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Doom and Gloom for the Dumb and the Glum

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And they’re keeping the subject alive like a sidewalk sandwich-board prophet of doom, Doom, DOOOOOOOM.

 

But then we have to wonder -- “how can I even be READING this?”

 

After all, if the Duopoly is that powerful and all-controlling, and ready and willing to disappear and assassinate well-placed people who won’t play along, then what does that make the little people who rail against it? Shills? Distractions?

 

Are they the principle of hiding a great secret in plain sight put into action -- one pair of Birkenstocks and angry blog at a time?

 

Is there some weird-ass, government-run factory school ejecting small clutches of grumpy, paranoid anti-Duopoly activists to plague us with visions of mass graves, engineered plagues, FEMA stormtroopers cordoning us off to die and Obama eating babies for dinner? While not likely, it could explain why so many of their screeds sound like they’re all cribbed from the same set of notes.

 

Here's their recipe: Take anything that comes from on high -- good, bad or indifferent -- mix with big money and sinister intent, sprinkle with past indiscretions and then leave it in the oven until it’s half-baked. Then serve with a smirk, and a haughty heaping of disdain for anyone who asks questions.

 

I think the best critique of Duopoly is the fact that the mask has remained on for this long. After all, if the two parties are one party, key personnel in the agencies are in on the gag, the military only ever obeys orders, and the media won’t lift a finger in fear of losing money, then the overt coup of America is already a fait accompli. So why not take off the mask, shoot a few visible dissidents and imprison quite a few more to make an object lesson, and then get about the business of totalitarianism out in the open? What do they really have to lose?

 

Better yet, what do they have to gain by waiting? Why wasn’t this already done back in the 80’s, under Reagan? Or in the 90’s, under Clinton? Or in the early 00’s, by Bush the younger? Why wait all this time to bring the glory of Empire to America’s people?

 

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J. Edward Tremlett is a lot of things, currently. He's back in the states after a seven-year stint in Dubai, UAE. He's been published in such diverse places as The American Partisan, the International American, The End is Nigh, Pyramid Magazine (more...)
 

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