In my view, because the Common Man has had enough – the builders of this world, the people who make it work, have had quite enough of corrupt elites ruling and ruining everything. Pretty much since the 18th century – and really stretching back a few centuries earlier – the story of the world has been the continuing effort of varied elites to lock up the Common Man and make him obey the dictates of the elite.
The reason the United States has stood as a bastion against this is because of the happy accident that the elites didn’t want to come here early on. America was founded by and developed by Joe and Jane Average and it was only in the early 20th century that elites started to latch themselves upon us. And while in the rest of the world the Common Man has been ground down and make the weak dependents of the elite, in the United States there is still sufficient number of people to say, “no” – and now these people are not just refusing the dictates, but are insisting that the elite abdicate and go away.
This essay by G.K. Chesterton is an excellent description of the Common Man and what he’s up against – a quote:
The thesis is this: that modern emancipation has really been a new persecution of the Common Man. If it has emancipated anybody, it has in rather special and narrow ways emancipated the Uncommon Man. It has given an eccentric sort of liberty to some of the hobbies of the wealthy, and occasionally to some of the more humane lunacies of the cultured. The only thing that it has forbidden is common sense, as it would have been understood by the common people. Thus, if we begin with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, we find that a man really has become more free to found a sect. But the Common Man does not in the least want to found a sect. He is much more likely, for instance, to want to found a family. And it is exactly there that the modern emancipators are quite likely to begin to frustrate him; in the name of Malthusianism or Eugenics or Sterilisation or at a more advanced stage of progress, probably, Infanticide.
That was written quite a long time ago – and as we can see, here in 2010, we have “progressed” and now we do have infanticide, in the form of abortion. And if the elites get their way, we’ll eventually have infanticide in the form of killing babies outside the womb – all in the name of making the world a better place, it goes without saying.
If you take a look at it, what do our elites not want us common folk to have and do? Well, they don’t really want us owning our own homes – too large a carbon footprint. They’d like it much better if we didn’t have our cars – so wasteful that we live in the suburbs and work in the city. It is a certainty that they don’t want us starting a farm, opening up a factory or digging a mine. Its terribly inconvenient that we want to rule our own medical decisions. Our religion is a gigantic annoyance to them – all those demands for adherence to absolute standards of right and wrong. Goodness, can you imagine any elite agreeing that the parents should have complete control over their childrens’ education? The attitude of the elite has been best expressed, of late, in the reaction to the town hall protests of this past summer – they were outraged, and quite frightened, that the Common Man dared to question his masters.
So, what will they allow us to do? We can have all the sex we want. Provided we use birth control and have no prejudice against abortion.
But the world is not for the elite – it is for the Common Man. The meek shall inherit the earth. The last shall be first. At any rate, the facts speak clearly – we could do without everyone in the MSM and government, but couldn’t last very long without our farmers. Its not that one particular person is more valuable than another, but that what people do is more or less valuable. Farmers, craftsmen and miners are vastly more valuable than bureaucrats and academics. Mothers are more valuable than social workers. Soldiers more valuable than diplomats.
And here, in the Year of Our Lord 2010 (not, “CE” as the elites are attempting to make it – CE – Common Era…common to what?), the Common Man has had enough. Mad as heck and not going to take it, anymore.
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