Dave’s observation about my war on the costume fetish did what I read comments for, to maker me think. A free person is paranoid about anything that separates the people from Government. Nothing does that like a uniform.

My fate is to be decided by twelve of my peers and a god. I can do without the god, thank you.

What the hell is a judge doing in DRESS? This is a guy who is deciding life and death and he is dressing like a Superhero! NOBODY in a court of law should think of himself as more than a man.

And it is the nature of the human animal that what he wears affects his judgment. In European countries which were totalitarian and theocratic throughout their histories, there are only judges in their robes and little hats. The JURY is a purely Anglo-Saxon artifact. It was probably an expression of Britain’s loss of faith in its own people when judges and lawyers put on wigs.

Free people have a different relationship with those who govern them, one inn which costumes have no role. Try to imagine how the Founding Fathers would have reacted to Presidential Robes.

The Commander in Chief has no uniform.

In the fifteenth century most monarchs tried hard to keep all arms in the hands of nobles and soldiers. As with the jury system, England was a WILD exception. It is the only country I know of that ever punished PEASANTS for NOT having weapons!

It wasn’t much of a punishment, but after Crecy England’s military might depended on the longbow. That n turn depended on one’s having a longbow and practicing with it. It takes time and effort, and as more and more forms of amusement came along, fewer and fewer English peasants stuck to it.

A bowling lane has ten pins today because “nine pins” became so popular it was taking the peasants away from archery practice. They added a pin to make it legal.

But behind that little story is a bigger one. The kind and Parliament were actually trying to FORCE peasants to own and become expert with a weapon that killed armored knights. This was not the kind of thinking that was any more usual then than it is in Europe or blue states today.

What did the kings and the nobles really depend on in England? They lived and died by POLITICS. As I said, politics is life. The depended on their own popularity so completely that they tried to FORCE the people to have weapons that could kill them.

For obvious reasons you’ll have to wait a long time before any Mommy Professor mentions this historical oddity.

People without money will tell you that everybody’s motivated by money. If you want financial advice, go to a bar, sit down by the guy who is nursing the only drink he can afford, buy him more, and listen.

He will tell you how to make money. He will tell you the characteristics of people who make money. He will explain to you that making money is behind everything on earth. Money, he will explain, is the Objective Purpose of everything.

Someone WITH money, as they slide into their cups, will explain to you all about Power. They HAVE money, so it holds no ambition for them. In fact the main way someone like me got enough money to live on was being paid by rich folks who wanted power.

A person without money tends to believe that everybody is after what he is after, money. People who have money, he feels, are the bad ones.

A rich person in America does not have the power he feels he should have. People who have power, he insists, are the bad ones.

Uglies tend to believe the Beautiful People are just AWFUL.

If you do not have a white skin, it is easy to convince you that whites are terrible.

Depressive Puritan types hate joyful people, hoping they are damned.

The list is endless.

This goes along with the rule that those who hate are constantly condemning Hate, those who are merciless love abstract Mercy. The real explanation of this is quite simple. A person thinks about what he thinks about most. A billionaire does not think about money all that much. In fact, real luxury means that you don’t have to think about money at all: “If you have to ask the price you can’t afford it.”

BUGS is dedicated to straight, simple explanations like this. People who get PAID to be pundits do not think in my terms for a very simple reason. It is one reason respectable conservatives are the only professional commentators. If you hit a Politically Correct person with my kind of argument, the discussion is over.

They are getting laughed at.

Then it’s Dead Air. And Dead Air is death to talk programs.

So only a respectable conservative can keep the media commenters going.

Those who think about hate a lot capitalize it. They think that Hate explains human action. Those who think about money a lot think of money as the basis of all human motivation. Likewise Power. Likewise Mercy.

Paid pundits hate this kind of thinking for an equally simple reason. They get to paid to drag it out, to fill time and fill space on the printed page.

Hence the following verse, which once would have been called doggerel but now is referred to as the Art of Rap:
A NICKLE A WORD

In most magazines there’s always a place
For people with talent for filling up space.
That’s why they pay me a nickel a syllable
For filling up space that still remain fillable.

The things I say may not make sense
And seem to you absurd
For it’s not logic that I need
But words and words and words and words
And words and words and words.

