The Rules Are For The Peasants

 Great commentary, even though Marie-Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake." From The Citizen:

The elites who insist that the world is actively dying because of climate change insist that others transform their behavior while they themselves fly on their private jets and own gas hogging cars. Many Hollywood actors cry for gun control yet surround themselves with armed men and make millions filming violent movies which, as one would expect, employs massive amounts of guns.

It has always been that way of course. The despot ruler of North Korea gets fat while his people starve. He is much too important to do without food. He and his cronies live well and eat well. The hovels and the starvation are for the peasants. Rich men in the Middle East own enormous yachts, bank accounts, and jet planes while their subjects do without the basics of life.

In the United States, the Congress has been known to exempt members of Congress from they very laws enforced upon others. Or they simply ignore those laws. In 2020 members of the United States Senate sold stock using information that was presented in a closed meeting. Insider trading is, as many people know, illegal. So why did these defenders of democracy ignore the laws? Well, they are “special,” you see. The rules only apply to the peasants.

Why were the Hollywood rich and famous often at parties and events without masks? Well, they are “special” as well. They certainly do not see themselves like the rest of us. They are not in the peasant class any longer. So, the rules do not apply.

This type of attitude, over time, foments and fosters dissatisfaction. Sometimes the pot boils over into aggression or outright violence. That attitude eventually cost Marie Antoinette of France her head. In the event of a nuclear war, there are plans to evacuate certain people and professions to a safe place where they will be safe from harm. The chances are that you are not among them. The peasants can be annihilated but the special people, the “elites,” must survive.

With rare exception, it is not the politician’s sons, or the sons of the rich and powerful, or even the sons of generals and admirals that go off to war and find themselves on the front lines. It is the children of middle-class children or working class or lower class that volunteer to serve and, if a large conflict erupts, it is those same children who will somehow escape being conscripted. And, if they are, the other elites will work to make sure they have safe assignments.

There are exceptions. Elvis Presley received his draft notice at the height of his career and served honorably. In a previous generation, numerous actors volunteered their service and found themselves in harm’s way. Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss was employed in an essential job at a shipyard and could easily have not served in the military. But Germany, Japan, and Italy were terrorizing the world and Doss, a conscientious objector, volunteered to be a combat medic.

Doss was part of four campaigns in the Pacific and, never firing or carrying a weapon, saved life after life on the battlefield. In the bloody battle for Okinawa, Doss, at great personal risk, refused an order to retreat and stayed on the scene with his wounded and dying men, eventually saving some seventy-five lives in one day.

For his actions, Doss would be wounded three separate times, would never totally recover from his wounds, and would receive two bronze stars for valor under fire. He would receive the first Medal of Honor in American history awarded to a conscientious objector. A movie, “Hacksaw Ridge,” would be made about his life. Sometimes peasants rise to a level that the “elites” may never attain.

But the world is being treated to a view of an incredible exception. Volodmyr Zelenakyy is the President, as of this writing, of Ukraine. The 44-year-old president has had offers from the United States and others to evacuate him and his family, who are now targets of the invading Russian military, to safety. He is a former actor and comedian who, although the elected leader of a nation forty million strong, refuses to leave his people in their darkest hour. Thus far, he has remained in the capital city, with bombs and missiles falling on his peaceful people.

The President’s wife, Olena Zelenska, 44, has said that she will stand with her husband, as will their two young children. They will stand, fight, and possibly die, with their people. They do not see their citizens as peasants. They do not see themselves as the elite either. In their world, the rules apply to all. (Read more.)

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