With the two permitted American political parties spending an Election Year by clogging our already broken-down legal system suing and investigating each other, we haven't given much discussion here to these soap operas. It's important to focus instead upon the internal forces which have already seized the social, economic, and political power in the United States. None of these people are up for any kind of election or subject to the popular will in any way.
The abuse of the Legal System aimed at President Trump since he was removed in a putsch four winters ago is fairly typical of how the US Deep State mobilizes to destroy its enemies. Trump has proven a tougher challenge than most because of his popularity. The problem---which Trump seems unwilling to believe---is that his base is a paper tiger. The 73 million people who voted for him in 2020 slunk back into the shadows and did nothing while he was removed from power. In fact, 2020 in general showed us all what the American Right was really made of.
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Now, voting is one of the few freedoms that the Elites have allowed the American people to retain---they tolerate it because it maintains the illusion that people actually participate in the government while distracting the public so that they don't start asking questions about who actually runs things. Nonetheless, Trump poses a problem for them; but Trump is only one man, so question becomes how to deal with him. The Oligarchy isn't concerned about his supporters---the Elites have learned from experience that the American Right is too vitiated to fight much harder than complaining online.
This sad state of affairs has presented a golden opportunity for the vested interests to the control of the Republican Party that they enjoyed during the Bush years. Leaders of High Finance and Commercial Cartels seem to be warming to Trump and today we learned that a trio of billionaires; namely John Paulson and Harold Hamm along with an unnamed third party have raised money to cover the extortionate bond imposed on Trump by a New York judge.
If the names of Paulson and Hamm sound familiar; it's because we had occasion to profile these two shining examples of humanity less than a week ago. That these two creatures are circling the Trump Campaign like a pair of vultures (their bird-droppings coming in the form of seven-figure donations) ought to give us all pause for concern. Unfortunately, it probably won't concern anybody too much: a Conservative Movement that doesn't mind having LGBTQs, pro-abortion activists, and WEF Young Global Leaders in their ranks so long as such people are based and Red Pilled isn't going to fret about Corporate Robber Barons getting on board too.
The reasons that this should be concerning is that what these money-men obviously are up to is buying influence; specifically putting their own men in key positions in a potential Trump Administration---especially that of Vice-President. 'Rainbow Rex' Tillerson and Steve Mnuchin were examples of the kinds of people whom they installed in the last Trump Administration. Given Trump's advanced age, who could take his place is their overriding interest.
Despite the fact that the Republican Party undermined Trump as much as they could during his tenure in office; did nothing to stop the Democrats from hijacking both Congress and the White House; haven't lifted a finger to push back on the legal challenges to Trump (in fact, openly participated in them) doesn't factor into the average Conservative's thinking. Like the 'Red Waves' in 1994 and 2010, the 2022 Congress has done little more than rubber-stamp all of the Democrat Administration's policies---that doesn't factor into their thinking either. That's what the purpose of elections are today: to put on a show, to keep up the illusion of popular sovereignty, and most importantly of all---to maintain the status quo. The American people fall for it, too.
Nothing is actually going to change until and unless Americans start forgetting about Party Politics and start focusing on the unelected Corporate hierarchies and bureaucracies who really are, in fact, the Government. The chances of that happening though are not high. Decades of neglect and apathy have sapped America's collective will to resist and, in the end, the 2024 Elections aren't going to accomplish anything except to give one group or another to push the Great Reset forward.
Interesting post! I'm a huge Trump fan but sometimes he strikes me as naive, or at least prone to trust people who he probably shouldn't. On the other hand, politics does require some team work and being willing to risk having people betray you or drop the ball, or engage in outright sabotage.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, as a country overall, we can't just elect the right person and call it good. Our current politics are a sign of an unhealthy, divided, and dysfunctional electorate. We need good leadership, but in a democracy what you really need is lots of ordinary people with some shared values and an investment in making it work.
One thing that I've seen Putin do in his speeches is to emphasize that the Russian people have to work together to solve problems. In our system, the people are so accustomed to top-down solutions and politicians taking responsibility for everything that they can't comprehend a system where the political leadership merely protects and facilitates people taking care of themselves. They only understand here political and social unity in terms of authoritarianism, and they try to portray Putin that way, and Trump to a large extent too because Trump essentially believes in empowering people.
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