The Global Oligarchic Party (GOP) Thesis
Is it creative? Not really. But this framework has helped me understand events dating back over a decade, and may prove helpful in understanding future Republican moves.
Hello, friends,
On this, the day the final nail was put in the coffin of the concept of equal justice under the law in America, I’m coming to you with something I’ve been thinking about since the election and in light of frameworks by Bernie Sanders and recent moves by a certain Oligarch to undermine our foreign alliances.
It’s pretty simple. I’d say it’s ‘conspiracy-theory brained,’ even - if it weren’t for how overtly true it seems to be.
We call the Republican Party the “Grand Old Party” because, since time immemorial (This source says the 1870’s, but it also autoplays a video, so maybe don’t click unless you’re curious/doubtful?) the party has tried to retain a connection to its heyday of men like Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, even as its strayed so far away as to be unrecognizable. This contrasts with the Democratic party, which wants very little to do with its history prior to the 1930’s - and, honestly, even past then for a lot of them. You know, the whole Confederacy, KKK and that kinda stuff.
(Note: It is a different party today. That’s my point.)
(Also note: Some ‘neo-Liberal’ Democrats I’ve heard talk would rather think of themselves as a 1990’s invention w/Clinton coming to power - fuck all that social justice and equal opportunity stuff from the glory days.)
This has led to the initialism “GOP” becoming a stand-in term for Republicans. They’re the Party Of Lincoln! Except, you know, when they are expressly secessionist. “National Divorce” statements by Marjorie Taylor Greene, anyone?
But I - being an all-mighty omnipotently influential figure, right? (Hahahahaaaaa) I’ve come up with a new meaning for “GOP.” It’s not a trick question, it’s in the title of the article.
Ahhh, but what does it really mean?
What Is A Global Oligarchy?
This is really the key question, here, and for good reason. In many ways, it’s familiar. In many other ways, it’s an amalgamation of other things. And, yet, as it’s a still-evolving, still-very-fragile concept, it’s very possible it might be overthrown.
In many ways, it echoes old feudalistic concepts surrounding the notion of, “This person is the titular lord of that thing, with so-and-so reporting to them and so-and-so underneath that person.”
My gaming Youtube channel is approaching 10 years of activity now, and my very first project was a modded Crusader Kings II (CK2) campaign because I am, by temperament and training, a historically-inclined person. And I can’t necessarily explain what feudalism is because it really has a lot of different historical periods, applications, and practices. “Japanese feudalism” was similar to, but not identical to “European feudalism,” and even the term “feudalism” has been disputed - and for good reason.
Overarchingly, though, a Global Oligarchy would carve out borders for certain people to control, and carve others within them. Why do you think Trump is ranting about annexing our neighbors? Because - in CK2 terms - he wants to eat them, then create some vassals who will have the authority to assign them to his chosen subordinates who will do with them as they please - provided they retain loyalty to Trump.
After all, an Oligarchy is rather simply defined as a government by a small group of people. It even states that ‘nobility’ is a criteria for potential inclusion into the Oligarchy.
It’s here I need to stress that Plutocracy is also a similar plausible framework to use - it just doesn’t fit into ‘GOP’ so well.
Gotta ‘win the meme war,’ right?
Maybe that’s an article for another day! Maybe I’ll even come back and link it if-and-when it gets made.
A Global Oligarchy is exactly this: A rule by a small handful of elite, powerful people with titles of prestige that no longer remotely resemble what they mean. “President” was chosen as the title for our Chief Executive because it sounded kind of like the leader of a small group. Does President Vladimir Putin ‘sit in front of’ a group that has the overwhelming power in his nation? Or does he rule it with an iron fist?
Donald Trump is about to become the President of the US with virtually unlimited power - including the legal right to assassinate anyone he wants without criminal penalty so long as he calls it an “official act.” Neat, huh?
Trump’s petulance regarding our foreign allies is, thus, calculated to create an atmosphere of fear which he can use to deprive Americans of their legal rights. Of course, he also wants to do this with Mexico, claiming some kind of virus requires us to shut down the border. You know! The kind of restrictions on our freedoms that Republicans absolutely hated when it came to protecting their fellow American from a deadly pandemic? THOSE restrictions! See - it’s good when Trump does it!
…Apologies. I’m sorry if you sense anger coming from me. It’s just the hypocrisy as concerning Human lives is annoying, is all.
“But wait!” you might protest.
“Didn’t you start off talking about Elon Musk’s behavior? Why are you so in on Trump?”
I respect that question. Trump is the official leader. This means a lot of what he says gets attention, but is often trolly and superfluous.
Musk’s behavior, on the other hand, is far more insidious as it’s made both as a private citizen as well as under the guise of a quasi-governmental “department” that isn’t really a department at this time, but instead is more like an advisory body. So he is both “part of” the government as well as “apart from” the government, and therein lies your problem.
If you’re a foreign leader, you have to treat him both as incredibly serious - and incredibly unimportant. If he says something that turns out to happen, you get “you knew.” If it turns out not to happen, “I’m not officially in charge of that” becomes your status quo.
Official Roles Mean Little
Let’s take Musk trying to rehabilitate the Nazis by calling them “Communists,” or whatever he did in his little Twitter Spaces meeting with the leader of the German AfD party, Alice Weidel.
