I await 2022
when the Biden administration, having engineered the overthrow of the regime in Venezuela, having pushed an austerity plan upon Congress, having cut Social Security, and having repressed the Left to engineer another record-breaking Republican midterm victory (kind of like the Republican victories you saw in 1994 and in 2010, both midterms of first-term (D) Presidents), is chastised by the liberals with big egos in a group letter to be published on the Common Dreams website. The letter will read something like this: "We are vaguely disappointed in Joe Biden for being what he told his funders he was going to be in the run-up to the 2020 election. We will, however, continue to support him, because the Republicans are worse. Yours truly, The Resistance."
Remember when Obama said "make me do it"? Now is our time to tell the liberals with big egos: "show us it won't happen." (Hint: joining the Movement for a People's Party would be a good first step...)
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That assumes there will BE one.
Stranger things have happened, of course, but I'll be mildly surprised by a Biden "victory".
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
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A lot of polls are showing
So I'm assuming a Biden victory. It doesn't matter very much though. One way or another, there will have to be a revolution, because the Establishment is and will be incapable of deciphering the crisis it has created.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
I'm not sure the establishment
Why after all this, are the democrats still touting bipartisanship? The willingness to compromise is just a tactic to change the shape of policy, not it's content, to make it more palatable to a segment of voters.
You are right, 2022 will probably play out as you describe. It worked as designed in 2010. As you say, there will have to be a revolution. Time to dust off those pink kitty hats. That'll show them.
Oh sure.
Hamilton Nolan says:
It's likeWe can't pressure that system because we are irrelevant to it, and the evidence is all around us. We can, however, pressure the liberals with big egos: HEY GUYS! TRY SOMETHING MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN ENDLESS REAL-LIFE SUPPORT FOR THE (D) WING OF THAT SYSTEM ACCOMPANIED BY QUAINT RHETORIC. IT'S NOT BELIEVABLE ANYMORE.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
We can't pressure that system because we are irrelevant to it
So it seems on all fronts. In my mind it's a race between the climate crisis, election fraud, revolution/ uprising, pandemic, and economic downfall. I'm placing bets. heh.
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Yes, we are irrelevant to it
Maybe voting rights will bestowed on only those with a certain level of income, say 7 figures, and simplify the whole thing. Beats having to actually be in the same room with us stinking rabble.
Is this the quote you are thinkning of?
Eric Lee in John Pilger's film The Coming War on China
https://youtu.be/vAfeYMONj9E
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I had not read that before
Ever since 1980 - elections have consequences
So does incompetent governance,no matter how well intentioned.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
When the government exists solely to benefit the People
...and improve their lives — then you can be sure it is not a Capitalist government.
That never happens
Has never been such a government in the history of the world.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
There was feudalist governance.
Those few of us who don't think that everything will remain the same for forever and a day know that there was a time when things changed.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
And feudalism existed to serve the people?
Not hardly!
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
No, but some limitations existed
A feudal lord couldn't get too greedy, or he'd find himself with not enough people to work his land, and/or the next feudal lord over the hill would get land-grabby, and/or the King would take his lordship away and give it to someone else. (Also, the Church did not allow working on Sundays, holy days, saints' days, etc - and there were a fair few of them.)
Once cities started to recover/regrow, the peasants had somewhere to go if they wanted off the land, and if they made a go of it for a year and a day, the lord couldn't get them back.
So there were all kinds of balances of power to keep things from getting out of hand...until the rise of the mercantile classes circa the Renaissance. That threw everything out of whack.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Putin has said it, too.
You are right about this being posted recently. If it helps your search, I believe it was within the past week or so.
While the recent observation re party/power was indeed someone from China, Vladimir Putin made very similar comments to Oliver Stone in one segment of Stone's multi-part interview with him several years ago. I think Putin talks about this in the last segment, but the entire series is well worth watching. A little online searching would probably find it – maybe even the entire series. However, if nothing else, the last segment is recommended. As I recall, the entire series is four hours.
The book on the Stone interviews is valuable
Haven't been able to watch the final three videos, but on the page both men are themselves, not actors speaking lines, and the length of the book itself is a benefit.
Who knew?
Whoa! I'd never known a book was available. I see that there are some used ones for a decent price.
Thanks!
It's a sobering time.
We must strive to cut away all the political noise and look at what we have.
Since its birth, the US has had only 17 years of peace, total. The U.S. Has Been At War 222 Out of 239 Years.
The American people and the lands of America are continuously asset-stripped to pay for these wars. Half the tax revenues are taken to pay for war or to pay for the disastrous consequences of our wars. Because of this impoverishing diversion of our government revenues, the nation's debt is 100 percent war debt.
When the American people vote, they are voting to confirm and consent to this sorry state of affairs. Yet, the American People have neither human rights nor economic rights because the government cannot afford to confer them upon the People. The universal Human Right to affordable shelter, for example, is too expensive for the US to provide its People. In the US, the government exists to benefit the war profiteers, not the People.
