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Former Senator Slams Washington As Corrupt "Sewer", Calls For Outraged Young Americans To Revolt
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is to lead an army of outraged young Americans armed with brooms on a crusade to sweep out the rascals and rid our capital of the money changers, rent seekers, revolving door dancers, and special interest deal makers and power brokers and send them back home to make an honest living, that is, if they still remember how to do so.
Our ancestors did not depart Europe and elsewhere to seek freedom and self-government alone. They came to these shores to escape social and political systems that were corrosive and corrupt. Two and a quarter centuries later, we are returning to those European practices. We are in danger of becoming a different kind of nation, one our founders would not recognize and would deplore.
In addition to the rise of the national security state, and the concentration of wealth and power in America, no development in modern times sets us apart more from the nation originally bequeathed to us than the rise of the special interest state. There is a Gresham’s law related to the republican ideal. Bad politics drives out good politics. Legalized corruption drives men and women of stature, honor, and dignity out of the halls of government. Self-respecting individuals cannot long tolerate a system of election and reelection so dependent on cultivating the favor of those known to expect access in return. Such a system is corrosive to the soul.
– From the Gary Hart article, Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption
A former senator from Colorado, Gary Hart, has written an extremely powerful and accurate critique of the unfathomably corrupt and crony state of the U.S. government in 2015. It covers several very important angles, including how appalled and disgusted our founders would be at the current state of affairs. How a once great republic has devolved into a thieving oligarchy in which the pursuit of money at power at the expense of the public good has been elevated into something that’s not just tolerated, but actually celebrated and encouraged amongst an ethics deprived status quo.
Don’t take it from me though, here are several of my favorite excerpts:
By that standard, can anyone seriously doubt that our republic, our government, is corrupt? There have been Teapot Domes and financial scandals of one kind or another throughout our nation’s history. There has never been a time, however, when the government of the United States was so perversely and systematically dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side deals, log-rolling, vote-trading, and sweetheart deals of one kind or another.
What brought us to this? A sinister system combining staggering campaign costs, political contributions, political action committees, special interest payments for access, and, most of all, the rise of the lobbying class.
Worst of all, the army of lobbyists that started relatively small in the mid-twentieth century has now grown to big battalions of law firms and lobbying firms of the right, left, and an amalgam of both. And that gargantuan, if not reptilian, industry now takes on board former members of the House and the Senate and their personal and committee staffs. And they are all getting fabulously rich.
Frustrated, irate discussions of this legalized corruption are met in the Washington media with a shrug. So what? Didn’t we just have dinner with that lobbyist for the banking industry, or the teachers’ union, or the airline industry at that well-known journalist’s house only two nights ago? Fine lady, and she used to be the chairman of one of those powerful committees. I gather she is using her Rolodex rather skillfully on behalf of her new clients. Illegal? Not at all. Just smart . . . and so charming.
There is little wonder that Americans of the right and many in the middle are apoplectic at their government and absolutely, and rightly, convinced that the game of government is rigged in favor of the elite and the powerful. Occupiers see even more wealth rising to the top at the expense of the poor and the middle class. And Tea Partiers believe their tax dollars are going to well-organized welfare parasites and government bureaucrats.
Never forget this Venn diagram:
The advent of legalized corruption launched by the Supreme Court empowers the superrich to fund their own presidential and congressional campaigns as pet projects, to foster pet policies, and to represent pet political enclaves. You have a billion, or even several hundred million, then purchase a candidate from the endless reserve bench of minor politicians and make him or her a star, a mouthpiece for any cause or purpose however questionable, and that candidate will mouth your script in endless political debates and through as many television spots as you are willing to pay for. All legal now.
To compound the political felony, much, if not most, campaign financing is now carried out in secret, so that everyday citizens have a decreasing ability to determine to whom their elected officials are beholden and to whom they must now give special access. As recently as the 2014 election, the facts documented this government of influence by secrecy: “More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress,” according to the New York Times, “has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the center of a debate over the line between free speech and corruption.”
Of this handful, the largest by far is WPP (originally called Wire and Plastic Products; is there a metaphor here?), which has its headquarters in London and more than 150,000 employees in 2,500 offices spread around 107 countries. It, together with one or two conglomerating competitors, represents a fourth branch of government, vacuuming up former senators and House members and their spouses and families, key committee staff, former senior administration officials of both parties and several administrations, and ambassadors, diplomats, and retired senior military officers.
WPP has swallowed giant public relations, advertising, and lobbying outfits such as Hill & Knowlton and BursonMarsteller, along with dozens of smaller members of the highly lucrative special interest and influence-manipulation world. Close behind WPP is the Orwellian-named Omnicom Group and another converger vaguely called the Interpublic Group of Companies. According to Mr. Edsall, WPP had billings last year of $72.3 billion, larger than the budgets of quite a number of countries.
I’m not sure exactly where this number came from, as I’ve seen numbers around $15 billion thrown around, but not $72 billion.
