“Listening to the leading figures of the Democratic party establishment, however, you’d never know it. Cool contentment is the governing emotion in these circles. What they have in mind for 2016 is what we might call a campaign of militant complacency. They are dissociated from the mood of the nation, and they do not care…
What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation [with corporate corruption] but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.”
Thomas Frank
“Too many of America’s elites-among the super-rich, the CEOs, and many of my colleagues in academia-have abandoned a commitment to social responsibility. They chase wealth and power, the rest of society be damned.”
Jeffrey Sachs
“This elite-generated social control maintains the status quo because the status quo benefits and validates those who created and sit atop it. People rise to prominence when they parrot the orthodoxy rather than critically analyze it. Intellectual regurgitation is prized over independent thought. Real change in politics or society cannot occur under the orthodoxy because if it did, it would threaten the legitimacy of the professional class and all of the systems that helped them achieve their status.
Kristine Mattis, The Cult of the Professional Class
cf Paul Krugman, The Populism Perplex.
It could not possibly be because of anything they might have done or failed to do. And so they are caught in a credibility trap.
It is frustrating because they do not know how to extract themselves from it, admit their errors and reform the system, without undermining the very assumptions that entitle them, in their own minds at least, to rule as the highly honored insiders, the elect of professional accomplishment.
Caution on language.
History Lesson
Tsar Nicholas II: I know what will make them happy. They’re children, and they need a Tsar! They need tradition. Not this! They’re the victims of agitators. A Duma would make them bewildered and discontented. And don’t tell me about London and Berlin. God save us from the mess they’re in!
Count Witte: I see. So they talk, pray, march, plead, petition and what do they get? Cossacks, prison, flogging, police, spies, and now, after today, they will be shot.
Is this God’s will? Are these His methods? Make war on your own people? How long do you think they’re going to stand there and let you shoot them? YOU ask ME who’s responsible? YOU ask?
Tsar Nicholas II: The English have a parliament. Our British cousins gave their rights away. The Hapsburgs, and the Hoehenzollerns too. The Romanovs will not. What I was given, I will give my son.
“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
The picture at the beginning of the article definitely violates the no nipple rule. No wonder SSS abandoned us.
It reminded me of Stucky. Nice boobs on both of youse.
O.o is that a pee pee?
…”predatory capitalism,” we’ll let that sink in, and
rather than the bail-in provision? The banker boys will
go to digital currency and lie and say the bank got hacked.
The bankers will blame the Russians, and will continue their
multi-million $ bonus program. It doesn’t look good for the
common man. Maybe when the third tier down gets whacked,
we’ll see some push-back.
All we have to do to right the ship is invert it like in Pirates of Caribbean: Black Pearl.
Over the past 30 years, the USA tilted oh so gently to the left that nobody thought it odd when men started wearing aprons, kept house, cooked and ironed and wept at the sun setting on America. They began donning gay apparel while women started to rule in the house, in the office, in the statehouse, in Congress and finally ran for president.
Today we have bankers who identify as government, men who identify as women, dictators who identify as Democrats and Republicans who identify as pussies. We have journalists who identify as public relations hacks. We have minorities who identify as majorities. We have morons who identify as sages.
We have churches who identify as water boys for Muslims instead of soldiers for Christ. We have a country that now wears its name with a scarlet letter, it’s once smooth white skin turned leathery. A country that saw itself as a safe harbor for freedom lovers now spreads its droopy thighs for all comers, proclaiming; give me your haters, your spoor, your murderous Mansons yearning to go on a killing spree…
Its all part of a plan from long ago as a matter of fact.
NWO iN @ NuTSHeLL
http://www.joeplummer.com/tragedy-and-hope-101