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The Sources Of America's Political & Financial Dysfunction
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
The way to preserve great wealth is to buy political protection of that wealth. The way to protect great political leverage is to grease the machinery of governance with cash.
I confess that reading Francis Fukuyama's latest cri du coeur in Foreign Affairs,America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction made me think Mr. Fukuyama has either been reading or channeling Of Two Minds.com , as his brutal assessment of America's terminal political dysfunction reflects many of the themes I've been hammering on for the past 9 years.
Unfortunately for his readers, Mr. Fukuyama stops short of identifying the key dynamic in America's dysfunction: the exhaustion of Central Planning and centralized government as a "solution" for every ill. Despite his failure to cross the goal line and put truly incisive points on the scoreboard, Mr. Fukuyama does the nation a valuable service in cogently describing the dynamics of our terminal political dysfunction.
Fukuyama describes the inevitable end-game of money capturing the political machinery of the central state: every big-bucks lobby/constituency has veto powerover Federal policies and budget priorities. In effect, every lobby can veto any initiative that crimps their power or share of Federal swag.
As a result, any serious reform that causes financial-political pain is soon reduced by entrenched interests to a toothless public-relations shell: the shell will still carry an idealistic-sounding label ("financial reform," etc.) but the machinery of governance is unchanged.
With serious reform rendered impossible by our governance by the highest bidder, the structural problems facing the nation fester and become even more intractable/painful to fix. Ironically, this increasing vulnerability to crisis causes lobbyists to react even more rabidly to any potentially threatening reforms; as the entrenched interests recognize the end-game is approaching, they are increasingly desperate to push the inevitable cuts onto some less politically potent constituency--for example, the powerless, passive tax donkeys who pay most of the Federal taxes.
Only highly centralized governments can be so easily captured by free-spending lobbies. Consider the challenge of entrenched interests to influence government functions at the county level rather than the Federal level. Lobbyists would have to fan out to hundreds of counties, each of which has a complex thicket of local interests and constituencies who might resist big-bucks private interests.
But with the vast majority of power concentrated in Federal agencies and budgets, entrenched interests only need to buy a few key legislators and spin the revolving door between corporations and the agencies that regulate them to groom pliant regulators.
This is the dynamic that Fukuyama dares not identify, as doing so would undermine the Central State that he still holds up as the "solution" to every ill. Like all centralist reformers--even those like Fukuyama who doubt reform is even possible--Fukuyama clearly pines not for a decentralized state but for a reformed central state that functions in an idealized version of every centralist's fantasy of good governance: America, 1942-45, when the Federal government marshalled the nation's resources to wage global war and limited the influence of entrenched interests as a matter of national survival.
To say the central state is beyond reform is one thing; to say that centralized political power and financial wealth are the systemic sources of dysfunction is another thing entirely.
Though Fukuyama focuses on political dysfunction, the dysfunction is intrinsically political and financial: concentrated wealth and the political process are the yin and yang of a single system. It is meaningless to speak of one as being separate from the other.
The way to preserve great wealth is to buy political protection of that wealth. The way to protect great political leverage is to grease the machinery of governance with cash.
What Fukuyama cannot bring himself to see is that the ontology of the Central State leads to this end-game of competing financial-political interests fighting to protect their turf even as the storm clouds of global transformation darken the horizon.
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- Bernocchio, July 2013
I don't begin to understand interest rates.
- Buffet, Oct 2, 2014
I think most on this site know how interest rates should behave, and understand how gold should be priced. It's when central planners grab hold of both, tame them and massage them so that insolvency of the banking sector does not naturally occur as it should, that we all of the sudden get the most intelligent (sarc?) financial people in the world claiming they don't understand what is at the core of their very own policy objectives.
Lies, lies, lies.
Why exactly. Never fess up to the shit you create. Steal all you can but never never admit it. First thing they taught you at Princeton and Harvard.
I don't begin to understand interest rates.
- Buffet, Oct 2, 2014
why should you?
You're the biggest welfare queen of them all
If he truly doesn't he will Soon Enough.......
I Put the "Arrow to the Heart"....
And the Bleed has already begun........
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair, 1935
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My God! I thought that the link might go to an Onion article. Well I hoped that it would.
