Via Hype And Fail
VERBATIM
The federal government is, in practice, a one-party state controlled
by an oligarchy, which is a relatively small group, composed of
financiers, politicians and journalists.
The oligarchy is roughly divided into two types of individuals:
ideologues and pragmatists.
Ideologues are adherents to uncompromising
and dogmatic policies and are determined and unyielding in achieving
their goals. Pragmatists have no solid core principles and will adjust
their political positions for the purpose of remaining accepted members
of the oligarchy. The ideologues always drive the political agenda,
which is only moderated or delayed when met by sufficient resistance.
Think of Washington, D.C. as a television drama. The financiers are
the producers, the politicians are the actors and the journalists are
the promoters.
The financiers or producers analyze the marketplace, determine how
they can benefit or achieve their objectives and then they identify
government policies. In other words, they write the script.
The politicians are hired by the financiers to follow their script
and execute the policies they have identified. In return the politicians
(actors) gain celebrity status and enormous wealth from the financiers,
but also by milking their fans (citizens) through marketing spin-offs
(taxes).
The journalists (promoters) make their living by hyping the program
(The Obama Show) for the producers (financiers) through TV spots
(network news) and guest appearances by the actors (politicians) in
order to keep the fans (citizens) entertained, malleable and docile.
No one in the oligarchy wants to do anything to rock the boat and disturb such a lucrative business.
The ideological members of the oligarchy clearly have a hit with
their Obama Show, which is now fundamentally changing the entertainment
industry in Washington, D.C. Awed by this spectacle; the pragmatist
politicians (actors) are rapidly adjusting their core principles to
adhere to the current trend so as not to lose their guest spots and the
great reviews offered by the promoters (journalists). Actors
(politicians) who criticize the Obama Show are given bad reviews and
black-listed from the entertainment business (Washington, D.C.).
The arrogance of the oligarchy has only gotten more brazen since 1993, when Lewis H. Lapham (“A Wish for Kings”) wrote:
“The politicians dress up the deals in the language of law or policy,
but they’re in the business of brokering the tax revenue, and what
keeps them in office is not their talent for oratory but their skill at
redistributing the national income in a way that rewards their clients,
patrons, friends and campaign contributors.”
Driven solely by an excessive craving for personal power and profit,
while remaining unconstrained by the Constitution and the rule of law
and unaccountable to the American people or even common sense, the
conduct of the oligarchy has become pernicious to the health of the
nation.
Malfeasance is defined as the performance by a public official of an
act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law. Federal
governmental malfeasance fueled by political corruption is the single,
most important issue of our time.
The method by which the oligarchy maintains the corrupt status quo is
by fostering a culture of political dependency and by distorting the
news in an attempt to manipulate public opinion and preserve the power
of the state.
The Democrats create a culture of dependency by expanding government
control through limitations on personal liberty, entitlements and tribal
politics.
The Republican establishment produces a culture of dependency by
limiting choice, pre-selecting candidates and carefully managing primary
elections to produce a pre-determined outcome.
Republicans want to
remain the sole alternative to the Democrats and preserve their
membership in the oligarchy by cooperating to maintain the illusion of
choice and democracy. The true anti-democratic face of the Republican
Party is revealed whenever grass root movements like the Tea Party arise
or independent thinkers speak out. They are both promptly co-opted or
crushed.
There is a Cold Civil War now underway in the United States to
determine who should control the federal government. It is not a contest
between the nearly identical Democrat and Republican platforms, but a
battle between the power of an oppressive and avaricious oligarchy and
the rights and liberty of the American people.
Author Bio
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service
in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel
Sellin is the author of “
Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership“. He receives email at
lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