With a budget so astronomical, think how much good WPP can do in the campaign finance arena, especially since the Citizens United decision. The possibilities are almost limitless. Why pay for a senator or congresswoman here or there when you can buy an entire committee? Think of the banks that can be bailed out, the range of elaborate weapons systems that can be sold to the government, the protection from congressional scrutiny that can be paid for, the economic policies that can be manipulated.
The lobbying business is no longer about votes up or down on particular measures that may emerge in Congress or policies made in the White House. It is about setting agendas, deciding what should and should not be brought up for hearings and legislation. We have gone way beyond mere vote buying now. The converging Influence World represents nothing less than an unofficial but enormously powerful fourth branch of government.
America’s founders knew one thing: The republics of history all died when narrow interests overwhelmed the common good and the interests of the commonwealth.
What would our founders make of this nightmare of corruption? We only know, in Thomas Jefferson’s case, for example, that his distrust of central government had to do with the well-founded and prescient suspicion that its largesse would go to powerful and influential interests, especially financiers, who knew how to manipulate both the government and the financial markets. In particular, Jefferson envisioned sophisticated bankers speculating in public-debt issues with some if not all the interest incurred going into their pockets.
The scope and scale of this genuine scandal (as distinguished from vastly more mundane behavior that passes for scandal in the media) is the single greatest threat to our form of government. It is absolutely incompatible with the principles and ideals upon which America was founded. At the very least, we Americans cannot hold ourselves up to the world as the beacon of democracy so long as we permit, as long as we acquiesce in, corruption so far beyond the standards of the true republic that our government cannot be proclaimed an ideal for other aspiring nations.
On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is to lead an army of outraged young Americans armed with brooms on a crusade to sweep out the rascals and rid our capital of the money changers, rent seekers, revolving door dancers, and special interest deal makers and power brokers and send them back home to make an honest living, that is, if they still remember how to do so.
When a former senator accurately notes that the best thing young Americans can do is instigate a successful rebellion against the incredibly corrupt and powerful monied interests running the county into the ground, you know things are very bleak.
A harsh judgment? Indeed. But it is impossible to claim to love one’s country and not be outraged at how corrupt it has become. For former senators and representatives to trade a title given them by the voters of their respective states and districts for cash is beyond shameful. It is outrageous.
“I tremble for my country when I contemplate that God is just.” Those words of Thomas Jefferson, enshrined on the walls of his memorial, referred to the institution of slavery. Today he might readily render the same judgment about corruption in and of the American Republic.
It is an error of serious proportion to dismiss corruption in twenty-first-century American democracy on the grounds that this has all been going on from the beginning, that boys will be boys, that politicians are always on the take. Past incidents of the violation of public ethics provide no argument fozr accepting the systemic and cancerous commercialization of modern American politics.
Our ancestors did not depart Europe and elsewhere to seek freedom and self-government alone. They came to these shores to escape social and political systems that were corrosive and corrupt. Two and a quarter centuries later, we are returning to those European practices. We are in danger of becoming a different kind of nation, one our founders would not recognize and would deplore.
Even as politicians and pundits alike pummel the fiscal deficit, we are developing an integrity deficit of mounting proportions. And one is not disconnected from the other. Because of the erosion of the integrity of our governing system, and the principles and ideals underlying it, the fiscal deficit increases. The government spending so many conservatives claim to abhor includes not only the social safety net of Roosevelt and Johnson, but also the war-making excursions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It is all government spending. And it includes favorite pork-barrel projects of every member of both houses of Congress of both political parties, and every one of those most loudly condemning “wasteful government spending.” Those projects are produced by the lobbying interests that raise money for those members of Congress in direct proportion to their effectiveness at bringing government-financed projects to their states and districts. By definition, if it is a project in my state or district, it is not wasteful.
We were not created to be like other nations. We were created as an alternative to monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, and corrupt political systems. The more we follow the easy path, the one paved for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful, the more we stray from our originally intended purpose and the more we lose our unique purpose for existence.
In addition to the rise of the national security state, and the concentration of wealth and power in America, no development in modern times sets us apart more from the nation originally bequeathed to us than the rise of the special interest state. There is a Gresham’s law related to the republican ideal. Bad politics drives out good politics. Legalized corruption drives men and women of stature, honor, and dignity out of the halls of government. Self-respecting individuals cannot long tolerate a system of election and reelection so dependent on cultivating the favor of those known to expect access in return. Such a system is corrosive to the soul.
As bad as things are, the fact a former senator is not only aware of the problem, but is willing to publicly write a scathing article condemning it, is ultimately a very good thing.
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Fat chance.....the pussified youth of today are too concerned with fuckbook, the laradassians and iphones too see what is going on around them.
But, but but, drum circles etc......
The more time they spend on the street, unemployed, the more time they have to think.
Here's to the thinkers. May they outnumber the sponges.
If gubmint were MUCH smaller there would be no need to spend trillions of dollars lobbying the gubmint to send money/favors back your way. Shrink government. Keep it within the bounds of the Constitution.
Talk like that will get you a free trip to a 'fun' camp......
18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
Gary Hart, et al...I'll be seeing you at the FEMA camp.
When Gary Hart starts hanging out with Chuck Norris...then I'll know he's serious.
