There’s one main reason the vast majority of Americans continue to lose and suffer, while a very small percentage of people continue to win and prosper, and it can be summed up with one word, unity.
I know this sounds corny and cliché, but that doesn’t make it untrue. There’s a reason a small group of vested parties are able to run this country in their interests alone while the general public gets scraps, and it’s not simply money. A big part of the problem lies in ourselves and our inability to form mass movements that cross political lines on issues of tremendous importance. The “elite” don’t suffer from such divisiveness, which is how they are able to hold on to power despite repeated failures spanning decades.
A perfect example of how the status quo comes together when their collective interests are threatened was on full display during the 2016 election. Many of us stood in shock with our mouths open in horror as corporate Democrats, neoconservative Republicans and the corporate media formed a total alliance in opposition to Donald Trump. Those of us who pay attention to the world knew this had nothing to do with Trump’s comments about Mexicans or Muslims. All of that was merely a smokescreen for what really concerned them. What really got them terrified was the prospect that Trump would reverse course on the reckless late-stage imperial foreign policy that has been relentlessly pursued since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
To see what I mean, watch the following video of General Wesley Clark describing the days after 9/11:
I’m sure you noticed Syria mentioned in that clip. The plan to overthrow Syria was already laid out over 15 years ago. As you can see, they’re a bit behind schedule, which is why we witnessed complete panic when Trump won the Presidency. While I was always convinced Trump would be a ruthless corporatist at home and all his commentary against Wall Street was a lie, I held out a small degree of hope he might chart a more reasonable course on foreign policy. This is clearly not the case, and Trump has now been trapped and played by the foreign policy establishment. He is now their puppet.
With his bombing of Syria, Trump has been successfully manipulated into a distinct foreign policy from what he promised during the campaign and adamantly warned against in 2013 when Obama was threatening military intervention in Syria. Trump was played by neocons in the Republican Party (principally John McCain and Lindsey Graham), Russia conspiracy theorists in the Democratic Party (led by Adam Schiff), and the always war-mongering corporate media. It was this unified stance by powerful interest groups ostensibly residing on conflicting sides of the political spectrum that won this fight and flipped Trump. The status quo stood together on an issue they care deeply about (provocation with Russia and war in Syria) and they are getting what they wanted.
To see just how united the corporate press is on this issue, take a look at these tweets from Adam Johnson.
note:@NickKristof wrote a half-dozen columns in 2011 calling for US strikes in Libya & hasnt written abt Libya since 9/7/11–or 2041 days ago pic.twitter.com/Zgurh6i2Mh
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 9, 2017
find someone who looks at you the way the US media looks at bombs pic.twitter.com/GdMoc33NCO
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 9, 2017
The top 10 US papers–USA Today, WSJ, NYT, WaPo, LAT, Daily News, Chi Tribune, Newsday, SJ Mercury, Sun Times–all endorsed Trumps airstrikes.
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 8, 2017
Meanwhile, let’s see how Trump’s new neocon best friends are thanking him for his reckless bombing.
McCain: Trump’s missile strikes on Syria an “excellent first step” https://t.co/pujjIKo8ydpic.twitter.com/6pbwo4PoB1
— The Hill (@thehill) April 9, 2017
Punishing Assad for use of chemical weapons is good. Regime change in Iran is the prize.https://t.co/vnRo82CU4r
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 8, 2017
Well yeah, Wesley Clark already told us all about that.
Graham: Assad is telling Trump “F you” https://t.co/Qb2Gr4TPxVpic.twitter.com/Dj6E1E438c
— The Hill (@thehill) April 9, 2017
Meanwhile, Graham is calling for 5,000-6,000 U.S. ground forces in Syria, so there’s that. The neocons smell blood and weakness and are now going for the jugular. Well done, Donald Trump.
The bottom line here is we need to learn lessons from our adversaries in order to defeat them. The “elite,” or status quo, isn’t a uniform blob which maintains conformity with one another on every political issue. That said, there are some issues so important to establishment players that they will put aside all other concerns in order to defend them. Imperial wars of domination is one of these issues, which is why rather than accept defeat after the election, the truly powerful in America united like never before to paint Trump as a Putin puppet so that he’d be backed into a corner and then manipulated into doing their bidding at the appropriate moment. This is exactly what happened.
The “elite” are very good at unifying when their key interests are threatened, while average American citizens are terrible at it. We’ve been completely divided and conquered. We’ve self-separated into ideological tribes where we support and celebrate only those thinkers who agree with us on a vast majority of issues. As such, when something like a crazy neocon war abroad becomes a reality we are totally incapable of crossing tribal lines to unite on an issue of tremendous importance. The elite have no such qualms, which is why they win and we lose.
Going forward, we must totally dismiss the notion that movements should be centered around individual politicians, and center them around principles. It wasn’t “getting the right person elected” that changed anything in the civil rights movement, rather it was mass popular movements by average citizens who pressured politicians. It’s never the politicians, it’s always the people. This is how it’s always been and how it must be today. I think activism has completely lost its way and until it finds strategic understanding, will continue to fail. There’s power in numbers, and we have the numbers on all sorts of issues if we can only get out of our little tribal comfort zones and accept people as allies in struggles of particular importance even if you disagree with them on a host of other issues.
