Polls are the standardized tests given to the American electorate that show how well we all "got" what it was they were trying to sell us. They measure the effect of living in a seduced and sedated nation surrounded by deliberately false and/or manipulated "news" information.
The way we see and understand the world is shaped by where and how we grew up. Politicians tap into these cultural views and cunningly mirror them back to us as the basic talking points/building blocks of all their political communication to gain endorsement, increasing power, and eventually our total domination.
Welfare. School prayer. Evolution. Immigration. Drugs and pornography. Abortion and guns. Affirmative action. Liberals, gays, feminists. Racial equality. Such issues are not raised to be resolved. Their function is strictly division to hide Class War by the Rich on the rest of us and obscure economic and societal issues
which concern ALL of America's people, not just the Fortunate Four Hundred or the narrow interests of cult-like fanatics who are a stalking horse to co-opt the rest of us.
This makes it a very easy task to round up the usual suspects by using these reliable sticks to stir up our personal hornets, so pre-occupied The People turn around and begin to sting one another, the red-white-and-blue state diversion of Imperial divide and conquer. It's a nasty political "secret" perfected by the well-funded Right - put groups of diverse people together and goad them until they fight over issues that really should be their private and personal decisions while going about imposing the Right's own radical position. The fighting serves to keep our minds off what the Right is actually doing and the economic devastation their decisions are actually producing.
But abortion is yet to be outlawed and school prayer's not reinstated. Gays are allowed to marry and morals have never been legislated. Liberals and the ACLU still insist on separation of church and state. Affirmative action's not completely abolished. Shouldn't something, by now, have changed?
These issues will NEVER be resolved. That's why they're hot buttons of Public Diplomacy. They summon up the energy and anger used to divide and mobilize us for voting to endorse self-destructive corporate agendas, because after the Election Show is over, it's the Corporate Agenda that's enacted while shafting American voters.
Most of the perpetrators have been working our government since way back in the Nixon Administration. Powell and Greenspan. Paulson and Wolfowitz. Bush One, Rumsfeld, Negroponte and Cheney. And during the eight years of the Reagan Regime more crooks joined this sociopathic consortium. Mukasey and Feith. Gates, Rice and Abrams. Libby, Roberts, Scalia, Hadley and Bolton. Most of them have also served at the pleasure of Bush 41 and their war to transform America and The World into an Iron Maiden, capitalist fiefdom has almost been won
at the behest of their shadowy masters behind a curtain of moneyed denial. Rockefeller. Du Pont. Astor, Morgan and Ford. Mellon, Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Rothschild.
Hunt, Hilton, Dorrance and Cabot. Guggenheim, Kellogg and Kennedy. Welch, Harriman, Paley and Pew. MacMillan, Armour, Pritzker and Whitney.
Goldman-Sachs. Perelman and Buffett. Gates, Cargill, Pickens and Getty. Koch. Redstone. Murdoch and Grace. Mars, Schwab, Trump, Walton and Lilly.
Merck, Soros, Kuhn-Loeb and Coors. Richardson, Reynolds and Dell. Tyson, Hearst, Turner, Heinz, Hughes. Phipps, Olin, Forbes and Bechtel.
Get this through your thick skull - We're just roadkill to these "people". CEOs and politicians are purely their puppets, whose every word, every movement is purchased by those in dirigibles of wealth far above us.
These bloated plutocrats' puppets populate the ranks of commissions, institutions and foundations. WTO. IMF. The UN. The World Bank. The Council on Foreign Relations.
They drive Exxon, Monsanto and Dow. They're members of the Bilderbergers, the Carlyle Group and UNESCO. They're the Business Roundtable and the Tri-Lateral Commission. They meet at Davos and Bohemian Grove.
They throw financial dice in the City of London. They funnel wealth upward via the Wall Street Casino. They're incubated in groups like Yale's Skull & Bones to suck the life out of most of Earth's people.
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
It is not a matter of knowledge, but a matter of smarts.
No amount of knowledge about how the crooks came to power is useful beyond a certain basic point. Capitalism is the friendly game between equals in the front. Crookism is the game with the media lights down low in the back. Crooks change their cards regularly, but they are always marked and easy to palm. Nothing is left to chance.
You don't have to know the rest of the story to spot a bunch of crooks.
by
John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1482 comments)
on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 12:18:38 PM
Excellent article. But how about false flags and fearmongering and the war machine ?
The US has become a merchant and exporter of war and death and destruction. This war mentality is sewn up into people's fabric and has become like lenses through which they perceive the world. False flags are spak-plugs that set up this mentality into motion and transfom people into hating savage animals ready to be used as cannon fodder.
by
ramsheyi (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 641 comments)
on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 5:22:24 PM
3 comments
How would you rate this?
You must be logged in (if signed up) to do ratings.
It's free to signup! And easy. And takes just a minute or two....