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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
By: AGelbert Date: April 3, 2019, 1:55 pm
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[center]U.S. Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the
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LAURA FLANDERS, TRUTHOUT
It's said that European capitalism came out of the destruction
of feudalism, but U.S. capitalism was born in the destruction of
the commons. Lately, there's been a resurgence of interest in
rebuilding the commons in the U.S., according to authors Silvia
Federici and Peter Linebaugh. The process of "commoning" goes
beyond mere redistribution and reorganization, they say -- it
involves building a ground of resistance, from Standing Rock to
the 2018 midterms.
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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
By: Surly1 Date: April 17, 2019, 4:53 am
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The Far Right Takeover of America is Almost Complete-- What
Happens When Fanatical Extremists Capture All of a Country’s
Institutions? Bu Umair Haque
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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
By: AGelbert Date: April 17, 2019, 2:09 pm
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The Far Right Takeover of America is Almost Complete-- What
Happens When Fanatical Extremists Capture All of a Country’s
Institutions? Bu Umair Haque
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I read the post and even that seems too hopeful. Mueller ain't
gonna do NADA to prevent more and more Fascist Police State
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/>mayhem.
[quote]America being among the ten worst places to be a woman,
the worst place in the rich world to be a mother or a child or a
retiree, and many, many more places on dismal lists of worsts.
Why is that? [/quote]
Because of Oligarchic corruption.
[quote]... you can’t capture the three branches of government if
social institutions are working properly. Institutions such as
the press, academia, media, and so on. And yet here too,
American institutions failed, and failed
catastrophically.[/quote]
The above is a conditional statement. The social institutions in
the USA have had there ethical ups and downs, but beneath the
principled ethical facade has always lurkered the power of money
to foster inequality for the express purpose of allowing the
monied parasites to lawlessly act with impunity (i.e.
Oligarchy).
[quote]PAUL JAY: There’s this fundamental belief, religious
belief, that America’s foreign policy since World War II has
been a fight for freedom.
GORE VIDAL: Well, it never was. And the belief that we’re a
democracy. That means you know nothing about the Constitution.
The people who made the Constitution hated democracy. Some of
them put up with it better than others. Jefferson was pretty
good on the subject. The others just loathed it.[/quote]
[quote]GORE VIDAL: The Federalist Papers are very clear.
Whenever one of the founding fathers, and one of the people who
was inventing the Constitution, they start to get apoplectic at
the mention of Athens, the mention of Pericles, the mention of
democracy. They go on and on about mobs, and we don’t want this,
and we don’t want that. We’re an oligarchy of the well-to-do. We
were at the very beginning, when the Constitution was made, and
we’re even more so now.[/quote]
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Gore Vidal did not want to go further down that (unexamined
life) rabbit hole, but I routinely do. As long as everything has
a price in the currency of the realm, money will corrupt any and
all institutions that benefit (even if originally an oligarchic
facade, but that obtained some democracy fostering teeth along
the way) of we-the-people, aling with most citizens of the
realm. The problem is the Capitalist worship of materialism, as
Chris Hedges has often pointed out.
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The following is, IMHO, a naive statement:
[quote]American media was hopelessly out of its depth.[/quote]
This statement assumes good intentions by the media that were
thwarted by ignorance and/or incompetence. I disagree. The Media
is a rigidly controlled propaganda arm of Fascist USA. They know
exactly what they can push and what they are told to use to head
the herd off in the wrong direction. They are not incompetent.
They are bought and paid for.
[quote]And so here we are. The far right takeover of America is
almost complete. Fanatical extremists of a kind unseen since
Nazi Germany have taken over almost every single last American
institution, from government to public sphere.[/quote]
True.
[quote]Bang! Soon enough, it was game over. By
2019 — now — the following institutions
had all fallen to the fanatical extreme right. The executive.
The judiciary. The legislature. The press. The public sphere.
What was left?
Not much, my friends, not much. And that is the point. The
extreme right wing takeover of America is almost complete,
finito, over and done with. There is very little standing in the
way now. By my reckoning, one last barely functioning
institution. An election. Will it matter — or will
apathy and fear carry the day? You be the judge of that.[/quote]
Umair is right about where we are. My quibble is with the timing
of the takeover. The Constitution was written by and for a tiny
group of wealthy, landed white men. All the rights that came
forth from the subsequent Bill of Rights were for them, not for
anybody else. The courts have been playing the game of
pretending otherwise, while, in practice, consistently looking
the other way at lawless oligarchic behavior, ever since.