While there are a large number of issues I care deeply about, I’ve come to the conclusion that we need to pick one big issue and then build a huge tent around it. I think Trump’s recent escalation of hostilities in Syria means interventionist wars in the Middle East should be the first issue we unify to challenge. It’s high profile, extremely dangerous and the sort of thing that can generate unity amongst a huge percentage of the population.
If war in Syria will be our first order of business, where do things stand as we speak? For one thing, I got a lot out of a recent poll highlighted by The Hill. Here’s what we learned:
About half of Americans support the Trump administration’s decision last week to launch a missile strike on a Syrian air base, according to a new poll.
A HuffPost/YouGov survey finds 51 percent of Americans support the president’s decision to order the airstrikes in retaliation for a chemical attack last week that killed civilians in northern Syrian.
Thirty-two percent of Americans are opposed to the strikes and 17 percent are uncertain.
Your immediate reaction to this may be that it’s disturbing and discouraging that 51% of Americans support the strike, and I understand that sentiment. However, given the total unified propaganda front from the tripartisan elite (corporate media and the Republican and Democratic establishment), the number is actually pretty low. Moreover, the following is encouraging.
Slightly more than one-third of respondents think the president should not take additional military action, compared to 20 percent who believe Trump should. Another 45 percent were unsure of what the president should do regarding future military action.
Only 20% of Americans want more strikes, but we know what McCain, Graham and Kristol want. Which makes you wonder, how will the neocons shape public opinion and get their expanded war? The corporate media, of course. This is the media’s true role in the American oligarchy. It must mold the opinions of the 45% who “aren’t sure what to do next” and convince them that more war is necessary. Be on the look out for that, because it’s coming.
Moreover, we learned some additional information in a different poll, also highlighted by The Hill:
Pollsters also found that 70 percent believe Trump requires authorization from Congress before pursuing additional action in Syria.
Few Americans desire U.S. military involvement in Syria beyond airstrikes, however, with 18 percent supporting the use of ground troops.
It’s very clear Americans don’t want a ground presence in Syria, but as we learned, Lindsey Graham is calling for exactly that to the tune of 5,000-6,000 troops. Again, the only way for the neocons to boost this number from 18% to something more acceptable is the corporate press. The above tells us that something to the tune of 200 million American adults may be against a ground war in Syria. If that’s right, where are the anti-war protests? Where’s the mass movement against more interventionism? Where did all the vagina hats go?
The movement is nowhere to be seen largely because the 80% of Americans against an escalation of this war are divided and bickering on a laundry list of other issues. The public has been totally divided and conquered and remains entirely unable to come together to stop something as important as war despite agreeing with one another on the subject. This absence of unity leaves the public vulnerable to manipulation by the corporate media and politicians who want more war, which is exactly what’s going to happen if we don’t wise up.
So how do we achieve this unity I’m calling for? It’s not going to be easy, but I think the first step is for all of us to get out of our tribes start listening to people outside our comfort zones. I try to do this here at Liberty Bltizkrieg with my posts. For example, one day you may see a video of Ron Paul and the next an interview with Chris Hedges. I don’t agree with either one on all issues, but they both have integrity and are against unethical destructive wars abroad. If people who like Ron Paul can cross over and shake hands with people who prefer Chris Hedges and agree to fight imperial war together, we can build the popular movements that will be necessary to turn this country around. If not, we will continue to lose.
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Within hours after the airstrike, I sent an email to the White House telling Mr. Trump he has betrayed his supporters and that I was already regretting my support–and vote–and would correct my error beginning with the mid-term elections.
I sent a message to my congressman–another McCain wannabe–and told him congratulations: You just lost a vote to ANYONE other than you. Americans are sick of war, war and more war.
It may not be much but at least telling them of our solid opposition denies them the comfort of thinking they are loved by their constituents.
I also return every Republican National Committee pseudo-survey (really just a pitch for donations) and tell them I will send back every survey at their expense with a big FUCK YOU until they start acting like true conservatives and nationalists again.
In Bernie’s speech immediately following Trumps victory, he said ‘we’ll work with you on issues we have in common’ (paraphrasing’…. Anyone else who has said that? And the social/identity issues that they (both) keep us exercised over…. can we set them aside and focus on war, which serves the war profiteers, and the ‘rigged, fraudulent and corrupt’ economy? I think we can… what will be on our anti-war signs, that will resonate with the ‘non-choir’ on both sides… ?
I still think the ACLU is “the ticket to ride.”
Assuming they’re not Deep State. They support illegal immigration. I’ve worked with hundreds of vatos, and we’re the same – exploited. I won’t apologize for making money with them and befriending many over twenty years now, They don’t want to live here. We have too violent a society. They’re currently valuable as a captive voting pool. They are bargaining chips in the eyes of the politically expedient. I struggled with that question for over a decade until this election. The election became a Coup attempt and it has succeeded.
The AcLU uses people for political gain. I will only use the ACLU for my political gain, but I will not bow to any organization such as they for they will try to dominate me. They are as disingenuous as any political party. Pro buono representation for illegal entrants? Why not some schlub charged with possession facing nothing but a plea bargain where the cop lied on the report? Which is the majority.
