Faux Democracy:
People tend to be controlled by threats of sticks and by promises of carrots. Depending upon how structured, threats may often force minimal compliance, while promises may incentive maximal effort. A skilled Ponzi-manager will learn how to make threats and promises effective on the cheap, by substituting shadows for real sticks and carrots.
Using shadows to lead workers and slaves to believe they have power or voice in their future uses can induce them to make extraordinary and prolonged efforts. Faux Democracy, meaning the farming of large numbers of workers to believe their votes count, can greatly leverage power of real controllers.
Real democracies tend to be unpredictable and messy. So, people with real power and oligarchic control often do not wish to compete in real markets or with real democracies. Rather, they prefer to reduce or diminish democracies and national borders to shadow shows.
The greater the number of people who are given the right to vote, the easier the populace as a whole can be led with shadow shows to believe its wishes are being represented and honored. But, the greater the number of voters, the less the impact of anyone voting among them. The greater the number recruited to vote, the greater the proportion of voters who will be illegal, inexperienced, uneducated, criminal, and corruptible, i.e., easily led, bought, or controlled.
The greater the proportion of easily led voters, the easier it becomes to tip elections by buying votes and by other fraud. The easier it becomes to direct elections through fraud, the greater the competition and eventual cooperation among wiseguys and criminals.
The greater the cooperation among mafias, the more rampant the infestation of government --- including infestation of legislators, regulators, governors, tax officials, contract approvers, police, media, educational institutions, and other arms of propaganda.
In mass psychology, there often comes a reckoning, or tipping point. There comes a point where independent, responsible, ordinary citizens, i.e., the real producers among a society, begin, as a group, to believe they are trapped or being taken advantage of, wholesale.
Once oligarchic-people-farmers have bought most of an electorate by promising “rights” to receive paychecks even without working, those who had been working must come eventually to ask themselves why they should support those who believe they have the “right” not to work.
Thus, a nation’s faith, trust, credit, and empathy come to break down. For awhile, oligarchic-people-farmers may hold onto elective power by making shadow, hollow promises to an easily-bought, electing-majority. But, power over real production ceases or diminishes as real producers and workers come to hate the scam.
Yet, why should oligarchic-people-farmers care, since they likely will have foreseen the inevitable fall and transferred their power and currency to live, as parasites, off another host nation? Indeed, the ability of oligarchic-people-farmers to transcend and evade borders would be compromised were any real democracy to retain power to stand up to them.
So, is this why international-big-money-people-farmers have worked so long to weaken all important institutions of America, as a democratically representative republic?
Consider who owns or runs American newspapers, the NYT, mainstream media, NBC, Google, Ivy League Colleges, universities, and academia. Consider the philosophies under which they are run. Look at taxpayer money being used to: imprison border patrol guards, fund ACORN voter registration fraud, empower the Federal Reserve, conduct show trials against opponents of weakening America, propagandize children, corrupt morals and decency, and scandalize and spread hatred of America.
At bottom, from what sources and for what purposes are such trends emerging?
Well, oligarchic-money-masters are playing a game in which most of us are not even pawns, but chickens, to be farmed.
BOTTOM LINE:
The declining of America is not a slow process being caused by physical softness of American workers. Rather, it is a concerted arson, being led by oligarchic-people-farmers, who have doused with gas all major American institutions from within. All that remains is to strike the match.
QUESTION: Do enough Americans still care? Or, should Andrew Lloyd Webber reprise his tune from Jesus Christ Superstar, about “I always thought that I’d be an Apostle” to “I always thought that I'd be a Farmed Chicken"?
BTW: Electing McCain, without much more, will only delay the match striking for a short time. If we wish to remain worthy of being called Americans, much more urgent housecleaning and revitalizing of checks and balances has become necessary.
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Chicago: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12,0,5393672.column
No doubt, a lot is going on.
Few among the ruling fringes, left or right, consider any metaphysical beliefs to be worthwhile.
Yet, secular leftists flock to Obama, seeing him as a shining, prophetic intellect.
Odd, that Bill Maher, et al, so denigrate religion, yet extol Obama.
Well, not really.
They are hardly so dumb as to fail to see the clues that Black Liberation Theology is less a spiritual religion than a socialist front.
Soros and Buffet both support Obama.
Soros has for some time been on the record, in his own words, on you tube and in the Atlantic Monthly, for wanting to burst the bubble of American power and hegemony.
(BTW: Why is that not sedition? Oh, I almost forgot --- Soros controls the means for broadcasting his information, thus to shape reality to his liking --- not unlike the Neo-cons.)
The notion seems to be that American power is not needed to corral rogue nuclear powers, because the threats, such as from Ahmadinijad for wanting to wipe away the stain of Israel, are said to be not credible.
Rather, we will all get along once Obama leads us to understand the root causes of Islamic grievances.
I guess the underlying philosophy is that we're all dead in the long run anyway.
So, party now! --- and not just on the left.
For many years, we have been ruled by political fringes, each being an arm of the same beast, just camouflaged behind different sock puppets worn on each hand.
The left puppet of the beast claims, in pretense, to want international socialism, while the right puppet abhors it.
But, both puppets are camouflaging a beast based on greed that is farming the rest of us.
Our farmed leftists must learn that socialism is based primarily on a lie.
Our farmed rightists must learn that allowing too great a gulf between haves and have nots undermines democracy.
Independents, able or willing to try to advocate "the truth," have a heavy rock to push. Yet, "one must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Party on, because it's a wonderfully challenging world!
Comment on http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obamanomics.html:
I. Self Delusion is not Elite:
Who but Ivy League, “mommy-coddled elites” would be so skilled in artifice as to delude even themselves into believing that government should or could encourage and finance every person, no matter how unqualified, to undertake mortgage for pursuing his/her “right” to the American dream of home “ownership”?
Having endured the economic wreckage of one group of mommy-coddled elites, now should we endure the political wreckage to be given us by another?
So long as we accept leadership of mommy-coddled elites, so shall we endure the folly and wreckage to be imposed by toddlers.
Hitchens, Powell, Noonan, Buckley the Younger, and McClellan can KMA!
Why have American adults gone AWOL?
II. Spreading Wealth is not Moral:
It is immoral to take from those who produce in order to "spread their wealth" and income around to work-a-phobics.
III. Allowing Rule-Leveraging for Money Masters is not Democratic:
It is immoral to fail to check against institutions calculated to advantage such disproportionate accumulations of wealth and power as to sink democracy under the rule of oligarchic aristocrats.
IV. The way to check against both the immorality of (1) wealth-spreading and (2) money-ruling is not with taxes on income or with giveaways to non-workers. Rather, the way to check against such abuses is by taxing consumption, progressively.
V. Consumption tax revenues should be used to build, rebuild, and maintain the infrastructure that is used by all citizens.
VI. Such use would create jobs. Such tax would not harm the poor. Such tax would help check against the sort of oligarchic influence we suffer on account of those who now own and control our politicians, journalists, and professoriate.
Adults of the world must rise up!
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