The South will rise again.
Invoke Article V or continue to boil like frogs.
no worries...President Trump will fix this mess
Maybe a whack job celebrity is just what we need. I'll take it over "Jeb" or "Hilly" for the entertainment value alone.
Corporate Idiocracy
Idiot Corporatocracy
The public consists of idiots and the corporations consist of idiots in a dysfunctional symbiosis.
And government consists of all of those things plus jobs guaranteed for life, no accountability, higher pay than private sector, and multimillion dollar equivalent pensions. They're not giving that up without a fight and they have the big guns.
We're screwed.
"And that gargantuan, if not reptilian, industry " hahaha, hart to the rescue.
Far too expensive campaigns? Well, where does all that money go for those shitty commercials and advertising? Directly to the MSM or in otherwords Zionists pockets. And just how will things change on that front? Creepy Cracker has it right. It will not change without a lot of blood in the streets. To revolt, people must counter much superior firepower with lots of bodies and blood.
Calling them a corrupt sewer is far too kind.
Our overlords in DC, all of them, are guilty of treason, sedition and crimes against humanity.
Most of them are also eminently blackmailable pedophiles, perverts and deviants.
“Government” is just another word for the part of the Ruling Class responsible for screwing Americans and destroying the country.
Government is an illegitimate claim of owning a specific area of land, i.e., a country.
Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
Civil war FTW
Be careful what you wish for saying such things. Europeans know this better than most.
Europeans used to know many things. Such as defending their lands from invaders. Now they just ignore and defend nothing. See their women raped and cower in silence.
Then there are those that pollute their blood lines willingly with these non Europeans.
It will be a specticle to watch when Europe wakes up and does another clean sweep of the continent. It will happen as it has before.
Claims of humiliation are classic fascist rhetoric, used to drum up hatred.
There is one problem with that and that is you have to have a Gov't to overthrow , we do not the UNITED STATES is a privatly owened ,for profit Corp and everyone are that stupid that they think it is our Gov't , tell somone they are been told what to do by a Corp and they give you that glazed look like they were watching TV.
It doesn't matter.
The King's plantation was justified by Divine Right and the Government's Plantation is justified by the Constitution.
Welcome to the Planet of the Dupes.
just as easy to maintain that the current crop are the treasonous usurpers
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government
Do you believe that the Congress that enacted U.S.C. Chapter 115 abided by the US Constitution?
Is not that a law which abridges free speech?
Just because it is codified does not mean that it is Constitutional.
Am I to understand that you support the state?
Or are you writing that you will be seeing Senator Hart in the FEMA Camp as you will also be interned?
Yes Tom. I will most likely be interned.
Also, I am known for having a dry, sarcastic wit. (Although my few friends would call me half wit. :-)
It is quite the paradox, AlaricBalth, that the most treasonous are those who currently control the government of the USA, and did so more and more, over a prolonged period of time, by applying the methods of organized crime to the political processes.
So then a massive third political party would fall into this catagorie? As their entire purpose would be to overthrow "take over" the existing gov and become the new one.
Did he mention the FED that feeds the beast? I quit reading where he quoted the Jew York Times.
There's a reason we don't have cobblestone streets anymore...
Most are still there, just covered in a cheap coating of asphalt which aint so cheap anymore.
"Shucks."
-Exxon
More Kabuki theater
Pot calling the kettle black
When he gives back his million dollar retirement plan with health insurance then maybe i will take him serious.
Otherwise I have to think something smells.....sedition? stir up revolution?
Good reason to enact Marshall law..........
This year is turning out to be a spectacular year for total chaos.......glad I have my prepping done so I can sit back and watch the sheeple reap the whirlwind.
and: I told you so just doesn't quiet say it........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgeCZW3upg
Exactly. What took him so long? For the kids that don't remember, he was 'taken out' of the '88 election by the media to clear the path for a Bush. The same thing that's slowly, but surely, happening to Hitlery this year. Two thirds polled thought he was being shafted by the media, but it was probably all staged from the beginning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart#1988_presidential_campaign
Here's how you know it was all made for TeeVee, smelled rotten in real time, to me;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Business_(yacht)
Then, he 'presciently" warned of 9/11 attacks.
Hart gave a speech before the American international law firm Coudert Brothers on September 4, 2001, exactly one week before the September 11 attacks, warning that within the next 25 years a terrorist attack would lead to mass deaths in the U.S. Hart met with aviation executives in Montreal, Canada, on September 5, 2001 to warn of airborne terrorist attacks. The Montreal Gazette reported the story the following day with a headline, “Thousands Will Die, Ex-Presidential Hopeful Says.”[42] On September 6, 2001, Hart met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to urge, "You must move more quickly on homeland security. An attack is going to happen."[43] In a subsequent interview with Salon.com, Hart accused President George W. Bush and other administration officials of ignoring his warnings.[41]
Reminds me of Cheney and BHO giving multiple warnings of 'dirty bombs'. If TPTB follow the 9/11 template, the dirty bomb/Marshall Law countdown most likely begins after the sock puppet leaves office. This way they can get whites to be more compliant.Martial law, dammit.
