Snapback: A Rejection Of Elitism

In physics for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In politics and society for every action there is an unequal and exacerbated reaction. For every swing of a pendulum, there is a swing in the opposite direction. When the politics of a nation swing too far in one direction, it will inevitably swing back even further.

One of the best examples is the rise of National Socialism in Germany... it didn't happen overnight. History (particularly revisionist history) likes to paint Hitler as a really bad guy that hated Jews and tried to wipe them out. Hitler was a product, a reaction against the elitist liberal policies of the Weimar Republic. It's almost axiomatic that elites determine the direction a nation will go in. Cultural elites drive societies and political elites drive national policies. When things go wrong, it is the elites that are blamed.

This has been true throughout history. Elites live differently than the rest of us... one might say that they play by a different set of rules. Many people try to emulate cultural elites and this causes cultural decay and in turn a loss of cultural identity. A culture that no longer believes in itself is doomed to failure. This is what propelled the rise of National Socialism in Germany. People need something concrete to believe in.

Under Weimar, Germany had become a cultural cesspool. There were nightclubs that indulged in every possible perversity. Homosexuality was rampant among the elites. Universities were a hotbed of radicalism and other aberrant ideological behavior. Riots were commonplace. Communism flourished. However, among the "common" people things were decidedly different.

In the early 1930's while most of the world was in the throes of the Great Depression, Germany was particularly hard hit. The Treaty of Versailles declared that Germany must pay reparations to Britain and France for WWI (America abstained). Unemployment was around 25-50% depending upon whose figures you went by. The elites, many of whom were Jewish, flourished. When Hitler came along making promises to restore Germany to her former prominence, it gave the average people a sense of themselves... a sense of national identity. It also gave them food and jobs. It's not difficult to understand Hitler's popularity. The rise of National Socialism was in effect a blue collar movement.

One of the first issues the National Socialists addressed was the radicalism in the universities. Many of the professors were Jewish. There was a public outcry (fueled by Nazi propaganda) against the effects of American jazz music (Negger Kike Musik) it was called by propagandists. Basically the Nazis went after everything and everyone that they considered a threat to the German national identity- the elites.

Currently, in America, elites are behind the cultural decay. Hollywood celebrates every possible perversion. Groups like Black Lives Matter do not represent black people in general, but a small group of educated elitist blacks. Feminism doesn't represent women, but a group of elitist upper-middle class women that don't care about real women's issues, only their own. On college campuses students are being radicalized by professors with a elitist agenda. This is where ANTIFA comes from. Groups of students going around behaving like Fascists in their efforts to end Fascism. The election of Donald Trump was a rejection of elitism. The American people are sick and tired of being called racists, homophobes, xenophobes and every other kind of ist or phobe imaginable. The American people are tired of the elitist agenda.

Throughout history and throughout the world, the pattern has been the same. In China, the first elites to go, after the political leadership, were teachers and college professors. The same is true of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolt in Cambodia. Then other cultural elites were targeted- actors, etc.. The tragic effect of snapback is that innocent people are forced to pay for the actions of the few. For example, take BLM. Only about 5% of blacks belong to black Lives Matter. maybe another 20% support them. If there is a backlash against against them who will be targeted? There's no membership roster so members can be rounded up on an individual basis. All blacks would be targeted... 75% having to pay for the aberrant behavior of a few. That's the tragedy of snapback... like with everything else, the innocent pay.