They have their hands around everyone's balls. But I tell you what, I'm not going to cough.
An American, not US subject."
"Supply and demand. Banksters, supply, guillotines, demand."
>Voting only encourages them
>Will vote R down the list
Voting is great for sure, but we need to do more. Push Article 5...
You vote, they count.
Enough said.
An American, not US subject.
"They shoot protesters, but encourage voting."
The answer to crony capitalism, corruption in our political system and the manipulation of markets through purchasing politicians we need a Numa, or a Fourth Branch if government. A constitutionally empowered police of government and it's officials. Yes, to amend the Constitution is a drastic action, but in these days of drastic consequences we need drastic action!
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Great, now I gotta "lubricate" 4 branches of government.
Not a 4th branch of government. Dissolve the Supreme Court as the 3rd branch and create a state run Supreme Court. After all, the idea of the Supreme Court is to prevent the overstepping of Constitutional authority by the federal government, so the states should give themselves the ultimate authority to determine when federal legislation oversteps those bounds and be able to override in those cases.
We also need to have a formal method to vet the citizenship of Presidents, past, present and future, to insure that they meet the requirements of the Constitution. Those that assume the position thru fraud should be charged by the states with high treason and be punished with the typical methods of capital punishment (hangin' is my favorite).
The source of the DC US', not America's, dysfunction is the DC US' Rothschild bankster owners, Israeli controllers, and the treasonous criminal pols, crats, and funcs they employ.
The banksters' thefts destroy the economy. Their thefts distort returns on investment and labor keeping people scrambling ahead of job and wealth loss which leads to diminished civility.
The veil of lies and violence that the pols, crats and funcs use to protect themselves and the banksters creates a society of mistrust and violence.
What ails the American people is the owned and controlled DC US and the American people's obedience to the treasonous criminals they employ.
An American, not US subject.
"Guillotine the Fed!"
no shit... nice how the article talks around the real problem. buying control of a country is easy when you run the printing press. giving that power to foreign banking interests sealed the deal for the downfall of the U.S. everything else is just theater.
Your comment is the deal in a nutshell.
An American, not US subject.
The acronym of your tag line is AANUSS.
You need a better marketer.
Charles - finally - got to the last chapter?
Just print more Monopoly money, that's the cure all...
"Political dysfunction" is redundant, as theft and coercion do not a harmonic society make.
SO ...?
SO, SHOW THIS TO EVERYBODY!
"The Public Be Suckered"
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928
Decentralized government is also subject to capture and corruption, take a look at any city government, it makes Washington DC look pure as the driven snow.
But DC now has the printing presses roaring like the forges of hell, something you can't do in the Podunk city hall.
And the MSM has given up even trying to audit the shenanigans of the Democrats as long as they mean well, or of anything president Ebola says or does or doesn't do. This so-called liberal progressive populist has been in orifice for six years now, and how many banksters are hanging from lampposts? Where is ISIS when we need them?
Its easy tho. All citizens need to do is be sure that anybody drawing a public paycheck in the judicial, legislative or executive branches of state and federal gov'mt post their daily schedules, agendas, and persons with whom they meet, on line, their bank account info should be open during their tenure of public service and they should conduct their publically mandated open meetings in an on-line forum as well.
That degree of exposure will ensure that NOBODY would want those positions for a life career as well. It will bring a kernal of truth to the concept of "public service"
Considering the camps people are drifting to I'm not envisioning a better America anytime soon.
Democrats: Its everyone's fault but ours; hand over your money you evil whitey you.
Republicans: We will bomb the world to profitability; the power of Christ compels you.
Libertarians: Anarchy light; Free market pot, hookers, and guns, WHOO-HOO!
Socialists: Lets try the same stupid policies that always bankrupt countries and start wars; it'll be different this time, WE PROMISE!
*take with grain of salt*
reputable, legitimate sources, including Jewish media sources have repeatedly maintained that it is estimated that American Jews give around 50%, or more, to both parties. That, apart from national and international Jewish and Zionist organization and hyperethnocentrism largely explains the quite obvious stranglehold Israel has on US policy, as well as the wildly disproportional power Jews, in general, as a group, have in government [running treasury, commerce, irs, fdic, and now or recently basically any agency having to do with $].
