accept more and more of whatever they’re told to do, while carefully managed distractions give people the illusion of "democracy". The conditioning reared its ugliest head with all the compliance rolled-out (and rolled-up) after 2020. Just as politics is downstream from culture and culture is politicized, so too is it all a Shadow projection from the psychological.   

- Drs. Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf, Romancing the
Shadow: Illuminating the Dark Side of the Soul, 1997

The TDS Dialectic and Trump as America's Shadow

Most popularized and expressed by the famed Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, The Shadow was reduced to a pop-psychology by media mediocres whose analysis was tied to an “Orange Man Bad” dogma. They invoked The Shadow in the most superficial ways to represent all the negativities they ascribed to the deep underbelly of “privileged” working America to guilt-trip them into internalizing whatever the real privileged classes dictated top-down through their echo chambers. Such dribble revealed far more about their own circles than anything about the common, working-class Americans – or even about the figure of Trump himself. 

"The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself and yet is always thrusting itself upon him directly or indirectly for instance, inferior traits of character and other incompatible tendencies." (Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p. 284)

“The shadow is projected outward, onto others. There's nothing wrong with me—it's them.” (Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Child and the Shadow,” The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, April 1975, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 139-148)

The mediocres (“elites”)-that-were are so bound to the Narcissistic image of their own infinite “wisdom” and Psychopathic mandate to direct groupthink, so rigid in their technical functions and statistical projections, their own aloof sense of the real world outside their moral glass towers….unprepared them for realizing that decades of economic and social policies designed for their own profit and control at the expense of the others, would finally lead to some populist backlash against the Establishment. They sink deeper into Shadow repression, ascribing it to others since it couldn’t possibly apply to such moral paragons as themselves. Their politicized pop-psychology has done to the Shadow the same pop-“spirituality” did to karma: Twisted it into a wholly negative thing that applies to others but never to oneself.    

They assign to the Trumpian Shadow all the traits they refuse to face (and integrate) about themselves. Worse, through Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) their psychosis festered into a collective cognitive dissonance that presumes that career politicians with all their wars, bank and corporate lackeying, consistently playing with the lives and livelihood of millions for their own authority and profit, etc. are “virtuous” and apparently no evil existed in politics until Trump appeared. Their favored politicians often pursued the same policies – and, often even worse (since they were in government much longer). For example, what are we to make of the slogan we heard in 2016 ("Love Trumps Hate") created by a woman who sadistically laughed when she received news of the brutal murder of Qadhafi five years before? “We came, we saw, he died.” I suspect more cognitive dissonance drowned out now by the hysterical cackles of the latest anointed sociopath.   

It goes without saying that anyone familiar with my work going back to 2015 will see my consistency upon principles and not jumping on the Trump bandwagon – I criticized him also during his presidency, but not for the hysterical symptoms often invented by TDS hypochondriacs. Trump is the Shadow projection of people’s angers and delusions of evil; or hopes and messianic fantasies. He polarizes exactly because he is the unwitting figure whose mere presence brings to the surface class divides and conflicting visions of American identity and destiny, that were for so long repressed within the unconscious. These Shadow projections festered for so long because they were drowned by a bipartisan consensus that suppressed voices and issues outside the corporate duopoly.

Projections often feed upon each other, so that Trump benefited as a “victim” from the media that obnoxiously went hysterical about him while lionizing and excusing worse politicians. TDS is most often ascribed to such hypocrisy, but we shouldn’t forget another expression of TDS is a delusional Trumpian messianism that played right into the hands of the Deep State via the January 6^th psyop, wasting their energies on the dead end QAnon, and delusions about “White Hats” secretly working within but against the system. Especially since my own spiritual journey and growing awareness, I’ve become even more an opponent of any kind of messianism and savior complexes. So while stating my obvious issues with Trump – to be expressed more in Part 2 – I will just say the two expressions of TDS are complementary and need each other to fester and project as the egregores they have become.

Jung made many observations about the collective shadow of America and other nations. Having been politically active back to my teenaged years during Bush and the Neocons (now rehabilitated by the Left/”Liberal” establishment), then seeing many others who opposed those wars quietly fold when Obama and the Neoliberals continued the War Machine, then how the Occupy movement was neutered from the economic/banking question by the State’s latest culture war distractions….demonstrates that Obama himself was the Shadow of the American Empire: People projecting their “hope and change” to put a “liberal” spin on the same Imperial structure, to make themselves feel good. Thus was invented the concept of liberal interventionism which differed from the Neocon only by the rhetoric used to bomb and kill others. I have to be cynical and ask if perhaps those who jumped on this bandwagon were only angry because the spoils of war remained with Corporate elites and not shared with them:

“Our empire gave the 5 percent of humanity that lived in the United States access to a quarter of the planet’s natural resources and a third of its manufactured products, and of course those were by no means equally distributed among Americans.” (Greer, op. cit., p. 190)

Under his administration the same economic decline occurred because it was institutional and a bipartisan consensus. For example, a September 2014 Cambridge study by two political science professors concluded that “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.” It has certainly continued under the current Biden/Harris administration, where we see such things as the nexus between Big Tech and the State, the crushing of small businesses by the State which used the Rona as an excuse and sanctioned privileged Marxist riots, Black Rock buying up foreclosed properties thanks to the declining (by design) economy, and Bill Gates buying up vast amounts of farmland helped by the government’s policies.

Part 2 will discuss Mimetics and the Scapegoat ritual, American Caesarism, Trump’s reproachment with Big Tech, MAGA as a grift that maintains the status quo on American subservience to Israel and simply rehabilitates many Swamp creatures, and certain Republican Leftward lurches that seem to indicate a new ruling synthesis. But first related to The Shadow, a good discussion on how Kamala Harris’ psychological baggage and false life-story constructed around fraud and lies determine her craving for the attention and sense of vengeance she thinks is owed to her. Its by an author whose Leftist/Marxist ideology and Duginist geopolitics I don’t agree with, but whose criticisms of the New Left and Democrat Party establishment I believe is pertinent and invaluable – especially as the media will continue to inundate us with a constant barrage of Kamala veneration and puff piece lies. I cannot stress enough the amount of Psychopaths, Narcissists, and Sociopaths proliferating within the Managerial State….