Within the last 30 years, while we’ve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished.No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across our republic; no alien flag was raised above our lands. Not a single shot was fired by our vaunted military to halt this takeover. No, this was a quiet coup, accomplished from within, and conducted in stealth.
Source: Put Away the Fireworks… You Don’t Live in a Democracy Anymore
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Sadly, I completely understand your reasoning….
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Tammi, the conclusion is not mine but that of the journalist and novelist, John Atcheson. You can read his complete article at the source link provided.
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Yup, democracy is kaput!
Last year I thought, technically at least, we still have votes – maybe we can do something with that last shred of democracy before it’s too late. But this year, after the 2016 Primaries, I understand that our votes are literally not counted! (Widespread election fraud.)
This nut keeps getting tougher to crack.
But we are going to do it. There is a critical mass of righteous anger and outrage that is building and building… and we will take our country back.
Bernie Sanders remains my hero. I thank him for delivering a brilliant message, almost winning the Dem nomination, and for laying out an effective strategy for the political revolution.
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I agree, JoAnn: “This nut keeps getting tougher to crack.” The 2016 Primaries has demonstrated to what lengths our elitist establishment will go to remain in power. Our light – as the nation that sets the example to democracies worldwide – has gone out.
I also thank Bernie Sanders “for laying out an effective strategy for the political revolution.” He still fights on, and so should we. With more and more people awakening from “the matrix,” the greater will be our power for change.
“All are involved! All are consumed!” (Guyanese poet Martin Carter)
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A profound line of poetry, “All are involved! All are consumed!” As you say, if most of us are waking from “the matrix” there’s great power among the people. And on the other side, the corrupt elite who feel too comfortable and too safe, are getting morally weaker and tactically more stupid. Bernie caught them off-guard and nearly took the nomination. Clinton nearly got indicted, which was sloppy.
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“Clinton nearly got indicted, which was sloppy.”
~ I don’t believe she had anything to worry about. The corporate elites funding her campaign have the situation under control.
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Too true!
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While the present situation is fraught, I think we also need some historical perspective. The country was founded without suffrage for women, but with slavery for blacks. Our situation, however troubled, is not that.
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Thanks, Dr. Stein, for reminding us that we’ve come a long way since the birth of our nation. Interestingly, women rights and black civil rights are oftentimes used in strategies of misdirection and division to keep our eyes from off the ball.
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Spot on article on that reblog, Rosaliene. Thanks for posting link.
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Thanks for reading, Sha’Tara.
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Do we really need a federal government? It seems to be bankrupting itself, with no bottom line in sight. (Ron Paul had a lot to say about this, but he was marginalized and discounted by the Establishment.) If we abolished the federal government, would that negate national debt?
Since the Supreme Court–an appointed body with life terms–is the last word in US law, there’s no way anybody’s vote counts.
City dwellers pay taxes to four levels of government. There’s so much overlap of fiefdoms fighting for taxpayer money that everyone is tangled up in knots.
Also, it occurs to me that the governments compete with the private sector for the best talent. If we had no Congress, it would be harder for the lobbyists do their damage. I can’t think of one single thing the federal government has done in my lifetime that I would pay voluntarily for.
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The power elite, the architects behind our dysfunctional government, would like nothing better than dismantling our federal government. Just ask Ted Cruz. He wants to do away with five government ministries.
That is their end game: to privatize all government services. If you think the situation is bad now, consider what it would mean if the fossil fuel industry took over the Department of Energy; Big Pharma took over the Department of Health & Human Services; and the Agro-industries started running our agricultural department – to name just a few examples.
Think carefully. We must not fall into their trap.
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The fossil fuel industry, Big Ag, and Big Pharma already control the DOD/DOE/OSHA, USDA, and FDA/CDC/DEA/CMS. They write the legislation that the lobbyists present to Congress and push Congress to pass.
That’s my point, exactly. What if those agencies didn’t exist? It would make it much harder for these cartels to get an ethanol mandate passed, for instance. No individual would put up with it.
That federal agencies protect the public is illusion. They exist to protect big business from competition by small business and individuals. Every regulation creates disproportionate overhead for small vs. large.