But while you are free to talk about 'diversity' and 'white privilege' - Bernaysian tactics in the media have succeeded in convincing people of what is logically invalid - that discussing the disporportionate power of Jews, per se, is "anti-Semitism."
It is sheer nonsense.
You have a massive lobby, and an incredibly wealthy minority inordinately concerned with a foreign country, right or wrong, and no countervailing force on the other side. Those of us who are pro-peace and otherwise merely America Firsters, who regard Israel as an obviously racist, colonialist regime, are unremittingly accused of "hate" by people who are often little more than primarily loyal to a foreign power, if not outright Jewish Supremacists.
By no means is organized Zionism or Jewry the only out of control influence on the government - lobbies in general are problematic. But as to foreign policy and the use of our military, it is the Jewish-and-Zionist lobby and think tanks, traitors to the American people, which are largely driving the car.
Yeah, Duffy, there is no doubt that those are the social and political facts. The most recent manifestations of those patterns were the ways that OBAMACARE followed after this situation more recently developed:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-11/who-spends-most-dollars-lobbying-washington-dc
Who Spends The Most Dollars Lobbying Washington, DC?
"... Pharmaceutical and health product industry, hospital and nursing homes, health professionals and health services, HMOs, or more broadly Pharma/Healthcare/HMO, the total lobby dollars spent between 1998 and 2012 was a staggering $5.3 billion, or nearly three times greater than the second most generous industry: insurance, and well above Oil and Gas at $1.4 billion, and Securities and Investment at $1.0 billion. Is it becoming clearer why the US government has few qualms about unsustainable taxpayer funded healthcare spending, especially when there are so many current benefits accruing to the politicians who see so many billions in benefits from passing lobby-friendly laws now (by which we mean generous taxpayer funding, the bulk of which benefits the healthcare industry's bottom line)? ..."
It is also not surprising to go back in history, through the development of the Profit From Disease Systems, which directed medicine to develop in such ways as the practice of medicine would make the most possible money, as its overall first priority, to find Jewish doctors at the top of the medical social pyramid systems, steering those developments, while attacking everyone else who became an obstacle to that happening.
Of course, the bigger picture is complicated,
such as outlined in this video as an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdomBX8U0w
UROKO
Overall, it is clear The Sources Of America's Political & Financial Dysfunction occurred in the constant context where Jews, which are less than 2% of the overall American population, were providing almost 50% of the funding of the political processes. That explains how and why the American government became integrated into the Anglo-American (Zioinist) empire, and the foreign policies of the USA have been more and more directed by Zionist interests since World War II.
Obviously, the most spectacular symbol was that the events on 9/11/2001 were an inside job, false flag attack, most probably done by Zionists, in order to blame on Muslims, in order to start the "war on terror" as a self-fulfilling prophesy, which would eventually enable imposing democidal martial law within America. The SOURCE of that vicious spiral was the SOURCE of the public "money" supply becoming the MAD Money-As-Debt system, which replaced the original American system of money based on silver and gold, whose value was set by Congress.
The people who made and maintained that monetary system were NOT exclusively Jews, however, there were a very high proportion who are Jews, such as that most of the Chairs of the Federal Reserve Board for decades have all been Jews. However, personally, I think that the word "Jew" is misleading, and useless, or worse. The real issues are NOT WHO THEY ARE, BUT WHAT THEY DO!
In my view, we need to go through a series of intellectual scientific revolutions to resolve how and why good analysis of the social facts always reveals systems of organized lies operating robberies, such as how the medical systems operate inside the monetary systems, which operate inside of the military systems. The basic social facts are that governments are the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, and there is no doubt that the best organized gangs of criminals currently have an extraordinarily high proportion of Jews within them, compared to their overall percentage in the total population.
However, it my view it is grossly mistaken to blame any of those who operate in roles within the established systems, rather than comprehend those systems a whole, as being the deeper problems. My theme is that human realities are always necessarily organized lies operating robberies, because human beings necessarily operate as entropic pumps of energy The only genuine solutions are better organized crime, NOT the impossible ideals of promoting that there should be no organized crime.
In that sense, I do not approve of those who focus on the personal issues regarding who may or may not be the particular top predators, or top parasites. That kind of analysis, which promotes bullshit "solutions" that those predator/parasites are THE PROBLEM, is based on deliberate ignorance of how and why so many different ecologies evolved to have niches for different species that acted as the producers, who were prey for the predator/parasites.