I wholly agree that the only way any changes are made in favor of the people and against the interests of the oligarchy is through the people uniting and making demands that the status quo is not acceptable. That being said perhaps their should be a poll were the answer is not A,B or C but rather a series of questions to find out what the correspondent actually knows about a subject. If anyone has ever viewed Mark Dice’s interviews of average Americans you begin to realize that a lot of ground work needs to be done before any unification can take place….eg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Be9f7Ovgg
As an addendum I would say that a cadre of activists is needed that could fan out across the nation in a coordinated manner and begin just raising awareness of the plight with a call for citizens to subscribe to a citizens newsletter printed and distributed for the absolute minimum cost. This was how the Wobblies organized the people, backed by several publications that were heavily subscribed to. I will confess that I consider the Alt-right and the Libertarian philosophy it often espouses to be much too close ideologically to that of the Globalists (pro unfettered capitalism) to effect the changes needed, as being globalist lite as it were. For this pragmatic view I will be hanged no doubt and to set parameters I will not engage again and again in any ideological commentary battle as we should all agree that the banker’s debt money ponzi enslavement scheme is the primary enemy that must be tackled first and foremost before any other issue can be solved.
The answer to the tyrannical government in DC, which is owned by the banksters of NYC, is to do exactly what the American colonists of the 1700’s did; SECEDE from the tyrannical government.
The people who think they can fix the cancer that is America’s ruling class (& the zombies who wander around that society) are just as big a problem as The Ruling Class.
SECEDE…SECEDE…SECEDE!!!
Good luck selling that to the average housewife with three kids on a Sunday protest outing. We need bodies, not philosophies. We won’t fix the ruling class. We’ll have to restructure the debt first ’cause there will be no USA. How that evolves, Totalitarian or pure Democracy, is up to you. Stop the wars, attain AUMF, taking war powers from the exec back to Congress is key, but might never happen before a cataclysmic monetary event. We need every support we can get, and you’re just too out there. Example: Ms. Gabbard. Mr. Massie. Mr. Paul. Mr Kucinich, what should be priority? Secession or shedding light to create dissension and stop the MIC?
Don’t talk. Do. Or go find a community talk site. No. that was not polite of me. I don’t have time to waste.
Yes, let’s secede!! Never been so glad there are millions of acres of mountains and deserts between us Left Coasties and the rest of this ‘stew pot’ (read ‘American Nations’ to get the whole picture). BUT in the meantime… got any memes? sound-bytes? etc, ala ‘1% vs 99%’ to start creating the ‘picture’ of all us American patriots opposing the latest ‘War Profiteers’ ..
“Truman Can’t Save Us from These WAR PROFITEERS! WE HAVE TO SAVE OURSELVES!..TOGETHER! – NO SYRIAN WAR!!”
…… OK.. what have you got….. ?
The meme is: SECEDE. If that is to complicated for some folks we could mix it up with DECLARE INDEPENDENCE, or INVOKE THE SPIRIT OF 1776.
SECESSION is an act of DECENTRALIZATION.
SECEDING from a tyrannical (and in our case murderous) government is not only a basic HUMAN RIGHT, it is a DUTY.
I don’t care whether a person’s “political” views or “code of conduct” are left or right (I happen to be libertarian with anarchist tendencies), all humans have a natural right to self determination.
The only way to PEACE & PROSPERITY is to SECEDE from the federal government, and the central bank that owns it.
great article, i totally agree…..occupy PEACE.
One of the best ways I’ve found to find common ground is to work together on a local project for the common good. As a leftist, I have been very happy to work with Trump supporters and true believers because these are people building a greenhouse to grow organic food for schools and poor people at the cheapest possible price. We rarely speak about politics. The focus is on getting good food to people who could not ordinarily afford it.
Ironically, this is a primarily Democratic small town. the leading luminaria here are mostly wealthy Democrats. They will have nothing to do with this project because it’s most being done by Trump supporters. When I went to the pollinator protection group, only local Democratic luminara were allowed (since I was new, I slipped in). I mentioned making common cause with the organic food people and I thought I’d have to bring out smelling salts! I really do not know how to make common cause with Democrats at this time. I try to work with them on matters like helping out at the animal shelter. This is difficult because there is incessant political trashing of Trump supporters as sub humans. There is wild glorification of Clinton and Obama. The focus is not really the mission of the group, it’s more like a religious situation where many Pharisees are present and no Good Samaritans come along to save anyone!
From this experience, I think it is much more successful to stick to the issue at hand and quit worrying whether thy neighbor is pure in the sight of the lord! The burnt offerings may be offered at a later date, after the cause at hand is completed.
If we can find people who will focus on the task at hand and leave the I am more holy stuff at home, I think we can do this.
Responsibility to Protect mandates aid provided is provided to the ‘Established Government’.
To create an alternative ‘established government’:
-Syrian rebels must declare independence-secession like North and South Korea and Vietnam.
-UN Resolution bypassing Responsibility to Protect under Hawkish WMDs and/or Dovish Humanitarianism justifications.
Same trick as Vietnam and Korean Wars just a different image.
