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The Illusion Of Democracy

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Distract, deny, democracy...

 

Source: Jesse

Which reminded us of this perennial note...

The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.

No reasonably intelligent person can deny this. All you have to do is look at the way the Other Side has been running its campaign. Instead of focusing on the big issues that are important to the American People, it has fired a relentlessly negative barrage of distortions, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies.

Just look at the Other Side’s latest commercial, which take a perfectly reasonable statement by the candidate for My Side completely out of context to make it seem as if he is saying something nefarious. This just shows you how desperate the Other Side is and how willing it is to mislead the American People.

The Other Side also has been hammering away at My Side to release certain documents that have nothing to do with anything, and making all sorts of outrageous accusations about what might be in them. Meanwhile, the Other Side has stonewalled perfectly reasonable requests to release its own documents that would expose some very embarrassing details if anybody ever found out what was in them. This just shows you what a bunch of hypocrites they are.

Naturally, the media won’t report any of this. Major newspapers and cable networks jump all over anything they think will make My Side look bad. Yet they completely ignore critically important and incredibly relevant information that would be devastating to the Other Side if it could ever be verified.

I will admit the candidates for My Side do make occasional blunders. These usually happen at the end of exhausting 19-hour days and are perfectly understandable. Our leaders are only human, after all. Nevertheless, the Other Side inevitably makes a big fat deal out of these trivial gaffes, while completely ignoring its own candidates’ incredibly thoughtless and stupid remarks – remarks that reveal the Other Side’s true nature, which is genuinely frightening.

My Side has produced a visionary program that will get the economy moving, put the American People back to work, strengthen national security, return fiscal integrity to Washington, and restore our standing in the international community. What does the Other Side have to offer? Nothing but the same old disproven, discredited policies that got us into our current mess in the first place.

Don’t take my word for it, though. I recently read about an analysis by an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports My Side. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything I have been saying about the Other Side was true all along. Of course, the Other Side refuses to acknowledge any of this. It is too busy cranking out so-called studies by so-called experts who are actually  nothing but partisan hacks. This just shows you that the Other Side lives in its own little echo chamber and refuses to listen to anyone who has not already drunk its Kool-Aid.

Let’s face it: The Other Side is held hostage by a radical, failed ideology. I have been doing some research on the Internet, and I have learned this ideology was developed by a very obscure but nonetheless profoundly influential writer with a strange-sounding name who enjoyed brief celebrity several decades ago. If you look carefully, you can trace nearly all the Other Side’s policies for the past half-century back to the writings of this one person.

To be sure, the Other Side also has been influenced by its powerful supporters. These include a reclusive billionaire who has funded a number of organizations far outside the political mainstream; several politicians who have said outrageous things over the years; and an alarmingly large number of completely clueless ordinary Americans who are being used as tools and don’t even know it.

These people are really pathetic, too. The other day I saw a YouTube video in which My Side sent an investigator and a cameraman to a rally being held by the Other Side, where the investigator proceeded to ask some real zingers. It was hilarious! First off, the people at the rally wore T-shirts with all kinds of lame messages that they actually thought were really clever. Plus, many of the people who were interviewed were overweight, sweaty, flushed, and generally not very attractive. But what was really funny was how stupid they were. There is no way anyone could watch that video and not come away convinced the people on My Side are smarter, and that My Side is therefore right about everything.

Besides, it’s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger – unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, I hasten to add, is entirely justified. I have read several articles in publications that support My Side that expose what a truly dangerous group the Other Side is, and how thoroughly committed it is to imposing its radical, failed agenda on the rest of us.

That is why I believe [2016] is, without a doubt, the defining election of our lifetime. The difference between My Side and the Other Side could not be greater. That is why it absolutely must win [in 2016].

 

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Wed, 05/20/2015 - 19:30 | 6115418 Kreditanstalt
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I seem to remember a Star Trek episode where a black and a white alien have hated each other for 50,000 years, even to when every other person on their planet is dead...

 

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:43 | 6115464 djsmps
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I'm curious about what a gaget is.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:23 | 6116200 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

I'm curious about what a gaget is.

One example would be the iBidet, which can be operated from your iPhone, iPad, or iWatch. It's only eight hundred dollars at your nearest Apple store.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:49 | 6116426 Charming Anarchist
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Did you have black and white television before or after you got a telephone?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:05 | 6115494 moneybots
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"The Illusion Of Democracy"

 

It is a republic, if you can keep it, said Benjamin Franklin.

