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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Stranger things have happened, of course, but I'll be mildly surprised by a Biden "victory".

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat that Biden is ahead in the swing states and that there is a significantly smaller "undecided" voter bloc this year than there was in 2016.

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.

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“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

@Cassiodorus needs to decipher what they did. I think they pretty much planned, and executed that plan, to make elections meaningless. Some one here posted an observation by a Chinese observer(I think)That in China the in power party never changes but policy does. In the U.S. the in power parties change, but policy doesn't.

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.

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@Snode It's like Hamilton Nolan says:

If a pan­dem­ic strikes and mil­lions are ren­dered unem­ployed and small busi­ness­es are dev­as­tat­ed and evic­tions grow and schools are closed and kids are hun­gry and fam­i­lies are home­less and the sick are aban­doned, that does not, in a strate­gic sense, mat­ter. The sys­tem will go on cater­ing to bil­lion­aires (and, to a less­er degree, Iowa corn farm­ers and Penn­syl­va­nia coal min­ers) because that is who has the pow­er to deter­mine the ulti­mate out­come of elec­tions in our stu­pid, stu­pid sys­tem.

We 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.

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“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

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@Cassiodorus
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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for $20 on Climate Chaos! @magiamma

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

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@Cassiodorus Our duty is to show up every 2-3-4 years, donate,vote and get the hell off the stage until the next election. If one person in the U.S. shows up to vote, and no others, "democracy" is satisfied.

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.

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@Snode

Eric Lee in John Pilger's film The Coming War on China
https://youtu.be/vAfeYMONj9E

China is a market economy, it is not a capitalist country. Here's why. There's no way a group of billionaires could control the politburo as billionaires control American policy making.

So in China you have a vibrant market economy, but capital does not arise above political authority. Capital does not have enshrined rights. In America the interest of capital or capital itself has risen above the American nation. The political authority cannot check the power of capital. That's why America is a capitalist country. But China is not.

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@magiamma It is really thought provoking (at least to my small brain) in looking at alternatives to capitalism. What we call democracy has become an homage to greed dressed up as democracy and freedom.

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@Snode
So does incompetent governance,no matter how well intentioned.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@magiamma

...and improve their lives — then you can be sure it is not a Capitalist government.

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IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"

@Pluto's Republic
Has never been such a government in the history of the world.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness It was replaced by capitalist 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.

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“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

@Cassiodorus
Not hardly!

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

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.

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@Snode

Some one here posted an observation by a Chinese observer(I think)That in China the in power party never changes but policy does. In the U.S. the in power parties change, but policy doesn't.

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.

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@travelerxxx
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.

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@Creosote.

Whoa! I'd never known a book was available. I see that there are some used ones for a decent price.

Thanks!

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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.

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@Pluto's Republic

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@Pluto's Republic

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

A corporation is mandated to seek dominion over their competition. What or who serves as competition against THE UNITED STATES and its subsidiaries? Could the competition be against the common law sovereign status of the states, the American people and the Constitution for (not of) the United States of America? James Madison, the father of our Constitution for the United States of America, said, “I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and, in a republican government a greater curse than any other.”

Twelve days is one million seconds; 3,100 years is 1 billion seconds; 31,000 years is 1 trillion seconds. The national debt is now $18 trillion-plus.

We, the American people, as one nation under God, must embrace the truth that THE UNITED STATES corporation exists and taxpayer-funded, federally sponsored grants are their primary tool of seduction.

But wait there’s more....

THE TWO US CONSTITUTIONS

Since 1871 the United States president and the United States Congress has been playing politics under a different set of rules and policies. The American people do not know that there are two Constitutions in the United States. The first penned by the leaders of the newly independent states of the United States in 1776. On July 4, 1776, the people claimed their independence from Britain and Democracy was born. And for 95 years the United States people were free and independent. That freedom ended in 1871 when the original “Constitution for the united states for America” was changed to the “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”.

The Congress realized that the country was in dire financial straits, so they made a financial deal with the devil – international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London ) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend the floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a way of taking back control of the United States and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed. With no constitutional authority to do so, Congress created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia.

With the passage of “the Act of 1871” a city state (a state within a state) called the District of Columbia located on 10 sq miles of land in the heart of Washington was formed with its own flag and its own independent constitution – the United States’ secret second constitution.

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.

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@snoopydawg

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@snoopydawg

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.)

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@TheOtherMaven

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!

THE UNITED STATES (in capitals) isn't a country; it's a corporation!

THE UNITED STATES corporation is generally referred to as the “federal government” and please note, in contract law, it is always significant that all capitals are used when referencing a corporate name, a legal clear distinction from a live individual. The corporation was created for the District of Columbia, aka Washington, D.C. (not even a state), via the Act of 1871. THE UNITED STATES corporation operates under private international law with their own corporate constitution.

The various federal agencies, also corporations and subsidiaries of THE UNITED STATES, are known as “departments.” Have you heard of the corporate acronyms such as BLM, EPA, FWP, FDA, BIA, FERC, to name a scant few? These are American taxpayer deficit-funded subsidiaries under THE UNITED STATES corporation. Who do these corporate tentacles serve?

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@snoopydawg

'inverted totalitarianism'.

In ceasing to be a genuine opposition party the Democrats have smoothed the road to power of a party more than eager to use it to promote empire abroad and corporate power at home. Bear in mind that a ruthless, ideologically driven party with a mass base was a crucial element in all of the twentieth-century regimes seeking total power.

Representative institutions no longer represent voters. Instead, they have been short-circuited, steadily corrupted by an institutionalized system of bribery that renders them responsive to powerful interest groups whose constituencies are the major corporations and wealthiest Americans. The courts, in turn, when they are not increasingly handmaidens of corporate power, are consistently deferential to the claims of national security.

Elections have become heavily subsidized non-events that typically attract at best merely half of an electorate whose information about foreign and domestic politics is filtered through corporate-dominated media. Citizens are manipulated into a nervous state by the media's reports of rampant crime and terrorist networks, by thinly veiled threats of the Attorney General and by their own fears about unemployment. What is crucially important here is not only the expansion of governmental power but the inevitable discrediting of constitutional limitations and institutional processes that discourages the citizenry and leaves them politically apathetic.

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@wendy davis Thanks for quoting Wolden! Perfect fit into the thread, chica!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@Pluto's Republic I bow to your greatness!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981