Umair mentions the failure to connect the dots by too many. Here
is a man who has totally connected the dots:
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September 2016
[quote]Bob McIlvaine 👍👍👍 is the father
of Robert McIlvaine Jr., who was murdered on 9/11. In an attempt
to discover how his son died, Bob attended all but one of the
9/11 Commission Hearings. He has since has been very outspoken
about the need for the truth about 9/11. Bob has appeared in
documentaries and news stories that call into question the
official account of the 9/11 attacks.[/quote]
[move]CONNECTING THE DOTS OF 9-11[/move]
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by Robert McIlvaine
Since Bobby’s death on 9-11, I have been on a journey to find
the truth of how and why he died and who really killed him. I
was not satisfied, from the beginning, with the official story
of his death. I also feared that violence around the world would
escalate as a result of this horrendous act.
In 2002, I joined September 11th Families For Peaceful
Tomorrows, a group of activists whose name was inspired by a
Martin Luther King statement: “Wars are poor chisels for carving
out peaceful tomorrows,” In the early part of the new decade we
marched hand in hand for peace in Washington and New York,
hoping that 9-11 would not be justification for increased war
efforts. I’ll never forget the moment when I was arrested on the
Capitol lawn, proudly carrying a banner stating, “Not In My
Son’s Name,” which referred to the use of 9-11 by Bush to
further any war efforts.
Later, at the World Conference on Victims of Violence in Bogata,
Columbia, I told Bobby’s story to a packed audience of survivors
of various atrocities. I was honored to have the opportunity to
share my pain and grief with those who truly understood the
price of violence.
Back in the United States, I regularly attended the 9-11
Commission Hearings, patiently listening to testimony while
hoping to find answers to an official story that continued to
make little sense. Instead, I felt frustrated with the inability
of the Commission to discover anything new or enlightening.
Witnesses, including Condoleezza Rice, were not accountable to
the Commission or the American people. Ms Rice, to my dismay,
filibustered her way through each of the questions posed by the
Commissioners. I returned home very discouraged.
In 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, I was
asked to join Peaceful Tomorrows on a march from Nagasaki to
Hiroshima, honoring those who have died in war. I walked beside
the Hibakusha, survivors of the attack. They showed amazing
pride, never taking on the role of victim, though many were
treated as outcasts by their own people. The Hibakusha‘s courage
impressed in me the need to continue my quest for peace and
truth.
I returned home, deciding that if the US government was not
going to give me the real answers to 9-11, then I’d find them
myself. Why, I wondered, was it so hard to go against the
government’s version of a story that did not make sense? I
wanted to know why the media always seemed as far from a “free
press” as one could imagine, often ignoring obvious
breakthroughs in information. Why, also, did peace seem even
farther away than before 9-11, frustrating the peace community?
Our children died that horrible day and it was now being used as
fodder for more escalation, more deaths.
My quest for truth took me to both the traditional history
sources as well as books written by outstanding authors who
questioned the “company line” and sought deeper answers than
what was offered in the news or in press conferences. As I
searched, I recalled quotes by Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Franklin
Roosevelt, initially read years ago by me when their dire
warnings meant very little to a young college student studying
history.
Eisenhower, in a famous speech in 1961, warned of the dangers of
“unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military industrial complex.”
Kennedy, later that year, warned of a “monolithic and ruthless
conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding
its sphere of influence-on infiltration instead of invasion, on
subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free
choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.”
Fascinated with these predictions by such stellar leaders, I
began to probe further, seeing patterns, taking a harder look at
the circumstances leading to the invasions of Iraq and
Afghanistan. I looked farther back in history, reading about
Operation Gladio and the Gulf of Tonkin in a different, more
knowledgeable light.
Was 9-11 another false flag; I was beginning to see the truth. I
wondered if Presidents truly had any power to wage peace. Were
special interests groups with unimaginable wealth and power, who
were often referred to as “Shadow Government,” controlling the
decisions of war?