Six months is a long time in what the pundits call politics. The 2010 elections look awful for the Democrats, with four consecutive defeats since the 2008 victory. But for me, that is not politics.

This sounds strange, since that was the sort of analysis I made my living on. To me, “politics” is a very, VERY long-term business. “Politics,” said the Greeks, “is life.”

“Politics is life.” There have been endless Wise Discussions on what those words meant. All of the famous ones begin at the same point: a total disinterest in what THE GREEKS meant by it. Likewise all popular theological discussion begins at a common point: a complete in what JESUS THE MAN meant in his own time.

Oddly enough there is nothing wrong with this. As I have said, Futurology has nothing whatsoever to do with the future. Likewise no interpretation of Jesus’ words has anything to do with understanding HIM. Futurology, like theology, lives or dies on its ability to interest people NOW and to get donations NOW.

Futurology is no more correct that Flash Rogers was, but it gets hundreds of millions of dollars each year and support thousands of people who call themselves Experts on the Future. Likewise Vatican II declared a huge number of things that Vatican I SPECIFICALLY determined to be heretical.

Since futurology has nothing to do with the future, and Christian Theology has little to do with Christ, it is no surprise that pundits have almost nothing to do with politics.

“Politics is life.” Well, most people realize that whether Mo is favored over Larry six months before the election constitutes “life.” Though in my myriad political campaigns I have seen exceptions to that rule, people whose whole life really is Mo’s percentage in a poll or whether one black basketball team beasts another, both teams more or less randomly selected from the same national pool.

But most people. If sober, will not insist that whether Sara Palin is ahead in the polls is a matter of life or death.

Politics is what we discuss here. “Politics is life” goes back to the real basis of life. The basis of life has always been very simple: Will the next generation look like YOU? The Greek’s life was the polis, whose life was determined by his definition of politics. The wolf lives and dies by his pack. Greeks survived or died with their polis.

One of the major steps forward in studying evolution was the inclusion into it of politics. Before that it was assumed that heroism was a purely human trait because mere animals only wanted survival for THEMSELVES: “Nature red in blood and claw.” No valor among animals.

Wrong. Higher animals almost universally survive in groups. To survive one must preserve one’s group. In African Genesis Robert Ardrey introduced us to animals who sacrificed themselves in ways that fulfill even the Obedient Generation’s claims for itself.

But heroism is necessary only where politics has FAILED. The baboon must throw itself to the wild dogs so its brethren have time to get to safety ONLY if the troop leadership FAILED and left the group in danger, The failure of political leadership becomes necessary makes death necessary on SOMEBODY’S part, in the group or among the heroes.

If we who practice REAL politics succeed, the race can live without the battle causing death.

Politics is life.

Reality Television has had an interesting by-product.

In my day Outside Reality came to us in the form of CNS, NBC, ABC and, for the fully brainwashed, PBS. Movies showed us that an American in a crisis was a panicking hunk of jelly until the guys in costumes and the College educated sophisticate came along.

On TV and in the movies, we were the aliens. No plot ever blamed Moscow. The movie always showed, and shows. The idea that Communists do something wrong as a cover for right wing evil, perpetrated by white Americans.

I have to switch away from Twilight Zone replays when they show something Southern, because it always shows that all blacks accused of crime are not only innocent but saints.

Reality TV is dangerous because it shows reality. The average American seldom goes to pieces in an emergency. Homeland Security can’t stop a terrorist but his fellow passengers could. But the media, including FOX, didn’t want to dwell on the implications of that. If the regular media worship regular bureaucrats, conservatives worship the ones in costume, and neither wants average Americans to get uppity.

Leftism and respectable conservatism is a team effort.

On Twilight Zone TV blacks are all saints. Watching Reality TV you are surprised, EVEN IN ALASKA, if the repeat criminal they catch is white.

As I have said, people got a bit tired of watching grown men scream and panic in regular TV whenever the villain shows up and The Authorities aren’t there. The official line of the media, including the good old respectable, was you should give the criminal everything he wanted. If he was raping your daughter, if was OK to scream, but better to keep smiling at him.

