Every elected president has to subscribe to the goals of the MIC that is to extend US power over all the world and to quash any nation who dares challenge that. As Americans typically focus only on personalities and not the system (which they are taught never to challenge) they tend to focus on the person and not the Deep State that lords over these so-called Leaders of the Free World. We have been sold a bill of goods that could only be charitably described as fake. Our blind worship of the military combined with our unquestioned faith in its mission of bringing so-called Democracy (read Fascist Neoliberalism) to the world has given the Establishment carte blanche to intervene militarily anywhere they wish. That the public in the US has never tasted real Democracy and is oblivious to being controlled by a small cabal of oligarchs and just goes along with their devious schemes is the biggest tragedy.
David , Right from the start it was government of the oligarchs; by the oligarchs; for the oligarchs. A constitution written by white men of property for white men of property, and that property included slaves. It was never government of the people, by the people, for the people.
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. " - Jefferson
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.
Every elected president has to subscribe to the goals of the MIC that is to extend US power over all the world and to quash any nation who dares challenge that. As Americans typically focus only on personalities and not the system (which they are taught never to challenge) they tend to focus on the person and not the Deep State that lords over these so-called Leaders of the Free World. We have been sold a bill of goods that could only be charitably described as fake. Our blind worship of the military combined with our unquestioned faith in its mission of bringing so-called Democracy (read Fascist Neoliberalism) to the world has given the Establishment carte blanche to intervene militarily anywhere they wish. That the public in the US has never tasted real Democracy and is oblivious to being controlled by a small cabal of oligarchs and just goes along with their devious schemes is the biggest tragedy.
David , Right from the start it was government of the oligarchs; by the oligarchs; for the oligarchs. A constitution written by white men of property for white men of property, and that property included slaves. It was never government of the people, by the people, for the people.
I do think Jefferson at least genuinely hoped that over time, slavery would be abolished and we'd have far less inequality.
This is very worth reading carefully, if you've never seen it before.
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. " - Jefferson
Yes. Never. Pascal Said that if one wants to develop a concept of the infinite, 1 merely needs to meditate on the depth of humans stupidity.
100 miles an hour. Yup
"the system (which they are taught never to challenge)"
I'd say people cannot conceive of any other system.
Many USA citizens love weapons and are pretty happy with war.
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.
Agreed