Who is Richard Spencer and Why Does He Matter?
After Hillary Clinton lost in an electoral landslide, the power brokers and fattest of fat cats needed an explanation for her loss. It couldn’t be that Hillary was a manufactured politician, with a manufactured resume. Because that would need no explanation. It would mean that average people—working-class people—hadn’t bought the relentless bullshit that was the media’s message.
Now, being experts at bullshit, and wanting to save face, the press needed a scape goat, an enemy that would explain away their inability to read the writing on the wall. That’s how Richard Spencer—a nobody from nowhere—was selected as an appropriate sacrificial offering, to fill the necessary role of villain.
“Here was the cause for Hillary’s epic failure!” The liberal elites cried.
Most insiders new this was bullshit, of course. Others were true believers, however, so Spencer was a needed corrective to explain away their complete failure as political prognosticators. I mean, when everybody within your group gets it wrong, reality can be a bitter pill to swallow. Under such trying conditions, denial becomes a collective necessity. Think of it as intellectual and emotional socialism. Why fail alone, when you have fifty million Americans as an excuse. That was the case with Hillary’s “Deplorables.”
The fat cats had already experienced this startling effect when average folk in Great Britain voted to exit the European Union. No one actually believed that a collection of multi-billionaires and their underlings in the media could fail to move the tide in their favor. Not with all that money. Initially, this compelled them to a kind of arrogant shortsightedness, leading to the EU’s ultimate demise at the hands of working class British voters. But a Trump victory? That signaled a backlash of global scope, with global consequences for the moneyed elites.
The EU with its bloated, leech-like tendencies, was to democratic rule, exactly what you’d expect from a gigantic unelected bureaucracy. The Brits saw their country changing—and not for the better—and then determined to do something about it.
The same thing was true of Donald Trump. He wasn’t another Bush. Nor was he another Clinton. For the political elites, he was a roach at the salad bar, a booger in the gravy, looking to destroy the Bush/Clinton political oligarchy that was being foisted on the people. This Bush/Clinton charade was an idea that nobody but the elites wanted, no matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in an effort to sell it to the public, and that was just the money spent before the primaries were over.
Hillary Clinton would go on to spend more money to get elected than any human being ever had, $1.2 billion dollars, to be exact. By comparison, Donald Trump spent chump change. Worse still, even with virtually all the media on her side and a bottomless war chest, it still wasn’t enough to save Hillary’s or their political ambitions.
That’s where Richard Spencer comes into play, a man who could barely fill a 20 x 20 room with followers. But symbols can be bigger than reality, so turning Spencer into a symbol of White nationalist hate, was just what the witch doctor ordered—all of which was enabled by a compliant media.
Today, Richard Spencer is back in the news. Why? Better him than reading Barrack Obama's crimes on the front-page, seems to be the media’s thought process. In an effort to aid and abet Hillary, Obama and their army of sycophants in the press, they’ve unintentionally painted themselves into a corner.
The only real way out, is to fall on their swords and admit they were wrong. But that would make Donald Trump right. It would also potentially put Obama, Susan Rice and possibly, even Hillary Clinton in jail—and there is no salve strong enough to save their ego or their position of power in such a case. A scapegoat is the only hope of redemption they have.
That might be just an illusion, but the effect of a good illusion can be more than enough to change the world, making it better for a few. For the rest of us, however, the suffering will have just begun.
Mark Magula
Now, being experts at bullshit, and wanting to save face, the press needed a scape goat, an enemy that would explain away their inability to read the writing on the wall. That’s how Richard Spencer—a nobody from nowhere—was selected as an appropriate sacrificial offering, to fill the necessary role of villain.
“Here was the cause for Hillary’s epic failure!” The liberal elites cried.
Most insiders new this was bullshit, of course. Others were true believers, however, so Spencer was a needed corrective to explain away their complete failure as political prognosticators. I mean, when everybody within your group gets it wrong, reality can be a bitter pill to swallow. Under such trying conditions, denial becomes a collective necessity. Think of it as intellectual and emotional socialism. Why fail alone, when you have fifty million Americans as an excuse. That was the case with Hillary’s “Deplorables.”
The fat cats had already experienced this startling effect when average folk in Great Britain voted to exit the European Union. No one actually believed that a collection of multi-billionaires and their underlings in the media could fail to move the tide in their favor. Not with all that money. Initially, this compelled them to a kind of arrogant shortsightedness, leading to the EU’s ultimate demise at the hands of working class British voters. But a Trump victory? That signaled a backlash of global scope, with global consequences for the moneyed elites.
The EU with its bloated, leech-like tendencies, was to democratic rule, exactly what you’d expect from a gigantic unelected bureaucracy. The Brits saw their country changing—and not for the better—and then determined to do something about it.
The same thing was true of Donald Trump. He wasn’t another Bush. Nor was he another Clinton. For the political elites, he was a roach at the salad bar, a booger in the gravy, looking to destroy the Bush/Clinton political oligarchy that was being foisted on the people. This Bush/Clinton charade was an idea that nobody but the elites wanted, no matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in an effort to sell it to the public, and that was just the money spent before the primaries were over.
Hillary Clinton would go on to spend more money to get elected than any human being ever had, $1.2 billion dollars, to be exact. By comparison, Donald Trump spent chump change. Worse still, even with virtually all the media on her side and a bottomless war chest, it still wasn’t enough to save Hillary’s or their political ambitions.
That’s where Richard Spencer comes into play, a man who could barely fill a 20 x 20 room with followers. But symbols can be bigger than reality, so turning Spencer into a symbol of White nationalist hate, was just what the witch doctor ordered—all of which was enabled by a compliant media.
Today, Richard Spencer is back in the news. Why? Better him than reading Barrack Obama's crimes on the front-page, seems to be the media’s thought process. In an effort to aid and abet Hillary, Obama and their army of sycophants in the press, they’ve unintentionally painted themselves into a corner.
The only real way out, is to fall on their swords and admit they were wrong. But that would make Donald Trump right. It would also potentially put Obama, Susan Rice and possibly, even Hillary Clinton in jail—and there is no salve strong enough to save their ego or their position of power in such a case. A scapegoat is the only hope of redemption they have.
That might be just an illusion, but the effect of a good illusion can be more than enough to change the world, making it better for a few. For the rest of us, however, the suffering will have just begun.
Mark Magula