One of the guys on our street, we'll call him Walter, is a hopelessly neurotic busybody. His life's mission is to make sure everything in the neighborhood is just so and to alert the proper authorities when they aren't.
Walter called the city when his next door neighbors had too many cars on their driveway. This being California, a state run by Walters, there is actually a law regarding cars on driveways. None of the cars were on the street, mind you, they were all politely parked on the driveway. He called the city anyway and the people were forced to clean out one bay in their garage and park a car in there.
When our boys were young and just learning to drive stick shifts, one drove down the street, missed second gear and revved the engine by mistake. Walter complained. Walter also complained when they would drive home with their stereos too loud. Not at 2 AM, but coming home from school at 4 PM.
Walter has complained about all of us at various times. We have a tendency to keep our garage door open. The garage is a heat sink / source, depending on the weather, and by keeping the door open, we reduce its influence on our house. One day, Walter came over to me while I was working in the garage and asked if I had a home office in there and was that the reason I kept the door open all the time. Walter didn't like the look of it. I really wanted to get my Confederate flag beer koozie, put a cold one in it, pop the top, take a swig and let him know that the last time people like him tried to get people like me under control, it took 4 years and 300,000 lives. I didn't. Instead, like everyone else on the block, I was nice to him. But I didn't close my garage door.
Walter is also a nice guy at heart. He helps our elderly next door neighbor with his trash and yard. For all our Catholicism, we don't do that. Walter does.
So that's Walter. He's in everybody's face, all the time, but you have to think that his heart is in the right place. He's doing it because he thinks he knows what's right.
When I hear conservatives talk about the Deep State, I have to laugh. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is no plan.
There is not a plan in sight. Of plans, there are none. Plans? Do they have any? No. No plan. No plan at all.
It's not that the government, the news media and the academics are part of a vast, left-wing conspiracy, it's that they're animated by the same spirit as Walter. They know how things should be and it drives them batty to see deviations. You can see that in the differences between building codes in Arkansas and building codes in California. One state loves freedom. The other state is run by Walters.
Just like our Walter, the Walters in our institutions know, they just know that they're doing the right thing. Masks were useless, but the Walters knew we redneck morons should wear them. Plexiglass shields at work and school were pointless, but the Walters felt better seeing them. Catholic schools were open during the pandemic, which must have made the Walters purse their lips in vexation. All schools should be closed. Imagine what all those children might do if they were free! Horrible.
So that's another part of KT's Theory of Everything. There's no plan, there's no conspiracy, there are only Walters. Lots and lots and lots of Walters.
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I don't disagree with this. I would just like to point out, though, that "Walterness" is not an ideology. It is a personality type. And Walters can be conservatives just as easily as they can be liberals.
ReplyDeleteTim, my friend, you are 100% right. If conservatives had power, there'd be a different flavor of Walterism.
ReplyDeleteI do disagree to some extent. If you wanted to implement Gramsci's ideology, what would you do different? It has been too massive a project to put it all down to 'Walterness'. Complacency in the sense of not taking it seriously, not being aware of what's happening even or dismissing it as conspiracy theory has allowed it all but to succeed. I saw a meme that went:
ReplyDelete'I'm not a conspiracy theorist I'm an It's fucking obvious theorist'. That might have been referring to the last election.
A little all over the shop there but I'm tired in the evenings!
I would agree that the last election was suspect and that was on purpose. However, the fact that none of the thing in motion are sustainable, whether that's debt, an armed populace, racialist madness or the attacks on the traditional family, that's what makes me see this as something less than a plan.
ReplyDeleteFor me, a plan would be at least medium-term. The debt alone makes all of this short term.
Our son is moving to Idaho to go to grad school, and is buying a house. When we were out there, we had a realtor take us around to some houses. And he told a story of Californians coming out, and being hyper worried about every little thing, especially getting permits to do things on the house. He says Idaho is the last free state. I was ready to move then and there.
ReplyDeleteThe house he's getting has a detached one car garage, and he's going to make that his shop. And is looking at running more power out there, as there is just 1 15 amp circuit. The shop will be portable, because, he thinks like me, garages are for cars to park in. If it is filled with junk, you have too much junk.
We have 3 people here, and 4 cars. The MG always gets a garage spot, and is put in storage in the winter. The neighbors have 5 drivers, 5 cars, a boat, an ATV, etc. His wife gets her car in the garage, the rest are in the driveway and on the street. Of course, November 1 through April 1, you can't park on the street over night. So they have to deal with that. No, nobody in the neighborhood calls the cops on anyone like that. We've all been through it.
MN - similar story from a daughter-in-law’s brother who moved from Cali to Tennessee. After they bought a house he (who worked construction in CA) wanted to put in a fence and do some other stuff to the house, so he went off to the permit office. He went there and was shocked to be able to walk right up to the counter. So he explained what he wanted to do, and she said, “Well darlin’, that’s nice but why are you here?”. So he said “I wanted to pull the permits.” She responded, “Darlin’, you are in Tennessee now. Have a nice day.”
ReplyDeleteLeaving Blue-Woke-America, to return to America is more attractive everyday.
Leaving Blue-Woke-America, to return to America is more attractive everyday.
ReplyDeleteAs long as they leave the wokeness back in Cali. They are destroying/have destroyed Denver/Boulder
AMEN! All the blue voters who hate what’s happening, leave the state, and then keep voting Dem are the stupidest people on earth. I guess they never heard Einstein’s quote “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
ReplyDeleteI wish I was in the land of cotton ...
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