Much More Than Just Trump
Authored by StraightLineLogic's Robert Gore via The Burning Platform blog,
It started in Vietnam. The men who chose to fight for America on Vietnam’s front lines did so for honorable reasons. While there was no immediate threat to the US, some were concerned about falling dominoes and the march of communism. Some were animated by an idealistic desire to secure democracy and liberty in a land that had never known those blessings. Perhaps some went believing that if the leaders of the country said this war was in America’s best interests, it must be so. For those who were drafted, they did, perhaps reluctantly, what they perceived to be their duty.
Whatever their motivations, those who fought found their idealism shattered. Many of the South Vietnamese they thought they were fighting “for” despised the US as the latest in a succession of imperial powers using a corrupt, puppet government as the cat’s paw for its domination. Short of total immolation of both friend and foe—it was often impossible to differentiate the two—there was no effective strategy against guerrilla warfare waged by the enemy fighting on its home turf. The Vietcong proved as difficult to vanquish as hordes of ants and mosquitos at a picnic. The victory the generals and politicians insisted was just another few months and troop deployments down the road never came, and the soldiers knew it never would, long before reality was acknowledged and the troops brought home.
Brutal disillusionment gave way to abject disgust when they returned stateside. They cynically, but understandably, concluded that the antiwar protests had more to do with fear of the draft (there were no major protests after Nixon ended it), and readily available sex and drugs than heartfelt opposition to the war. That conclusion was buttressed by their reception from the antiwar crowd. If they were expecting support and understanding, they didn’t get it. The US victims of the war, those who fought it—the wounded, the physically and psychologically maimed, the dead—were branded as subhuman thugs and baby killers. It was the first time in the history of the US that a substantial swath of the population turned on those who had fought its wars. Those who fought regarded (or, in the case of the dead, would have regarded) those doing the branding as preening, posturing, spoiled children. A subterranean fault line split into a gaping fissure, since widened to a yawning chasm.
The idea that the elite—by dint of their education, intelligence, rarified social circle, and moral sensibility— should rule had reached full florescence during the New Deal, when FDR and his so-called brain trust promised change that most Americans could believe in. Although the elite failed, prolonging the Great Depression, it seemingly redeemed itself directing World War II, leaving the US at an unprecedented pinnacle of global power. Forgetting the failures of the Depression and basking in the hubristic glow, a bipartisan coterie from Washington, Wall Street, industry, the military, and the Ivy League set out to order the world according to their dictates. The US would lead a confederated empire opposing the Soviet alliance. The epochal nature of the struggle justified, in their minds, whatever means were necessary to wage it, including propaganda, espionage, subversion, regime change, and war.
While the Kennedy assassination offered the American public a glimpse into the heart of darkness, only a few independent-minded skeptics challenged the Warren Commission whitewash. Vietnam was different; hundreds of thousands returned knowing not just that the so-called best and brightest couldn’t win the war, but that for years they had lied to the American public. In the following decades, it had to have been especially galling for the Vietnam veterans that the hippies, draft-deferred campus protesters, the “fortunate sons” (google Credence Clearwater) whose numbers never came up, and the mockers of the values they held dear ended up among the elite. The Clintons, of course, became the prime example.
Disaffected veterans were the core of a group that would grow to millions, their “faith” in government and the people who ran it obliterated by its repeated failures and lies. Revolutions dawn when an appreciable number of the ruled realize their rulers are intellectual and moral inferiors. The mainstream media is filled with vituperative, patronizing, and insulting explanations of what’s “behind” the Trump phenomenon. It all boils down to revulsion with the self-anointed, incompetent, pretentious hypocritical, corrupt, prevaricating elite that presumes to rule this country. It is, in a word, inferior to the populace on the other side of the yawning chasm, the ones they have patronized and insulted for decades, and the other side knows it.
Peggy Noonan is one of the few mainstream writers who has tried to understand, rather than insult or condemn, the Trump phenomenon. In a widely cited article, she ascribed it to the split between the “protected,” those who run the government and its allied institutions, and the “unprotected,” the government’s and its allies’ victims (“Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected, The Wall Street Journal, 2/25/16). It was a nice try, but Ms. Noonan is trying to straddle a chasm that cannot be straddled. She writes for the Journal, an establishment organ, some of whose writers have been either so clueless or disingenuous that they have denied the existence of an establishment. And ultimately, the protected-unprotected differentiation doesn’t fly.