There are NO genuine solutions to be found in blaming the particular top predators, or worst parasites, for all the problems. Rather, their prey people are just as much a part of the systemic problems. The production of destruction controls production. The producing groups need to have predator/parasites, or some limiting, because of the basic realities, which drove natural selection again and again to develop evolutionary ecologies to operate in ways where an overall balance was made and maintained between the productive prey, and the parasitical predators.
It is all too common on Zero Hedge, as well as elsewhere, for those who recognized some of the deeper levels of social facts, regarding how certain cultural groups have become specialized to operate in roles that are like ecological niches, and thereafter to tend to totally blame those that are identified as the dominant social predator/parasites as being THE PROBLEM, which leads to bogus "solutions" that eliminating them could be a good enough idea.
The DEEPER PROBLEMS go much deeper than merely recognizing that: "By no means is organized Zionism or Jewry the only out of control influence on the government - lobbies in general are problematic."
The real roles of money in politics have become such a vicious spiral of the profit from fraud reinvested in more frauds, developing at an exponential rate, that there appears no possible good resolutions, but rather, only runaway MADNESS destroying itself seems more probable at the present time. That is especially so because there is virtually NO better and deeper understanding of the ways that political economy developed inside of human ecology.
Natural selection was internalized as intelligence, which then developed systems of artificial selection to channel the pressures of natural selection. That processes got itself more and more entangled in the ways that the most successful death controls were operated through the maximum possible deceits, upon which foundation was built the debt controls based on the maximum possible frauds. Clearly, there were certain primarily cultural (and somewhat genetic) groups who specialized to fill different roles within the human ecology and political economy which were like the productive prey versus the parasitical parasites, as found in other natural ecologies.
The great paradoxes that the human species now faces are that there has been significant progress in science and technology, BUT, nothing like that with respect to human sciences, because the leading social sciences were warfare, whose success was based on being deceitful, and economics, whose success was based on being fraudulent. There can NOT be any genuine human progress that did not face those facts fully, and deal more directly with how and why those ARE the real facts.
In my opinion, the social facts make it clear that Zionism appears at the present time to be the world's leading and most triumphant organized crime gang, which has captured control over virtually all NATO counties, and is working towards attempting to consolidate its global hegemony over the whole world. However, I do NOT believe that looking at the problems inside of those terms can lead to any genuinely better solutions, while looking at those problems as due to "Jews," rather than Zionism, is even worse!
Rather, we need a series of intellectual scientific revolutions to enable better understanding of human beings as general energy systems, which intellectual scientific revolutions would penetrate THROUGH the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories, such as THROUGH how the biggest forms and best organized gangs of criminals are able to conceal what they are doing through promoting total bullshit stories about everything! (That especially includes understanding the ways that the biggest bullies' bullshit also dominated the philosophy of science, as it did every other enterprise, so that concepts such as entropy are generally understood in profoundly backwards ways, which hamstrings better understanding of energy systems generally.)
There is no doubt about the actual social facts, regarding the ways that the government of the USA has become the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. However, any genuine solutions to those problems MUST necessarily be better organized crime, which ideally should be based on a greater use of information, enabling a higher consciousness. There is NO doubt that any future for human, industrial and natural ecologies MUST have their death controls as the central features. It is not possible to abolish natural selection pressures, which always existed. However, it may be possible to better comprehend how civilization became entangled in the paradoxical ways that the actual death controls were done through the maximum possible deceits, in order to back up the debt controls being done through the maximum possible frauds.
It is NOT good enough to lay all the blame upon the currently top predator parasites, which are the best organized gangs of criminals, that have captured control over the monetary systems, and used that to leverage up more and more control over every other social institution! The productive prey in that situation are just as much to blame, since together they form an entire system. The interesting questions at this time for the human species is IF, and HOW, we may move through the paradoxical ways that the development of intelligence was primarily channeled through social pyramid systems, which operated their death controls through the maximum deceits, including that the controlled opposition groups also stayed within the frame of reference of those deceits.