"...and to the republic for which it stands."

 

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:09 | 6115507 moneybots
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"That is why I believe [2016] is, without a doubt, the defining election of our lifetime."

 

That is exactly what they said last time. 

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Each time, the candidates say their opponent is the scum of the earth.  Then the losing scum congratulates the winning scum.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:35 | 6115573 Stormtrooper
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Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".

i.e. me voting for my side while you vote for your side and expecting Washington, D.C. to do the "right" thing.

Let's Article V them out of existence and then discuss who is going to provide the services that the Founding Fathers originally expected from a Federal government.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:38 | 6115585 Shad_ow
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The current administration IS the scum of the earth, they don't even hide it.  Of course the opposition is the scum of the earth too, they just try to hide it.  What's a slave to do?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:50 | 6116427 Charming Anarchist
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Einstein just wanted folks to give the other side a chance once in a while. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:05 | 6115809 TheReplacement
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"That is why I believe [xxxx] is, without a doubt, the defining election of our lifetime."

In a republic with a representative government, every election is the election of a lifetime.  To think that most elections are unimportant is to end up where we are now.  Something about dereliction of duty, yada yada, and so on and so forth.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:40 | 6115592 Atomizer
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Every 6-8 year cycle meets fate. 

 

"We'll Kill the Dollar!"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_F7bM63ZfWQ

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:42 | 6115595 BoPeople
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The dialectics are clearly a fabrications designed by those in power to keep the people distracted with nonsense.

People never seem to tire of the delusions foisted upon them.

Maybe someday.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:19 | 6115681 Atomizer
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QE and NIRP is the Federal Reserve program to pass the baton to another Global entity. 

Wake up!  

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:43 | 6115600 Atomizer
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TPP is a new extension to expanding debt. That's why no one can see documents. 

"We'll Kill the Dollar!" http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_F7bM63ZfWQ
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 20:46 | 6115606 Duc888
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Stop funding both sides.

 

Sit the fuck home.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:08 | 6115822 TheReplacement
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Find a third party you identify with.  Fund them.  Work with them to get elected (possibly even with yourself as a candidate).  Stop bitching about Republicans and Democrats and do something for yourself.

Or

Sit at home and take it in the ass from them like a good little pooper.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:09 | 6115656 reader2010
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"Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

- Vladimir Lenin

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:15 | 6115667 InconvenientCou...
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If by defining, you mean people wake up to the fact that the elections themselves are a ruse, then yes. It will indeed be a defining election.

 

Who owns the internet?

Who couts the votes?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:19 | 6115673 reader2010
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Hitler argued that absence of sufficient state controls in a democracy enables the wealthy class to manipulate the economy, the press and elected representatives for its own gain. A widening gulf between poverty and affluence develops, gradually dragging the working class to ruin.

Addressing Berlin armament workers in December 1940, he claimed that the public’s voice in democratic systems is an illusion: “In these countries, money in fact rules. That ultimately means a group of a few hundred persons who possess enormous fortunes. As a result of the singular construction of the state, this group is more or less totally independent and free…. Free enterprise this group understands as the freedom not only to amass capital, but especially to use it freely; that is, free from state or national supervision.

So one might imagine that in these countries of freedom and wealth, unheard-of public prosperity exists…. On the contrary, in those countries class distinctions are the most crass one could think of: unimaginable poverty on one hand and equally unimaginable riches on the other. These are the lands that control the treasures of the Earth, and their workers live in the miserable dumps…. In these lands of so-called democracy, the people are never the primary consideration. Paramount is the existence of those few who pull the strings in a democracy, the several hundred major capitalists. The broad masses don’t interest them in the least, except during elections."

- Richard Tedor , Hitler’s Revolution, Chapter 1 Ideology

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:30 | 6116285 JamaicaJim
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That dead fucktwat could argue like a motherfucker....but he was still a stone cold mass murderer.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:06 | 6116614 reader2010
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It seems you only read history written by victors. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:26 | 6115697 stormsailor
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did you hear about the dyslexic atheist.  he didn't believe in dog.  even worse,  his neighbors god kept shitting on his front lawn.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:25 | 6115876 stormsailor
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thank you, thank you.  i thought it was as revelant to our discussion of democracy as anything else i read.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:35 | 6115727 dexter_morgan
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So whats the deal with Rand Paul's filibuster? Just kabuki theater? I don't really hear anyone talking about it?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:10 | 6115825 Duc888
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dexter_morgan :So whats the deal with Rand Paul's filibuster? Just kabuki theater? I don't really hear anyone talking about it?

