Here – the headline accompanying this story –  is a measure of how far down the road we’ve gone. “Thank you,” says the president, to “all of our great TSA agents” – those blue suited government workers who serve essentially the same function as guards in a prison, which is of course what airports have become.

With some differences, of course.

Prisons house criminals whereas airports are full of ordinary citizens just trying to travel by air somewhere. Prison guards prevent the prisoners from leaving whereas these “TSA Agents” – the term is as supercilious, like calling a person who works as a cashier at Wal Mart an “associate” – do not prevent the “terrorists” from flying. If an actual terrorist wanted to get on an airplane, he could do so easily – by buying or just renting a private airplane, where TSA Security Kabuki is not performed.

We are supposed to be believe that actual terrorist organizations lack the money to rent airplanes – or even buy them, if they needed to. Of course, we are also expected to believe that steel-framed buildings with multiple/redundant support columns can collapse straight down at near-freefall speed as a result of office fires after not having been struck by a jet airliner.

Most people do not even know that the TSA’s Security Kabuki isn’t played out at private aviation terminals because most ordinary people do not have the means to rent or buy a private airplane. The fact stands, however, that the TSA is a kind of permanent troupe of blue-suited performance artists paid to degrade the masses using their own stolen money.

Trump thinks these performance artists are “great.”

Feeling gobsmacked?

Of course, this emanates from the same president who decried as “stupid” the “foreign wars” he repeatedly promised he would never start if elected.

And yet, here we are at war – again.

This is what the Italian Marxist Gramsci meant when he wrote about the long march through the institutions. That is to say, the time it would take to infest the schools and the government and the press with Marxists, such that over time, they would imbue the rank-and-file people with Marxism.

Oh, but Trump is MAGA!

That is akin to saying there is a meaningful difference between team Red and Team Blue, who both play for the same side. The one that’s playing against you, if you’re simply wanting to be left in peace and be held responsible only for what you – not others – do.  That is a concept antithetical to both teams because their very existence depends upon collectivizing everyone and then pitting these collectives one against the other.

You are either with us or you are against us, as The Chimp so baldly put it.

Meaning part of this belligerent and aggressive collective or that belligerent and aggressive collective. So-called “conservatives” – whatever that means – vs. so-called “liberals” – which means something very different than what Jefferson meant when he used that word. Observe that neither collective adheres to the principle of leaving individuals in peace, free to live their lives as they wish so long as what they do imposes no quantifiable harm on other people.

Heaven forbid.

Of course, America hasn’t been free like that in a very long time. We aren’t even free to associate with one another – or not – as “COVID” made very clear, but which has in fact been the case as a matter of law since the mid-1960s.

We are inured to it, having grown up with it. The situation – profoundly abnormal, from a human point of view (it is arguable that the most basic human need is to decide for ourselves with whom we shall associate, whether intimately or casually) has become the new normal. Collectivism – and the authoritarianism that always and necessarily attends collectivism – is now as “conservative” as it is “liberal.”

Which is why it does not matter who you vote for, nor how hard you vote to get something different the next time. Because it is always the same thing. Because it cannot be anything else.

Because it is what it is.

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