Won’t happen because the masses would rather be able to blame someone for the problems than actually take responsibility and do something about it. It’s easier for someone to say
“oh the elites are doing this and that. If only they’d listen to the public”
rather than say
“well, the elites are doing this but WE voted them in and WE allowed them to so no more”
It really wouldn’t be hard to put an end to this but again, people prefer to do the blame game bullshit and whine than to actually accept they are the reason why something happens and will then fix the problem.
Now yes, having everyone united rather than doing the partisan fanboyism
hypocritical idiocy would be preferable but they’d still not want to take responsibility for the entire shit show going on. They’d instead just complain online or do some protests and keep paying their taxes and being the good little sheeple they are expected to be.
The only way this crap is going to stop is when the U.S eventually fully collapses like all bullshit empires have, whether on their own or from a new one taking their spot. Until then, the U.S will keep acting like the virus it is, spreading death and destruction everywhere while trying to pretend it is the good guy. People like to go on about isis or other terrorist groups but the biggest terrorist network in the entire world exists in Washington. I guarantee more lives have been taken, impacted or ruined from the actions of those in Washington than all the supposed big bad terrorist groups combined.
The sad thing is knowing that the U.S. could control the entire middle east, wipe out all the supposed evil Muslims, wipe out Russia, North Korea and China, and they’d just find the next place to vilify. They’d probably start to say Germany is the supposed new enemy or threat and then France, Italy, Japan, Sweden…
Oh and if by some small miracle the sheeple did unite and actually took responsibility and went about looking to change things, all the powers that be would do is stage another big false flag attack domestically which would then get the sheeple to be all emotional and want to get revenge on whoever the false flag would be blamed on. There is no way the sheeple would ever collectively stop and wonder if it was all bullshit or if they should accept it as blowback.
Most human beings never want to accept they are wrong or responsible for bad things happening as they love to act like they are little angels.
I hope that you are proven wrong on your negative viewpoint.
FS,
Skip your first step and move on to working together on a common project. I understand exactly what you are saying, but it is not necessary for people to admit their sins before working together. Solve the problem at hand, then try working on understanding the larger picture.
I agree that the govt. will attack citizens for this insolence. It is the only real threat against their power. To this I would say, better to have tried something of value with our life than not to have done anything. The govt. is going to do what it is going to do. They don’t give our life meaning, we do.
Your blog gives me hope that reason is not dead. Neither civility. Neither moral as social conscience. Neither critical thinking. Neither the indignation some people feel witnessing the rampant irresponsibility.
Unfortunalely law could be legislated and eventually enforced,
and has a reactive nature,
moral comes from within and could take generations.
Laws are not necessarily moral, and vice verse, moral behaviour could be unlawful sometimes.
We can’t solve problems using the thinking that created them Einstein
I have been thinking about this recently.
Dividing and conquering … even your own population via artificial ‘democratic choices’ of two bad candidates … giving the people the tragic choice of the lesser evil …as in between a hard place and a rock.
You Americans are lucky, the communists were giving us just one compulsory choice.
“…divided and bickering on a laundry list of other issues.” – I call this keeping the score.
Political talk is cheap for the government and is funded by the governed.
I am expecting an increase in the radicalization as a way of control by further fragmentation fueled by the media, and being the product of intentional economic strategy, driving people to despair. The chaos gave rise to Hitler and the Russian revolution, and the USA independence inspired and funded by the French ( the enemies of the English)…
However changing the status quo per se ,could result in unintended, and possibly damaging equilibrium.
You answered the questions WHY and WHO ( plural for 2 broad categories of governed and government…. the backstage factors are missing… )
Refining what how when would …. solve it.
Implementation would require a certain state of conscience of a sufficient part of the Americans, which is a statistical witch.
So it would require different approach, distinct strategies …
How to explain it? It’s kind of cognitively some people are deficient of that… and others of that…
Or some people believe in democrats, and others in whatever…( these are the illusions fed by the media brainwashing the people and serving certain interests);
the governed within has a rather fragmented structure then a monolithic one.
It is a monolithic structure though as the governed people funding the government.
“It’s never the politicians, it’s always the people.”
So far it’s been a successful perpetuum mobile for the politicians as front paws for the business interests, dividing people via artificial self serving political parties, giving them an illusory choice.
A lot of lobbyists ( manageable dogs) are unemployed now, as the wolves are in charge of the herd.
And the comedians got unfair competition by the taxpayers funded grande comedy.
Tact is the act of making a point without making an enemy Newton
I was thinking about Galileo. He was both alive and an opponent.
While 80% opposed is strong, the poll does not seem to indicate how important the issue is to respondents. I suspect way behind matters that affect them more directly and immediately, however important we think it should be.
The activist movements you mention, and others, succeeded because they chose issues on which they could act directly and then did. Gandhi challenged the salt tax by leading a march to the sea to collect their own and the prohibition of cotton manufacture by hand spinning and weaving his own, others followed. In the civil rights movement people took seats on buses and at lunch counters. Same sex marriage: people just lived together.
So I think we need to find an issue that is very important to many people and find a way they can actually act to start change, despite the power elite.
Boycotting and/or replacing their product is useful. The power elite’s source of power is fossil fuels. Can we find a tactic to act on that strategy?
Mike,
Would you consider my assertion for a moment, please? Have a rough idea of some things, so might take a broad leap or two; topically, that is.
