Season 3 Podcast 159 The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism Rule # 16, Strengthen the Weak. Weaken the Strong
The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 16: Strengthen the Weak; Weaken the Strong
As with all other Machiavellian rules, none consider morality, right and wrong, just and unjust, good and evil, fair and unfair, or moral and immoral. They are all dominated by the central rule that the ends justify the means. Rule # 16 says, Defend the weak and weaken the powerful but keep all foreigners under subjugation. In Machiavelli’s own words
“Again, the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful among them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there.” (Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince)
Machiavelli, of course, is speaking of nations, but in a democratic republic such as ours, they apply to minorities in an effort to control the voting process. Predators capitalize on vulnerability and exploit it, separating the weak from the protective herd. That is the law of the jungle. Liberals exploit that weakness by separating the minority groups and offering them protection from an imaginary enemy, offering themselves as saviors; yet they feed on their misery. The quid pro quo is their vote.
The problem, however, in a democratic republic is transparent. In a government ruled by the majority, laws are passed to protect the individual. The laws are now on the books that protect all minorities. How does the left get around the fact that they don’t need a champion when they have the laws of the United States on their side?
They simply ignore the facts and play on emotions. They play on built in fears, prejudices, biases, and traditions of the past. They pretend slavery still exists when it doesn’t. They pretend that prejudice still exists when it doesn’t. They pretend that systemic racism exists when it doesn’t. Systemic racism is a new term, and a strange one at that.
Systemic comes from the word system which, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary means
1. a group of units so combined as to form a whole and to operate in unison
2. the body as a functioning whole: a group of bodily organs that together carry on some vital function
3. a definite scheme or method of procedure or classification
4. regular method or order
To systematize means to make into a system: arrange methodically. Systemic means of, relating to, or affecting the whole-body such as a disease. Related words are systematic and systematize
Systematic means to arrange in order systems, orderly, methodical, according to rule, regular.
Systematize means to arrange in a system, regulate methodize, make systematic, systemize, standardize, classify, categorize, organize, reduce to order, put into a systematic form control.
It is smoke and mirrors. Just the opposite has happened. Thanks to great men like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King and thousands of good-hearted people laws have been put in place that guarantee individual equality under the law. Any law that treats one group of people differently than any other group is racist and should be stricken from the books. You cannot favor minorities any more than you can favor majorities. Our laws, to be just, must be blind and apply to all citizens equally. You cannot use racist laws to cure racism.
Any thinking person would dismiss charges of systemic racism upon analysis. It self-destructs. If there is a system of laws in our country that are inherently racist, they should be stricken from the books, but wait, they have been. That is what the sixties were all about. That is what Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King died for.
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