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September 22, 2015
The true masters of this country will retain their grip. They never stood for election and never will.
The dance will go on. The Ruling Class Party – Orwell called it only “The Party,” and he was wiser than we knew at the time – will continue to stage WWF-style “cage matches” of Democrat against Republican.The media will continue to ballyhoo each such contest as “the most important election in our lifetimes,” regardless of which “side” the commentator favors. Millions will flock to the polls, firmly convinced that “every vote matters.” Election night parties will be held across the Land of the Formerly Free, with families, friends, and political clubs gathered closely around the Idiot Box as county after county submits returns. But it’s all a sham. The true masters of this country will retain their grip. They never stood for election and never will. That’s not how they acquired their power, and it’s not how they keep it. They keep it by a system of quasi-hereditary oligarchy, mated to an unelected bureaucracy that answers solely to them. America rejected the Kennedys because theirs was too plainly a family dynasty that deemed itself above all law. It might reject the Bushes for similar reasons. But that’s what happens when a family parades its pretensions to royalty right out in front of God and everybody. The masters of this country are smarter than that. -- Liberty's Torch: Sitting Back Is Not Giving Up
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 22, 2015 4:25 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep the conflicts under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth. — W. S. Burroughs
That's what we are doing when we follow the election. On TV no less, with lotsa karfuti chips and beer so the final hour or so will be emotionally charged.
Trump is the only wild card. All the rest, do you think it will make any difference who wins?
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily.
The real winner will be chosen with boots and steel.
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at September 22, 2015 10:36 AM
Doesn't matter if it's the left boot or the right boot that kicks you in the face - the damage is the same, but because they are offered a *choice* people line up in droves to exercise their assumed right like automatrons.
Posted by: ghostsniper at September 22, 2015 10:36 AM
"The true masters of this country will retain their grip. They never stood for election and never will."
This is why we have the runaway immigration problem: It is to nullify the votes of those who think as individuals an do not vote as a block. Why vote in blocks? Buy off the leaders of the blocks and ignore the 'little people'.
Much easier and very 3rd world.
(There should NOT be a 'Black Vote' or a 'Latino vote' or a 'Womens vote' or any of the other 'blocks' that the leftist Demagogues have helped to foster).
Posted by: John Condon at September 22, 2015 11:16 AM
Pretty much what I said in, "Why November 2016 Does Not Matter:
"US Senator Mike Lee is completely correct, but his FB site merely illustrates why the name and party of whoever take the inaugural oath in January 2017 will not change the decline of the country and can but barely change the direction. The executive and Congressional career bureaucrats are not just running the government. They are the government. They are not promoted for maintaining the status quo or rolling back their functions.
"As Steven den Beste wrote years ago, "The job of a bureaucrat is to regulate, and left to themselves they will regulate everything they can." The only way to get less regulation is to fire massive numbers of regulators."
Which will never happen.
Posted by: plus.google.com/104841162830331053592 at September 22, 2015 2:22 PM
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government,
owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Posted by: Anon43 at September 22, 2015 5:18 PM
When buying and selling are regulated by the congress,
the first things to be bought are the congressmen.
--P.J. O'Rourke
Posted by: Anon43 at September 22, 2015 5:24 PM
The two parties are merely the right and left wings of the same vulture
Posted by: bilejones at September 23, 2015 3:02 PM