I’ll borrow a quote and establish a credential or two of my own:
While I was always convinced Trump would be a ruthless corporatist at home and all his commentary against Wall Street was a lie, I held out a small degree of hope he might chart a more reasonable course on foreign policy. This is clearly not the case, and Trump has now been trapped and played by the foreign policy establishment. He is now their puppet.
I’m right with you on the first sentence, and to rationalize my own selfish need, I may be a Desperate Corporatist, if only to establish a safe place and home for my family prior to any calamity. It certainly behooved me to support Trump’s candidacy for that reason and, as a two time delegate for Ron Paul’s Presidential bid, I’m not a fan of the Deep State’s military ambitions either. I sure as Hell was not lookin’ for praise, acceptance or honor in doing so. If anything, I might have been rewarded with the opposite values, if anything.I will tell you that if I hadn’t done those things I might never have experienced your points of view.
As for your second premise, I must respectfully disagree. For one thing, due to my own experiences, I run by “default” on questions of societal and financial interactions. Distilled to its essence, I don’t trust anybody without verification, a policy that abides well with my home state’s motto of “Show Me”, which is just as distinct, if not more palatable. I’ll have to cop out here and retreat to further simplicity in my argument, noting that my body’s tore up from thirty years catching up other construction trade’s shortfalls in schedule while retaining a position near the top of the shark tank of my own, replete with Latin exploitees, if you will.
I’m tired, in more ways than one. Yes, a blatant attempt to garner sympathy that alludes to a portion of our economic activity over the same span of Militarism and profiteering you describe. Worse yet, I just spent nearly a year in direct contact with the U.S. Medical Establishment, only to discover its well hidden dark side and contrary nature to compassionate care, equally allegorical to our main topic – and I survived, but nearly a broken man. The best aspect of recovery I can allude to is breaking down in tears, not for myself, but for the vulnerable trapped in this system, for which my inquiring mind did some actual research only to reel back in horror. Another Industry gone to the dogs, but of the war for profit above all concern. I might mention the Insurance Industry, as well as Social Security and disability, though to support my argument, I’ll leave that to your fertile imagination to conclude the cause and effect of my complaint lies in an overpowering Military/Political Establishment. Did I mention I was tired? The organ that might suffer most from fatigue being, of course, my mind.
Which only led me to conclude my insecurities were well founded. Having met a sociopath disguised in the role of Authority there, it’s an easy leap of faith to conclude that any assumption that President Trump is a “victim” is totally inaccurate. For one, I can point out numerous statements agree with your assertion. I study that statistic and deduce the premise is “overbought” at this juncture. I have two points that support that argument: one is the timeline of President Trump’s departure from his platform and the ease, and swiftness, in which it was made acceptable to the public, even on a Contrarian site such as ZH. The second would be the sudden, but not unexpected, rush to propaganda – or is it war? – although the two are inseparably connected, aren’t they? And that effort, rising with such intensity, and in oh, so, predictable a manner touches on even my jaded senses so that I might intuit the bloodlust and will for destruction, one I’ve experienced briefly before, but only for the matters of family and honor. The defining difference? Somewhere, someone is becoming exceedingly rich from a people’s and culture’s suffering, a common, American trait, fully accepted and relative to your contention that our own President is “acceptably ruthless”. That, without even noting his full acceptance, with open arms and recorded for history, Donald Trump’s rise to the post of Icon of Empire.
Therefore as I have repeatedly mentioned, cajoled, mocked, satirized, belittled and threatened on this most remarkable site recently, I propose that the Coup to Overthrow the United States has come to its full fruition.
A sorrier prognostication come true I cannot think of, though one I will forever rue the day – April 6, 2017. And all my efforts to raise the alarm mean nothing, if not for my powers of persuasion, in this case, incredibly poor, still lacking for viable interest or a hint of passion or participants. So, Mike, how do you propose we continue?
That’s a completely unambiguous question, btw. I’ve been looking for you, about … twenty years gone by? Warriors don’t lie back on their cushions, and certainly not any of their laurels. I’m in need of a mission, if only one more, that’s just fine. I was born to die with my boots on, son, and you’d better take advantage right now.
This one’s going to be difficult, if not down right impossible, for that matter, which tells me the odds are perfect, and most definitely in our favor. We’ll be home by Christmas, kid, and each year the stories will become grander, the details more refined.
Well? What’re you waiting for? An invitation?
Prior comment from Zero Hedge:
List # 1 (no specific file: We want your Brains!!)
Copy and or contribute. plz leave yr moniker. (Knew you wouldn’t mind Mike):
BingoBoggins sez:
I am not your leader so don’t stroke my ego and I won’t stroke yours!
(sounds like a misdemeanor)
Do what you’re good at. Expect to do it longer than you expected. Nothing is ever that easy. Too bad, ain’t it? So is Murder.
prioritize visible, newsworthy, viable movements of people, non partisan, and apolitical. This is perhaps the most difficult to achieve. Don’t expect a quick result. My daddy said; “when you’re in a hurry, don’t rush.”
