Our Ruling Elite and The Regime (Part I)

The regime and its parts.

When a third-world autocrat is “elected” with 98% of the popular vote, normal Americans (to the extent they’re paying attention) conclude the election was rigged - the high percentage being per se evidence of such. In the United States, though, a coordinated elite disguises the fact that it rigs our national elections. Until 2016, it did this by deploying the almost ridiculously obvious tactic of running not one but two regime-approved candidates and then pretending that they represented meaningfully different options. As long as both primary party candidates were regime approved, the elite always won. 

That simple trick was enough to deceive normies into believing that they were doing democracy when they listened to debates, voted in primaries, argued about competing candidates, donated to a political party, or voted in an election. Then, when the polls closed, and the winner and loser received 51% and 47% of the vote, respectively, normies said “yep, looks legit,” having been fooled by failing to notice that 51 + 47 = 98. In other words, they understood that a foreign election was rigged when Kim Jong Un or Raul Castro won with 98%, but not when two domestic regime-approved candidates received 98% between them.  

This ability to rig our national elections materialized when the modern ruling elite came to understand itself as a unified political force around 1992 (as I’ll show in part II). It then consolidated its power in a pyramidal structure consisting of the ruling elite at the pinnacle, a class of educated and effective mandarin servants below them, and an extensive and numerous class of neurotic mediocrities below that - the proles. This structure is ‘The Regime.’

Through the effective deployment of financial, legal, technological, governmental, administrative, and intelligence resources, the ruling elite used The Regime to dominate all aspects of civil and political society. It became entrenched.

Today the entrenched ruling elite uses the incredible power of The Regime not only to rig your elections, but to permit an invasion of your country by millions of third-world aliens, suffuse your schools with nefarious anti-American propaganda, destroy your churches, emasculate your men and boys, radicalize your women and girls, bankrupt your businesses, bastardize your history, debase your money, take your property, and ridicule your God. They treat you as their slaves.

This essay will describe the three primary parts of The Regime: the ruling elite, their servant mandarins, and their legions of proles.

Part II will explore the modern origin of The Regime and its election rigging techniques.

Part III will explore how The Regime (at the direction of the ruling elite) uses race, deranged transgender ideology, techno-utopianism, and other convenient weapons of opportunity as instruments to sustain its power by weakening and dividing those who would oppose it - namely, you and me.

The Ruling Elite

The ruling elite itself is quite small, consisting of a few thousand individuals and families who have marshaled tremendous financial, legal, informational, logistical, governmental, and social power. They are often, though not necessarily, very rich. Examples include everything from decrepit caricatures like George Soros, who joined the ruling elite through financial acquisitiveness, to pseudo-intellectual smooth talkers like Barack Obama, who commands incredible social power, having ascended to the ruling elite through skillful exploitation of the racial spoils system.  (As I’ll explain in part II, though both Soros and Obama are men of the radical left, it is not useful to think of the ruling elite as “leftists.” Many of its members are ostensibly “on the right.”)

A hierarchy exists within the ruling elite; one that is based upon its members’ relative ability to deploy power in precise and effective ways. This sometimes results in mis-rankings. For example, Mark Zuckerberg’s relatively low standing within the elite hierarchy is due to the fact that it (his ranking) is still based on wealth. This means he hasn’t yet capitalized on the actual source of his power: control of incomprehensibly large troves of data about nearly every person on Earth. If Zuckerberg were to leverage his control of this data trove (in addition to his enormous financial wealth), he would immediately move up the hierarchy of ruling elites, perhaps even reaching the pinnacle.  So far, he hasn’t done so, and continues to obey the dictates of others within the ruling elite.

Power struggles within the ruling elite occur for a variety of reasons. For example, as big tech displaced high finance as the fount of 21st century power, people like Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos rose at the expense of financiers like Larry Fink and George Soros, who declined. Though power struggles within the ruling elite occur with some frequency, they are rarely public affairs and almost never threaten the stability of The Regime itself.

For example, at this moment it is apparent that several factions within the ruling elite are vying for control of the Presidency, but can’t figure out how to abandon Joe Biden without empowering Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. For what it’s worth, it is likely a gargantuan internecine struggle, as evidenced by the fact that the regime’s propaganda outlets even allude to it at all.

