Here are some uncheery thoughts.
Political campaigns may just be the leading growth business
in post-industrial America. (Hurry! Please donate today to CAMPAIGN _________.
There has never been a greater threat to civilization as we know it than the
prospect of a ____________ Party victory. Don’t delay! Pony up today!)
And what do you get for that investment? Hope and change? Or
more of the same?
Surprise! More of the same. That equates to trillions spent
on defense and foreign policy prerogatives that have been proven failures, at best, and
elitist pet projects, at worst.
Do politicians earn the right to represent us after filling
their pockets from coins from our pockets? Yes. Do they actually control (or
even mildly have influence to fiddle with) the levers of power in such a way as
to earn the trust we put in them by our honest investments in their business.
No. Not even close.
I read a lot of books: novels at home and nonfiction –
primarily political and social science books – during my daily commutes to and
from my paying job. Hands down the most interesting I’ve read this season is Mike
Lofgren’s THE DEEP STATE http://bit.ly/2e4U19B.
DEEP STATE s—t is scary s—t. As scary as Trump being
president? Well, no. But scary enough to warrant a new wave of folk considering
asylum in Canada if its central messages were to be given wider distribution.
In our daily news feeds, the deep state doesn’t get discussed
much. Consider what J. Edgar Hoover did in the 1950s-1970s (See THE BURGLARY http://bit.ly/2ebfJrr ) What Dwight D. Eisenhower complained about in
his famous military industrial complex speech in 1961.
In the Hill-Pill debates, what time is given to balancing
privacy concerns with national security? What gets classified? We know that
Hillary used a personal e-mail server but do we ask the question: What does get
classified? Who is in charge of those policies and practices? What are the
checks and balances?
The deep state – the Washington, DC, Puzzle Palace – is in
charge. And democracy? That’s the fastest-growing civilian business in
post-industrial Amerca. It’s like melting gold and pouring it into an unused
well in coal country.
Fraud, baby.
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