Eye-popping is a plus, almost de riguer (spelling’s important, too)
Define a message, an icon and a slogan, each with attractive words or symbols, and that appeal to emotion (yes, that’s a logical fallacy. No one said anything about fighting fair). Make sure our cohorts understand it and choose representatives and speakers, if you must. Make it 8th grade simple and sound byte brief. Prosody and “catchiness” are desirable. Never wander from the truth. it is “malleable” however. who do you think we’re up against? Scared yet? Good. You should be. and fearful, out of compassion, for the suffering of others.
Correlate actions with partisan, politicized, and or distasteful groups as needed. Steal their ideas. If they don’t like it, tell ’em to take it on the arches. Honesty is a virtue. All’s fair in love and war.
Please, don’t be late.
admitting a lack of interest or time to participate is no crime. lying or fudging about it is.
if it’s barely achievable, then abandon the action when first identified as such: quality over quantity. Time is of the essence.
speaking of quality, all press and promotional materials should be of top notch appearance.
That costs money. Get some. we need it – last week. We need someone working on grants, contributions, near confidence games, and aggressive, in your face, soliciting. Work ’em, rank ’em, too long? thank ’em and walk away. Be genuine about every thing you do, especially their generosity. Denoting urgency is not a flaw. who do you think we’re up against?
PC might just fly out the window sometimes. who do you think we’re up against?
If you steal, don’t expect a knock on the door from *only* the cops. Assuming there is a knock.
Charitable status would be swell (they do get embezzled on occasion) but record keeping is next to Nirvana. In any case, always C.Y.A.W.P. – cover yo’ ass with paper. offended? Tough. Don’t expect a knock on the door, either. Scared yet? I know I am. Feeling reckless? Now I’m really scared – for you. Yep. We need money. Who … you know who.
It’s late, I’m tired, I want to go to bed. So I’ll stay a bit longer. Destroying your body for a cause, issue or Craft is perhaps the most noble thing one can do. The idea is to rise from the ashes bigger, meaner, faster, stronger and more compassionate than any body on the planet. Go ahead, lie to yourself a little. You’ll have to, cause you’ll think you’re gonna die. Curse me later. If you can. If you’re right, I’ll admit it on the spot. Why do I talk about myself all the time? Becuz you’re late. Don’t do it again. And I want to help you be a better person. I’ll never admit to it though.
For that matter, I’m late. You’re late. We’re all late here. the Killers have an insurmountable lead and resources. We are about to over take them. Having fun yet? It gets worse. We’re out of time – almost. I *love* this shit. I’m gonna die! I’m so happy, I could bop McCain on the bean. Hey – getting arrested is another strategy! “what seems to be the trouble, ossifer?”
You’re gonna love jail.
Ever mess with a deep state gov ploy? Ha ha ha ha ha !
They are the meanest, filthiest, most detestable, low down rotten skunk snake devil demon sumbitches you never want to meet. So let’s get right up in their faces.
I love their dirty tricks. I steal ’em. I have no shame. why reinvent the wheel when there’s an MRAP parked right there? Those electronic gadgets are cool too. You can’t use your phone. it’ll erase your viddie of their abuse. If that don’t happen, they’ll take it by force. I got a guy – cop watcher. he’s got the apps that take the vid and hide it in the ether. He’s very good, professional to a tee, and quite unlike my raggedy ass. But, I have a grudge. I don’t like to be lied to. in order to kill people for profit in phony wars. Actually, it’s not about profit so much as distraction from the eventual Sovereign Debt Collapse. Lemme see … we’re in the US so we go last. Aren’t we lucky. Prepare. No I don’t mean join a militia. See to yourself and your families safety. That’s why we’re here. One thing at a time.
Don’t talk. Do.
chickent,
That is a really good point! Many people can’t pay their fuel bills or are having a difficult time doing so. Localized, alternative energy would probably be something people from many political persuasions would agree to work on.
Michael,
Thanks for writing this idea. It’s a good one. I’m glad you pointed out we need to give up going after a “leader’s” election. People get diverted from the task we need to solve by thinking, if so and so is elected, everything will be o.k. Further, what we are facing cannot be solved by a leader. It will take the work of the many to have even a chance at this point.
Chickentractor, I couldn’t agree more: passion is what counts. This is why many good, non-racists white people voted for Trump. They didn’t agree that Mexicans were mostly rapists or that you should grab women by their pussies, but neither of thses affected their day-to-day lives. This is also why the Obamacare repeal effort went down in flames.
Nancy, I’m having trouble interpreting what part of your comments are you own and what (if any) part you are assign to Sanders’s unspoken thinking. To be clear, this is part of his official press statement on the US missile strikes.:
“’I’m deeply concerned that these strikes could lead to the United States once again being dragged back into the quagmire of long-term military engagement in the Middle East. If the last 15 years have shown anything, it’s that such engagements are disastrous for American security, for the American economy and for the American people.”
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-us-missile-strike-in-syria
Michael, I think this article has many good points. The UN Security Council meetings (see my comments yesterday) reinforce your point that the US *wants* war. Also, note how Sean Spicer was testing the waters yesterday by adding “barrel bombs” to the chemical weapons red line – just looking for an excuse to escalte things. Fortuantely, this did not go unnoticed and he received pushback.