After more continued research, I learned that these clandestine
operatives would never allow control of the government to the
people. They would instead rely on disinformation (weapons of
mass destruction is a perfect example), fabrication of
injustices, and the spreading of propaganda to justify their
aggressive acts. Could these elite few be responsible for the
upheavals in so many countries when it appeared to the general
public that we were in those countries to “promote democracy”?
As I continued my reading I recalled a quote by Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler’s Propaganda Minister: “You tell a lie big enough and
keep repeating it, people eventually come to believe it.” He
went on to say that the truth “is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
state.”
Sadly, I came to a conclusion best said by Woodrow Wilson and
unfortunately, true today. “We have come to be one of the worst
ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
governments in the civilized world, no longer a government by
free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote
of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress
of small groups of dominant men.”
From hours and hours of research, I have learned that the truth
of 9-11 as well as the truth regarding who really holds the
power in this country and throughout the world, are not in our
best interests to know, according to those elite few who choose
to control our destiny.
Unfortunately, peace and the truth are not part of that destiny.
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I posted this bit of hope, in regard to Sanders, recently on
disqus:
EVERY TIME I post on Daily Kos (which is not frequent, believe
me), I am ruthlessly attacked.
Two years ago, some Daily Kos Mueller cheerleader said that,
with Mueller, Trump's treason would begin to be exposed. I
replied that Trump's treason would begin to be BURIED by
Mueller. It has been buried. Qui bono, eh?
About a week ago I posted how 👹 Pelosi, her "health"
insurance operative 😈Wendell Primus and DCCC 😈
Cheri Bustos are out to sabotage Medicare for All.
Boy, did they go nuts with with prissy claims I was being
"inflammatory and "divisive" (see Orwell).
President Carter stated a few years ago that, "The USA is ruled
by an Oligarchy." All that said, I do think that the people here
or in any other country, regardless of how powerful the evil
bastards running the government are, DO have the power to
overthrow tyranny.
THAT is why I am rooting for Sanders. IF he is allowed to win
the election, it means the oligarchs are scared shitless of
we-the-people and are planning on using Sanders as a POTUS
pressure relief valve. They will need to bring a sandwich if
they think they can bend Sanders the way they bent Obama.
At any rate, with President Sanders, and a Democratic Party
ruled Senate and House (of course), we-the-people will have some
relief from the continued onslaught of fascist based, penury
imposing inequality now crushing us.
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Sanders is also the only one out there who really understands
the FACT that, we either get off of polluting fossil fuels or
we, including those "mysterious oligarchs" who cannot see past
their profit over people and planet STUPID noses, are all dead.
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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
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By: AGelbert Date: May 17, 2019, 9:28 pm
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Moderate Democrats’ Delusions of ‘Prudence’ Will Kill Us All
By: Surly1 Date: May 29, 2019, 7:46 pm
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Join me in another rousing chorus of, "Both sides are equally
bad."
Moderate Democrats’ Delusions of ‘Prudence’ Will Kill Us All
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data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvz9e6bf0060kiy651tcihxj@published"
data-word-count="19">Earlier this month, the weather report for
the Arctic Circle was partly cloudy <a
href="
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/>a high of 84 degrees</a>.</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp
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data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf22001k3h63xsba8lfx@published"
data-word-count="111">Earlier this year, a United Nations report
<a
href="
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/>that “potentially devastating <a
href="
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/>rises of 3 to 5 [degrees Celsius] in the Arctic</a> ar
e
now inevitable even if the world succeeds in cutting greenhouse
gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement.” At the
moment, no nation on Earth is on track to meet its emissions
targets under that accord. And any temperature rise
<em>above</em> what’s already inevitable would pose a
severe risk of melting the methane-infused Arctic permafrost,
thus <a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study">releasing<br
/>283 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere</a>
— a development that, when combined with the disappearance
of heat-deflecting ice, would rapidly accelerate global warming
and all but doom human civilization.</p> <p
class="clay-paragraph amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf3m001q3h632w91l2f3@published"
data-word-count="145">Meanwhile, the government of the
world’s lone superpower remains dominated by a political
party that regards climate change as something between an
afterthought and a “<a
href="
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/>hoax</a>.” The GOP vigorously opposed the Paris agreemen
t,
and is in the process of repealing just about every measure the
Obama administration took to uphold it. In fact, the Republican
White House is so committed to a new rule that would keep
economically inefficient — and ecologically ruinous
— coal-fired power plants in operation,<a
href="
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/>it is ignoring an EPA report</a> that estimates such a policy
would result in 1,400 additional premature deaths in the U.S.
