Beware The Beast Man?
Over at a financial forum...
0X0 commented: "When I begin to believe that the Chinese Communist Party has a far more rational system for picking its leaders than the U.S. Presidential Candidate Clown Car being driven across the television screens of America, it is clear that the U.S. has transitioned from a constitutional democracy to a Talk Show Plebescite devoid of any objective criteria that qualify a candidate to run for the office.
I have lived more than half of my life outside of the U.S., in multiple countries throughout Europe, South America, and the Caribbean – and still do. I and have seen and known the mechanism of wealthy upper classes who pick and control a "popular candidate" to "lead the people" in their "democracy," -- as my father was in fact tasked by a branch of the U.S. govt. to bring American influence to bear on these selections [you don't think Chavez really runs Venezuela single-handedly, do you?].
I lacked the imagination to believe that the U.S. could possibly become one of them. I was wrong, because I believed that better education and a free press would always prevent such a transparently farcical system. But in fact it appears that once the concentration of wealth in a country reaches grossly disproportionate levels, such wealth inevitably converts itself into a concentration of power that no formal system of elections or government can dissipate. The only recourse is some type of revolution, and those are always uncertain and even bloody affairs.
Can this be true? Well, the Clinton and the Bush families have already shown this tendency in action, and we now have the vulgar Billionaire Trump, whom has made his living sucking the life blood of poorer people in his casinos [do casinos ever lose money] presenting himself as a champion of those very same people. It is a well-trodden path taken, among many others, by Bashar al-Assad, Ferdinand Marcos, Kim Il-Sung, Generallissimo Francisco Franco, Muammar al-Ghaddafi, Hideki Tojo, Mobutu Sese Seko, Agusto Pinochet, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ceausescu, Suharto, Kim Jung-Un, Jaruzelski, Somoza, Meriam, Hafez al-Assad ad nauseam.
Of course, most of those were fairly brutish; U.S. leaders would be more subtle. The U.S. requires what Neil Young calls, in "Rocking in the Free World," "a kinder, gentler machine gun hand.""
We Nattered: Spot on commentary… a kinder gentler machine gun hand… "The only recourse is some type of revolution, and those are always uncertain and even bloody affairs. Can this be true?" History repeats itself, those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes. But it's always different this time, right? No meaningful effort to change the status quo was ever brought about without one of these, war, revolution, protest, sacrifice and this, violence and bloodshed occurring. This is the way of the world and perhaps one should heed this warning??
0X0 commented: "When I begin to believe that the Chinese Communist Party has a far more rational system for picking its leaders than the U.S. Presidential Candidate Clown Car being driven across the television screens of America, it is clear that the U.S. has transitioned from a constitutional democracy to a Talk Show Plebescite devoid of any objective criteria that qualify a candidate to run for the office.
I have lived more than half of my life outside of the U.S., in multiple countries throughout Europe, South America, and the Caribbean – and still do. I and have seen and known the mechanism of wealthy upper classes who pick and control a "popular candidate" to "lead the people" in their "democracy," -- as my father was in fact tasked by a branch of the U.S. govt. to bring American influence to bear on these selections [you don't think Chavez really runs Venezuela single-handedly, do you?].
I lacked the imagination to believe that the U.S. could possibly become one of them. I was wrong, because I believed that better education and a free press would always prevent such a transparently farcical system. But in fact it appears that once the concentration of wealth in a country reaches grossly disproportionate levels, such wealth inevitably converts itself into a concentration of power that no formal system of elections or government can dissipate. The only recourse is some type of revolution, and those are always uncertain and even bloody affairs.
Can this be true? Well, the Clinton and the Bush families have already shown this tendency in action, and we now have the vulgar Billionaire Trump, whom has made his living sucking the life blood of poorer people in his casinos [do casinos ever lose money] presenting himself as a champion of those very same people. It is a well-trodden path taken, among many others, by Bashar al-Assad, Ferdinand Marcos, Kim Il-Sung, Generallissimo Francisco Franco, Muammar al-Ghaddafi, Hideki Tojo, Mobutu Sese Seko, Agusto Pinochet, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ceausescu, Suharto, Kim Jung-Un, Jaruzelski, Somoza, Meriam, Hafez al-Assad ad nauseam.
Of course, most of those were fairly brutish; U.S. leaders would be more subtle. The U.S. requires what Neil Young calls, in "Rocking in the Free World," "a kinder, gentler machine gun hand.""
We Nattered: Spot on commentary… a kinder gentler machine gun hand… "The only recourse is some type of revolution, and those are always uncertain and even bloody affairs. Can this be true?" History repeats itself, those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes. But it's always different this time, right? No meaningful effort to change the status quo was ever brought about without one of these, war, revolution, protest, sacrifice and this, violence and bloodshed occurring. This is the way of the world and perhaps one should heed this warning??
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