That is why I assert that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder, which was how and why the best organized gangs of criminals were able to capture control over the governmental powers. The deeper problems are those processes have reduced the vast majority of people to become incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, who were being fleeced to exhaustion, while being set up to be slaughtered. Inside that context, while I think it is clear who happens to be the predominant groups amongst the current top predator/parasites, I do NOT agree that any superficial notions regarding blaming solely them makes enough sense, nor would promoting their elimination make good sense, because the deeper problems are that there MUST be some systems of artificial selection, that channel the forces of natural selection, as long as any human beings continue to exist. (Furthermore, those same basic concepts would also apply to the development of future industrial ecologies, as it applied to past natural ecologies, as well as any future natural ecologeis which could be integrated with emerging human and industrial ecologies in the future.
This article about The Sources Of America's Political & Financial Dysfunction was basically CORRECT, and it also CORRECT to point out the actual social facts of the historical degrees of dominance of "Jews" over the funding of the political processes in North America. However, any genuinely better resolutions to these problems have to face the ways that the Neolithic Civilization social pyramid systems are a problem which requires the development of a Translithic Civilization to perhaps survive to adapt to the development of science and technology, which has enabled the creation of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of the force of atomic weapons.
The basic issues are how to develop a better human ecology, in which the death controls MUST be the central feature, in order for those to then be able to back up better debt controls. There should be developed new social systems, which transcend the ways in which the current systems are operated as organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, which primarily manifested through the funding of the political process, through vicious spirals of the combined money/murder systems.
Unfortunately, it is certainly only after some significant psychotic breakdowns of the currently established systems of enforced frauds (in which the funding of the political processes drove the development of integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which have runaway away to become out of control collective criminal insanities), that some of the survivors of that MIGHT be able to have an opportunity to actually develop some new social systems. It continues to look like massive corrections of the social systems of artificial selection, by natural selection pressures beyond their control, are the only things which could effectively change the established systems, since within those established systems the criminally insane vicious spirals of the roles of money through the political processes have otherwise gotten everything so tightly locked up, and strangled, that there are no plausible political solutions which could be able to emerge from within those systems.
If only evolution really was synonomous with progress ...
"The production of destruction controls production" -- well-phrased RM, w/ a klunky weightiness that conveys, mirrors the idea.
The real source of dysfunction is far simpler to explain (and more importantly to defeat): Citizen Cooperation.
Want to improve a few things? STOP COOPERATING all the time!
Question. Refute. Question again. Refuse. Appeal. Disappear! Do anything to harm the beast.
Still have direct deposit?
opps, double post.
Constitutional Amendment limiting all House, Senate, and President tenures to 7 years, once in a lifetime.
Stagger all 3 elections.
Problem with influence peddling GONE
"Sending in good people to reform the state is like sending in virgins to reform the whorehouse." — Albert Jay Nock
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." — Emma Goldman
Of course, the one vote upon which all others derive their power is not only illegal in this country; it's so entrenched that the American sheeple have for many decades pledged allegiance to an "indivisible" nation founded on the exact opposite principle.
Fortunately, that principle is resurgent and will assert itself before the decade is out:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102021344
Meanwhile, the state can kiss my ass.
"The way to preserve great wealth is to buy political protection of that wealth. The way to protect great political leverage is to grease the machinery of governance with cash."
It doesn't take an Einstein to figure that one out. Or to understand this is the root cause of America's ills.
Cash is only part of the grease. Don't forget pandering, blackmail, murder, extortion, winging and dining, supplying hookers and little boys, and the role of press and PR.
Historically, the most important events were when the funding of the political processes took the form of paying for the assassination of those politicians that could not otherwise be bribed or intimidated.
There appears to be a disconnect in your channeling. Yoshi's memberships alone easily explain the reasons he falls short. 9 years in a cubicle under artificial light can dull the senses. May you should think about getting some Son. Or shed some light on your oversight for the ZH enlightened.
"I confess that reading Francis Fukuyama's latest cri du coeur in Foreign Affairs,America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction made me think Mr. Fukuyama has either been reading or channeling Of Two Minds.com"
"Unfortunately for his readers, Mr. Fukuyama stops short of identifying the key dynamic in America's dysfunction: the exhaustion of Central Planning and centralized government as a "solution" for every ill."
amerika = bananna republic