I admit that the aftermath of this election has been fascinating. While the current occupant of the White House means almost nothing to me (it means a little bit to me simply because the occupant gives me a lot of blogging material) I do enjoy seeing people’s reactions to the election.
The political left has been entertaining because they suddenly found a love of firearms, suppressing free speech, limiting the State, opposing war, and other political positions that they were entirely against during Obama’s reign. Likewise, the political right has been busy throwing out their supposed principles by finding a love of executive orders and suppressing sedition.
But the most entertaining crowds, in my opinion, are self-proclaimed libertarians an anarchists. It has been fun watching Stefan Molyneux transform from a minor cult leader with anarchist leanings into a full blown statist with a huge chubby for keeping foreigners out of his beloved fatherland. Christopher Cantwell has gone from a loud and obnoxious but mostly harmless libertarian to total fascist with a fetish for helicopters. But nobody has provided me with more entertainment for my buck than Alex Jones. Alex Jones, a humble water filter salesman, was once obsessed with the idea that the governments of the world were creating a new world order that had the express purpose of enslaving all of humanity. Now? Now he’s willing to lay down his life for his reptilian shape shifting overlords:
ALEX JONES (HOST): Trump is so fire-breathing, so energetic, so cunning, so real, and he’s having results so amazing that it just makes me endeared to Trump – I’m ready to die for Trump, at this point. And I’m already ready to die for America, it’s the same feeling I have for America, because he is America, you’re America.
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
I hadn’t heard about Stefan Molyneux’s transformation. When he’s on, he’s brilliant, and I used to follow his work, but over the past few years he seems to have focused more on his own obsessions (hatred of family for example) and I’ve lost interest.
Cantwell is a good writer, but IMHO doesn’t have much breadth. I’m sorry to hear that he, too, has gone Statist.
Alex Jones is a blowhard with an irritating voice, singularly ill-suited for his chosen format. Nothing he does would surprise me.
The last paragraph is worthy of including in a book. ;-j