 

It's bullshit.   Blanket data collection is already being done by dozens of US corporations, SIAC, Google, Facebook, Nexus Lexus...etc...all100% LEGAL.  

 

So NSA "stops" this type of data collection and just buys it.  Then they disseminate it.  all 100$ LEGAL 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:41 | 6115743 roddy6667
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Politics is like nuclear war. The only way to win is to not play.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:42 | 6115744 JailBanksters
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People think they live in a democracy because they elect the President, but they don't. The Party machine is the only ones that votes who they want to be President, all you do is approve their decision. And with Preferences, you could win with the Majority of People actually voting against you. It's a system where people have no control over the people they are voting for.

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:54 | 6115781 Dixie Flatline
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And there you have it...where cynicism become paralysis.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:56 | 6115790 VWAndy
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Silly season is here. Cool, can everybody play?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:29 | 6115888 yellowsub
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I fixed it... Distract, deny, destroy!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:31 | 6115902 bid the soldier...
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Voting in a democracy where only 50% of the people vote, is like pooping in a toilet you know is clogged and will run over when you flush it.

Or something like that.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:33 | 6115909 Skip
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The TPP Managed Trade Deal And The Danger Of Informal Immigration Promises: More Evidence
By Peter Brimelow, former Editor, Forbes Magazine on May 19, 2015, 11:45 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:"the Senate will finish its work on trade this week" whatever the voters want.

Fresh from throwing the fight against Obama’s Executive Amnesty and voting for Amnesty-supporting AG Loretta Lynch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indeed ridden to the rescue of the Trans Pacific Partnership managed trade deal: McConnell vows to pass trade bill, by Vicki Needham and Jordain Carney, The Hill, May 18, 2015.

Recently, I recounted in Fast-Tracking TPP, The Danger Of Informal Immigration Deals, And The Need For Treason Trials how in 1990-91 an advisor to British Prime Minister Thatcher expressed astonishment to me that Bush aides had casually told him they had informally promised the Mexicans that the U.S. would tolerate increased illegal immigrationto accommodate theMexican farm laborerswho would bethrown off the landif Mexico gave up its corn price supports under the North American Free Trade Agreement, which U.S. agribusiness demanded. Of course, this was diametrically opposed to what credulous GOP voters were being told by theWall Street JournalEditorial pageetc.: that free trade wouldreduceillegal immigration, because it would boost Mexico’s economy.

Here’s more reason to be suspicious, which I meant to add to my original post. For some reason, a Leftist site called Campaign For America’s Future has kindly put me on its email list. On December 10 last year, it posted Immigrant Groups Warn Fast Track/TPP Could Cause More Migration North by Dave Johnson

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:57 | 6115979 Atomizer
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Grab My Gun? Get a Grip!

https://standeyo.com/NEWS/12_USA/120806.get.gun.get.grip.html

DNC voting sign 

https://standeyo.com/NEWS/12_USA/12_USA_pics/120806.Yard_sign.jpg

Let's let you die under your administration Kenyan Hut building Negro. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:13 | 6116031 Atomizer
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Remain on the plantation until 2016, we promise new entitlements on a global scale. You slaves will benefit from this new treaty. We'll be able to get ACA medical under this new global alliance. We can drive Wallstreet debt to 45 trillion dollars. 

Cough, TPP, MSM keeping a poker face.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:37 | 6116085 GoldenDonuts
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USA has a perfect democracy and a strong republic.  You can choose the bought criminal on the red team or the purchased one on the blue team.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:05 | 6116146 Aussiekiwi
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Bought or Purchased, hmmm, Political decisions are always so morally vexing.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:03 | 6116142 Aussiekiwi
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Damn that other side, damn them to hell!, crack pots the lot of them.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:04 | 6116145 DeusHedge
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it should show the americans holding the chain to about 25-30 negros each, with the negros having a demon face and a huge pair of bolt cutters.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:06 | 6116153 Aussiekiwi
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Whoa there Deushedge, Boltcutters!!, thats going way to far.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:08 | 6116158 DeusHedge
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hey i love the colors of the wind

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:26 | 6116208 Radical Marijuana
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The core to the "illusion of democracy" is that "We the People" have given away the power to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts to private banks, while the power of the "We the People's" government continues to enforce the value of that "money" made out of nothing as debts, by deeming that "money" to be legal tender, and demanding payment of taxes with that form of "money."

