As for Willard "Mitt" Romney, this
is a man who has amassed a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars by
eviscerating American companies such as the former KB Toys. Bain Capital would
engage in hostile takeovers of target companies using monies mostly lent by financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs.
Bain would then compel the acquired company to borrow tens to hundreds of millions
of dollars, which it would simply give directly to Bain's investors and, mostly,
its owners--such as Willard "Mitt" Romney. The dying company would be compelled
to pay Bain millions in fees for the, ah, "services" Bain provided to it.
Generally, the workers would find themselves unemployed in short order. Details
are available HERE .
Romney is a disgusting and despicable
excuse of a human being. He promises to
serve his even wealthier masters well, if selected by their money (since we now
have a political system based upon the principle of "one dollar, one vote") to
be their latest servant in the White House.
The Republican Party has, at
least since the time of Reagan, been dedicated to serving elite interests, with
a smokescreen of concern for conservative social issues to fire up their generally
uneducated, blue collar, "angry white male" base. Since the time of Clinton,
the Democratic Party has also shamelessly pandered to these same interests--and especially
to Wall Street. Remember it was Clinton who signed off on the repeal of the Glass-Steagal
Act , publicly declaring its very effective safeguards to be -- no longer
relevant -- Barack Obama has been an unswervingly loyal disciple of this
corporatist sellout approach.
We can be absolutely certain that
regardless of which of these two sold-out traitors to democracy is elected,
nothing substantive will ever change. Those who now rule over us are making
obscene amounts of money by means of their control over our present fossil fuel
powered economy. They will only give up control, or allow for any meaningful
change whatsoever, quite literally over their dead bodies.
Given the Department
of Homeland Security's current purchase of 1.5 BILLON rounds of ammunition --half
of it hollow point rounds, which are banned for use in warfare by the Geneva
Convention--to protect our avaricious rulers and all of their illegitimately
stolen loot, it is not likely that their grip will be broken soon or easily.
Yet if their stranglehold is not
broken quickly, human civilization, the human race itself, and possibly all life
on Earth, is doomed due the consequences of runaway global warming. See my
recent essay on this topic HERE
for details.
Looking at the ongoing Presidential
race, all I can see and hear are tales told by sociopathic idiots (the
candidates) to masses of other idiots (us voters) full of sound and fury,
signifying absolutely nothing.
The oligarchic American political
system cannot deliver the change we need to avert utter doom. That change, if
it is to come, will have to come from us, the people--and it will have to come
soon, or else it will be too late to avert doom. This change will certainly not
come from voting for either Romney or Obama. Both political parties are
completely sold out at the national level. Rather, fundamental change will have
to come from direct, determined, actions outside of the rigged, corrupt, and
powerless political system.
Such change need not be violent. The reason that the generally
non-violent Occupy movement created such a powerful resonance this past year is
precisely because it clearly identified the core problem of our society: the
capture of our political and economic system by a few amoral elites determined
to maximize their personal wealth and power, while subordinating all of us to a
degree not seen since the late Middle Ages. Occupy enjoyed great success, at least
initially, because of its laser-like focus on this inequality issue.
However, the longer that the process of recapturing our
national government and economy from the planet-destroying, parasitical global elites
is delayed, the greater the likelihood of a violent uprising becomes, centered
mainly on the right side of our political spectrum. This is because only
increasing impoverishment awaits most of those folks, as well as the rest of
the former middle class, as the oligarchs continue to consolidate their power
and wealth at our expense. Once the members of the right side of our political
spectrum make the connection between their ever-growing poverty and the
corresponding ever-growing affluence of the one hundredth of one percent, armed
revolution in the United States will become a certainty. We would do much
better to have initiated non-violent revolutionary change before that time arrives.
Think of the great mass movements in our history: The
anti-slavery movement, the suffrage movement, the progressive movement, the
labor movement. Each of these share two characteristics: 1) they were mostly non-violent; 2) they were
successful. The threat of mass uprising by the working class can actually be
quite useful to intimidate the global elites. They can be given a simple
choice: 1) submit to us and be allowed to keep their lives along with part of their plunder; or 2) risk being
on the receiving end of a French Revolution style mass extermination. That way,
the choice of violent revolution, along with its consequences, belongs to the
global elites.
Action is compelled now not only because our freedom,
rights, and livelihoods are being stolen, but because the business-as-usual
model the global elites have chosen will doom all life on Earth in the near
future. Faced with the absolute need to use our remaining high net energy
hydrocarbon resources to power our rapid transition to renewable energy, these
cosmic idiots have instead decided to use these resources to produce lower net
energy hydrocarbon resources, because they maximize their short term profits
that way. This strategy also leads inexorably to runaway global warming and
with it, utter doom for all life forever.
This is unacceptable. The global elites' hold on power and
wealth must be broken now. It is not life on Earth that should become extinct. It
is these global elites, their values, their worldview, their type of human,
which must be hurled, by us, with extreme contempt into eternal oblivion. Time
is short.
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