Tyranny Rises As The Shift To K Proceeds

This is a risk as we shift to K:

Back in the 18th century, political reformer Henry Fox was advocating giving the vote to more people. But only, he insisted, to what he called ‘the better sort’. Not ‘the mob or the mere dregs of the people’. Heaven forbid!

Now, in the 21st century, such derogatory sentiments about ‘the people’ are dangerously back in fashion — ever since they dared vote for Brexit in Britain, and for Donald Trump in the United States.

Questions are being asked in high places about whether ordinary voters are fit to make decisions on major issues.

As a result, democracy — the cornerstone of our way of life — is being undermined, its very survival put at risk. Its modern enemies are mustering from all corners — but most worryingly from the Left, the very area where its stoutest defenders should be.

As a long-standing person of the Left, I fear that democratic freedoms are now in danger of being abandoned as elitists in our midst attempt to restrict them.

Every serious politician and thinker declares his or her belief in democracy. Yet, in practice, they seek to separate power from the people. The mantra has become ‘I’m a democrat, of course, but …’

Over Brexit, this profoundly insidious attitude was exemplified by John Major, former Tory prime minister, who denied the referendum result was binding and declared: ‘The tyranny of the majority has never applied in a democracy.’

Some of us might naively have imagined that majority rule was the very essence of democracy. But not, it seems, when millions vote against the wishes of a tiny political elite.

It is all amygdala. Since r thrives where ease and lack of threat atrophy amygdala, r will always exist in large quantities at the top of the status hierarchy. Even in the Conservative movement we have the Cuckservatives, who are people who uniformly exist in environments absent threat and hardship, allowing them to scoff at the plights of people like Kate Steinle. They do so because that is just how they are programmed.

As the K-shift takes hold, the most logical thing for these people to do would be to embrace K and lead the charge, but politics is rarely logical. Instead r-strategists, overwhelmed by r-strategist urges, become convinced they are “right,” and anyone opposed to them is wrong.

This isn’t logic or self-interest. It is human robots trying to follow their programming and being frustrated when it doesn’t work as they are programmed to expect. Given that, they are programmed to do anything to try and make their programming work, and they are programmed to think they are right in the process. So get ready for the elites to make the logical case that normal people who want to prepare for the economic collapse are demonstrating that they are not intelligent enough to have a say in their own government – and they will feel that is the only morally defensible position.

The most “principled” tyrant is a coward, convinced by fear that he is right.

Spread r/K Theory, because politics is not logical, unless you are a K-strategist as the Apocalypse approaches