After "We the People" lose control over the public "money" supply, there is NO REAL DEMOCRACY, there is only the "illusion of democracy." However, it was originally the roles of money in paying for the political processes that resulted in, step by step, "We the People" losing control of the public "money" supply, while, step by step, that became a vicious spiral that automatically got worse, faster, at an exponential rate. The funding of the political processes drove the "democratic republic operating through the rule of law" to become a cruel joke, where all branches of the government were systematically corrupted to transform from the ideals of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, into becoming government of the money, by the money, for the money, under a monetary system which was no longer controlled by "We the People," but rather had become almost totally privatized, so that privately controlled banks were able to control issuing the public "money" supply, by making that "money" out of nothing as debts, while governments continued to still enforce that fraud, no matter how that debt slavery system then necessarily drove its numbers to become debt insanities.

That privatized MAD Money As Debt system has become like a totally metastasized cancer, that is killing the society that it has been growing in. There is surely a serious "illusion of democracy," because of the ways that the funding of the political processes have resulted in the public "money" supply becoming almost totally privatized. At present, only a tiny percentage of real democracy still exists, as demonstrated by the facts that the public "money" supply, trapped within the vicious feedback loops of the funding of the political processes, has become such that only a tiny percentage of the public "money" supply is not based on governments enforcing banks' frauds, while also only a tiny percentage of the funding of the political processes is not being done by similarly tiny percentages of the population.

Rhetorically speaking, to round things off, one can say that more than 99% of the funding of politics is done by less than 1% of the people, while more than 99% of the public "money" supply is being issued by privately controlled banks.

The degree to which there is an "illusion of democracy" has literally become close to a ratio of more than 99% fake democracy, with less that 1% actual democracy left to operate in any significant ways. IN FACT, MORE THAN 99% OF THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENTS, WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO BELONG TO "WE THE PEOPLE," HAVE ALREADY BEEN PRIVATIZED.

The actual social facts are that the "illusion of democracy" has reached the point where it is practically total, since less than 1% of the meaningfulness of a "democratic republic operating through the rule of law" still exists. All over the world, the monetary systems have become similar systems, rendering there to be nothing but an "illusion of democracy" anywhere.

As the cartoon and article above illustrated, the elections are nothing but cruel jokes, because NONE OF THE SIDES are able and willing to promote the basic issues regarding that the public "money" supply has been privatized, in ways whereby the powers of governments are used to enforce the frauds of privately controlled banks. Due to the overwhelming degree to which money controls people's lives, while that money is controlled by a tiny minority of those people, there is nothing but that tiny minority as a core group of organized crime, the biggest gangsters, the banksters, who are the puppet masters that control the politicians that are their puppets, who are performing in the puppet shows put on the stages set by the mass media.

NONE of the real issues are raised during elections. NONE of the issues regarding how the debt controls are backed by the death controls, or that money is measurement backed by murder, are presented to the public. Instead, the vast majority of people have been brainwashed to believe in the banksters' bullshit world view, for generation after generation, so that the vast majority of the public are so clueless that they do not have a clue how clueless they are, since both the schools and mass media have been massively and overwhelmingly lying by omission regarding all of the most important facts throughout the lives of generation after generation.

More and more "We the People" have been reduced to Zombie Sheeple. Furthermore, the core of organized crime that captured control over the public "money" supply, and achieved their goal that they can legally counterfeit that "money" supply, while governments continue to enforce that fraud, was also able to surround itself with layer after layer of controlled opposition groups, which all amount to various kinds of Black Sheeple, or reactionary revolutionaries, promoting old-fashioned religions and ideologies as the basis of the "solutions" for the problems, which never go into a deep enough analysis of what those problems really are, and therefore, never propose realistic solutions for those problems.

For practical purposes, ALL SIDES are controlled opposition groups, who stay within the same overall bullshit frame of reference. NONE discuss how and why the debt controls are backed by the death control, and NONE address the ways that there exist combined money/murder systems, whereby money is measurement backed by murder. Rather, the effective privatization of the government's powers to rob (tax) and to kill to back up that robbery (taxation) continue to more than 99% actually serving the interest of privately controlled banks, and the corporations that have grown up around those banks, being able to control the public "money" supply, and dominate all aspects of the political economy.