every year. For their part, Senate Republicans are so
contemptuous of the notion that the climate crisis demands
ambitious government action, they have turned the Green New
Deal<a
href="
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/>into a punching bag</a>, and insisted that <a
href="
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/>new infrastructure package</a> must consist largely of
environmental deregulations.</p> <p class="clay-paragraph
amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf2e001l3h63qg0d83d2@published"
data-word-count="170">America’s most powerful political
party is <em>also</em> growing increasingly <a
href="
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/>to democratic values</a> — and evermore insulated from
popular rebuke by its own revisions to election law and the
structural biases of America’s system of government. On
the state level, Republicans have implemented a wide variety of
<a
href="
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/>rules designed to depress the political participation of
Democratic-leaning constituencies</a>. And when a Democrat
nevertheless wins a gubernatorial election in a purple state,
the GOP has taken to using their heavily gerrymandered state
legislative majorities to <a
href="
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/wisconsin-republican-powergrab-gop-2018-autopsy-democracy-is-our-enemy.html">preemptively<br
/>strip the governor’s office of its traditional powers</a
>.
These same anti-democratic tendencies are manifest at the
federal level. The <a
href="
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/><a
href="
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/>Republican administrations have launched investigations into t
he
(nonexistent) crisis of mass voter fraud, in an ostensible bid
to rationalize suppressive voting rules. And both Mitch
McConnell and the Trump administration have refused to recognize
the Democratic Party’s right to govern — the former
by nullifying Barack Obama’s authority to appoint Supreme
Court justices; the latter by refusing to comply with the
(Democrat-controlled) House’s subpoenas.</p> <p
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data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf34001m3h63kp1qkkxc@published"
data-word-count="74">Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s
conservative majority has abetted the GOP’s assaults on
democratic rule by gutting the <a
href="
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/>Rights Act of 1965</a>, approving <a
href="
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/>corporate spending in American elections</a>, <a
href="
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/>an Arizona law</a> that attempted to limit the influence of su
ch
spending by providing candidates with public funds, and hobbling
<a
href="
HTML http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/janus-v-afscme-supreme-court-hobbles-public-unions.html">public-sector<br
/>unions</a>, one of the only institutions with the capacity to
serve as a countervailing weight to the power of (overwhelmingly
Republican-aligned) corporate-interest groups.</p> <p
class="clay-paragraph amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf3e001p3h63ufkjoytk@published"
data-word-count="79">This synergy between conservative
domination of the anti-majoritarian judiciary and Republican
efforts to entrench anti-majoritarian rule over the elected
branches of government threatens to trigger a feedback loop
nearly as dire for U.S. democracy as melting permafrost would be
for the global climate: As the Supreme Court makes it easier for
Republicans to disenfranchise hostile voters and dilute the
influence of those who retain the ballot, Republicans become
better able to replenish and expand their grip on the
judiciary.</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf3d001o3h63ks2262l9@published"
data-word-count="205">The threat that the GOP could soon
entrench the rule of a reactionary, predominantly white minority
isn’t an idle one. Thanks to Senate malapportionment, the
decline of ticket-splitting in an era when all politics is
national, and the political polarization of urban and rural
areas (<a
href="
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/>nearly ubiquitous phenomenon across Western democracies</a> th
at
shows few signs of abating any time soon), Republicans currently
enjoy a historically large structural advantage in the upper
chamber, one that is poised to grow even more formidable in the
years to come. By 2040,<a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opinion/sunday/senate-democrats-trump.html"><br
/>half the U.S. population is expected</a> to reside in eight
diverse, largely urban states, while another 20 percent of the
populace will be concentrated in the <em>next</em> eight most
populous states. This will leave the remaining, overwhelming