However, while war is not usually a personal issue for Coastal Liberals (elites or non-elites), it IS for Middle-America Trump supporters, because it is mostly their kids that do the actual figting and dying. Probably the reason why Sen. Kaine – whose son is an acive-duty Marine – is one of the few politicians that said that even te missile strikes should have had Congressional approval. I think the best chance is if the parents of KIAs write to theri Congressmen.
bull shit! you have to be stupid to buy into the totally fake “attack on trump”. the zionist jews control the media, congress, entertainment, and the idea that their media was anti trump, Mr isreal is asinine. it was a song and dance, evidently you thought the same of obama as he lied and went neocon once in office too. the reason the establishment faked an attack upon trump was to make trump look like an outsiders, a rich new york city zionist, an “outsider”, now thats a real trick, but i guess the one thing America has in spades is naivete.
“Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”
– George Carlin
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“The Hegelian Dialectic
The Anti-Human Principle
U.S. Pavlovian Conditioning
Revolutionaries in government have created economic chaos, shortages in food and fuel, confiscatory taxation, a crisis in education, the threat of war, and other diversions to condition Americans for the “New World Order.”
The technique is as old as politics itself. It is the Hegelian Dialectic of bringing about change in a three-step process: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.
The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.
Applying the Hegelian Dialectic, and irresistible financial influence, concealed change agents seek to dismantle social and political structures by which free men govern themselves.
Their objective is to emasculate sovereign states, merge nations under universal government, centralize economic powers, and control the world’s people and resources.”
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Until American citizens STOP identifying themselves as Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives, the purveyors of the Dialectic will continue to win.
It is that simple.
Unfortunately (and not by accident) the average American has a vastly overblown sense of self-importance. The result of which lends itself perfectly to causing people to identify themselves with one side or another because by doing so it makes them feel even more important and therefore more meaningful in some way.
All the while the people employing the Dialectic could really care less about your personal political views, other than how those views allow them to keep using the Dialectic over and over again to maintain power and control.
So if you want to continue to be manipulated like a dime store sock puppet for the rest of your life, keep it up.
I don’t think the ‘power elites’ source of power is fossil fuel’… It is their control of the money supply … which gives them the power to buy all the essentials, including the energy supply and the government.
There is an option… debt free money (google American Monetary Institute; or Wiki ‘The Chicago Plan’, etc… we desperately need widespread education on how money is created). Even in an economic collapse, ‘WE’ can create our own form of money…it’s been done, it works, etc. WE just don’t know the facts…. even here.
Re: Bernie… I quoted his remarks to affirm that we have at least one political leader who can think outside the ‘divide and conquer’ psyops box. If we don’t ‘reach across the aisle’, beyond our pet projects, to see our commonalities…. we are truly monkeys dancing on the end of their leash. (And regarding pet issues, a lot of SJW’s must be working for TPTB … the images they create make a mockery of ‘justice’.)
And.. re: ‘everyone’ is just a bitching couch spud … I’m 70, and have been in a lot of marches, collected initiative signatures, phone banked, etc., etc…. with a LOT of other folks who cared enough to get UP. These kind of blanket judgments feed right into the efforts of the TPTB to discourage us. Despair is not an option…life is too short.
So… what’s your meme? sign? slogan? soundbyte? Anyone got ANY creativity ???
You have hit the nail on the head that it is the banker’s debt money-credit ponzi scheme that is in control of anything that produces wealth that can be sold or bought. Canada had a system from 1937 -1974 where there was a ratio of approximately 35-65 % debt free to debt money in the economy and is how the country was built despite a very small population and vast distances. The Bank of Canada is owned by the Canadian people with the shares held in trust for them by the Finance Minister, wherein lies the problem as our government like all the rest has been bought and the Canadian people sold down the river of perpetual debt all owed to the banking class.
Money is just a means of transferring and perhaps storing wealth. The US became the imperial power it is because by the 1950s it was extracting more oil than the rest of the world combined. It has maintained that position only because oil has been traded in $US since the Saudis agreed it would be. Without backing by oil the petrodollar is just paper. Anybody who threatens that risks death. Gaddafi was attempting to use his pile of gold from oil sales to create an independent pan African bank. China and Russia are working on trading oil outside the petrodollar, and are stashing lots of gold, that is why they are considered pariahs by the US and its subordinate states. Money is not a resource, oil is. Money can be printed, oil cannot.
The wealth of the US has been fading since the 1970s because that is when you hit your peak of oil production. Empire has been maintained because you have held onto control of much of the world’s oil supply. That is changing and no amount of money printing will fix it.
Paper money has been around since at least the Sung dynasty, almost a thousand years. No currency has lasted even half that. Every form of energy from horse traction to oil remains valuable.
A sign? how about “If Alaska can do it, why can’t the rest of us?” this is to trigger interest in how, in the 70’s, Alaskan ppl decided the North Slope oil was owned by the people of the state…. who were owed a dividend on the development of THEIR resource.
The best way is to dig up dirts on our senates and congressman and black mail them to do our biding.
this is going to get popular https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/64z2rs/to_resist_unlawful_search_of_your_electronic/
Everyone trying to pick a popular issue to gain unity, start of movement, activism and modern efforts to what end? The solution has been sitting in the LAW the whole time and the only reason we are in this predicament is because no one knows what law actually is, how it is structured, where it comes from or exactly how its properly upheld – in short everyone we know is totally lawless. The law has an EXACT proper structure and correct interpretation but almost no one knows or operates according to the EXACT proper execution of lawful duty or lawful peace.
