I should give a pass to the Koch brothers? Sure, they have families and friends, probably go to church every Sunday and sing All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name, or another lovely hymn praising the God that so blessed them with gold bumpers on their new Rolls Royce. So what? Their psychopathic level of greed and diabolical destruction of the environment is incompatible with democracy, with common decency, with the values of our nation, and with the survival of the human race. THEY ARE THE ENEMY! Period!
As the enemy, they are not to be respected, trusted, certainly not hailed as exemplars of our way of life. They're just like demented children beating an anthill with a baseball bat. We are the ants.
If as I say it's true that we're being played by the ruling class . . .
How then do we stop playing the Whack A Mole activism game?
There's only one solution: We unplug it, take it out back, then take a sledgehammer to it.
We destroy the machine!
How does this translate to the struggle of everyday citizens to take back control of their country from an abusive and ruthless ruling class?
There's a lot of room for interpretation here and history is replete with examples.
The obvious and most decisive way of "destroying the machine" is a bloody revolution.
Perhaps I am naive but I'm hoping we can avoid that. Considering both the enormous fire power of the federal authorities and the mind-numbing number of privately-owned guns, a revolution in the U.S. would be an unprecedented bloodbath.
Destroying the machine in my view is destroying the mechanism by which the ruling class now exclusively impose their will on our republic. That mechanism is "owning" those who we allegedly democratically elect as our legislators. The Achilles heel of that ownership are those owned. We stopped the ownership of our governing officials by replacing the owned with the unowned.
Almost everyone now sitting in Congress is directly responsible for or complicit with the control of our legislative bodies by the ruling class. They benefit from it. They go along with it. They are not going to change it.
Therefore we must change them. Either we change their behavior -- a dubious prospect at this stage from what we've seen -- or we "change" the them who hold those positions. We "unelect" those now in office and elect honest, accountable, responsive representatives to replace them.
That is why I'm calling for regime change in Congress in 2018. This to me is the positive, non-violent path to cutting deep into the system and excising the poison of corruption.
We must look at replacing at least 400 of the current sitting members in the House of Representatives, and the 33 senators up for election in 2018. This is certainly a drastic proposal. But sometimes you need to completely clean house and start from scratch.
Should we take them out back and take sledgehammers to them?
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