If our dark times have obviated anything, it would be the absurd notion that democracy ensures the needs and will of millions can be addressed through the political process. Supposedly, in a democracy, the people elect representatives and leaders to do their will in exchange for being voted into office.
Yet, the President is a senile child molester who walks into the bushes instead of the door to the Oval Office, the Senate Minority Leader is an 81 year old who might’ve had a stroke in the middle of a speech, one of his democratic colleagues needs a computer to have a conversation due to stroke complications, and another is sitting on the edge of the grave with both feet in, how could we possibly pretend they have the ability to do the will of their constituents? All politicians are for sale, so they never did, but still, it’s a perfectly reasonable rhetorical question.
This seems to be the delusion that Americans cling to the hardest, which is why I’m unfortunately skeptical the Trump saga will do much to sway the faith of the masses. I’m referring to Heritage America, the emerging majority really doesn’t know or care much about this stuff. If he could get more votes than any incumbent in United States history, and all incumbents who increased their vote shares were reelected, but this wasn’t enough to keep him in the White House or out of prison, what will this signal to these people? Only time will tell.
Trump was a master class in how Americans can vote for someone to do a set of specifically popular things and then his own administration and party will actively thwart and subvert his agenda. Instead of correcting misconceptions, I fear this is a matter of old faiths dying hard. Everyone has been raised on this “freedom rah, rah, rah” shit. So, when you point out that the system doesn’t represent them, it can piss them off even though they’re angry about not receiving reasonable things that they need from this system.
For dissidents, this is a frustrating paradox; but to them, it sounds like you want to take away their freedom and send them to a Nuremburg rally. Let me rattle off the basic stuff normal people want prioritized:
- Blacks under control (they’d never say it this way)
- Kids
- Safe, functional schools for these kids
- The ability to buy an affordable home in a safe, pleasant community
- Some sort of workable health insurance system
- A single, full time job with benefits
- The ability to retire someday
- Grandkids
The government actively pursues a variety of policies for which nobody gave it an electoral mandate with ever-increasing aggression and recklessness to ensure most Millennials and younger will never have any of these things. They all know they won’t have these things, too. But this is a free country because you can do all the sodomy you desire while you’re not driving for Uber between shifts at Walmart. By contrast, Ghaddafi was more or less providing all these things to the people of Libya (by their standards) before NATO destroyed it. I’m the extremist though for pointing this out.
One of the reasons these younger generations will never retire is that they won’t be able to get by on a Social Security check if they’re still paying credit card debt, student loans, and rent. They can’t buy houses because our nation’s industrial base was exported so many of those good jobs are gone. This is a broader issue that some seem to understand is encapsulated by entities like BlackRock, which are also buying up the sort of homes they could’ve afforded to turn them into a permanent renter class.
Meanwhile, our free-market economy is in the thrall of the same plutocracy that controls our political system. BlackRock and its cronies control majority stakes in all the major publicly traded companies and exercise sway over everything else through tactics like ESG scores and outright de-banking. The major banks (BlackRock owns shares) own shares in the various private Federal Reserve branches that control the supply of money.
Their leadership and corporate (the major corporations own shares in each other) leadership sit on the boards of these branches. At the very top, nobody is allowed to know who owns the Federal Reserve. Although, if you could neatly identify a central mechanism connecting the top with the hive perhaps that’s Vanguard, the ownership of which is also completely opaque, whereas BlackRock is able to obfuscate itself as vehicle for institutional investors.
At least all the political campaign contributions have to be disclosed legally. Control of the money supply that generates the decisive contributions, nope. It’s not hard to see just from this juxtaposition how power couldn’t possibly reside with the people as they sink deeper into poverty.
Pointing out the basic facts about our opaque, plutocratic system of power confers all sorts of nasty labels on a dissident, but the results of this system speak for themselves. If we had a political representation and a free market, and these were two separate systems of managing our affairs, we wouldn’t be in such dire straits.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
Amen. Sending them to a Nuremberg rally might arouse them from their mental lethargy.
“It is not surprising that the German population welcomed a man like Hitler with open arms. Here was finally a politician who wanted to go up against the humiliations and unbelievably miserable living conditions. From experience, one was skeptical of the promises made by politicians. … This was totally different with Adolf Hitler. … Conditions were created which caused the enthusiasm of the majority of the German population to reach practically unequalled limits. p. 49. … Successes were only possible because the entire population worked for the common good, day and night, without thinking of their own advantage. [The German people under Hitler rose above Epstean’s Law]. We seem to miss this common spirit more and more these days. We have turned into a reckless elbow society.” p. 134.
Hans Ekkehard Bob, ‘Betrayed Ideals: Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Ace’
We’ve never had representation or a free market. Those concepts died in 1789 when the Articles of Confederation were ditched. Thank our infamous founding fathers, the gold standard of tyrants. Madison and Hamilton were particularly foul and despicable creatures.
If you haven’t already read it, I think you’d really like Francis Parker Yockey’s ‘Imperium’.
“In the inner history of America, four epochs had great significance: 1789, 1828, 1865, [and] 1933. 1789 marked the formation of the Union of the colonies through the adoption of the Constitution. 1828 marked the final defeat of the Federalist Party, the sole authoritarian force in the Union. 1865 was the complete financialization of the continent, but also the formation of the specific character of the American People. With 1865, however, the last barrier to economic obsession was removed and the road was paved that was to eventuate in the utter triumph of the Culture-distorter in 1933.” p. 457.
Francis P. Yockey, ‘Imperium’
Thank you, German Confederate. I will definitely put it on my reading list.
I understand Black Rock has a GDP that is 40% that of the United States. In other words, it has a budget and assets bigger than most of the nations in the world. In times like these I think back to the Italian Social Republic and how they crushed big business entities via employee and worker owned cooperatives. (Look for a book called Revolutionary Fascism and read the Verona Transcripts contained therein) National Syndicalism in other words. It works! Look up a corporation in Spain called Mondragon.