Overall, as the article above indicated "My Side and the Other Side" are BOTH controlled opposition groups, which BOTH support the existing systems whereby the best organized gangsters, the banksters, have captured control over the powers of government, and thereby transformed that government into blatantly becoming the biggest form of organized crime. Moreover, that is automatically getting worse, faster. The same basic problems of the maximum leverage operating through the funding of the political processes, driving systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, to get even more corrupted, and ever crazier and crazier, have NO politically possible solutions within those systems. The "illusion of democracy" has already become so extreme, literally a ratio of less than 1 to 100 real to fake, that society as a whole has become too terminally sick and insane to recover.

Theoretically speaking, it is nice to imagine that enough people would understand their real problems enough ... However, that seems nothing but a day dream of political fantasy. Even on Zero Hedge, the vast majority of material published continues to be that pumped out by the various range of Black Sheeple, reactionary revolutionaries, since virtually everyone who is anyone publicly significant is necessarily inside of either the established systems of organized crime, or in the systems of controlled opposition that surround that core of organized crime.

Although one may theoretically develop better political science fiction, about how to resolve political problems, actually, society has become too terminally sick and insane to enable that to happen. The biggest banks have become the new royalty, that have corrupted the rule of law so much, for so long, that there practically is no rule of law that applies in any significant ways to those big banks anymore. Instead of any return to some real democracy, where We the People regained control over the public "money" supply, "we" are actually instead headed towards the public murder systems becoming more and more privatized. Overall, everything that justified and legitimized the rule of law, as an expression of the will of "We the People" has become a runaway tragic farce based on enforced frauds, which are automatically becoming more unbalanced every day. The established debt slavery systems have generated numbers which are already debt insanities, and those are now headed towards provoking death insanities.

Theoretically, the only way to mitigate that would be if there was a sufficient series of political miracles, so that enough people understood enough about what has really happened, so that they would be able to understand and agree with realistic solutions to those real problems. However, in fact, the overwhelming vast majority of "We the People" HAVE become Zombie Sheeple, while BOTH "My Side and the Other Side" have become controlled opposition groups, which are nothing more than Black Sheeple.

The human Age of Enlightenment, that attempted to develop the ideals of democracy operating through the rule of law, has been almost totally destroyed by the vicious spirals of the funding of the political processes enabling the public "money" supply to become almost totally privatized, while that fraud continued to be enforced by governments, as the thereby established systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, became more psychotically insane, because the ability to enforce frauds, or to use violence to back up lies, still never stops those frauds and lies from still being false. Rather, the only thing that happens in the longer term is that society as a whole becomes too terminally sick and insane to recover from how psychotically insane it has become, due to the prolonged history of the funding of politics enabling governmental powers to be privatized in ways which automatically result in crazy corruption, getting worse faster.

I WISH it was possible to conclude with some realistic ways to respond to our society having become too terminally sick and insane to recover, however there are no ways to do that. The more one learns, the worse it gets. There are no politically practical ways to fix the problems due to the funding of politics having driven a vicious spiral of enforced frauds, becoming more and more criminally insane. The only apparent resolution for the real problems are for the established systems of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, to continue to get worse, faster, until those develop into severe social storms, that must blow through ... Since not enough people are willing and able to understand and agree that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder, because the debt controls are backed by the death controls, the only realistic outcome is the tragic trajectory towards the psychotic breakdowns of the criminally insane systems that have been built on the basis of being able to enforce frauds. The debt slavery systems HAVE driven their numbers to become debt insanities, and those ARE going to provoke death insanities.

Indeed, the only realistic solutions would have to be to develop better death control systems, to back up better debt control systems. However, the established systems are run by the people who were the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, BOTH in "My Side and the Other Side." It is politically impossible for more radical truths to be publicly presented, due to the degree to which the "illusion of democracy" has literally become that "democracy" and its "rule of law" have become more than 99% a fake, amounting to nothing more than a mockery of itself, as a cruel joke played upon what a democratic republic operating through the rule of law was supposed to be ...

The Achilles Heel of the American Constitution and Bill of Rights was the corruption of the monetary system, through the vicious feedback loops of the funding of all aspects of politics, until every aspect of society and the entire political system became almost totally corrupted, to the degree that the system as a whole became criminally insane, and headed towards its own MAD SERIES OF PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWNS.

