I’m fond of pointing out that we have allowed a lunatic cult to gain control of our country. The last fifty years has been the byproduct of the Cult’s war on certain parts of reality. Material progress has not been effected because, sadly, the Cult has not seen fit to declare things like gravity to be social constructs. But, there’s always hope.

The Cult’s war on the Panel Penis People goes on, nonetheless. In America, football is the sport of the core and most popular where the Pale Penis People reign supreme. That’s the heartland, south and southwest. In the hotbeds of liberalism, boys are forced to play with dolls and play Quidditch with the girls so they end up soccer fans. Thus the NFL is on the same proscribed list as Walmart, fried foods and gluten.

But, reality is the thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it. The recent panic over the relative inflation levels of the footballs used last week has now followed the same arc as every other moral panic/hoax from the Cult. It turns out that footballs naturally vary in pressure based on temperature change.

What’s amazing to me is how otherwise sensible people keep falling for these hoaxes. Just in the last year we have had two big hoaxes regarding the “war on black bodies.” There’s been a long list of rape hoaxes, culminating in the outlandish Rolling Stone disaster. Time after time it is shown that the progressive media is lying or deranged, but we keep falling for it.

This is why there was no serious internal opposition to Hitler after 1933. The loudspeakers were filling the public space with agit-prop. Similarly, the Soviets dominated the public communications, leaving no room for questioning. Today, the North Koreans maintain that lunatic regime simply by controlling the means of communications.

In modern America, the Cult holds all of the cultural high ground. Even when they indulge in the sort of lunacy we are seeing today, there’s no one on the stage pointing it out until the damage is done. Rape on campus may be nothing more than a sick fantasy of lonely coeds, but thousands of college boys are sitting in rape awareness classes, regardless.

Fox News, which was supposed to be the alternative to the dominant media, has been cowed into line by the Obama administration. For the first couple of years the Cult boycotted the network because Fox would not fall into line. Eventually, Fox did what was easiest and hired a bunch of moonbats and fired their dissidents. Certain subjects, like immigration are now forbidden.

Every human society with any level of complexity has an animating ideology. Hunter-gatherers rely on blood and time to establish their order. The old men are in charge and the young men are in training to be in charge one day. Big man societies rely on blood and a marginal advantage in material goods. The chief lives in a bigger huts and has extra food to hand out in exchange for loyalty.

States are different as they have lots of unrelated people living together. The boss has to have a reason to rule over those unrelated to him other than force. Subject people will never cooperate fully so you need something else. If the king is a god, then that will work. If the religion of the people says the king must have three big toes, then those with the third big toe are in line to rule. Magic blood was the basis for rule in the West for a millennium.

In modern times, this has flipped upside down. The ruling elites in America began to embrace this lunatic cult we call liberalism after the Civil War. Unlike the newly converted Kings in sixth century Britain, they did not try to convert the masses. Instead they sought to gain control of the existing institutions. Imagine Medieval Europe where the royal class is Catholic and the people are pagans, with a sprinkling of Catholics in the lower administrative posts.

In a way, we have been colonized. Modern America, and I suppose modern Europe, functions more like the British Raj than a self-governing ethno-state. The ruling caste is not defined by blood, but by credentials demonstrating the adherent’s fidelity to the faith. The masses are permitted some of their rituals and customs, as long as they do not interfere with the systematic looting of the country.

In conclusion, if you hold out any hope for America, you must be rooting for the New England Patriots to win the big game.