Many people think they are awake but are actually totally lost in their lawlessness and THE LAW is what they don’t know they don’t know.
If the People were law abiding then the following would be realties that would have already happened: every war criminal who conspired to forment and execute the Iraq war and Afghanistan would have been indicted by a federal grand jury put on trial, convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death and executed for their criminal acts, every member of congress, every administrative tax court judge, every federal prosecutor and everyone in the irs, federal reserve, the defense policy board of 2001, the office of special plans under Bush, the top State Department war criminal conspirators and many more amongst DHS, TSA, BLM, FBI, CIA, NSA, CBP, BAR and others in media as well would all have already met the same fate for their never ending economic, political, social, drug, social, informational, psychological, ecological and military warfare. But only if the People are lawful and uphold the law would such a remedy he realized. That’s right people, they are continually committing capital crimes and under a law abiding society they would be convicted and put to death as the lawful remedy to their on-going injury and breach of duty.
The zombie America is one similar to a hypnotized German Population under the Reich. Almost everyone is guilty of misprision of felonies for NOT forming well regulated militias to remove the war criminals monopoly on unobstructed access to the Grand Juries by ANYONE – misprision because they know it war crimes and they do nothing. In Germany the final verdict was that EVERYONE in Germany was a criminal for their negligence and the country was leveled. Shall we wait for such divine justice to be served upon us as well or will we uphold the law and bring the war criminal’s to proper justice? This the final question.
If the Grand Juries were accessed and do not investigate and return indictments then they are part of the criminal conspiracy too and we need to have special Grand Juries investigate the selection process for Grand Jury members because it is so obviously war crimes, theft, extortion, fraud, genocide-all out TYRANNY that has manifested into the war criminals levying all out war on the People. All elements that make up those crimes are present and displayed by them on a daily basis if all elements of a crime have been performed by the perpetrator then that person guilty of that crime, period. There are no exceptions here or immunity from Justice being served upon a person accused of a crime.
Justice is the answer because the only purpose of Justice is to remedy injury but to achieve Justice the People must be lawful, meaning they know and uphold the law constantly – we each must be sovereign and exercise that sovereignty as the proper lawful form of equality -equal justice under the law. You want to see remedy to injury? We need to build an army, go to the federal Grand Juries with the evidence in hand of every single war crime, have the army arrest any US attorney or other person who obstructs our access to justice, have the Grand Jury indict the judges and prosecutors first to REMOVE their misprision, fraud, perjury, jury tampering and obstruction of justice and then indict every single one of the war criminals, put them on trial, convict them to death and execute the war criminals.
This is THE proper lawful path to remedy from their on-going injury of never ending warfare.
You can protest, call your ‘representative’, bitch all you want, the criminals don’t care because those are all avenues they appreciate as a hamster wheel for your never ending path to them always in control. Put them on trial, convict them and execute them and it no longers matters what they say, justice will have been served and with that remedy comes peace.
Uphold the law and the war criminals are permanently removed from society and existence. This is THE remedy.
Genaro, I agree with this:
“Until American citizens STOP identifying themselves as Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives, the purveyors of the Dialectic will continue to win.”
and this:
“the average American has a vastly overblown sense of self-importance. ”
However, “causing people to identify themselves with one side or another” is not uniquely American by any measure; it is a very well-known part of basic human nature, going back to pre-Homosapien eras. It was (and still is, to some extent) part of survival in a hostile world. It would be difficult to find any culture in the world where this banding doesn’t dominate.
The big problem is that while it works for small groups where everyone knows each other and can police each other, it breaks down for larger groups and strong leaders (not necessarily *good* leaders) take advantage to drive wedges to enhance their own power and influence.
Btn, you are right. Tribalism is a natural tendency that goes back thousands of years.
Hegel was very aware of that tendency when he created his dialectic. Nonetheless, knowledge is power. So my attitude is that the more people there are who understand and are aware of the dialectic, the better it will be for The People in the long run.
As long as so-called conservatives continue to live on the GOP Plantation and obediently vote GOP every election, nothing will EVER change. How can you vote GOP each time and not ever learn that nothing changes? Go find a good conservative party like the Constitution Party to support. Some party that actually wants to shut down the unconstitutional acts and agencies of our federal government. Otherwise, we are wasting our time here.
@ Bill R
To hell with political party’s, Bill.They just attract the same kind of people with the same tribal mindset as the Democrats, Republicans, Libertarian, Green, etc.
This needs to be a small i independent movement for The People, not a political Party. Otherwise the PARTY will fall right back into the thesis, anti-thesis, solution, trap.
I do not know if you have read my reply on another article, but I am with you on this and I have been his one of his biggest defenders here. We need to be like the deep state in the sense that we need to unite against them on this issue and not be divided on minor. When compared to world destruction, everything seems minor.
I know you have Kevin, and I agree with your call for unity and I am with you.
good luck
The Syria situation has been resolved by the Israeli gas pipeline to Europe.
http://classicalvalues.com/2017/04/a-new-deal/