We had characterized Angelo Codevilla's essay as 'one of the most important of the decade.'
We were wrong. It's one of the most important of the entire century. Codevilla's work pointed to the "Ruling Class" as perpetrators of a number of aggressions against the "Country Class"--us peeps who pay & obey. We put excerpts on this post for your pleasure, but as refresher:
...As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.
...The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." ...
Yes, it's bi-partisan. Decidedly bi-partisan.
And it's not new; talk of the "ruling class" was present in the mid-1800's and--guess what?--it was a Senator who defined that group and detailed its reason for existence:
... Accordingly, by nature, superior men subdue inferior ones as they subdue lower beings or try to improve them as they please....
And they have plans!!
.... The ruling class knows that Americans must learn to live more densely and close to work, that they must drive smaller cars and change their lives to use less energy, that their dietary habits must improve, that they must accept limits in how much medical care they get, that they must divert more of their money to support people, cultural enterprises, and plans for the planet that the ruling class deems worthier....
Eradicating Constitutional norms about "laws" and "justice," we also have this:
... Ordinary people have also gone a long way toward losing equal treatment under law. The America described in civics books, in which no one could be convicted or fined except by a jury of his peers for having violated laws passed by elected representatives, started disappearing when the New Deal inaugurated today's administrative state -- in which bureaucrats make, enforce, and adjudicate nearly all the rules. Today's legal -- administrative texts are incomprehensibly detailed and freighted with provisions crafted exquisitely to affect equal individuals unequally. The bureaucrats do not enforce the rules themselves so much as whatever "agency policy" they choose to draw from them in any given case. If you protest any "agency policy" you will be informed that it was formulated with input from "the public." But not from the likes of you....
And the "country class"?
...It has no privileged podiums, and speaks with many voices, often inharmonious. It shares above all the desire to be rid of rulers it regards inept and haughty. It defines itself practically in terms of reflexive reaction against the rulers' defining ideas and proclivities -- e.g., ever higher taxes and expanding government, subsidizing political favorites, social engineering, approval of abortion, etc. Many want to restore a way of life largely superseded. Demographically, the country class is the other side of the ruling class's coin: its most distinguishing characteristics are marriage, children, and religious practice. While the country class, like the ruling class, includes the professionally accomplished and the mediocre, geniuses and dolts, it is different because of its non-orientation to government and its members' yearning to rule themselves rather than be ruled by others.
Codevilla goes on, but doesn't mention the last several years' abuses, which include the Covid Fraud, the likelihood of Election Fraud on a massive scale (81 MILLION votes??) the obvious 'They Will Not Be Punished" two-tier justice system, the also-obvious nascent beginning of PanOpticon--which--together with Data Center capabilities--will create a surveillance state that Stalin would have died for. No need for "snitches'!!
So to those who ask "What's the Problem with Data Centers"?
Let's start with hubris, move on to "Who Pays" and then to that Surveillance State that they facilitate.
It's not really "Data Centers" per se. They just happen to be the Ruling Class' newest toy which will be shoved down your stinking throat no matter what you say or do--just like those damn cameras.
By the way, this whole Codevilla thing is also why JDVance is popular, and why his Catholic Social Doctrine-fueled "populism" is attractive.
This is not over, friends.