white, and nonurban 30 percent of the American population with
68 votes in the U.S. Senate. In a political culture where
Democratic presidents are no longer allowed to appoint Supreme
Court justices unless their party <em>also</em> controls the
upper chamber, GOP domination of the Senate will translate into
GOP domination of the judiciary, even if the conservative
movement boasts an ever-smaller fraction of public support (as
research <a
href="
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/the-post-millennials-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-the-gop.html">on<br
/>the political views of millennials and Gen-Zers suggests that
it
will</a>).</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf37001n3h63v42kxn0m@published"
data-word-count="88">All of which is to say: There’s a
reasonable argument that America’s capacity to address the
existential threat posed by climate change — and arrest
its descent into plutocracy — depends on the Democratic
Party regaining full control of the federal government, and
promptly enacting a series of <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opinion/sunday/senate-democrats-trump.html">(small-d)<br
/>democratic reforms</a> such as federal voting-rights protectio
ns
and statehood for overwhelming nonwhite territories like Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C., before secular
trends allow a reactionary minority to lock up the Senate and
judiciary for a generation.</p> <p class="clay-paragraph
amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf4j001s3h63mhjko154@published"
data-word-count="61">There are many obstacles to such a
beneficent development. A major one is the tendency of moderate
Democrats to mistake their own myopic complacency for heroic
prudence. Greg Weiner, a political scientist and onetime aide to
former moderate Democratic senator Bob Kerrey, gives vivid
expression to this unfortunate frame of mind, <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/trump-lincoln-political-prudence.html">in<br
/>a column published by the New York <em>Times</em>
</a>Wednesday.</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzjzf3z001r3h63oyq3eymo@published"
data-word-count="59">In an op-ed titled “It’s Not
Always the End of the World,” Weiner scolds Democrats and
Republicans alike for grossly exaggerating the stakes of
partisan conflict in the contemporary United States. Against the
catastrophism embraced by the likes of Donald Trump and Barack
Obama, Weiner champions the lost art of political
“prudence,” which Abraham Lincoln once practiced so
well:</p> <blockquote> <p>Prudence is a capacity for
judgment that enables leaders to adjust politics to
circumstances. In extraordinary times, prudence demands
boldness. In mundane moments, it requires modesty. Lincoln, the
foremost exemplar of prudence in American political history, can
instruct today’s voters in both ends of that
continuum.</p> <p>In 1838, an ordinary historical moment, a
28-year-old Lincoln <a
href="
HTML http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lyceum-address">warned</a><br
/>the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., that the
greatest danger to American liberty would arise from leaders
seeking greatness in times that did not require it … A
quarter-century later, as Lincoln prepared a bold stroke that
helped define his own legacy — the Emancipation
Proclamation — his <a
href="
HTML https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:1126?rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=occur;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=last+best+hope">annual<br
/>message</a> to Congress spoke of historical circumstances more
grandly: “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last
best hope of earth.”</p> <p>Those poles of
Lincoln’s politics — modesty in ordinary times and
boldness when required — illustrate the essence of
prudence. The gateway to prudence is accurately gauging the
character of one’s moment in
history.</p> </blockquote> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzk08ha00273h63555cx74m@published"
data-word-count="95">These paragraphs do a rather poor job of
establishing Weiner’s own capacity to distinguish
history’s “ordinary times” from its
“mundane moments.” Was the “greatest danger to
American liberty” in 1838 really politicians who demanded
bold reforms in an era that required none? Or was it, perhaps,
the slaveocracy that condemned more than 1 million Americans to
lifetimes of forced labor, family separations, ****, and
physical abuse? And was Lincoln’s complacency about
eliminating slavery, until the moment when abolition became
militarily expedient for the Union Army, a mark of extraordinary
prudence or an all-too-ordinary moral failure?</p> <p
class="clay-paragraph amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzk2hjs002f3h63zqwkbg7z@published"
data-word-count="42">Weiner is no more discerning when he turns
his gaze from antebellum America to Donald Trump’s.
