The freedom of new voices

You will notice that in most of the media, especially mainstream media, and among the pundits of the political class, they'll use terms like "big government" rather than "statism", because statism is too specific and harsh. Among some people, "big" can be seen as derogatory, but it's not as harsh as "statism", and it's easer to portray big and small as personal preferences.

I start out with this to introduce the subject of frustration many people feel who have been immersed in the political class, the old media and universities, over the unregulated voices arising in cyberspace -- but, not just in cyberspace, but through all channels of communication. These new voices are discussing politics but they are not of the political world -- the new voices come from the private sector and they are unhampered by the rules, political correctness or etiquette of the political class. They are radio and tv personalities, bloggers, writers, commentators of all sorts outside the tradition political class and State-influenced media.

The State and all its dependent branches are in their own kairos, busy manipulating crises to establish the political means to societal transformation -- the rhetoric is, for the most part, clothed in careful choice to obfuscate progressive intentions, but, also, rhetoric is cleverly used against perceived State enemies to establish their version of the struggle between good and evil. It's as if the political class has chosen this moment in time to make up the rules of debate and rig the game -- the rules of communication are important to winning the battle. The battle is being set as government moving society forward to a better, more secure, equal and just future against the reactionary forces of the private sector who want to go backwards to white domination, capitalist control, distinct class divisions, racial inequality, bigotry, militarism and heterosexual purity. This is the State's big moment in American history to finally take control of the economy through energy use, media, finances, education and healthcare.

The State machine is attempting to control the conversation and manage the debate toward the preferred outcome, through smears, obfuscation, language-manipulation, mariginalization of opposing views and imagery. However, the new voices arising in the prviate sector aren't shackled by the rules of the political class, and this is frustrating to those who are operating within the political system. Many of them bristle when the term "statism" is used -- they haughtily dismiss "socialism" as ignorant hyperbole -- they snicker when the founders are referenced -- they patronizingly explain how the Constitution is a living document -- and they cry racism when the welfare state is pilloried. The problem is that the attempt to control the conversation is failing.

The new voices are free, and unless laws are passed to censor these voices, they're not intimidated and will not shut up or cower from the pressure. There's a new awareness in the private sector, and it's growing each day. We are not bound to the rules of political correctness -- we are not running for any office -- we are not watching our language, making it academically thick, pretentious and ultimately meaningless, or checking our ideas to please a partisan editor -- we are not under the political pressure of a university to preach the modern liberal gospel -- we aren't threatened by union bosses to follow the party line -- we're free to think, speak and write as we like -- like it or not.

The moderates of the political class who have capitulated to State pressure and political correctness feel it necessary to criticize and belittle the new voices they think are too raw and extreme, but they're silent on the worst abuses of the State when it comes to violation of rights regarding person and property -- the right side of the political class blows with the popular wind, as they perceive it, hoping to regain power, while the left side tries to get as much of the progressive agenda as possible passed before they lose power.

What all three groups are failing to recognize is that independents are listening to new voices and different ideas -- they're speaking with new voices and acting on different ideas. America will no longer be a State-run nation, bound by the restrictions of political correctness -- we're moving on. It might not be that apparent yet, but it will be.