Worse yet, marital law.
I don't put any faith in a bunch guys in their twenties waring women's jeans to reform anything.
Skinny jeans... best way ever to sort the men from the boys
They are wearing women's jeans because they've had their nuts cut off. The new transgender class.
\i/ < -- modern boyz
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I wonder. Syriza is what someone like yourself would describe as a party standing for "big government". Yet, it is clear that both the Troika and the United States want to see Syriza dismantled, and are pushing hard to achieve this aim.
The Venn diagram seems to have some merit. The reason why parties of the progressive Left are gaining at the expense of Social Democracy is because Social Democracy is seen as being too soft on the banks, the corporations and the resurgence of the religious right in society.
Ah, the religious right. Those hyenas. Will no one rid us of those lizards?!
The religious right is being crushed by idiots like you. Please do us a favor and do your wondering over at Huffpo or DailyKos. To dissuade you from ever coming back, we will leave you with this gem from Lenin: "The goal of socialism is communism."
The last thing I'm worried about right now is the "religious right". Most of them just want to be left alone at this point.
don't know about you, but the religious right that i know are the biggest drug warriors of all, 100% favor locking people in cages even for marijuana, are big time defenders of the 'war on terror' and are also interventionists who defend our invasions of iraq and afghanistan, and insist 'we have to fight them over there to prevent having to fight them over here' type nonsense that keeps getting us into foreign entanglements. They also tend to defend NSA spying with statements like "as long you you aren't a terrorist, what possible reason can you have to worry about them monitoring phone calls" and are 100% in favor of the govt doing whatever it thinks it needs to do 'to keep us safe'.
Such behaviour hardly counts as just wanting to be left alone. They are advocing a governmnt that does anything but leave people alone.
I just don't believe they pose any sort of threat to me. They are a minority and always will be. I think you also wrongly generalize about them. Many so-called evangelicals supported Ron Paul, not the majority but many wish small government and to be left alone despite your own experiences. I'm an athiest so I'm not talking their book. I just don't fear them nor do I use them as some crutch in a juvenile leftie slogan type argument.
I will also add that I fear MUCH more the LGBTQ cabal in terms of my free speech and free association. They really are the threat as they DO have the power or I'll put it this way, they are completely supported by the power structure. One risks losing one's job just for not totally going along with their political agenda. You want a true boogeyman, it's them.
Get popped with an eighter or a joint in your pocket in downtown Dallas and see which is the bigger threat to your personal Freedom then.
Control freaks are control freaks, no matter which flag they fly, costume they wear, or Sky Daddy they worship. Don't make excuses for them, it only encourages tyrannical behaviour.
Yup, they just want to be left alone, while they are busy fucking you over. There is a pile of hyprocritical bastards if there ever were any. 'Religious Right' allright, religious nutjobs is more like it.
"we have to fight them over there to prevent having to fight them over here' type nonsense that keeps getting us into foreign entanglements"
The USSA .gov gets themselves in foreign entanglements all on their own.
Read: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/confessions_of_an_economic_hitman.pdf
Most women today who suffer under religious conservatism are not exactly white females of Anglo-Saxon descent.
To people whose ideological beliefs borderline on White Supremacy, people of color obviously are of little to no concern. Fortunately, ethnocentric and inward-looking people such as yourself are a vocal minority whose time is fading fast.
The "religious Right" the idealog dupes who put the fascist Bush into the White House and were so much in favor of his anti-Mulslim crusade murder of millions based on lies.
I upvoted you because I can only assume this is an oxford comma?
Ya gotta rally the Veterans.
The Veterans fought to maintain this corrupt system.
If they now unite and march on Vichy DC armed to make amends then i support them.
Armed?
You can be disabled with RF or liquifed with a laser.
Might as well take a knife to a gun fight.
Most Viet Vets I know regret their involvement esp the ones missing limbs or part of their sanity.
And the pussified elders are fat, slovenly, and dependent on pensions.
That was clever. How's that working out for you? Good? Then keep it up. Keep it right up.
The elders are still working so that they can have better foodstuffs than Alpo Souffle.
“How can a people who have struggled long years under oppression throw off their oppressors and establish a free society? The problems are immense, but their solution lies in the education and enlightenment of the people and the emergence of a spirit that will serve as a foundation for independence and self-government.
If Caesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plenitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens into good government?… If their people indeed had been, like ourselves, enlightened, peaceable, and really free, the answer would be obvious. ‘Restore independence to all your foreign conquests, relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consult it as a nation entitled to self-government, and do its will’.
But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,… what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?… No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control.”
-Thomas Jefferson to John Adams on the Fall of Rome
“Have you ever found in history one single example of a nation thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue, there can be no political liberty. … Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly? … Yet all these things ought not to discourage us from exertion, for … I believe no effort in favour of virtue is lost, and all good men ought to struggle, both by their counsel and example.”
-John Adams' response to Jefferson's inquiry
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Fat, slovenly, effeminate drunkards too long steeped in the extravagance of Empire... sounds a lot like the Boomer Bitches to me. Say what one will about Millennials, I've never had one SHOUT IN MY FACE AND TRY TO FIGHT ME for trying to spread Truth. Only in the 50+, 401k crowd do you get such a response. What did Jefferson say about the predicament we now find ourselves in?
