Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Trump’s “sell-out,” as it is called, coming on top of Obama’s eight-year “sell-out,” is instructive. We have now had a Democratic president who sold out the people who elected him and a Republican president who has done the same thing. This is a very interesting point, the meaning of which most people miss.
But not Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. At the Valdai discussion club, Putin summed up Western democracy, which I paraphrase as follows:
In the West, voters cannot change policies through elections, because the ruling elites control whoever is elected. Elections give the appearance of democracy, but voting does not change the policies that favor war and the elites. Therefore, the will of the people is impotent.
People are experiencing that they and their votes have no influence on the conduct of affairs of the country. This makes them afraid, frusrated, and angry, a combination of emotions that is dangerous to the ruling elite, who in response organize the powers of the state against the people, while urging them with propaganda to support more wars.
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Obama promised to get out of Afghanistan or Iraq or perhaps it was both. He promised to reverse the police state created by the George W. Bush regime. He promised to focus American resources on American domestic problems, such as health care.
But what did he do? He expanded the wars and launched new ones, destroyed Libya and attempted to destroy Syria, but was stopped by British non-participation and Russian objection. Obama overthrew democratic governments in Honduras and Ukraine. He expanded the police state. He began the demonization of Russia and Putin. He betrayed the American people again by allowing the private insurance industry to write his health care plan known as Obamacare. The private interests wrote a plan that diverts public monies from health care to their profits.
All of this is forgotten when the ruling elites and the presstitutes that serve only them refocused the demonization on Trump. Suddenly, it was the president-elect of the United States who was the main danger to the US and the American people. Trump was a Russian agent. He had conspired with Putin to steal the US election from Hillary Clinton and make the White House a partner of Putin’s alleged reconsruction of the Soviet Empire.
The nonsense was hot and furious, and it was effective. Trump succumbed to pressure and sacrificed his National Secuity Advisior, who was supportive of Trump’s promise to normalize relations with Russia. Trump replaced him with a Russophobic idiot who apparantly cannot wait to see mushroom clouds over cities all over the Western world.
Why did two presidents in succession completely sell out the people who voted for them?
The answer is that presidents are not as powerful as the interest groups who make the decisions.
Trump was going to get us out of Syria, so he committed an unambigious war crime by gratuitously attacking Syria with Tomahawk missiles.
Trump was going to normalize relations with Russia, so his Secretary of State announces that US economic sanctions will stay on Russia until Russia hands over to Ukraine the Russian Crimean naval base on the Black Sea.
It is impossible to normalize relations when the cost to the other party of the normalization is national suicide.
Despite Trump’s complete surrender to the powers that be, today (May 2) on NPR I heard raw propaganda dressed up as “expert opinion” that Trump is biased against the media, when what all of us have seen is massive media bias against Trump, including the program to which I was listening.
For example, NPR had accumulated “experts” who said that Trump had slandered Obama by accusing him of intercepting his comunications. NPR said nothing about the Obama regime’s charge that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
If anything was slander, this was, but all the talk was about how Obama could sue Trump.
But, of course, both are public figures, and neither can sue the other.
I wonder why NPR’s “expert” didn’t get around to this point.
Why is the ruling oligarchy still using its presstitutes to campaign against a president who has surrendered to them?
Perhaps the answer is that the real powers that be are going to make an example out of Trump so that never again does a person running for elected office make a populist appeal to the electorate.
Dead mob walking. Democracy’s the oxbow incident.
Great film. Thanks for posting the clip.
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The men hung are the Conservatives, the Colonel is TPTB and everybody else are the Zombie brained Useful Idiots.
Speaking only for myself, I feel any comment I could make as regards this article this article would be superfluous. I know where we are and I know how we got here. Instead I’ll be repetitious and say you don’t have enough ammo.
Except…no matter how much you have, they have more. Contra David & Goliath, he with the most ammo•rtization at the start will still have plenty more to go long after your mags are empty. Assuming you even make it to empty.
I gave you a thumbs up. You’re right. And I doubt I’ll make it to empty. But I’m reminded of an exchange I read about a number of years ago involving the sentence handed down to a felon in (if memory serves) Kentucky.
Defendant: I can’t do that kinda time your honor!
Judge: Well then, do what you can son.
Can’t disagree with you. You can’t always get what you want…But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need….The Stones, “Let It Bleed”
Bonus point q: who’s the coffin actor?
Then I’ll die trying! And I have ample ammo and mags. Hit and run. Hit and run. Hit and run.
Paul, have you forgotten your old boss Reagan? He did a little selling out himself, didn’t he? His successor, Wobbly Bush, sold out bigtime on taxes, “Read my lips”. Then, there was Bubba Clinton who sold out daily at a discount for quantity.
W, the retard, never figured out how to sell out so his boss, Dickhead Cheney closed the deal for him. Obumbahclot was kind of a pre-release sale deal. He went for the low, low discount price of a few hundred rounds of golf and some vacations for his spouse and kids.
When Trump sells out, the final sale price will be announced in front page ads in the NYT. The negotiations are expected to last until 2019. It’s a presidential tradition, you know. Don’t act shocked or try to fuck with the program.
Powerful article. And, some scary shit right there.
Americans are being gaslit.
Especially white Americans.
Greetings,
I think we’ve reached that stage that CIA Director Casey said would one day happen – “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
It is difficult to find the truth at the moment and trying to figure out what is happening day by day with this administration is next to impossible. All I can do is quietly prepare for whatever is coming and be thankful the electricity was on and the internet worked when I got up this morning.
Consider that when this country started, we had 1 House member for every 30,000 citizens (and blacks, women, and those under 21 could not even vote). Today it is 1 for every 750,000+ (nearly a million in states like Montana). In 1911 (along with so many other horrible Progressive Era votes), the House voted to FIX the number of House members at 435. The population alone has more than tripled since then, yet no more representation. When one state gains more population, another loses representation. Going back to our original ratio, the House today should be over 11,000 members. If that seems unwieldy, then how about a 50 sovereign nationstates instead? Bottom line is that 435 people (or 535 if you want to include our worthless US Senators that are now selected by direct vote rather than the states) should NEVER have that kind of power over 327,000,000 people. Government is NEVER the answer, but if we are going to start looking at how our government got so out of control and people ended up with such unaccountable “representatives,” we MUST look at the crime of the republicans and democrats in denying us representation that is maintained as our population grows. And by the way, EVERY change in Apportionment was accomplished WITHOUT ANY consideration of a Constitutional Amendment, despite Apportionment being clearly defined in the Constitution.
I have been thinking about it. If it ever got to a revolution, the way to go is the following.
If you look past all the layers of media and government, there are probably several hundred people or so, maybe more, maybe less, that control the key power points in government. Identify them and eliminate them, before they eliminate us.
If you can find them. I’m sure they’ll become real scarce until it’s over.
to I Forget:
Kevin Costner