In terms of the image presented in the cartoon above, the stage upon which the "Audacious Oligarchy" is performing is headed towards collapsing into crazy chaos. Meanwhile, although the social polarization portrayed there is serious, and getting more severe, there are also more important bigger issues, due to the ways that a civilization controlled by systems based on being able to enforce frauds are also treating the natural environment in criminally insane ways. The established systems are fundamentally fraudulent financial account systems, which have driven things towards irreconcilable social polarization. However, at the same time, that political economy based upon enforced frauds has also driven conditions towards irreparable destruction of the natural world.

For the same reasons that it is politically impossible to stop the funding of politics from being vicious spirals, that are automatically getting worse, faster, as each election cycle becomes an even more demented manifestation of the "illusions of democracy," it is also politically impossible to prevent the established monetary systems based on enforced frauds from continuing to destroy society and its environment as a whole, because of the ways that being able to enforce frauds works all too well in each short-term increment, regardless of how bad the longer term consequences from having done that will become.

At the present time, the more probable future scenarios are for the "illusions of democracy" and the destructions of the rule of law, to drive society as a whole to go through some series of psychotic breakdowns, which will be compounded to be way worse, due to the relatively more objective ways that basing the entire political economy upon being able to enforce frauds has consequences upon the whole world and future generations of both human beings and other living beings.

The "illusion of democracy" has become that the social success of being able to enforce frauds has reduced the vast majority of "We the People" to being Zombie Sheeple, who were being fleeced to exhaustion, while being set up to be slaughtered. Moreover, that is going to be even worse for their lambs, and those not yet born, because everything that civilization has done was based on it being controlled by enforced frauds, which drove everything to be done in ways which became runway criminal insanities.

The "illusion of democracy" is headed towards that kind of madness driving itself through series of psychotic breakdowns. It would be nicer if there could be some kind of social psychiatry, to catalyze the transformations, by more people understanding more radical truths, so that they could go through the transformations which are necessary in better ways, so that things did not have to get as bad as they otherwise would, and that "we" might recover faster than "we" otherwise would have been able to do ... However, such day dreams about any better future depend upon one not fully facing the degree to which there is nothing but an "illusion of democracy," where, in fact, "democracy" is already more than 99% dead.

After one more fully faces the facts regarding the degree to which there is nothing but an "illusion of democracy" while its rule of law is just as much of an illusion, there no longer are any reasonable ways to entertain any rational hopes for the future. While one may still hold on to some transcendental hope, the political problems "we" face have become astronomically amplified runaway criminal insanities, in the form of government enforced frauds by privately controlled banks, that the vast majority of people do not understand, because they have already been successfully conditioned to feel like they do not want to understand ...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:43 | 6116309 Counterpunch
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shorter, better honed, for you, would be much better.

 

sounds like a criticism?

 

it is - not to hurt, but to help.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:19 | 6117957 Radical Marijuana
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Hah, Counterpunch, shorter or longer would NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE!

Just glance at recent articles' headlines:

"We Reached The Tipping Point": Income Inequality Is Highest Since Records Began

 

Public Confused Why World's Biggest Banks Admitting Criminal Fraud, Leads To Public Yawns

 

I have spent a few decades learning about those issues, regarding how and why "democracy is an illusion," only to ALWAYS discover that the more I learned, the worse it got ... Meanwhile, I pass the time amusing myself attempting to describe what I have learned, however, the central conclusion is that NOTHING IS GOING TO FIX THE PROBLEMS, which are going to continue to automatically get worse, faster, while presenting better edited explanations regarding that will NOT make any difference!

Most of the few that understand the financial system make things get worse, faster, which then enables the vicious spirals of the funding of politics to get ever more unbalanced ... Nothing that anyone says which better presents the nature of that problem stops that problem from continuing to automatically get worse, faster. The only "actionable intelligence" that works is that which takes advantage of the system of ENFORCED FRAUDS ... Explaining how ENFORCED FRAUD SYSTEMS were made and maintained, and are automatically getting worse, makes no material difference to anything, and therefore, it does not matter whether or not any such presentation was edited better.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:13 | 6116259 VWAndy
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What if we prove its all BS to everyone. Once and for all right in their faces and keep on proving it. Each time we prove it more people will wake up. A big part of how we got here is we trusted them. So now we start asking them the tough questions and mop the floor with them and their lies.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:19 | 6116270 QE2XS
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Hillarious.  LOL. 