It is like the first reaction to that latest terrorist his fellow passengers took down. It was not to treat Americans less like a prison population, but to forbid them going to the bathroom within an hour of landing.

FINALLY, at LONG last, the reaction was an unbelieving laugh and some RESENTMENT for a change.

On very rare occasions he regular media might have to report a foiled robbery, but they ALWAYS said the resister “risked his life and that of others.” BAD boy!

Raised in that uniforms-are-everything Obedience Generation environment, it is hard for me to believe that I am seeing “American Fight Back” stuff. It is real breakthrough, but only I am going to point it out to you.

In Red Dawn a Cuban asks the Patrick Swayze character why he thinks his Wolverines have a right to fight the invading Soviets. The Wolverines reacted in a very realistic way.

First, he is comp-lately chocked by the question, it seems so stupid. Then he says, “Because we LIVE here!” The main reason the very low budget Red Dawn was such a hit and made Swayze an instant major star was because it reawoke images of an old American hero, grandma, sitting on the porch with a shotgun waiting for the county to come try to take over her house for a new highway.

Old Granny With a Shotgun was the American hero the World War II Generation disowned If the Government put them in costumes and orders they would not hesitate to kill the old bitch. She has the outdated American attitude “I LIVE here!”

The Greatest Generation, the Obedient Generation, would tell her, “Nothing is YOURS, Grandma. This is a government of laws not of men.”

And above all, they would say, “Grandma, this is for YOUR OWN GOOD.”

They went overseas and saved Stalin and gave one third of the world’s population to the Communists.

They Saved the World. The Reds in Red Dawn would certainly have agreed that that was true. But what did it do for US? Instead of having Communists and Fascists fighting each other, we ended up giving totalitarians the A-Bomb and a share of the world they never dreamed of until the US Saved the World for them.

We spent most of my life trying to contain the Communists and avoid a nuclear war. We sentient countries routinely on the idea that it was good for them. In fact, it was our unpopularity in those countries that the Reds fed on. The very people who would happily kill Grandmas for blocking the formation of a Collective Farm, which did kill millions of Kulak grannies, babushkas, for exactly that purpose, were the Wolverine line against us.

The justification was that we were keeping Communists from taking them over. But they hadn’t ASKED us to do that. And that was not the real justification for our interference in other countries. Our real justification was that Communism was dangerous to US. After the Obedience Generation gave a billion people to the Reds we were on the defensive.

But we had to talk in World War II terms. We had fought for the Reds. We really couldn’t say that we were fighting Communists because they were evil, evil like the Nazis. We had already thrown ourselves totally on their side against the Nazis as fellow fighters against Evil. We had allied with them and recognized them in the United Nations.

It was not until Reagan that any American president used the word “evil” to the Soviet Empire. The media blew sky high.

I can also tell you that, like “Mister Gorbeczev, tear down this wall,” Reagan had to reinsert that term Evil Empire REPEATEDLY because his staff kept taking it out of his own speech. People who were behind the Iron Curtain have said this was the speech that galvanized them, gave them HOPE.

Evil Empire and Gorbeczev tear down this wall are the two things that stand out in the history in the Reagan Administration, and his staff fought to take out BOTH of them. If Reagan had not been born in 1911, he probably would have gone along with them. But his mind had been set before the Obedience Generation took over.

Nobody else remembers grandma with her shotgun.

We could not denounce the Soviet Empire because the Obedience Generation thought just like them. As with the Mantra, this is a blind spot that is so deeply ingrained in our thinking that nobody SEES it. It is the rule that you have to be a right-winger to be EVIL.

Very few people wonder about why calling the Soviet Empire Evil was such a violation of the rules. Like the ongoing genocide against whites, they SEE it but they do not know it. Very few people on the left would hesitate to call every European Empire Evil.

But even the non-Communist American left screamed bloody murder, as did Reagan’s own staff, when he violated the World War II Rule that only the right can be called Evil.

If you see the World War II you can see why Stalin and Churchill were natural allies. The last imperialist British Prime Minister destroyed the Empire he loved just as Stalin built his. World War II decided that a left-wing empire was OK or just a little wrong, whereas a right-wing empire was Evil, just as a Leftist dictatorship was a bit too idealistic, whereas a left-wing dictatorship was the People’s Friend.

