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The Audacity of Hopelessness -- Only We the People Can End "Futilism"

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I would suggest that the reason the Democratic Party has been unable to look forward with clarity is that they have been unwilling to look backward with courage. They have fundamentally failed to see and understand what we the people are really up against, and when push comes to shove who gets to have "last shove". They remind me of the guy on his hands and knees, obviously looking for something in a parking lot. A passerby wants to help and asks, "Did you lose something?"

"I lost my car keys in the bushes over there," is the reply.

"Why are you looking in the parking lot, then?" asks the stranger.

"Oh, because there's more light here."

The Democrats are deathly afraid of the dark - in this case, the dark perpetrations of those who over the years have sought to overrule the rule of law for their own interests. When Democratic voters wonder why Obama never had that FDR moment where he stood up to the banks, it's likely they never heard of the Business Plot where a group of industrialists sought to stage a military coup and depose Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal in 1933. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdx6vEUtIA) It's only because the individual the conspirators planned to install as dictator, Gen. Smedley Butler, was outraged at the idea and blew the whistle on the plot that it's barely a footnote in history.

Then there is the Kennedy assassination where -- if you look right below the surface -- the official story doesn't match the evidence, and you find a multitude of stories where doctors had to recant their original testimony about JFK's wounds so it matched the official narrative. You can read more about that in my article a year ago on James Douglass's eye-opening book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.

I won't delve into the 911 issue here, except to recommend the latest of many documentaries pointing out the blatant anomalies in the official story, including stories of firefighters who first recognized the signs of planned demolition and were likewise ignored or pressured to change their testimony.

Perhaps the one significant thing both the Kennedy assassination and the official 911 stories have in common is that alternative narratives are considered taboo by the mainstream media. In all the documentaries shown to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination last year, not one of them contradicted the "lone assassin" theory.

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Steve Bhaerman is a writer, humorist and uncommontator who's been posing as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda for the past 20 years. He is the author of seven books including Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From (more...)
 

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