Most Trump supporters don’t want the government to do something for them; they want the government to quit doing things to them. They viscerally revile the elite—it’s personal—and they want no part of that class or its government. They know how to take care of themselves, and many know the government hurts the most those whom it ostensibly protects.
Elite sons and daughters have not been in the ranks of front line military that have fought the elite’s disastrous wars. The top and bottom of the service economy swell—lobbyists, political operatives, debt merchants, Internet wizards, lawyers, bureaucrats, waiters, bartenders, nurses, orderlies, sales clerks—while what used to be the heart of the economy—manufacturing—shrinks. The bailouts from the last financial crisis went to Wall Street, not the homeowners with underwater mortgages facing foreclosure. Whose pockets were picked to fund those bailouts? And whose pockets were picked to pay the higher insurance premiums necessary to fund the Obamacare disaster?
It doesn’t take an Ivy League degree to know that the national debt, $19 trillion and counting, is a big, scary number, and that the unfunded Social Security and medical care liabilities coming due are even bigger, scarier numbers. It does, apparently, take an Ivy League degree to believe that more debt is the answer to our economic problems, or that microscopic or negative interest rates will do anything but fund carry-trade speculators and screw those trying to fund their own postponed retirements, or that the limping economy since the financial crisis has “recovered.” Idiotic blather fills the elite, mainstream media, while much truth is suppressed and debate stifled in the name of political correctness.
Not much has changed since Vietnam. The decent besieged are taking fire from all sides, valiantly fighting their way through it, while preening, posturing, spoiled idiots congratulate themselves for running a once great country into the ground. It is a mark of the decent besieged’s decency that they are turning to the ballot box, the politically correct way to change a democratic government. The idiot class should be grateful for their forbearance. Instead, it resorts to means fair and foul to subvert them and maintain its power. Whether Trump does or does not make it all the way to the White House, the wave he’s riding will only grow stronger, tsunami-strength when the economy collapses and the world descends into war. If the idiot class and its rabble subvert him, a quote from John F. Kennedy, recently featured on SLL, will surely come back to haunt them.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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soros and his obama buddies are naturalizing ver a millions mexicans migrants and more for the november elections... electronic votes might not be enough to beat trump
It doesn't matter. Who votes is ultimately meaningless.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
I agree with this. There has been too much smoke in the camp of election irregularities the past two decades to not seriously consider that there is a fire going on in that domain. Paper votes are very difficult to manipulate, electronics votes, very easy. When trillions are on the line, I think anything is possible. Most intelligent folks now realize that the line to cross is not "should I try to get away with it" but " how do we get away with it", particularly with a compliicit media willing to look the other way and shun those who ask questions. They still cling to the claim that "we the MSM are the final arbitrators of truth" and unfortunately the vast majority still unquestionly accepts that at face value. .
http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-black-trump-supporter-shot-a...
Yep, and to that illegality ignored by the lamesteam media is the little gem that the DEMOCRATS made what is going on at the Trump rallies illegal and a FELONY!!!!
During the Obamacare protests, liberals amended Federal law H. R. 347 to make it illegal to protest at Federal campaign events. ALL of these anti-Trump rallies, be they violent or not, are FELONIES under this law that DEMOCRATS passed! Facebook promoting these criminal acts by refusing to take down any events organizing these anti-Trump rallies, despite being notified that they are ILLEGAL!
http://www.inquisitr.com/206017/president-obama-signs-anti-protest-bill-...
it is a felony to do this at presidential campaigns or secret service involved issues.
WHERE ARE THE FUCKING HANDCUFFS????
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Vietnam was all in vain as the communists are here, in the form of Moveon.org et al, and they are making peaceful revolution impossible. Violence, as always, is coming from the left.
White hillbillies volunteer to die for Black Lives Matta Marchaz. Their choice to stick their dick in a meatgrinder: F 'em.
Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war and The Ocean of Blood http://wp.me/p2kmGE-3Ie
"Tis the midnught hour, when the church yard sighs , and hell breathes out contagion upon the earth. Tis such bitter business we have."
Variation on Shakespeare. Still gave you a +1 though, for making me look and learn something new.
Vietnam was another example of our calcified "leadership" trashing our servicemen like disposable toys all to control the drug trade.
Scroll down for the Vietnam reference.
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/cia_drug_trafficking.htm
The official alibi was the communist threat. What a perverse joke. Violent communist parasites would not survive a day without constant monetary support from the NWO.