"These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two at least, within which period would have succeeded many Neros and Commoduses, who would have quashed the whole process."
Tell me now, Boomerville, are YOU the generation that Jefferson spoke of in this passage, or the loud-mouthed girly-men to which Adams referred? Not you PERSONALLY reading this, I'm sure you're probably a swell cat. But your peers are on par with the twenty-somethings of America for being massively entitled shitheads. Like Father, like Son I suppose.
brutus et al should have hired men who would have finished the job and not had pity on a "gravely" "wounded" "man"
I'll tell you who the Boomers were, they were the ones who ended the Viet Nam War and the draft. The Boomers were the ones who advanced the Civil Rights movement. The Boomers were organizing and were out in the streets fighting for change in this country. There was a brief period in time when the powers that own and control this country were actually fearful of the people. When the White House was surrounded by demonstrators, Nixon and Kissenger were afraid they would be lynched. The Boomers actually effected change. It's true it didn't last long. We thought we were passing the torch to the next generation. It turns out the next generation and the one after that were nothing but a bunch of sniveling, whining, pantywaists that we can't get out of our basements.
"We thought we were passing the torch to the next generation."
Gen X: "this isn't a torch - it's an empty bag!"
If by "passing the torch to" you meant "rigging the game for us against" then I completely agree.
Boomers, when they were yonger, advanced civil rights. Great. No question.
But responsibilty didn't end there, which seems to contrary to the beliefs held by many boomers.
Boomers got older and ruined the world.
Big laughs go to "ending Vietnam" with no mention of starting every damn war since.
Big laughs go to the endless skewering of the Millenials they raised - how self-centered must you be to miss this obvious conclusion?
Big laughs go to Boomers effecting change... and then instantly regressing.
Boomers are currently in charge of everything, and everything is going to shit.
Stop blaming people who are just NOW taking the reins, and have some personal responsibility.
Every generation has its gems and its shitbirds; for swaying the tides from conscription to voluntary "service," I thank you. But most of you ended up trading your pitchforks for suits and ties and serving the very Corporatocracy you used to deride. Not all, but most, came to view their younger years of activism as some drug-induced haze or a phase of naiivete.
A reverse-metamorphosis of sorts.
I know not what will become of the twenty-somethings of today; perhaps they'll indeed be stacked-and-packed into the Neofeudal, Technocratic "Smart Cities" of Tomorrow, comfortable with serfdom and poverty so long as it means having Internet service. One thing I do know, though: The kids coming up today, unlike their parents, won't have a Corporatocracy to return to.
I don't know about that, sure there are plenty in the trance but there are also more awake now thanks to Ron Paul and other libertarian groups very active on campuses than ever before. The number of people awake is growing exponentially.
The perceptive among them might find their way out of the rigged political game, but is creating a new class of voters going to change anything so long as your votes are counted by Diebold machines? I hit the pavement hard for Ron Paul in 2012 when I was in college, and you'd be hard-pressed to find more corrupt, controlled campaign management (Reince Priebus, anyone?) amongst even the Republicrats.
Give it another decade when they get disillusioned with "the process" en-masse, then we might be getting somewhere. I just don't think Neofeudal Technocracy will wait that long.
Give me control of the current corporate capture system and I could get whatever results I wanted from the government while counting every single vote honestly. Understand this: They don't need diebold.
Yet they still use it... not saying your thesis isn't logically sound nor that voting is any kind of solution, but TPTB seem to disagree with you.
They can use it, it doesn't mean that they do. Show hard evidence of diebold being used to sway a national election. I bet you can't. The reason being is that an honestly counted vote means that people had their "say." Romney wouldn't have made it to the general election unless he was willing to kowtow to multinational corporate interests. Before the general election had been held, the multinationals had already won the election. He may have been less insufferable to listen to than president stompy feet, but I bet we would have gotten Romney Care instead of Obamacare.
You're telling me things I already know, man.
I can't quantifiably prove that voting machines are rigging the "selection" process today any more than I can quantifiably prove that Mohammed Atta was a CIA drug runner. I just know what I can observe and piece together, and the voting machines are still there. We have hard evidence of them being used in Ohio in 2004 for just this purpose. Prove to me they're NOT being used still. You're just splitting hairs, mate.
Diebold makes banking software and telling machines for the same multinationals that fund both sides of the political dialectic, too, y'know. They ain't impotent.
Ron Paul and Gary Hart do a great job of pointing AWAY from the dual citizens, jewish ownership of media and banks and ..., jewish control of the FED. (What good is an audit when it will be controlled by "them" and the real problem is the existence of a privately owned Fed and the fact that the owners of the various central banks are a segment of the jewish?)