One quarter to one half of the Americans alive (now, or at any given time in US history) have never known a single day of Peace. The People simply do not know any better.
The FIRST PRINCLPLE of the United States is war. War is paid for ultimately by the taxes on the wages that the People receive for their labor. That is the only source of war funding. It pays for trillions of dollars worth of free government grants given to private defense contractors to fully exploit, without any reimbursements to tax payers.
Free, non-reimbursable government grant are what primes the profit pumps of the two largest industries in the United States: the Defense Industry and the Health Care Industry. Together, they are the source of much of the wealth that is concentrated at the top in this economy. This is the playground for "knowledgeable timed trading" based on proposed government spending. This is how most elected representatives manage to return home from DC as instant millionaires. And this is the reason that the very wealthy and the donor class are able to make big profits during wars and pandemics, when everyone else is going bankrupt. Look no further. Now you know where to focus.
Of course, the American People pay for all of this. There is no other source of funding. The profits in both of the above private industries are ultimately derived from the people's labor, either through taxes they pay on their wages, or the health care they consume and the premiums they pay to insurance companies. The American People are the source of hundreds of billions of dollars in free government research grants, which are diverted to the privatized medical industry, for example. Pharmaceutical giants use these grants for research, but also for personal enrichment and stock buybacks, creating the politically-connected profit fountain that caters to the privileged wealth at the top.
And, what happens when grant recipients hit the jackpot, like Giliad or Moderna, and they patent a drug that will earn untold profits? Are the American taxpayers reimbursed so that government revenues are restored for use on important projects? Or, do taxpayers become shareholders like all the other early investors? No, because government doesn't exist to benefit the People. It exists to benefit private corporations and their wealthy owners.
So, let us stop talking about any other alleged reason for voting. This is delusional.
Let's not talk about any policies we think we will lose or gain by casting a vote. This is also delusional.
Let's try to keep the act of voting, for once, in the context of the reality no one want's to look at.
It is bad enough that the American People are blind to the reality that exploits and mocks them, on a daily basis.
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The World is watching while the American People are about to engage in the most shameful and disgraceful act of their public lives. The People have been reduced to selecting their Leader by voting for one of two seriously-ill mental defectives running for President of the United States..
There is no corporation in the world that would hire either of these poor specimens to be their CEO. Both men are mentally and morally unfit to mingle with business or with society. They have both committed crimes and engaged in corruption, yet neither of them have the mental capacity to be ashamed of themselves.
This is the degrading spectacle that America is performing on the world stage. The eyes of the world are upon the American People as they participate in voting for a mentally defective candidate to lead them. These are the only choices they are given — and they eagerly surrender themselves to that.
Let us at least have the dignity to show that we are consciously aware of what we have come to.
well said !
US is a corporation, not a country
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. I searched for this after seeing a comment on it.
US is a corporation, not a country
But wait there’s more....
THE TWO US CONSTITUTIONS
Voting is just for show at the federal level because the person that most people wanted to win gets the most votes, but often still loses because of the electoral college. And just a few states picks the winner.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I wonder if D.C. statehood would mess that up /nt
This account confuses two separate events
July 2 (not 4), 1776 was the day the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress (July 4 was the day it was read in public for the first time). This had everything to do with "why we are not a part of Great Britain any longer" and nothing to do with how the new country was to be governed. The Continental Congress continued on an ad-hoc basis until they worked out the Articles of Confederation (it took them over a year to sort out the details and another 3 1/2 years to get it officially ratified). But even before the ink was dry on the proposal, problems had begun to appear, and they continued to get worse. Finally, in 1787, a convention was called to "revise" the Articles of Confederation - but working in secret the members of the Convention thrashed out a total replacement for them: the US Constitution as we know it.
They punted on one of the most important issues of the day, namely slavery, kicking the can further down the road and lighting the fuse that would explode in the Civil War.
Getting the states to ratify the Constitution took another year or so, and most of the states demanded changes and/or a bill of rights as a condition of ratifying (which is why we even have a Bill of Rights). As of September 13, 1788, the new Constitution was officially adopted and the machinery for forming the new government was set in motion. (North Carolina remained a holdout until November 1789, and Rhode Island until May 1790 - and both of them had changes they wanted to see made.)
The first new state to join under the Constitution was Vermont, in 1791 (it had formerly been a disorganized part of upper eastern New York State).
And strictly speaking, the District of Columbia has been a separate entity since 1801, not 1871. Residents of the District were disenfranchised from 1801 until partial enfranchisement was restored by the 23rd Amendment in 1961. (They still don't have full voting rights in Congress.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Trust you to know the history
Thanks for it. I’m not talking about the DC part of the act, but to back up what Pluto said about this country being a business and it being why our congress critters put their donors needs above ours.
This helps it make sense. Maybe. Thoughts are jumbled this weekend. You should hear me trying to ask questions. Doh!
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
sheldon wolin called it
'inverted totalitarianism'.
yet another outstanding comment!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
What an an outstanding comment!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981