I’m currently reading “The House of Morgan,” by Ron Chernow. JP Morgan, Sr. was a proud monopolist, forming a huge oil/banking cartel, and using the government to help it along. The Federal Reserve Act put Congress in the debt-creation business, with the public the “payer of last resort” when the defaults start coming down.
Think of all ways the oil industry is subsidized–from highways to the decline of public transportation to Mideastern wars, just to name a few. Both government and Wall Street have followed the example Morgan set, to the point where we are so bound up in debt and regulations that no one can afford to start a business now, unless they enjoy suffering.
I feel sorry for your self-employed construction company son. Ask him whether all this regulation–and its accompanying paperwork–helps him or his clients.
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Katharine, our situation is indeed very bleak. It’s an ongoing struggle.
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I think the upshot of my rants is I believe in individuals more than they believe in themselves. I hope to help wake them up to their potentials.
Your sons’ generation seems to be taking creative steps to what I call “communal capitalism” in which individuals look to each others’ strengths rather than weaknesses, so that each puzzle piece finds its appropriate place in the whole picture.
They seem to have accepted that Social Security and Medicare may not be there for them, so they are thinking in terms of long-term self-sufficiency, just as people did before these government programs existed.
I’m inspired by magazines such as “Yes!” While I am not a fan of “programs” in general, the ones that “Yes!” reports on have generally begun from individual and local initiatives, usually by people in their 20s and 30s.
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“They seem to have accepted that Social Security and Medicare may not be there for them, so they are thinking in terms of long-term self-sufficiency, just as people did before these government programs existed.”
~ This is true in my son’s case.
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Thanks for the affirmation. More power to him. Let him know that my Social Security doesn’t even cover the taxes I pay for all the regulation.
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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When “we the people” bought the lie about 9-11 and subsequently allowed themselves, and their children to be strip-searched at airports like criminals instead of doing the common-sense thing and boycotting airlines which would have brought the insanity down in a week, that’s when “we the people” decided false security guaranteeing their established conveniences was better than democracy and “we the people” brought down their own false edifice of democracy. It’s not the elites who should be blamed, it’s the people for being the sheeple that they are; for believing; for saluting; for waving flags; for supporting wars; for bowing to their Powers… and for voting for known hypocrites, liars, traitors, greedy sociopaths instead of boycotting that part of the establishment. What if only the elites turned out to vote for themselves and nobody else? What if no one wrote or talked or read about political conventions, or elections, or “the government” but instead went on with their own lives as if the penthouse dwellers didn’t even exist? Things would collapse, crumble, because it’s all smoke and mirrors, so listen people, stop stoking the fire that makes the smoke, and stop wiping the surface mirror, cause that smoke ain’t incense, and that mirror ain’t magic. And I realize that I’m just as guilty about spreading evil gossip about evil people (*lightbulb flash moment: got to work on that*), but at least I can say this: I haven’t stepped through a detection line at any airport or flown since it began, nor have I voted – or run again for office for that matter. My thoughts on a Sunday morning…
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“What if only the elites turned out to vote for themselves and nobody else?”
~ Sha’Tara, such an event would be the greatest show of the power of the people! Alas, influence buys allegiance and silences resistance. The struggle for our survival continues.
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And it will continue, and continue, for that is how we are designed to push ourselves ever forward, whether uphill or downhill. If downhill, as seems to be the trend now, then it will inevitably be followed by the long, difficult and learning uphill. It is my belief, my dream, and my vision, that the next great uphill climb will finally take mankind out of the repeating cycles of violence we’ve gotten so used to. We will stop the wheel by closing the hole through which we are constantly being pushed to run and run without purpose. In a far-away future, mankind rises above itself, and its manipulators by discovering a common purpose.
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Thanks for the re-blog, Cyril. All the best to you in these uncertain times 🙂
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Reblogged this on Fill-teer N Coffee – AMERICA'S JUDICIAL JUDGES ARE THE ANTI-CHRIST…. DANIEL 7:26.
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Thanks a bunch for the reblog 🙂
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Deep reflection. Wish this wasn’t true. I think we are at a moment were a political group is more interested in power than to represent our people.
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Thanks for dropping by. Sadly, the evidence supports the author’s conclusion. He is not alone in his assessment.
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