Like the Mantra, this rule as never stated publicly but everybody knew it. That’s why Reagan’s staff so desperately tried to keep him from violating this rule. That’s why everybody expected it when the media hit the roof when Reagan did that.

Churchill and Stalin thought exactly alike, and both of them thought like the post-WW2 US foreign policy. Churchill thought of his Empire, not as a prop for British power and pretensions, but as good for the natives, Kipling’s White Man’s Burden. Stalin and Bush and Johnson all justified their imperialism the same way.

You don’t have Vietnam Wars and Iraq Wars on the basis of US self-interest.

Just as the Inquisition hit new highs of torture in the name of Mercy and Communism set new highs of massacre and induced poverty in the name of peace, land and bread, modern imperialism always claims the good of the people it is interfering with.

And the man who says “Lie!” most is a liar.

And the man who screams “HATE!” loudest is a hater.

In a way our battle is against pure childishness. The huge gap between my analysis of the “power-and-money prejudices” of the education-welfare establishment and Ventura’s exposure of the Green Fraud is a matter of maturity. It is good when a child gets a concept, but it’s always “a jillion, billion tootillion of them.”

Ventura has, or can only sell, a concept of Big Bad People dealing in billion, no in this century it’s trillions, of dollars. He is a Minnesota liberal, so it always has to be BIG bad people. On the other hand, to be fair, Jesse has been ELECTED and I haven’t. And he couldn’t have sold his show if it was about political analysis instead of CONSPIRACIES.

When we look at people like Jessie today, all of us have the same problem: How much does he REALLY know? It is hard to imagine that otherwise intelligent people who often know much that we don’t would be unable to see that all the assimilation talk is entirely for WHITE countries, so absolutely that you can draw a line at he Mexican and Japanese border for promoting “assimilation,” that Africa and Asia are exempted by the color of their skins from what we are required to teach about the color of the skin INSIDE white countries.

If they never thought of THAT, how can we credit them with ANY sort of routine intelligence?

So don’t tell me I am “being unfair” to ANYBODY. If they can look straight at a charging Grizzly and talk about the tree behind it, how in the HELL am I to know they make sense on ANY given subject?

Children of threats and talk about DRAMATIC threats. That is the essence of childhood. That is what kills so many children. If the bus made a huge noise small children would never run out in front of it. To them it looks like a smiley face with the headlights for eyes, the grill for a nose, and the bumper for a mouth.

A danger makes NOISE and wears a hard face. For Conspiracy types, all danger is a huge bully with a nasty face and power to run over you. That kind of thinking is exactly as mature, and as protective, as the idea that the bus coming at you is smiling.

Ventura presents Superman and Batman villains. Those movies were surprisingly popular partly because the heroes and villains are exactly like those the college-educated are trained to look for. All Evil Ones are Rich , Male, and White. They are out for Money and Power in vast amounts, which they already have.

And they are as realistic as The Joker.

Not surprisingly, and in fact BECAUSE of these stereotypes, real evil is exactly the opposite. Fort thousands of years, evil has presented itself as good, the mantra of real Hate has been love since long before the Inquisition. The ideology that killed at least a hundred million people in the last century did so in the name of Peace, Love, Brotherhood, and Equality.

No one EVER suppresses the simple truth except in the name of Truth.

A stampede is not a Conspiracy. There is no Sinister Mind behind most evil any more than there is a Sinister Genius behind every cattle stampede.

But in the real world, the most hating call themselves anti-Hate, the most Merciless use the word Mercy all the time, those who seek genocide do so in the name of Anti-Racism, universities have a stifling Thought Control policy in the name of Academic Freedom.

The shamans have always suppressed thought in the name of Wisdom. A hundred thousand years of that and we STILL haven’t BEGUN to catch onto this.

An Englishman who backed the Confederacy during the Civil War said, “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

And absolute trust is absolute power. If a person can tell you what is a prejudice and what is preference because he has a doctor’s degree or a title or a robe, he has absolute power over you. Let ANYBODY give their human biases complete and free reign, and they will end up killing you in the streets.

Call it Political Correctness, the Word of the Lord, Environmentalism, or Equality.

Call a spade a spade or be a slave.