Gary Hart and his father changed their names to Hart from Hartpence (or something), odd. After 911 Gary Hart gave a speach in which he suggested using the disaster to usher in a New World Order. Hart has been a huge Israel supporter and has pushed for sanctions that prevent Arab countries not approved by Israel from having modern weapons. Gary Hart advises on "national security" and has pushed for "internal security" - or in other words for govt control of the citizens to be increased and increased surveilance. Hart was touting his proposal for a Global Democracy Security Organization, another handy catch phrase for superceding the bounds of national sovereignty and consolidating power into a global body.
Anybody noticed how Ron Paul is not pimping for a financial/securities company using his old persona/gimmick. Anybody noticed how he never criticized his son Rand and how the Paul clan want to have a dynesty in politics just like the clans of Bush, Clinton and others?
Nailed it.
Never forget that the "Mises Mafia" was built on Rockefeller capitol, and as I recall, good 'ol Ludwig von made some interesting addendums to Menger's original Austrian vision. Samuel Edward Konkin III tried his best to get things back on track, but was run out of the Mises Institute in the 80s for being fucking right.
Like the BRICS bait-and-switch, the Paul's rise to political prominence is no less orchestrated. While everyone cheers, "END THE FED" and power is seemingly transferred to the Treasury, supernational institutions like the BIS and IMF will be happily waiting to doll out the new reserve currency and the "loans" that accompany it.
http://redefininggod.com/2015/02/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-15-l...
Monkey Business is a yacht frequently docked in South Florida at the Turnberry Isle Resort Marina. Monkey Business was an 83-foot Broward motor yacht custom built and owned by the developers of the luxury resort. Famous guests included Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Julio Iglesias, Jason Luetke and others. The owner-of-record, Eddie Lewis, was in the process of selling it at the time and later replaced it with a larger boat of the same name.
Gary Hart incidentThe ship was used by USA senator Gary Hart during his campaign for President of the United States in 1987. Around the time that Hart challenged the press to provide evidence of his infidelities, reporters for the Miami Herald, in a controversial move, staked out Hart's townhouse around the clock, and finally spotted the Senator with Miami model Donna Rice.[1] The ensuing report sent the media into frenzy, and within days photos of Hart and Rice on the opulent yacht were flooding international media, and consequently his shot at the presidency had sunk.[2]
Please replace "not pimping" with "now pimping"
Could be... but what are / have you been doing to change the status quo? Just asking. A lot of us here do next to nothing, myself included. I'd say pussified population.
yes, revolt, and by all means, organize. it will be so much easier to keep track of all of you.
You're right. Best to do nothing and obey.
no, please, form your new uncorruptable groups. if they become at all popular or gain traction the controllers will be right there to co-opt and neuter them.
see, The Tea Party and Occupy Wall St.
...Fat chance....
True ! In their defense though, the "youth" could reply with the immortal argument "you broke it, you own it"...
The least they could do would be sweep the youth element out of super corrupt gov and klepto corps...oh wait.
"Fat chance...."
The Ritalin generation is indeed pussified. It's what the globalist want. Lambs that can be sheared and sent to be slaughted.
The youth have their faces buried in their Iphones and other devices. I haven't a fucking clue what they are looking at or reading, but it ain't Zero Hedge, I'm sure of that!
The little twats are full of corporate junk food, corporate junk entertainment and corporate junk media. In short, to look to them for revolution against the corrupt Washington Whore House is useless.
I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that Zero Hedge is a corporation. Time for you to find another blog, eh?
Brave are those who rush without thinking, risking life and limbs. But those who do so after contemplating the consequnces are individuals of great courage .
Like it worked out so well for the "protesters" of 50 years ago. Most of them sold out and took the easy path and are now subjects of this essay. Those who didn't are equally complicit in their silence. The youth today have no recourse. By the way, why should they care?
The fiat currency system is the crux of the problem. Until it dies the system is spinning its wheels.
An astounding lack of character, from young and old, is the crux of the problem.
Lack of character only matters when you can create joobucks out of thin air and lend it out with attached interest.
Lack of character only makes the spice flow much easier.
It all boils down to DEBT. That is why there will never be a sustainable economy, balanced budget, or the like.
Our monetary system will not allow that. And those in charge of our money system wont let it.
pods
Character does not rely on money or any other form of exchange. Character is adhering to principles. Replace fiat with gold or silver and the actions of a man or woman still speak for themselves. Having fiat doesn't make me corrupt any more than having a gun makes me a murderer. Those who control the spice show their character by stealing the stored labor of others, at every turn.
The kids simply need more fructose laden cereals filled with pesticide raisins, washed down by a 800 calorie Double Moche triple Dark Chocholate Starbucks Frappe, with whipped cream and sprinkles. They don't need to brush their floride hardened teeth since like GMO veggies, they'll never rot.
If they want to put that crap in their bodies, they get to deal with it- and with socialized medicine we all get to pay for it.
Gold and silver puts a limit on how much you can steal...that is why the fiat money system is so much more destructive.
There is an almost limitless amount of stored labor in capture to the limitless fiat. The character of man isn't/doesn't change...it is inherently evil...the use of real money limits the amount of theft.
I agree, but dishonest people are always going to find a way to contort the system. There will always be those that gild tungsten and pass it off to the unwary. It still comes back to character, and it seems there are a lot more people lacking it.
