Everyone is in the Establishment now

Everyone is in the Establishment now. Almost everyone, to be more precise. That's how incredibly successful it has been.

All revolutions start with a small junta of believers. If they are successful, their revolution comes to take over society at large, which happens when everyone buys into it, and is a part of it.

The amazing cohesiveness of the Establishment at this moment of history is the result of a genius to have made it so, and to get the entirety of society to rally around its existence.

This means an agenda of keeping the same set people in power certain areas, and letting them keep running certain things that will collectively ensure that the things really matter keep happening.


In this way democracy preserves itself, instead of destroying itself. Another way of saying this is that all of us are in the Establishment because we all have apparently the same stake in its continuance as the insiders do, and that we perceive this fact, and act on it by the way we go about our lives, and the opinions that we hold.

The "things that matter," that the Establishment asserts that its provides, include keeping the electricity available on demand from the sockets on your wall. It means keeping the channels on cable tv. It keeping Netflix piping. It means your phone keeps working. It means the roads are still passable by automobile, and that the airports keeps sending flights to faraway cities, and that one can buy a ticket and board the flight. It means the hospital emergency room stays open without interruption. It means the grocery stores and the drug stores, and everything else, stays open.

It means the ATMs keeps working and that your paycheck is deposited, so that your balance goes up. It means the Super Bowl and the Oscars will happen next year and the year after.

It means war, famine, and pestilence---the great scourges of humanity---mostly remain far away either in space or time for most people.


We understand that keeping all these things going means that America must be led by certain people, especially in how it interacts with other nations on the world stage. It means that certain types of people with the right kind of wisdom must be in charge of America's incredible arsenal of weapons. It means people who have the right kind of existing relationships with powerful people through society and the world at large.

The Establishment can assure all of the things that matter keep happening. All it asks that you let it keep doing what it has been doing, and don't try to interfere too much about certain things. The list of things in which one should not interfere is actually very short, and most people are not interested in those things anyway.


In any case, the Establishment knows that when push comes to shove, if people were suddenly deprived of almost anything among the "things that matter," even ones that seem non-essential in an objective sense, they would rally back to the Establishment, and come to their senses.