“There is no question that Mr. Trump’s political
style is aberrant,” Weiner writes. “But what if, all
things considered, the needs of the moment are
ordinary?”</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzk2hjs002f3h63zqwkbg7z@published"
data-word-count="42"><span>In his ensuing argument for the
mundanity of our republic’s present challenges, Weiner
never acknowledges the existence of climate change, voter
suppression, Trump’s </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/13/trump-barr-and-the-rule-of-law">ongoing<br
/>war on the rule of law</a><span>, or any of the other maladies
catalogued above. Here is the entirety of Weiner’s
argument for why those who regard our present moment as one
defined by crisis are deluding
themselves:</span></p> <blockquote> <p>Yet for all the
polarization in our politics, Mr. Trump and many of his
Democratic challengers agree on the core claim that we live in
the throes of a historical crisis. They concur that economic
dislocation has ravaged the middle class: many of them might
have uttered Mr. Trump’s inaugural proclamation of
“American carnage.” All speak of constitutional
crises — Mr. Trump of the excesses of the administrative
state, Democrats of his violations of longstanding
norms.</p> <p> </p> <p>But the erosion of the middle
class is not an acute ailment: It is a gradual, nearly <a
href="
HTML https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/">half-century<br
/>phenomenon</a> that is susceptible only to gradual solutions a
s
well. As for the supposed collapse of American government
promulgated by the bureaucracy, the truth is much less dramatic:
The administrative state is the product of an eight-decade
consensus dating to the New Deal, not an emergent calamity. It
can be unwound, but 80 years of practice will not yield to
sudden solutions.</p> </blockquote> <p><span>Even if we
stipulate that Weiner has accurately — and comprehensively
— identified our republic’s crises as each party
defines them, his argument would be uncompelling. It can be
simultaneously true that the middle class has been in decline
for a half century, </span><em>and</em><span> that we’ve
now reached a moment of crisis in that long descent. Weiner
could perhaps marshal empirical evidence for complacency about
the middle class’s present state. But instead, he has
rested his case on the claim that “a social problem that
has been gradually deepening over a period of many years cannot
possibly become a crisis in the present moment”; by this
logic, it would have been “imprudent” for anyone to
warn of an impending Civil War in 1860, as tensions between the
North and South over the expansion of slavery into the Western
territories was a “nearly half-century phenomenon”
at that time.</span></p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzkap0s00333h63gjuh2pb2@published"
data-word-count="84">But, of course, Weiner ignores the
principal reasons for the left’s catastrophism, while
badly misconstruing those behind the right’s. It is not
the threat of malignant bureaucracy that led former Trump White
House senior adviser Michael Anton to describe 2016 as the <a
href="
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/02/americas-leading-authoritarian-intellectual-works-for-trump.html">“Flight<br
/>93 Election,”</a> but rather “the ceaseless
importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of,
taste for, or experience in liberty,” which was rendering
the electorate “more left, more Democratic, less
Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American
with every cycle.”</p> <p class="clay-paragraph amp"
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzkap0u00343h63w8p97vkm@published"
data-word-count="80">Weiner’s column isn’t without
its merits. His observation that presidential candidates and the
political press have to engage in reckless hyperbole to get
noticed are fair (there is a reason why the headline to this
column is a <em>bit</em> shouty). And “the rhetoric of
catastrophe,” as he calls it, certainly has had a malign
influence on America’s civic life in recent years. Nor is
he wrong to accuse the Democratic Party of engaging in such
threat inflation on many occasions.</p> <p
class="clay-paragraph amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzkap0w00353h63zzh7tncd@published"
data-word-count="96">But in its blithe elision of the primary
threats facing our polity and planet, Weiner’s column
epitomizes the self-congratulatory complacency of the moderate
Senate Democrats, who <a
href="
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/dems-irrational-love-of-filibusters-could-doom-their-agenda.html">are<br
/>more scandalized by the thought of the filibuster’s
abolition</a> than the climate’s ruination. If Team Blue
can somehow wrest Senate control from Mitch McConnell in 2021,
we will not need “modesty” from lawmakers like Jon
Tester and Joe Manchin; rather, we will need them to display
uncharacteristic boldness, by voting to diminish their own small
states’ overrepresentation in the Senate and for sweeping
action to mitigate the climate crisis.</p> <p
class="clay-paragraph amp" data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/cjvzkap0x00363h63gsbu6hos@published"
data-word-count="10">Such is the minimum required by prudence in
our time.</p>[/html]
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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
By: AGelbert Date: June 1, 2019, 4:29 pm
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Join me in another rousing chorus of, "Both sides are equally
bad."
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I am no longer sure that after the Civil War there were two
sides to American politics, when the Madisonians got folded,
spindled and corporate power mutiliated by the Hamiltonian
Robber Barons.