It's only a side issue, I think. A serious one for sure, but the problem is the size of the federal government. The restrictions of Art. I, Sect. 8 of the Constitution have been ignored. EPA, Dept. of Education, DEA, Transportation, Bureau of Mine Safety, marriage, health care -- nowhere to be found in Sect. 8. The Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment is just a pinata for what some judge thinks is a matter of federal jurisdiction.
'Hey Gary, how does Rice taste...?'
If Hart had made this much sense when running for president, and spent less time feasting on Rice pudding, he might have won.
Ask George HW Bush. He had provided the product.
The Fed and CB's in conjunction with captured governements built a bridge to nowhere...and now the supposed handoff from government and CB's back to private sector is supposed to take place in a rising rate environment and with demographic winter upon us...the lies are so egregious now.
http://econimica.blogspot.com/
If he really had guts,
he would take on the Jew Media.
He is one.
If YOU and the rest of the 98% had guts and genuine Principles, you/they/we would do so, instead of waiting for someone else to do it for us.
A libertarian is as a libertarian does.
Nothing is going to happen without a critical mass of POd people. If you're willing to go it alone, you'll be killed and labeled a kook. If you're willing to do it, you have to wait and let people feel the encroaching tyranny. A lot more people need to be financially double raped and/or have their heads bounced off of the pavement first.
He's dead, Jim.
Voting will make all the difference, NOT !!
The last time outraged youth revolted we ended up with Obama.
Does some sort of telescreen come with that? If not, forget about it.
The form of government you have is a Republic. If you can keep it.
-Benjamin Franklin (paraphrasing)
Would have been a powerful statement if it came from someone who actually didn't have a track record of Rice-pocked sewer excrement in his public and private life. And broomsticks??? Yeah, that's a great way to make DC scared straight
I heard Hillary liked broomsticks even before Harry Potter made them cool.
There are three things that smell of fish...
The evidence says that Hillary probably smells like putrid squid.
Watch that beak, those things are sharp
That's only because long before Harry Potter came out, no man wanted to stick his dick in her.
Say guns out loud if you are him and you are commiting a crime...
I know he has dipped his wick where it should not go. Who among us has no mistakes in their background? I have plenty, that is how I learned, I hope I am a better person because of it. Because I am not a public figure (least not like that) I get to go on my merry way relatively unscathed.
If you have never broken any rules, you are boring and quite honestly a self righteous horse's ass I want nothing to do with.
Honestly, I don't like what the affair stuff means about his vunerability and state of mind to be president at that time, BUT I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT HERE AND NOW, for THIS. It does not negate his point at all.
That history has nothing to do with the facts and the logic of what he says. Don't play the left's character assassination game.
Too late Gary, the sadist goons have already been hired and armed. Like you, many of the boomers were snorting coke and eating barely legal quim when all this got rolling. Too lttle, too late.
Although it's never Too Late, I agree that things will have to get a lot worse for the 80%, to do something about the 1% and before they take out the 0.01-0.1%, via the Gallows, etc.
Some say Gary Hart was set up, rubbed some important people the wrong way. Only those willing to play the game get access to power. As if the "Boomers" or anybody else with integrity stood a chance:
http://www.dcdave.com/article3/000402.html
Your ancestors were criminals like the Australians and thrown out of Europe to be fair.
Brooms?
Unfortunately, it's less a product of system and more a product of culture. And that's much harder to change.
Culture is hard to change? Pretty much everything cultural has been turned upside down just in my lifetime, and mostly for the worse. It probably is harder to change a culture acclimated to immorality than one that at least proclaims, however hypocritically, the superiority of morality and decency.
Controlled opposition. We will see a lot of these cretins crawling out from under the rug, demanding a 'return to values.' It's all part of the coming attempt to assuage our butthurt feelings once the globalization is complete.
Since I don't want to draw any unwanted attention to myself, I'll save my comment for after the holiday(4th of July).
I don't want to spend it in the pokey with a bunch of drunk FSA troops.
Maybe a Hammer and Sicle flag flying above an upside down Star and Stripes for
this years 'celebration'.
Whi knows, the symbolism might finally start some thinking.
Not until they go hungry. Not gonna happen until welfare support is no more.
The references to a more romantic yesteryear are laughable when the truth is that the USSofA's only salvation has been the MIC where most of the monies have been invested.
Now that the States are in severe decline we should march on Washington?
YOU FIRST MATE.
Obama just stated the markets have, "Properly factered Greece in". LOL after saying he doesn't watch the markets. Besides, WTF does he know about the markets? Does he have his series 7? Maybe a PhD in economics?
HA!
Dear Leader knows everything.A divinity, according to him.
Punch drunk, narcissistic little fag.
He just meant they're finally serving Gyros at the local country club. Obama wouldn't know what a market was if it smacked him in the face.
He's just a lawyer (and one accepted into law school because of an aff action headcount). Never had a job that MADE money or contributed to society. He's a creature of the left, a government toady to his spiffy, shiny shoes.
He's disgusting, as are almost all legislators.
