A Coup du Publique

A coup d’etat is when a small group of people suddenly try to take power and subjugate a nation by force.

A coup du publique is when a small group of people already in power try to further subjugate an entire population by methodically taking away whatever rights they may have left.

That global sense of unease, that nearly audible universal skincrawl taking place across the planet, that unquestionable deprivation of the right to ask questions, that which is happening right now: that is a coup du publique in action.

In a run-of-the-mill coup d’etat, it is axiomatic that the people staging the coup seize the main radio station, usually even before they track down and meat hook the unfortunate Great Leader of the People Terror of the Nation’s Enemies President For Life and replace him with some other Grand High Dirtbag.

From Guatemala to Gabon, from Albania to Zimbabwe, from the Congo to the Congo to the Congo, taking control of the information infrastructure of a nation has historically been a key component to any successful coup.

And the loss of the capital’s main radio or television station has been a hallmark of failed coup attempts; take Gabon a few years ago which went from this to this  –  in just a few days.

Successful coups are usually well-planned tight knit affairs that target very specific objectives – they are not usually widespread uprisings. Quite the opposite, in fact – for a coup to have the best chance of succeeding the public has to kept apart and kept in the dark: (p.s. – this is a great primer in general on how to stage a coup.)

As in a natural disaster, the public is kept at home and fed only very specific information “for their safety.”  This frozen confusion allows the coup to solidify in place and it is this sense of frozen confusion that being promulgated by those forces slithering into places of power as part of the coup du publique.

In a sense, a coup is the opposite of a revolution in that it thrives not on the active involvement of the citizenry, but its passive isolation.  

Besides the fact that it was over in time for dinner, that participants called the next day asking if they could stop by to pick up jackets they left behind, that a significant percentage of the participants were being paid by certain government agencies to be there, that participants stood around taking pictures of statues, and that the police on scene may have allowed a a large proportion of the protestors in is why the tragic stupidity of January 6 was not a coup or an insurrection or anything more than a stupid thoughtless gift to the Democrats and their deep state allies.

But what if you flip that script just a tiny bit and make sure that – before any other planning, ally recruiting, etc. is even started – you had quietly, incrementally taken control the information infrastructure first.  A few years ago, that meant radio and television stations and phone company HQ – today that means the internet as it is all three in one.

And if instead of overthrowing a government, you did this to ensure a government’s survival and expansion – the public be damned.  Then you would not have a coup d’etat but a coup du publique.

And that is what is happening in real time around the world right now. But this coup is not about replacing the government – it is about replacing the people.

It is replacing the right to speak with the right to be quiet.  It is replacing the right to strive with the right to be coddled.  It is replacing the rights of the individual with the rights of the collective.

In California, this process – in part – has taken the shape of a concerted effort by the state legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom and others to eradicate both the ideas of freedom of expression for all and the autonomy of local government agencies. Government and academic speech codes and doublespeak and jargon are the linguistic levers being used to simultaneously till the soil and muddy the waters of public opinion.

The move to centralization of thought and action is a key component of this effort. As Nero or Caligula or Stalin – either way not very good company to be in – once wished that there was only “one neck to strangle” in order to make their jobs that much easier.

A recent and raw example of this in action is AB 1078 and Newsom’s move against the duly elected school board in Temecula. Using laws that do not exist, threats of lawsuits that cannot possibly prevail, and the bully (literally in this case) pulpit provided him by a collaborationist media, Newsom has made it clear that even though by law local school boards decide curricula he will not stand for any deviation from his woke masterplan (N.B – instead of reconsidering their action, one wonders if the Temecula school board could have avoided any repercussions by buying more movies from Newsom’s wife.)

The state’s fight against Huntington Beach is another example of this snowballing trend.  The city is fighting for its constitutional rights to decide how to define itself; Newsom and wokeitarians do not like that one bit and are blustering their way through civil courts to make Huntington Beach overbuild itself and to send a very clear message to every other city in the state – “You really want some of this?”

The Los Angeles Department of Public Health shut down public comments on its social media sites in preparation for yet another mask mandate, and the idea of a vehicle miles traveled tax that would entail tracking the location of every vehicle every second of every day is gaining momentum; both are direct assaults on basic freedoms and both ideas – tracking people, shutting people up – are crucial to the success of the coup du publique.

The new state hate site is one of the more insidious tools of the coup du publique. Not only does the state literally seek to criminalize thought, it is encouraging the citizenry to turn one another in for non-crimes.

In tracking the downfall of East Germany’s notorious Stasi secret police, Australian reporter Anna Funder asked a former agency official why so many people – formally at least 3% of the population of the country, informally possibly up to 25% –  cooperated with the agency and informed on their neighbors.  His response was chilling:

“Well, some of them were convinced of the cause.  But I think it was mainly because informers got the feeling that, doing it, they were somebody.  You know, someone was listening to them for a couple hours a week, taking notes.  They felt that had it over other people.”

And that is one of the crucial elements of human nature that Newsom and his ilk are counting on. As with “racism” of late, the supply of “hate” has had to be increased to meet demand as there must be enough for the state to use against its citizens.

This is, of course, not confined to California, though the state may for once actually be leading the way as it so often claims to do.

Globally, it started, like most coups, in secret but – upon meeting little or no organized resistance from the public the media or the government agencies whose power it seeks to usurp – it has become more brazen of late.  While it may not be happening on a single rainy night, the pieces nonetheless are locking into place across the planet.

The World Health Organization wants, like The California Endowment, to broaden the definition of “health” to include every single aspect of life and to be given the power to declare global emergencies – like the recent pandemic – on a whim without even having to consult any national government.  The World Economic Forum loves it while those who value freedom and real democracy are appalled.

Even more recently the effort has become surprisingly open in its goals and intents.  European Union regulator Thierry Breton, foreshadowing the enforcement of the Kafkaesque EU Digital Services Act has said that Twitter will “fly by our rules” come the end of August.

“I am the regulator and have to tell them what is the law,” Breton told France24, adding that social media companies will have to immediately delete “hateful content” under the new regimen.

Guess who gets to define “hateful content?”

The EU regulations – unthinkable only a few years ago – are being called the global benchmark for how to best squelch misinformation, thoughtcrimes, differences of opinions, new ideas, complaints, discomforts, and – especially – any inconvenient truth.

This coup is not one of bullets but of butter. It does not promise an escape from the tyranny of the past but brazenly proclaims a new tyranny, under which people will be forcibly cared for from cradle to grave.

The American revolution revolved around individuals asserting their rights to create a new system of governance – We the People.

The coup du publique carries a diametrically different reason and will result in a final soul-crushing status for all humans:

We Were the People.