Policy Separated from Politics:
I am related to Hamiltons who came to Canada as United Empire
Loyalists but I cannot say for sure they were related to this
man who clearly was also a monarchist. William Hamilton Stewart
is one of the Stuart historians I have quoted and his name is
proof for the Hamiltons being part of the Stuart Hibernian and
Merovingian continuum. This man says his family history goes
back to the Berbers for at least 20,000 years and I think he
could go further than that if he wanted to use archaeology and
the work of Gimbutas.
Here is Noam Chomsky making a most important connection.
Politics has become something totally absurd. We see Mr. Chomsky
makes a good case for something quite the opposite of what
people call democracy, being in fact, social engineering by
elites.
“A similar move from Stalinist commissar to celebration of
America is quite standard in modern history, and it doesn't
require much of a shift in values, just a shift in judgment as
to where power lies.
Independently of Jefferson and Bakunin, others were coming to
the same understanding in the nineteenth century. One of the
leading American intellectuals was Charles Francis Adams, who in
1880 described the rise of what is now called the
"post-industrial society" by Daniel Bell and Robert Reich and
John Kenneth Galbraith and others. This is 1880, remember. A
society in which, Adams says, ‘the future is in the hands of our
universities, our schools, our specialists, our scientific men
and our writers and those who do the actual work of management
in the ideological and economic institutions.’ Nowadays they're
called the "technocratic elite" and the "action intellectuals"
or the new class or some other similar term. Adams, back in
1880, concluded that ‘the first object of thinking citizens,
therefore, should be not to keep one or another political party
in power, but to insist on order and submission to law.’ Meaning
that the elites should be permitted to function in what's called
"technocratic isolation," by the World Bank -- I'm being a
little anachronistic here, that's modern lingo -- or, as the
London Economist puts the idea today, ‘policy should be
insulated from politics.’ That's the case in free Poland, they
assure their readers, so they don't have to be concerned about
the fact that people are calling for something quite different
in free elections. They can do what they like in the elections,
but since policy is insulated from politics and technocratic
insulation proceeds, it really doesn't matter. That's democracy.
A decade earlier, in 1870, Adams had warned -- they were
worried then about universal suffrage, people were fighting for
the right to vote -- he warned that universal suffrage would
‘bring the government of ignorance and vice, with power in the
hands of the European and especially Celtic proletariat on the
Atlantic coast,’ those horrible Irish people, ‘an African
proletariat on the shores of the Gulf and a Chinese proletariat
on the Pacific.’ Adams didn't foresee the sophisticated
techniques that would be developed in the twentieth century to
ensure that policy remains insulated from politics as the
franchise was extended through popular struggle and to guarantee
that the general public would remain marginalised and
disaffected, subdued by the new spirit of the age and coming to
see themselves not as free people who have a right to dignity
and independence but as atoms of consumption who sell themselves
on the labour market, at least when they're lucky.
Adams was in fact expressing an old idea. Eighty years earlier
Alexander Hamilton had put it clearly. He said there was the
idea that your people are a great beast and that the real
disease is democracy. That's Hamilton. These ideas have become
ever more entrenched in educated circles, as Jefferson's fears
and Bakunin's predictions were increasingly realised. The basic
attitudes coming into this century were expressed very clearly
by Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, Robert Lansing,
attitudes that led to Wilson's Red Scare {While the real power
behind Wilson was supporting Trotsky and the Russian Experiment
- Col. House.}, as it was called, which destroyed labour and
independent thought for a decade.” (1)
The Hegelian Dialectic that sees both ends played against the
middle and all other perspectives clearly was at work as Lafitte
was followed by Colonel House who had lived in the same house in
Galveston where his father took over the business of
blockade-running that Lafitte had made a fortune doing.