Someone upthread said we need to vote out all incumbents and start again. YES. Start in your state legislative district. Do you know who your state house and senate candidates are, or will be? Start an anti-incumbent campaign.
Anyone but ________.
Nothing will change until all electoral campains are openly paid for by public finances. No private money at any level of gov't.
Same in Britain.
And when the people had the chance to kick them out last May - they went like Zombies to the ballot box and re elected the thieves, rogues and warmongers.
You couldn't make it up.
And this time there was an option.
An excellent option - no excuse.
They are too thick and brainaddled to care.
Same with the EUSSR.
The auditors have refused to sign off the accounts for years.
And who damn well cares - turn on the telly mate.........................
the election was a sham
A group of States has to secede and start over.
Gary Hart, he coulda been a contender.
Fuck Yeah! Revolution 2.0. This country needs an enima...
Let me rephrase that; Washington DC needs an enima...
It's getting late, the boomers are all getting drunk, and their kids are stuck with the tab.
BLUE, the boomers yer speakin of are the ones who are the bureaucrats, the bankers, the lawyers and all the rest of the so-called pros who sucked up the big bucks and didn't do a damn thing to stop the madness. I was working for a big ad agency in San Francisco in 1972 when I noticed that, off the top of my 15k + expenses, the company, the city & county of San Francisco, the State of California and Uncle Sam were helping themselve to a little over 1 grand per month of my money. Then & there I decided to begin the process of strategic withdrawal from the system and did so. I've been self-employed ever since. Sometimes I hire people to help me but most of the time I work alone. Stories like mine are all over the place. U.S. of A is the only nation in history that has a population not reared up in peonage or serfdom. As far as the young people of today are concerned, I don't believe the millions of kids who love those Fast'n Furious movies would take too kindly to having their need for speed bridled.
EDIT: Around 3 a.m U.S. CDT, between the evening of 30JUNE15 & the morning of 1JULY15, I recalled posting this comment and realized that there is no way 1 grand per month was vanishing from my 15k base pay in 1972. It may have seemed that way to my (then) alcoholic mind but there's no common sense in believing over 12 grand per year was being taxed out of my 15 g's. I don't remember what the total witholding was but it was enough to make me see the handwriting on the wall. I apologize for the exaggeration.
Yo Gary! Wash DC is not For Sale.
It's already owned lock, stock & barrel by the Zio Bolshevik NeoCONS - financed by their Wall St compardres.
Ever heard of them?
NuYawkFrankie,
missed you, my brother.
this is a VERY serious piece. you don't reference omnicon or wpp except at a low whisper, mouth to ear.
shit is changing fast.
something big is astir.
janus
Yo Bro! I still play that Little Feat song you gave me way back.
Yo da man!
one way or another, i'm comin to nyc this summer. a friend in SC is giving me a classic jag convertible (crazy shit...poor as i am, i'll soon be driving this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifu_pcNvknc except it's gold), and after spending a few days on the lake, defending the flag in columbia and raisin a lil hell, i'lll be caravaning up to cape-cod. should be around mid july -- my martha's vineyard ubering scheme is contingent on the jag.
i have a friend living in bed-sty with whom i'll be staying...so, before i go park the thing in ct (yeah, most-def will not be parking a jag in bed-sty), i'll swing by and we'll cruise through the east village playing something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_qUDwF-Ns
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTwJvVTQ6-0
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRU1AJsXN1g
in point of fact, i do not think my nyc experience will be complete without blasting Wagner all throughout every neighborhood and block in manhattan.
but i'm most serious, my friend. let's please meet-up. we've been cyber friends for some four years now. time we put faces to cyber-minds.
p.s. i must disagree, you da man!!!
warm regards, amigo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpgL4mqEis
all i gotta do is/
act naturally,
janus
Having Gary Hart talk after leaving office sounds like having Greenspam talk about how he is an austrian after spawning the deficit printing mayhem we now have.
The UK has lost the plot in carrying out mock terrorist attacks on the streets of london today when the extremists are the conservative government.
Prima facie evidence of
massive deceptions by omission,
see here:
Stop whoring for Wall Street"
http://www.showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928
Sorry, Gary. This collapse will be blamed on freedom and the sheep will nod and bleat their agreement. It's been the play for over a century.
But your words do make me feel nostalgic.
Gary Hart had to be taken out by the jackals so they put that little trollop Donna Rice on his lap
So who did we get to go against the guy who killed JFK?
A Greek midget with his drunken jewess wife who got off guzzling nail polish
Dems should have won '88. No Poppy no Shrub. no 9/11. Millions of brown people would still be alive. Obama would be a no name community organizer somewhere
Dems became Republicans with a little bit of social difference with Pedophile Bill Clinton and the country has been getting worse and worse witmo end in sight
Mission accomplished for the .1%
The current US government is not worth the trouble to replace and those who try are killed, imprisoned or corrupted and absorbed. The people should not admire them, should not aspire to be them and should not give them their children as fodder.
It is best to just ignore it as best we can and let it pass, naturally over time.
It is definitely not worth spilling blood over. They have failed. Let them wallow in their corruption and failure. That is penalty a-plenty.