The Maricopa County audit of the 2020 election vote is now one week into the actual counting. What will be the result? At this point there is nothing known about that. However, thinking people believe that significant fraud will be exposed. After all, the number of people who used one particular empty lot as their mailing address was in the four-digit range. Many other examples of fraudulent registration have been detailed.
However, the Democrat-Corporate-Media complex is undefeated in terms of being held accountable for as long as I can remember. The media narrative is already set in place. “The audit is a fraud and thrown together by right-wing wackos.” Big Media will play this theme over and over to instill in the low-information portion of the public that “domestic extremism” is trying to overthrow the results of a legitimate election. I would not be surprised to see the words “white supremacy,” “terrorism” and “racism” surface in these narratives. It will be another “greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War event.”
The Dems have gotten away with this kind of process for a long time. And there are people on the other side of the aisle who are just as guilty. I have had some acquaintances ask the following question. “Why is so difficult for some normal people to think that anyone trying to stop the audit is guilty?” This leads us to the concept of a conflict of visions.
Thomas Sowell talked about this in several of his books, notably “Conflict of Visions,” “The Vision of the Anointed” and “The Quest for Cosmic Justice.” In particular, The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the visions behind the failed social policies of the past forty plus years.
Thomas Sowell does not see what has happened as a series of isolated mistakes. Rather Sowell perceives these errors were a logical consequence of those who see themselves as anointed. The anointed ones’ visions have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology.
I would assert that these people are the “woke supremacists” referred to by Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) a while back. They are very similar to white supremacists. Websters defines white supremacists as:
“a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races”
Woke supremacists believe that their group is inherently superior to other groups and that their group should have control over people from other groups. Woke supremacists believe that theirs is the “only true religion.”
These woke supremacists often consider themselves “thinking people,” but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be unsupported by facts. When this happens, they then resort to emotional appeals and evasions of mounting evidence against their thinking.
COVID has given us many chances to see this approach in action. When confronted with facts that show that masks are essentially useless in stopping the spread, they often resort to arguments like “you’ll think differently when someone you know dies.” Or “Do you want to be responsible for killing someone?”
These woke supremacists have great difficulty in even discussing any viewpoint that does not match their own. They are guided not by facts but rather by their feeling that they are right.
The following analysis by someone who I will refer to as Theresa does a good job of contrasting the differences between woke supremacists and normal people.
Thomas Sowell goes into this phenomenon in great depth in his trilogy of books “Conflict of Visions” “Vision of the Anointed” and “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”.
People who accept the fallibility of mankind truly do act and think differently than those who believe that man is perfectible in the right conditions. One vision is guided by facts, by history, by the reality of how things actually ARE and they make decisions according to those truths. They believe in constraining the process to make it as fair as possible but recognize that the outcomes will be different because people make different choices and have to live with the consequences of their choices.
The other “side” if you will, is guided by feelings, by hopes of how things COULD BE, if only the “right” people were in charge (which, in their minds, is ALWAYS them because they are just that much smarter and know best what everyone needs). They want to manipulate the process so as to achieve a pre-determined outcome which will, in their minds, finally be “fair” because everyone will be “equal”. Of course, this has NEVER actually succeeded anytime or any place in human history, but that doesn’t dissuade them in the least because it just shows that the “right” people were not in charge! Oh, and the whole “fair” and “equal” doesn’t apply to them either, because they are the ones who “know” more. Rules are for the little people who don’t know enough to be able to manage their own lives! They are completely impervious to facts and will immediately cancel or ridicule anyone who challenges any of their hypotheses – and if asked to defend their positions when the outcome is 180 degrees from their prediction, they will immediately resort to insults and the blame game.
I would highly recommend all of these books for those of us trying to understand WHY we so often feel like we are speaking a completely different language from our Leftist family and friends! It’s because we are!!
This is the conflict of visions that Sowell expounded on. The conflict is in the very nature of how people view the world. Some believe that human beings are perfectible if the “right” people are in charge. Of course, that includes themselves. Most people believe that humans are fallible and that there will always be inequitable outcomes because people put different efforts and bring different skills to any venture.
Those who believe that they can achieve perfection are like the Nazis. And like the Nazis they cannot see the absolute nightmare that they are bringing. In the end they will only bring more heartache and suffering. We must resist with all of our might and power.
All you have to do is watch CNN’s reporting on this! They think it’s funny!