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"Whole of Society:" The Bland Euphemism the Obama Left Deployed as a Cover to Bring Soviet-Style Thought Control to a Formerly Free AmericaEarlier I wrote about the DHS making the decision to brand every public Trump supporter a high-level "Quad-S" terrorist threat and using the power of government to surveil and harass them. This is part of the "Whole of Society" means of "Combating Violent Extremism" (CVE) that Obama implemented, and is now SOP throughout the Regime-controlled government. A couple of weeks ago, Jacob Siegel wrote a great piece for Tablet that is now getting quoted more and more. To make sense of today's form of American politics, it is necessary to understand a key term. It is not found in standard U.S. civics textbooks, but it is central to the new playbook of power: "whole of society." Obama took the security apparatus that George Bush had created (with conservative support) and simply redirected it to surveil, harass, stigmatize, and prosecute normal law-abiding American citizens. In concept, the strategy called for empowering "community-led interventions" as a method of conflict resolution. In practice, the White House paired its progressive efforts at community activism with an aggressive expansion of counterterrorist operations and drone strikes. That's a good term -- "weaponized vagueness." Are they attempting to squelch violent extremists? Well, they're deliberately vague on that point, because they want to justify this program by talking about violence, but what they really want to do with the power is harass non-violent non-extremists -- normies who merely oppose socialism and Obama's brand of third-world triumphalism. A decade after 9/11, as Americans wearied of the war on terror, it became passé and politically suspicious to talk about jihadism or Islamic terrorism. Instead, the Obama national security establishment insisted that extremist violence was not the result of particular ideologies and therefore more prevalent in certain cultures than in others, but rather its own free-floating ideological contagion. Given these criticisms Obama could have tried to end the war on terror, but he chose not to. Instead, Obama's nascent party state turned counterterrorism into a whole-of-society progressive cause by redirecting its instruments--most notably mass surveillance--against American citizens and the domestic extremists supposedly lurking in their midst. Read the whole thing, if the following rings true to you: To avoid the appearance of totalitarian overreach in such efforts, the party requires an endless supply of causes--emergencies that party officers, with funding from the state, use as pretexts to demand ideological alignment across public and private sector institutions. These causes come in roughly two forms: the urgent existential crisis (examples include COVID and the much-hyped threat of Russian disinformation); and victim groups supposedly in need of the party's protection.Yup! Siegel goes on to say that this "totalizing" form of politics is responsible for the quick and easy coup against Joe Biden and the rapid elevation of Kamala Harris -- after all, if we're all united in a Whole of Society war against dangerous "extremists," we cannot dilly-dally with tedious democratic functions. We must act swiftly and boldly to Save Democracy, and anyone standing in the way of our fight to Save Democracy -- including the current president (not to mention the last one) -- will just have to be shoved forcefully aside.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/9/24) Off Grid Bunker 3rd Edition Dicknose Cafe Quick Hits Kamala Reveals Short, Vague Statement on Her Alleged "Positions" On Eve of Debate Grandfather of Trans-Concerned School Shooter Colt Grey Calls Murderer's Father "Evil," Wants Death Penalty Biden-Harris Administration Airdrops Invasionary Force of Hatian Immigrants on Springfield, Ohio Trump: I Will Prosecute Those Who Cheat in Elections and Send Them to Prison; Media Which Denies There Is Any Election Cheating: TRUMP IS THREATENING TO IMPRISON THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE!!! Trump Slips Ahead of Kamala Harris in New NYT Poll THE MORNING RANT: A Police Department - in Hurricane Country - is Getting EV Patrol Cars; How Many Ways Can This Go Wrong? Search
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