Musk hopes he can frame the Nazis as Socialists (I believe Some More News tackled how that’s a bunch of bullshit), which simply isn’t true. The Socialists and Communists were among some of the very first purged by the Nazis at Dachau, along with Queer people and disabled people.
This would allow him and his allies to begin framing American “Conservative” Capitalism - and, of course, it’s wealthiest denizens as its torch-bearers - as the only antidote to “Communism.” And since any anti-Capitalist sentiment will be viewed as Communism - well, that’s a problem.
But it’s not my point, here.
My point is, instead, that if Musk can rehab the Nazis, he can put the “anti-Nazi” “Conservatives” who seem to have a lot of similar policies in a better position to win the upcoming elections. If they win, not only do they owe a debt of gratitude to Musk, but they - as “Conservatives,” themselves - essentially join a global order which includes such “great” nations as the United States.
And, of course, Russia.
See, Russia is the originator of the Global Oligarchy Party. Just study Aleksandr Dugin’s “Foundations Of Geopolitics” and a lot of Russia’s moves will make sense - and so will Trump’s. Take a look at Wikipedia’s outline of Dugin’s plans for the United States:
What better “Special Services” asset could there be than a government of friendly Oligarchs ready and waiting to copy Russia’s ‘success’ at butchering up its countries’ resources for the tables of it’s rulership?
Put another way: Is it any surprise that just before the Canadian elections, Trump talks about offering it a way into the United States? The “51st” state, he’s been calling it - so often that I’m not bothering to put a hyperlink and trusting you can run a basic internet search.
That alienates our allies, isolating us further.
On top of that really unpleasant stuff, it’s also got the advantage of creating a sense in Canada that it has little other choice but to ally with us. And if it can’t earn our support as a liberal-leaning government, maybe if it jumps to a Conservative one, well, then Trump might back off a little bit and leave “Governor” Pierre Poilivere to run Canada as he sees fit - provided he does what Trump wants, from time to time.
Sort of like a Belarus, if you catch my drift?
So while Trump is the official President, it is widely understood by war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu that Elon is the unofficial President. Elon can throw out an idea and see if Trump likes it - and if Trump does, Trump can push it to be successful. If Trump doesn’t, or if it’s a threat that’s received poorly, Trump can say it had no bearing on his judgment, for Elon isn’t officially, well, anything.
The same goes for billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, by the way: They can shove Queer people out of their apps all they want, make it permissible for other hate speech to exist on their platforms because of the “recent election,” and create the illusion of a whiter, less-diverse America for their audience of…I’m not quite sure who, these days. The bots they want to claim are Black people, but are created by mostly white people (and one Asian dude, IIRC)?
So What Can We Do About This?
Usually, I like to give solutions, and the truth is, we need an opposition party in this country.
Unfortunately, the Democrats are not interested in that. They’re busy salivating over a bill named after an unfortunate victim that will allow the government to deport any immigrant so much as accused of a crime. Ain’t that some bullshit? You could be a legal immigrant with residency status, get accused of shoplifting, maybe get the benefit of the doubt so far as a statistically-dubious police lineup, and then be slated for deportation without ever being convicted of a crime.
Don’t get me wrong: If you’re here without proper documentation, and you commit a crime, you should be sent back to your home country. That makes sense. If it’s really bad, and you aren’t a Citizen, you should be kicked out. That makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is a law that would make any accusation against a non-citizen a near-certainty for deportation.
That’s especially negligent behavior when you’re handing power over to a guy whose slated goal is mass-deportations the likes of which Operation Wetback could only dream of on his mind. Yes, that was its real name.
The 1950’s, man.
Obviously the usual canards of, “Call your Congressperson, Senator or Representative, and demand it not pass” on this one sound nice, but since Democrats consider immigration one of the reasons (which isn’t un-true, just not in the way they think) they lost the 2024 election, well, the Democrats aren’t behaving like an opposition party would.
They are collaborating.
You know! Bipartisanship!
What that means is what I said in my post about why I left the Democratic party. You have to look at your local terrain and figure out what works best for you. My local party never brooked any kind of challenge when other, far more qualified people made primary inquiries or attempted to run for office. I know I called the county committee multiple times and said, “Hey, I’m an award-winning teacher, I want to run for something, can someone help me get started” back around 2016-2017 after Trump’s first victory, and nobody got back to me.
So they obviously didn’t want us left-leaning people there, so one by one most of us (that is, the small collection of semi-distant political pals I have in the area) have left the party and gone on to do our own thing.
What was I saying? Oh, right!
Look to your political ground. If your local Democrats are willing to fight, and understand the problems, then join them. Help them. Do all you can!
If they aren’t, however, then join a third-party and help that grow to the best of your abilities.
It isn’t much. But, every little act of resistance helps defray the Global Oligarchy.
Because we have been somewhat close to this situation, before. The Grand Old Party existed in such a time and place that it helped fight against Oligarchic control over the United States back when Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt was on the scene. The Democrats in the 1960’s did help create positive social change, even if their leading voices were gunned down.
I wish I knew where I saw it, but I saw someone say something along the lines of: If they didn’t need the propaganda, they wouldn’t do it.
Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Putin, and the rest are trying to make it seem like they already rule the world. That they can carve it up as they see fit, and that Democracies around the world have a choice between becoming their own little Oligarchic nations, or being destroyed by them.
I refuse that notion.
We will not surrender.
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