ok to but to be fair, the creator of Lemmy is a tankie. not “anyone I don’t like is a tankie” tankie, but “genuinely supports the Soviet Union and CCP” tankie.

The establishment wants to:

• Get rid of government it does not control
• Grow the government it controls
• Remove any class hierarchies it doesn’t control
• Replace them with hierarchies it does control
• Remove anyone who got power outside of means they directly control
• Increase the classes of people whose power relies on means they directly control

This can be done by lying to both the left and the right, because that’s why they have rooms full of the smartest people on earth crafting narrative framing to let them do the above while pretending they’re doing something else, and using overwhelming power to implement their schemes.

You might not like it, but COVID showed exactly what everyone’s actual attitudes were. Apparently the left loves bureaucrats, the biggest most authoritarian governments in the history of the world paid for by selling out future generations, and multinational drug companies. Swing and a miss.

Now don’t get me wrong, the right is fucked too. Their narrative was the establishment narrative very recently, and even now as views start to change I can already see it that some of the old right-wing establishment types think their “side” is getting a toehold and they stand up and start trying to do the exact same thing just using their narratives. After 9/11 we got to see the exact same bullshit but instead of going after a virus it was going after “terrorism”.

Isn’t it funny that no matter which “side” you choose, they want to control your life more and spend more money on Government that magically seems to find it into the pockets of the ultra-rich buddies of whoever that part of the establishment happens to be?

Of course, there’s an anti-establishment left and an anti-establishment right, and while they might not agree on what the final destination might be, there’s a lot of common ground to be found as well (and common attacks from the mass establishment and their pawns on both sides of the aisle)