Leftist elites might not have aristocratic titles, but they have all the arrogance of emperors and the ambition of divinities. They could do with the reminder that used to be given Roman conquerors during their triumphs: “Remember, thou art mortal.”
From weather manipulation to DNA tampering to euthanasia to transgenderism to plays for mass international dictatorship, the leftist elites of the West definitely display a god complex. They want to be in total control of how many people exist, when they are born, when they die, what sex a person has, who is born, who is allowed to procreate, who is allowed to own property and vehicles, who is permitted to speak publicly, and everything in between. But they are only men after all, which is why their efforts at altering reality always end in disaster.
Today is the anniversary of the 1422 death of English king Henry V, whose war in France in an effort to expand his kingdom was immortalized by William Shakespeare. In one thought-provoking scene of Shakespeare’s play, the Bard gives an insight into the equal humanity of every individual, whether he happens to be born royalty or peasant, and also reflects on how many ordinary men have to die without recompense every time a king aspires to expand his territory.
Henry himself, disguised as he talks with his men, acknowledges to some degree that without a crown, he is the same as any other man:
For, though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish as ours are.
The men discuss how little of a stake the ordinary soldier has in this war for territorial expansion, and how they doubt their cause’s justice. “But if the cause be not good,” soldier Williams says, “the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.”
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With great power comes great responsibility. And power tends to corrupt, urging even good men to ignore the harms that pursuit of their personal goals will cause others. That is why America’s Founders wanted no monarchs, no aristocrats, no one who could spend his whole life in political office — and why they favored term limits and strict restrictions on government.
Unfortunately, in our day, many people spend their entire lives as career politicians, growing rich off taxpayer money and back-room deals, ignoring the Constitution and violating rights purely for their own benefit. The Democrats particularly do so. Their eugenics, war-mongering, sexual perversion, Marxist political policies, and aggressive demands for every person to conform totally to their opinions demonstrate an over-weaning pride.
But they ought to remember that pride goeth before a fall. We need to double down on the culture war and campaigning ahead of the midterms so that we can undercut their power and remind them in a way they cannot ignore that, indeed, a senator or a bureaucrat is but a man — his title and taxpayer-funded paycheck laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man.
