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Trump represents a nightmare for the elite, the nightmare that their social status and their resulting power could evaporate when they are exposed for the charlatans they are.

Everyone seeks to satisfy their desires with the least effort, a we learn from Henry George. The way that the elites do this is by pretending and convincing themselves of their own superiority - that they somehow deserve their status and incomes, like Catholic cardinals of the middle ages. Yet at some level, they know that they are mere grifters, using the language of status to convince others to turn over power and money to themselves.

We have now had a profoundly convincing demonstration that the entire medical field in America is largely quackery, peddling harmful snake oil, the dangerous and ineffective vaxx, knowing they are killing people, but doing it anyway because it makes so much money. We can now see that their degrees are nothing other than an artificial barrier to entry intended to protect a very profitable monopoly. They do not act in the public interest, and they really aren't very good at what they do. People live healthier and longer lives where there are fewer doctors around.

The entire financial industry causes disaster after disaster, and yet no one goes to jail and the criminals keep getting richer. The Federal Reserve is the ultimate example, even worse than Wall Street. Three blind mice could do a better job, and yet the Fed still has a monopoly on creating money and makes their horrible decisions utterly without the permission of the American people. They are not part of the government and not elected. They got themselves written into laws in 1913 like a horrible tick that embedded itself under the skin of the country. The cure is a return to physical silver coinage and the abolition of the Fed and the personal income tax.

Our "representatives" in DC are mostly actors who dress and speak in ways they think will sell themselves to the public at election time, and then turn around and sell the power they derive from lawmaking to corporations. They are another form of television, putting on shows for the public in order to take in money from corporate sponsors. They know it's mostly a grift, and they don't care. Pfizer pays well.

The Ivy League is the epitome of unearned prestige. Those universities are nothing but sleep-away camps for the children of the elite to meet other children of the elite so that they can call on each other as they rise in the world of grift, especially finance, government, and the corporate media. At Ivy League schools, those children also learn the "proper" manners and "good" taste that identifies them to each other and used to intimidate the public, but does not seem to any longer.

Among those not benefitting from elite grift, there are still supporters of the elite who feel terribly anxious at the thought that doctors are incompetent and venal, that the financial industry and their representatives are utterly self-serving, that there is no good reason to respect anything about the Ivy League, and that the media is only a lapdog trained to bark on command. They want to believe that there are benevolent paternal figures in control, and they get very angry when presented with clear evidence that increases their anxiety instead of reducing it.

Trump does not have a proper Ivy League education, and he does not have the proper manners. He is not one of them and they know it. He actually does represent ordinary Americans, and this terrifies the elite. They know that he is exposing them, and that if this continues, their prestige and incomes will fall. They will be scorned for their acting and grifting. And at a deep level, they know damn well they should be.

There are other public figures who actually do represent the people as opposed to the elite, among them four more formally graced with that honor by being denounced by Pedo Potatus just yesterday: MTG, Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep Madison Cawthorn, and Ron DeSantis. This is all a replay of the war between the Optimates and Populares in ancient Rome:

The Optimates were the dominant group in the Senate. They blocked the wishes of the others, who were thus forced to seek tribunician support for their measures in the tribal assembly and hence were labeled Populares, “demagogues,” by their opponents. The two groups differed, therefore, chiefly in their methods: the Optimates tried to uphold the oligarchy; the Populares sought popular support against the dominant oligarchy, either in the interests of the people themselves or in furtherance of their own personal ambitions. Finally, it is well to remember that the Senate’s authority was based on custom and consent rather than upon law. It had no legal control over the people or magistrates: it gave, but could not enforce, advice. Until 133 BC any challenge to its authority was little more than a pinprick, but thereafter more deadly blows were struck, first by such Populares as Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, then by Gaius Marius, and finally by the army commanders from the provinces.

God bless those army commanders from the provinces. We have to hope that we also have such people in America to deliver us from the tyranny of the Ivy League elite, the DC swamp, Wall Street, the Fed, and the corrupt medical establishment.