Think American Culture and Mass Psychosis Concerning H1B Controversy
All of this can be confusing, we know.
So much of American society is being overhauled as we speak, and it isn’t from one side finally getting it right in a triumphant display of brilliant politics over “the other.” It also isn’t being overhauled in the direction of a clearcut victory, an obvious triumph over the decades of darkness so many are finally waking up to.
Trump’s Golden Age is not going to come tomorrow and without a fight.
I invite you to read Scott McKay’s post from today as both background and context for my own here. I focus on the cognitive framework of America while he focuses on culture, but both go hand in hand. In fact, he saved me from having to include it as support for what I’ll present today. Here is the link to his article followed by a brief snippet from The Hill:
MCKAY: On Vivek And The H1B Indians
[Vivek] Ramaswamy, co-chair of Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) alongside Musk, previously called to “gut” the H-1B visa program during his own presidential campaign. But he chimed in on the debate by blaming the lack of U.S.-born engineers on American culture, suggesting that it has “venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” pointing to pop culture examples like the sitcom “Saved by the Bell” and characters Zach and Slater being “venerated” over the school nerd Screech.
This is completely in line with so many an American’s assessment that our culture has lost sight of God. Vivek may sound arrogant and like a preacher from a moral high ground, but if we’re honest, isn’t what he says exactly what so many of us moan and complain about with fellow Americans ourselves? I won’t get much into the divine aspect of things today, but assuredly, that is precisely what we are dealing with here. This H1B question and Vivek’s post pose as shallow culture vs smart culture, but beneath even that is a more important one that so many of us agree on–shallow secular culture vs culture that worships God as a morally noble society.
This is part of what I mean when I say we must break binary traps. One integral component of that is looking in the mirror and taking inventory with what we actually think and feel. Strangely, and what is a primary source of the cognitive dissonance, is when we realize that someone like Vivek saying what he said is actually true, regardless of if we think he “looks American” or if we’d like to run a fist through his uppity, Ivy League mouth.
Over the last several days MAGA experienced a boiling civil war that had many enraged against the stance Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are taking concerning H1B Indians, and even had folks going all the way as to condemn the election of Trump. Trump voters were lectured and had fingers wagged at them in that “I told you so” sort of way.
On cue, therefore, it is clear that many who are waking up to the realities of impious globalism are still liable to fall for the same frameworks we’ve fallen for in the past, to fall for a paralyzing group-think simply in another form. Case in point:
A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect’s new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration MAGA base on the other.
Note the language: “on one side” and “on the other.”
This is the problem. It isn’t H1B. That is only a symptom, a story to get us talking about real truth. Luckily, the symptom seems to be mild enough to give us time to have that conversation so the root illness can be exposed.
As expected, the war seems to be settled a bit. This is not at all a surprise. This is hardly the first time this type of dust-up has happened in order to get people talking and educated on America’s civics. In fact we experienced it just recently:
LEJEUNE: This Week’s DC Circus — Exactly How Narrative Warfare Is Won in Real Time
Yes, some of Musk’s recent posts, if taken at the value of only the “ink on the screen,” could have been concerning. But as I/we have posited time and time again, the whole point to Musk’s purchase of X was to even the playing field in this info war and allow said information to vie for supremacy.
–Even if that means the Musks and Viveks and Trumps of the world must ignite the discussion with “ink on the screen” they know will be divisive.
–Even if, from a darker perspective, we must use those very weapons and confidences supplied to us by the Musks and Viveks and Trumps over the years against them if indeed they are involved in their own clandestine globalist psyop against (and not for) the American people. We must stay alert to one form of globalism morphing into another. The following is another way of looking at it:
It is the discussion itself that matters, not who is purportedly “right.” Whatever is “right” will invariably rise to the surface. At least that is the honest hope.
On the hopeful side of possibilities, it’s all about wiggling free from the mass psychosis of emotionalism and the binary trap into which Americans have been calcified. This week-long drama that was only a drama because we were told it needed to be a drama taught us many things, including one of utmost importance:
Americans are still highly susceptible to emotional stimuli and operate with a baseline of racing to a camp or a tribe or a side immediately. Humans find comfort in being a part of a team. And this, if we think about it, is exactly the framework of the Republican vs Democrat party psyop we are trying to break in our collective mind in the first place.
In other words, a new polarity filled with threats of censorship on one side made inside MAGA is just as bad as a previous framework that got people fired up enough to take interest in politics and Trump in the first place.
But America First Globalism is not the answer either. The sad realities of US labor dynamics have long been a discussion Americans have needed to have, and that discussion apparently is now being had–precisely because the Musks and Viveks and Trumps know how to push buttons.