What about the middle-side?  The "middle-side" is a whole lot smarter than the "other-side" or "my-side".

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:42 | 6116308 Counterpunch
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THE SPORTS TEAM FROM MY LOCAL AREA IS SUPERIOR TO THE SPORTS TEAM FROM YOUR LOCAL AREA.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:24 | 6116347 bid the soldier...
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The belief in democracy is just the belief in Santa Claus for adults.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:27 | 6116351 Solio
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/oklahoma-local-oil-drilling_n_7...

Seems so very much not a democracy. To whom does the money go to?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:57 | 6116378 q99x2
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I'm voting for Q99X2 again this year for president of Q99X2.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:58 | 6116380 Ofelas
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“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

? Mark Twain

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:03 | 6116385 VWAndy
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It would not take much to prove that to most folks these days. Just make sure they are watching when it happens.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:19 | 6116450 22winmag
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Any vote (except voting by not voting) is a vote for the system.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:36 | 6116584 Atomizer
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As stated before, I'm a investigate Discovery junkie. This was replayed last night. I had forgotten this episode. Suggest you watch it. «---

Dangerous Persuasions ~ Revolution Isn't A Tea Party

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hekad

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:46 | 6117009 Toolshed
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WTF is a gaget? Could the comic artist have meant gadget, but was educated in the US public school system?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 15:06 | 6117125 teutonicate
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Thanks for this post Tyler.  It is a brilliant piece of satire and graphics, and I would encourage the other bloggers to point it out to their contacts.

Which leads us back to the dilemma that the article addresses.  What next for the world-wide European peoples?

I tend to confine my comments to the interests of European peoples, because that is what I understand best (limited though that understanding may be) not because of any deep-seated animosity for other peoples.

We are in a dangerous predicament where it is tempting to fall back on some history-tested solutions that have failed.

For the European peoples (wherever they reside worldwide) to extricate ourselves from this predicament will require us to dig deep into our collective genetic consciousness, and honestly assess what has worked for our peoples in the past - and equally importantly who our enemies have been.

Did the promises of the Bolsheviks serve our people in Russia?

Did the manipulations of Roosevelt and Churchill serve our interests in WW II?

Are the policies of neo-con capitalists and cultural Marxist liberals serving our people now?

The reality is that both the republican and democratic candidates that survive the primary process in the US are so thoroughly vetted by the cabal the each represents only a "kosher" version of their respective constituencies.  Under these circumstances our peoples will always be left unrepresented by our government.  Similar problems are present in other governments around the world where our people comprise the unrepresented majority.

I think that the bloggers who will read this, who are also students of history, will understand who our enemies have been, and hopefully not succumb to the false ideologies that they promulgated in similar times of stress.

For the others I urge you to keep an open mind, hang on to your values, and be prepared to challenge some of the falsehoods that you have been taught about these particular times in history.  I believe that doing so will help illuminate the challenges that we face as a world-wide people.

I trust that the facts will speak more loudly than I ever can, and that the truth will set you, and us, free.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:13 | 6117970 VWAndy
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We keep playing their game by their rules. They can and will change the rules or simply ignore them.

 They like to stick us with choices that suck. R/D, fight or flight, liberty/security stuff like that. There are always other choices. Play the game well enough and they will cheat. At that point stop playing the game and walk. Dont just walk off in silence tho walk off screaming about it. Let everyone know why.

 No we are not going to get a chance to vote for anyone worth a shit. But proving it for all to see might just be the game changer we need. The first step in solving a problem is to admit there is one. So why not show everyone the truth all big and ugly. Then we might just be able to get them all to pay attention. Everytime we force them to cheat we are actually wining. Thats why they cheat. They trick us into accepting the their victory. I say cover their victory in shit and serve it to them cold.

 If we did it right we might be able to run this shitshow right into the big ugly truth head first full steam. That may wake everyone up. Its our stupid beliefs that allow them to trick us. Lets start working on those false beliefs one by one changing them for actual knowin.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:21 | 6118007 VWAndy
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The truth is a very hard thing. I say we run all the sleepers into it until they wake up.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 14:27 | 6118364 VWAndy
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Tis not enough for me to tell people the truth. They must know it themselves.

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