The last US president who actually tried to be presidential was John F. Kennedy and he paid a heavy price for standing up to America's capitalist owners: he got his brains very publicly blown out all over Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas.
President Dwight Eisenhower could see that the military-industrial-legislative complex was already an octopus vampire squid in control of the government and economy, but like every other president before and after him, was powerless to tame this ever-growing, insatiable capitalist monster. His presidential farewell warning speech fell on national deaf ears (HERE).
Before Ike, there was poor Harry Truman, the only non-millionaire to be US president, going back to at least the beginning of the 20th century. He was much, much worse than the UK's Theresa May, as he was warm putty in the conniving paws of the CIA, NSA and Joint Chiefs of Staff, he having signed the law to create these agencies of death. Truman also oversaw the racist incineration of millions of "yellow niggers" in Japan and Korea (HERE).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was surely the United States' greatest president and since he worked for the 99% at the expense of the 1%, was very probably poisoned to death, (HERE), after the failed fascist, Wall Street coup d'e'tat against him in 1933 (HERE) and HERE). W's grandpa, Hitler and Nazi loving Joseph Bush was one of the main culprits in that plot. Once the elites got socialist Vice-President Henry Wallace deposed and replaced by jellyfish Truman, Roosevelt's days were numbered. Starting with Andrew Jackson in the 1830s, every US president who has been against the big private bankers and/or the capitalist imperial Wehrmacht was killed, attempted to be killed or officially died in office. This startling statistic is glaring among Western "democracies" (HERE and HERE).
British leadership has not been much better, although white supremist, genocidal Winston Churchill was the man of the hour during World War II, if we can ignore tens of millions of mostly dark-skinned colonial subjects, who were exterminated like rats in the Crown colonies.
France had a truly great leader in Charles de Gaulle, who summed up what almost never happens among Western leaders,
In order to become the master, the politician acts as the servant.
And,
The (final) word is the people's. What the people wish is the duty of the leader.
And that's exactly how he governed. No wonder the CIA tried to assassinate de Gaulle six times. Serving the 99% at the expense of the socialist-hating, warmongering 1% is a capitalist crime punishable by death. Just ask JFK. The CIA even tried to turn France into a dollar denominated puppet state, because they knew de Gaulle represented the interests of his people, and not the bankster war machine (HERE). Franà §ois Mitterrand on the left and Jacques Chirac on the right paid attention to common French folks' concerns, but the total takeover of French governance by American elites was a fait accompli, with the election of "I wannabe the French Kennedy/Reagan" Nicolas Sarkozy, whose father was a known CIA agent. Like father, like son (HERE). Hollande and now Macron have shown just how low French "democracy" can sink. These latter two should be tried and hung for treason, as agents in service to US elites, along with Sarkozy.
And so it goes in Western "democracy". To understand Eurangloland's governance, you just have to ask the simple question, Do the leaders and legislators honestly represent the interests of the 99% or the 1%? Wade past all the identity politics, race baiting, fear mongering false flags, wars and going back centuries the answer is obvious. Western governments almost always work for the benefit of the wealthy elites, at the expense of poor, working and middle classes.
When it looks like the Capitalist War Party may lose control, like with the Great Depression and in postwar Europe, our owners give us just enough table scraps to nip any revolution for economic and social justice in the bud. Why did Euranglolanders get social security, the 40-hour work week, overtime pay, paid sick and vacation leave, and labor unions which were briefly given a seat at the table of establishment power? Because of the genuine popularity of communism and socialism among a broad section of the populations. Why did Europeans get much better benefits, like universal health care, unemployment benefits and subsidized childcare? Because postwar countries like the UK, France and Italy had communist and socialist parties that were winning elections. Populist movements and parties were already demonized and destroyed in the US by the end of World War II, with 1950s McCarthyite witch hunts being the Capitalist War Party's icing on the cake.
This is not a modern phenomenon. Every civilization has had to choose whether to support the interests of the rich or the masses. Most have and continue to slavishly work for the 1%. Using limitless financial resources, the elites slowly coopt all branches and levels of government, using the usual Imperial Toolbox: bribery, blackmail, extortion, false flags and when all else fails, assassination.
In their private writings and conversations, US presidents going back to George Washington all lamented how the 1% made being truly presidential impossible. They and every elected official, judge and cop have had to and must continue to serve the elites' demands, first, second and third then maybe the needs of the 99% might be taken into consideration, but not for long if it threatens their profits, which is why all those postwar benefits are being clawed back across Euranglo-land, under the banner of neoliberal austerity.
The vast majority of the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian King Hammurabi's Code concerns protecting the land and chattel property interests of the elites. Emperor Nero pulled off one of the earliest known false flags, by burning down one-fourth of his own city, Rome. Jesus Christ was killed for attacking wealthy bankers, and these latter pushed the Roman government to do their dirty work, to make an official example of him.
Julius Caesar was not assassinated for being a dictatorial tyrant. He was murdered by his peers because he was mandating laws to redistribute land and social wealth to the poor and farmers. He was threatening the riches of the Senate's oligarchic families, who "governed" Rome like a criminal enterprise, and in fact, the modern Mafia families we know today in Italy descended from these same "democratic" thugs (HERE). Douglas Valentine so graphically lays out this capitalist nexus between Western governments, mainstream media, organized crime, supposed "law enforcement", Jesus' banksters, the Roman Senate's rich and powerful families, who have evolved into today's Wall Street and warmongering military contractors (HERE).
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