Communists only exist as shock troops to bring destruction and decay to any society that defies the NWO vermin infesting world governments everywhere. The filthy Bolshevik communists created a wasteland of bloodshed and carnage all over Russia thanks to our tax money and the accursed Fed. Then when their monster Stalin turned on them they migrated Westward. So now we're stuck with their spawn at the controls.
If the commies were running wild in Vietnam it was only because it was their job to do so. They were probably all on .gov payroll. Our .gov parasites did not give a FF about our servicemen than and things have only grown worse since.
Testify!
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Marx
The goal of socialism is communism.
-Lenin
Soooooo, is it clear now why all those wars of aggression were waged by the MIC (and NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE) to "make the world safe for democracy"?????!!?
Not just the screwball MIC but the faceless and nameless psychos who have been scheming together and pulling the strings for centuries.
They can infest the power centers, scheme two world wars and a series of other conflicts in conference rooms, abuse the financial systems to fund them, ignite mass murder by the millions in broad daylight, control information and get their media concubines to spit nonstop lies to keep us in the dark, then spout a prepared alibi about freedom and democracy which is prepared long before the conflict, and get academia and the public to accept it all without questions.
This is the "leadership" that is responsible for the social decay we see at every level. Most of these vermin have a serial killer streak. Others knowingly support the killers which makes them party to the crimes.
A good proportion of the young men that join the service really do it out of love of country, and for that, I salute them. What really galls the crap out of me is to see them so cavalierly used as cannon fodder and pawns in the game by the very people that scoff at patriotism (the globalists). It almost feels like their use and disposal by the establishment is done with a certain ironic twist of punishing the patriotic. It makes me sick.
Just remember, we did not lose in Vietnam, we surrendered, like we have done in every conflict we have engaged in the last sixty years. Does anyone really think we can't win militarily? We can't win because they will not let us win, and as always its principle purpose is funding, but more importantly division within our own country.
Democrats voted for the Iraq war. Clinton stated outright that Saddam should be removed, yet from the moment of the invasion the democrats and the media began screaming about the war for oil and Bush the war criminal. Bush, like his father, was an idiot to think they could ever work with the left. Remember "read my lips" of which Bush got his brains beat in for raising taxes that the democrats swore they would cut spending to compensate (of which they never did).
All of this is ultimately about division which is the source of the power that they use to do all other things. Even at this moment we are on a precipice and rather than actually doing something to prevent or prepare, they have people starting fights at rallys.
'Nam wasn't at all about "Winning", any more than all the subsequent wars were.
It was about 2 things:
1. Using the wars for the Bankster Ponzi and it's WTM (Wealth Transfer Mechanism), and
2. Decimating the gene pool of White Male Warriors.
Any "Whitey" who enlists and is near the fighting for longer than to acquire vital skills, is on a fool's errand. Get your experience and get promoted or get out, before you come back maimed or in a casket.
Let the Senators, CEOs and Banksters send their spawn into the Grinder of their making.
to wit:
why hasn't the media informed the American public of this 24 hrs after? :
Man Who Attacked Trump Made Short Film Calling For Killings Of Whites And Is An 'Actor' - youtu.be/PEP4hWfHzj8 , With An IMDb Page Dating Back To 2004.
The video is the trailer for a movie he wrote called "Red, Black and Blue" in which he plays the role of 'killer cop'. DiMassimo was released on $300 bond. Keep in mind, DiMassimo wrote this movie. Calling for violence against whites, is this video more proof that things could get very bad very quickly? Should DiMassimo have even been released back upon the streets?
something very sinister/nefarious is goin' on here.
http://po.st/ECr7xb
That fool needs to start the violence against whites on himself.
To Dimwit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU
We need more fucking monkeys with AK-47s.
This is a shining example of why communists, progressives, socialists, leftists, whatever you want to call them, are such a cancer: They are all actors (= LIARS), agitatrixes, nudgers, policy pushers, race pimps, rabble rousers, lazy, bussed-in opposition, oligarchs, central bankers, unlimited welfare proponents, weasels, repeat offenders, smash and grabbers, community organizers, or any number of "other" non-contributing takers. This shit is about to get very, very real people. Choose your side wisely.
they have issues, no one catagory descibes, misfits, malcontents, blamers, that is it, blame someone else but, oh never me, fuckin joke...
Good song choice.
wil ling.