I now believe that, towards the end of the 19th century, the 50
originial "investors" in Brown Brothers Harriman (Rockefeller
was one of them) became the hidden U.S. OILIGARCHY. These
heinous oligarchs spawned a couple of generations of equally
despicable oligarchs. By controlling the "both sides" political
food fight, these slaves of avarice and/or ambition have run
this freak show ever since.
You know, people say that Maximilien Robespierre said there are
no innocents. That is not accurate. He said that, ONLY those who
were innocent deserved mercy. That is no excuse for terrorism,
of course, but I think his logic is sound.
[font=times new roman]February of the Year of our Lord
1794:[/font]
SNIPPET 1:
[quote]But as the essence of the republic or of democracy is
equality, it follows that the love of country necessarily
includes the love of equality.
It is also true that this sublime sentiment assumes a preference
for the public interest over every particular interest; hence
the love of country presupposes or produces all the virtues: for
what are they other than that spiritual strength which renders
one capable of those sacrifices? And how could the slave of
avarice or ambition, for example, sacrifice his idol to his
country?
Not only is virtue the soul of democracy; it can exist only in
that government. ...[/quote]
SNIPPET 2:
[quote]. . . Indulgence for the royalists, cry certain men,
mercy for the villains! No! mercy for the innocent, mercy for
the weak, mercy for the unfortunate, mercy for humanity.
Society owes protection only to peaceable citizens;[/quote]
read more:
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The modern Robber Barron Oligarchs now have something their 19th
Robber Baron ancestors did not: robots. Human (cheap/slave)
labor was needed a century ago to ruthlessly create and preserve
Robber Barron Dynasties. Human labor is still somewhat cheaper
than robots, but that is rapidly changing. Robots now build
robots that can repair robots. Are you getting the picture?
I am. These Oligarchs do not want to lower their carbon
footprint to keep climate change from wiping humanity out. So,
they figure allowing climate change to wipe out 95% of humanity
while they "ride it out" is "worth it". In fact, they see a
large reduction in the human population as a huge positive
factor because they believe it will help the biosphere recover
from damage caused by a large human population.
They are wrong, but what do I know?
[move]Shape of things to come song video[/move]
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The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of the
USA
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Thom Hartmann Program
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The Illinois Holocaust Denier Who Ran for Congress in 2018 Is Do
ing It Again
By: Surly1 Date: December 4, 2019, 5:33 am
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The Illinois Holocaust Denier Who Ran for Congress in 2018 Is
Doing It Again
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Arthur Jones got 26% of the vote when he ran two years ago.
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By Tess Owen
Dec 3 2019
The Chicago-area Holocaust denier who got 26% of the vote when
he ran for Congress two years ago wants to give it another shot.
Arthur Jones, 71, filed paperwork Monday declaring his candidacy
for the 3rd House District Republican primary in Illinois.
Jones, who believes the Holocaust was an “international
extortion racket” and has been affiliated with various Nazi
organizations throughout his career, was the only Republican on
the ballot in 2018 — and 56,350 people voted for him, despite
his views being widely publicized before the election.
His “America First” campaign peddled bizarre anti-immigrant
conspiracy theories, for example, that the Mexican government
was orchestrating a covert takeover of southern U.S. as part of
a plot to establish a new homeland called “Aztlan.” Other
campaign issues included making English an official language and
banning poor people, specifically people receiving public
assistance, from owning guns.
Jones was one of a handful of openly white nationalist or
anti-Semitic candidates who ran for federal office in 2018,
which experts saw as further evidence of a newly-emboldened
far-right movement that had emerginged from the shadows.
Those far-right extremists ran as Republicans, which put the GOP
in an awkward position. The Illinois GOP disavowed Jones’
campaign — but failed to come up with a suitable candidate to
run against himJones in the primary.
This year, things will be different. Jones is up against not one
but two Republicans in the March primary. Jones’ candidacy — and
the fact he was able to participate in the general election —
got a lot of attention in 2018, but his run was by no means his
first foray into politics. He’s run for office in Illinois
nearly every election cycle since 1984, and each time until
2018, tried and failed to compete with at least one other
Republican in the primary.
In primaries where Jones ran against other Republicans, he was
able to take home anywhere between 2% and 33% of the vote,
depending on the number of opponents he was facing.
Jones won’t be the only extremist on the ballot next year.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right
street-fighting gang, is running as a Republican in Florida’s
27th Congressional District.