In most cases, however, when ruling elite factions spar amongst themselves, they keep their struggles “in the family,” so to speak.  They know what’s in their interest - it’s better to be a subordinate member of the ruling elite than to destroy The Regime. 

The Mandarin Servants

The ruling elite is served by an obsequious class of mandarins in high finance, big law, big tech, elected government, the administrative state, and the intelligence community. These mandarins are rank ordered by their effectiveness in advancing and protecting the ruling elite’s entrenched power.

They do this by enriching the ruling elite through financial chicanery rationalized by nonsense; advancing legislation to empower the ruling elite at the expense of a free society (while cynically pretending they are doing the opposite); exploiting the legal system by prosecuting or suing its opponents; subverting election laws; spreading propaganda through captured media institutions; and subduing the wider population through suffocating regulations. 

Simultaneously, the intelligence community operates through and with the other mandarins to keep tabs on, and occasionally deploy active measures against, the ruling elite’s opponents. 

The mandarin class consists of powerful people like Senator Elizabeth Warren and Marc Elias all the way down to thousands of functionaries with titles like “partner,” “managing director,” “associate,” or “vice president” at any of the nation’s big law firms or investment banks. It also includes trite columnists like “economist” Paul Krugman and dull-edge-of-the-knife thinkers like Yuval Noah Harari. Its members are extremely ambitious and hyper sensitive to social status. Their unhinged ambition poses a grave danger to the large number of Americans who oppose The Regime and its self-serving technocratic utopian schemes (perhaps I’ll write about this in another essay).

The mandarin class hierarchy is not static. It may shift to reflect advances in technology, changes in geopolitical factors, or social unrest. For example, twenty years ago, the mandarins of high finance outranked those from big law, while both outranked big tech, and all three outranked even senior level bureaucrats in the administrative state. At that time, the ranking of intelligence community mandarins waxed and waned.

By 2008, however, technological advances had empowered the class of technologists such that they outranked big law and had reached parity with high finance, more or less. They now work closely with the intelligence community mandarins. Today, it’s likely that the technology mandarins generally outrank the high-finance mandarins, though the precise order is not particularly relevant. At any rate, all mandarins are subordinate to the ruling elite; though occasionally they become part of the elite, as, for example, Sam Altman appears on the cusp of doing. 

The Proles

Below the ruling elite and their mandarins is a class of scolds, Karens, activist university professors, Antifa-like thugs, racial grievance hustlers, politicized low-level administrative bureaucrats, human resource managers, female ministers, city council members, and aldermen-like grifters. These lowly types are essentially proles.

Though they are often idiotic, they are distinct from the great mass of useful idiots. Examples of these lowly proles include everything from faceless Antifa thugs to disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok to fall guy Kevin Clinesmith to any number of low-IQ local city council members and aspiring race-hustling pretenders.  

While many proles are mandarin wannabees, all are regime apologists who simultaneously resent The Regime for its crushing hierarchy while also seeking to ascend it. Often, though not always, they lack the formal education, connections, minimum financial resources, work ethic, or charisma to ascend to the mandarin class. The longer they are stuck, the more their resentment grows.

Most proles are locked within the ideological superstructure of The Regime’s thought paradigms: they literally cannot imagine human societies organized on principles other than those advanced by the propaganda of their mandarin bosses and ruling elite overlords. 

Since most proles are unwilling to abandon The Regime but also have no hope of ascending its hierarchy, they come to hate and fear any person who opposes The Regime, is indifferent to its propaganda, or doesn’t respect its hierarchy. The proles are trapped in a prison consisting of equal parts pride and resentment. With a little humility, they would be free. But they are not humble and so they are not free. Instead, their anger, fear, and resentment are channeled into an important force that serves to protect The Regime’s interests. 

They do this by acting as the primary enforcers of wrong-think (meaning any idea that threatens The Regime’s power) while spending considerable efforts impeding the progress of people they hate and fear: vital, ambitious, fecund, and healthy men and women who love their nation, families, and God. By serving in this Gestapo-like role, the proles benefit the ruling elite by weakening such vital men and women, who might otherwise challenge The Regime’s control.

The proles hate these free and independent types because the latter remind the proles that they are in a state of pathetic self-chosen servitude. Last week, I wrote about their type in my essay Assault of the Anti-Human Death Cult.  

In the next installment, I will explore the modern origin of The Regime.

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