If early indications continue then I could see this election cycle more violent and bloody than 68'. Also, no one should expect any quarter from the globalists if they are on the Trump side. Right or wrong, Trump supporters represent an affront to business as usual, which means that the globalists are going to pull out all the stops to severely punish them so that something like this never ever happens again. They will make sure that violence occurs, even if agents in both crowds have to incite it.
The world is sick. The condition may well be terminal. Trump can't save it; not even Agustas Caeser could do that.
i agree, humans are fucked up things...
so warm fuzzy and nice til ya turn your back...
usually greed and / or money at the core...
or mommy daddy issues...
Totally agree. Anything at this point is too little too late. Not being defeatist, just opinining a reality. The right thing to do is to let the establishment implode, but this election cycle is giving them the patsy to blame it on.
I am watching this silliness from afar- but I still have to pay US taxes - SO - succinctly, what is Trump going to do differently ?
Ok - let me help get you started - he is going to build a wall - now that wall may be pysical or fiscal. I'm not sure. Does a fiscal wall address the issue ?
Renounce! You will feel so much better, I did. The presumption of the empire has no limits. Fun fact, if one is a front line health care worker US citizen, one can be drafted until aged 60! Bet almost nobody knows that is still true.
Puttin' in chest tubes is easey-peasey.
And for radiation exposure, you just give them iodine tablets.
"I am watching this silliness from afar-..."
Silliness?
$19 TRILLION DEBT and counting, 100 million "discouraged workers" not counted in unemployment statisitics, 50 million on food stamps, median wages dropping, home ownership dropping, an asshole telling us that we are peddling economic fiction ...
You call that fu.king silliness?
Trump has the guts to call our leaders a bunch of fu.king liers and thiefs and you call it "silliness"!
Please safely keep your head in your ass hole and stay wherever the fu.k you are.
But Soweto Hussein Obama told us during his State of the Disunion address that the recovery is strong and plenty of growth out there. He bragged about the BLS unemployment rate is so low he can barely see it! he emphasized what a success he has been.
He even got the Nobel Prize!
That's something, right?
Endless Bummer-- Just stay wherever you are. Don't come back after those who still have a pair do the heavy lifting here.
So basiclly the person who wrote this article is saying the same thing Martin Armstrong has been saying for the past 5 years. I read a lot of articles people write now that are pretty much plagiarizing Martin constantly..
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
We now have more info on your hole than Kim Khardasian's
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
Member 24 weeks.........Really?
Tyler, get rid of this hand job....He'll only get worse
You may disagree sentimentally, philosophically, vehemently and loudly if you like but you never have the right to stop him/her of their first amendment to free speach, even if it is nonsence as seen below.
Isn't what you are demanding that what just happened in Chicago and which we are all protesting about? That behaviour is what that dumb female professor did, demanding some muscle to remove a reporter from her little world, at a college in Cal. recently, and lost her job over it. If he wants to abuse the site in a juvenile manner, he will probably get tired of it or kicked off. However, if you want a club of like thinkers to attend where people with opposite thoughts get their thoughts permanently snuffed? Find a safe refuge somewhere or I believe Soros has an opening for you. Move on will accept you.
You got downvoted.
No, he does not have the right to repost the same sentence 100 fucking times, blocking up space in the comment section.
Giving someone the right to free speech, that they use to silence and annoy YOU, is the height of stupidity. That's like saying DOS attacks are just "normal discourse."
Agree with you but let the Tylers sort that out. This ass will hang himself eventually. Ignore him. He's easily distracted.
I think it was a fat finger because of ads loading.
He needs
www.adblockplus.org
He is a noob. If his account were Two Years old...
Benefit of the doubt, ya know?
When I started here almost four years ago there was one time when I did the same thing by accident.
I had 14 or 15 posts that were the same post.
I did not have AdBlock installed and did not realize that everytime that i wss striking the Enter button impatiently that a post was being made.
I tried to clean them up.
Fortunately Sacrelege was watching and helped me clean up the extraneous posts.
Obviously I am still a welcome guest.
I looked at his history and this is the only incident.
With that...
skinwalker...Install AdBlockPlus and don't be so impatient.
There. I yelled at him fer ya'all.
There's been a lot of that lately.
skinwalker, there's probably some meds out there for that condition.... look into it, ok? I think your timing belt skipped a bit on the cog.
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.
Sorry, not interested in a hole in the ground. Unless there's custard in it.