And the GOP finds itself with still more unconventional
candidates, with several supporting the bizarre, pro-Trump
conspiracy theory known as QAnon on upcoming ballots. Four GOP
candidates running for Congress in Minnesota, Florida,
California and Texas have shared QAnon messaging online.
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Barr Says Those Who Don’t Show More Respect To Cops May Not Get
Police Protection
By: Surly1 Date: December 4, 2019, 5:58 am
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Another day, another nazi. Black people are insufficiently
grateful for the opportunity to provide target practice to
racist cops. But Barr's remarks are going over just fine with
the owners.
William Barr Says Those Who Don’t Show More Respect To Cops May
Not Get Police Protection
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#13;<article
role="article" tabindex="-1"> <div> <p><span>U.S.
Attorney General <a
href="
HTML https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/william-barr"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:William
Barr">William Barr</a> said Tuesday that if some communities
don’t begin showing more respect to law enforcement, then
they could potentially not be protected by police
officers.</span></p> <p><span>The country’s top cop
made the questionable remarks while </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-honors-law-enforcement-officers-and-deputies-third-annual-attorney-general"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:giving a
speech at the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished
Service in Policing"><span>giving a speech at the Attorney
General’s Award for Distinguished Service in
Policing</span></a><span>. </span></p> <p><span>“But I
think today, American people have to focus on something else,
which is the sacrifice and the service that is given by our law
enforcement officers,”<a
href="
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z-Eax4O8Nw&feature=youtu.be"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Barr
said."> Barr said.</a> “And they have to start showing,
more than they do, the respect and support that law enforcement
deserves ― and if communities don’t give that
support and respect, they might find themselves without the
police protection they need.”</span></p> <p><span>The
Justice Department did not immediately respond to
HuffPost’s request for clarification on who specifically
Barr was referring to when he mentioned
“communities” and what he meant by people finding
themselves without police protection.
</span></p> <p><span>But American Bridge,<a
href="
HTML https://americanbridgepac.org/"
rel="nofollow noopener"
target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:a liberal super PAC"> a liberal
super PAC </a>that first flagged the comments, said the attorney
general was referring to communities of color that have
historically had a contentious relationship with law enforcement
due to police brutality, mass incarceration and racial
profiling.</span></p> <p><span>“The Attorney General
isn’t being subtle and that shouldn’t surprise us
considering this administration’s record,” American
Bridge spokesperson Jeb Fain told HuffPost in a statement.
“When it comes to communities of color, he sees justice
and equal protection under the law as subject to conditions.
</span></p> <p><span>“Barr’s words are as
revealing as they are disturbing ― flagrantly dismissive
of the rights of Americans of color, disrespectful to countless
law enforcement officers who work hard to serve their
communities, and full of a continuing disregard for the rule of
law.”</span></p> <p><span>The attorney general has
proved before that he does not support </span><a
href="
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/>rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:the more
humane criminal justice reform"><span>the more humane criminal
justice reform </span></a><span>that’s coming to states,
counties and local jurisdictions across the country. Since
taking over as attorney general in February, Barr has maintained
the “tough on crime” approach that President Donald
Trump has adopted.</span></p> <p><span>In August, Barr told
the Fraternal Order of Police ― the country’s
largest police organization ― that there should be
</span><a
href="
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data-ylk="slk:“zero tolerance for resisting
police.”"><span>“zero tolerance for resisting
police.”</span></a><span> The attorney general gave an
emotionally charged speech going after local prosecutors he
accused of making police officers’ jobs more difficult
because of their </span><a
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progressive approaches"><span>more progressive
approaches</span></a><span> to criminal
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The 2020 Anti-Democratic GOP Fix
By: AGelbert Date: December 4, 2019, 9:24 pm
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date=1575459205]
Dec 3 2019 By Tess Owen
[center]The Illinois Holocaust Denier Who Ran for Congress in
2018 Is Doing It Again
HTML https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjy9j/the-illinois-holocaust-denier-who-ran-for-congress-in-2018-is-doing-it-again[/center]
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width=400]
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[center]Arthur Jones got 26% of the vote when he ran two years
ago.[/center]
[/quote]
Looks like a typical 😈 kraut NAZI to me. I'm sure
🦀 Trump will support him.
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