One may think this is manipulative at best, propagandic and evil at worst, both views in themselves I have worked really hard to thread through my work. It is why I preach Christ so much, because ultimately he is the answer, but to get to him through a most complex web of deception, we must be cunning, patient, and nuanced in our thinking.
We must have these discussions. And to do that, people must educate themselves on what things like H1B even means. And to a most satisfying degree, it seems more or more are doing just that.
Such education is a necessary precursor and tilling of the soil toward any rise from the ashes for this country.
Trump has promised to reinvest in American workers and industry, ushering in a Golden Age for Americans. But from the start of such lofty language, I have seen it as either empty political talk or a signal that hard work will be needed to reach it. Americans will have to get our hands dirty to win our country. We will have to join the fight. This cannot be skipped. This goal is at odds with the global world order, which, while weakened apparently, still has its tentacles everywhere, a vice grip that has the people of the world, including America First citizens, exploited and enslaved inside a mass psychosis many including myself are still learning to break free from.
Take a look at this bit from FOX News:
There are two pieces of very good news that have come out of the infighting over H-1B visas for foreign skilled workers in Trump World this week. The first happy accident is that tensions are already easing, much to the chagrin of liberals who hoped they were witnessing a permanent schism.
The second, even better development, is that both sides of the admittedly zesty debate have listened, compromised, and arrived at a better and clearer set of positions for the Republican Party moving forward.
In the red corner, we had the twin heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk who appeared at first to call for expansion of the H-1B visa program that allows employers to use foreign labor when they cannot find qualified Americans.
In the other red corner, we had Steve Bannon and a host of prominent America Firsters all but calling for an end of the skilled foreign worker program, a policy that would no doubt cause considerable chaos and disruption.
On Saturday, President-elect Trump weighed in, sort of, telling the New York Post that he likes the visa program and uses it himself, but not endorsing any expansion. And this is of course the same Trump who fired board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority for using foreign workers over Americans.
By Sunday morning, as parents quietly sipped coffee and spied the news on their phones, the kids getting a little more sleep before church, things had calmed down considerably in this impromptu intramural immigration debate.
Exactly. This is how politics, not to mention baseline human interaction and debate, should work.
This is how we break free from the binary trap. This is how we stop believing as Gospel Charlie Kirk or Laura Loomer or Benny Johnson or Tim Poole or Steve Bannon or Michael Knowles or Candace Owens or or or or orrr just because our pet conservative talking head says something coherent. I think that’s one reason this is happening with story after story after story–to show Americans that it is not logical to think that any one “side” would or should agree 100% about anything. It is natural for these voices to disagree on certain things, and it should be equally natural for us to listen to it all and come to our own conclusions.
But we aren’t there yet. The first step is to expose the framework. That was proven in the social dynamics of people going as irate over the “other side’s” point of view inside MAGA as they would an argument involving a Harris or a Biden or an Obama or a Pelosi.
We cannot latch on to pet “conservative” voices just because they present news a certain way and give us something to repeat to family and friends just to sound informed. We cannot buy in to any- and everything they say. “Conservative” influencers disagreeing on this H1B issue is the best thing that could happen in everyone breaking free. It is a necessary feature of the info war, not a glitch.
You shouldn’t even trust me 100% right now as you finish reading this article. The complexity of all of this–and the emancipation from it–is precisely why I have evolved my ongoing work into over-arching narrative study–the overall impact and results from a little dustup as what H1B presented–particularly how it is addressing first principles in the Great Awakening and waking up the American people beyond the obvious political pillow fights.
In other words, I try not to analyze the pillow fights directly any more. I’ll find myself trapped in some false binary I’m not ready for if I do that. I try to wait and assess what organic things are rising because of this “civil war” that will actually push America into recognizing and defeating our true diabolical enemy. Again, Scott’s article speaks to such nuance, albeit in a different way.
I continue to invite you to do the same, as difficult as that can be to have patience and to embrace such uncertainty at times.
Republican vs Democrat isn’t the problem. It seems most folks have now long recognized that. But now the danger is falling prey to the pattern again, just with a shifted goalpost. The immediate problem we must conquer is the cognitive framework most Americans, including myself, are being emancipated from with a lot of hard work, recognition, and prayer. The framework keeps us in an Alinsky-driven, never-ending conflict with each other–whoever the latest “each other” is–and not with the true enemy of mankind both posing as friend and hiding in the shadows as the worst foe imaginable, again, even if in the end the Musks, Viveks, and Trumps lead us directly to them themselves.
“Fight fight fight” must mean something far different than just those with whom we disagree, unless we come to the understanding that it is actually the person in the mirror with whom we sometimes disagree.
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
Jeff LeJeune is the author of several books, writer for RVIVR and The Hayride, editor, master of English and avid historian, teacher and tutor, podcaster, and creator of LeJeune Said. Visit his website at jefflejeune.com, where you can find a conglomerate of content.
