The CFR didn’t keep FDR from creating a national bank to facilitate home ownership for the working stiffs. It didn’t prevent LBJ from pushing through landmark civil rights legislation, that has been effectively undermined by a captive SCOTUS. The CFR had no bearing on JFK’s decision to ignore his trigger-happy generals who advised bombing Cuba when the built-to-fail coup pointed toward escalation. Allen Dulles, who was a member of the CFR, is believed by Oliver Stone, based on a lot of recently released findings, to be the architect of the failed coup and the loudest voice promoting an overwhelming attack in response. Not coincidentally, Dulles sat on the Warren Commission. All of this is to say that the CFR has neither the legal nor statutory weight to control the behavior or policies or leanings of elected officials or the institutions they occupy. Before Clinton, the DP was not a tool of corporate greed. It promoted labor union membership and courted popular vote to advance small “D” democratic representation. It faced an existential problem in that it’s lack of corporate monies suggested that the WH was going to be the permanent home of corporate-boot-kicking Republicans. If you see Jimmy Carter’s presidency as a Watergate-triggered anomaly, no Democrat after LBJ gained the WH before slick Willie pulled the DP into the corporate sphere.
Anyone that actually think the DC crime syndicate is any different on either side of the party system has chosen the path of a convenient useful idiot.
Over the last 35 years, I concur. My point is that there was a moment when representing voters’ concerns was a serious, ethical and possible course of action. There may have been an inevitability regarding money’s corrupting power, but there COULD have been a moment when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution could not survive the onslaught of a politicized corporate agenda. If that road had been taken, Bernie Sanders would be a moderate, and Donald Trump would be seen for the ass-hat he has always been.
I also commonly claim '92 as a major turning point, only to be schooled on the long road that came before. But these "points" are subjective and relative.
There is also a case to be made for 1949, Dulles, and the birth of the CIA as a turning point.
So ideals fall in some order or randomly.
But the systemic capture of US democracy by plain private interests is certainly a big event, and I still say we have it right in 1992.
"The CFR didn’t keep FDR from creating a national bank to facilitate home ownership for the working stiffs. It didn’t prevent LBJ from pushing through landmark civil rights legislation, that has been effectively undermined by a captive SCOTUS. The CFR had no bearing on JFK’s decision to ignore his trigger-happy generals who advised bombing Cuba when the built-to-fail coup pointed toward escalation. Allen Dulles, who was a member of the CFR, is believed by Oliver Stone, based on a lot of recently released findings, to be the architect of the failed coup and the loudest voice promoting an overwhelming attack in response. Not coincidentally, Dulles sat on the Warren Commission."
I never said any of that. The CFR does not micro manage world events, or even domestic US events. It isn't an alphabet agency. It's, as I'm sure you know, a think tank. There is no denying the CFR's nick name: The REAL State Department.
The CFR is responsible for making plans that have kept "developing countries" exactly at that stage. Developing. They are responsible for the thought in that exists in the heads of most of the population in the western hemisphere, namely that "third world countries are unable to manage themselves. They need us to see to it that they don't slip back into the stone age."
This is how the powers that shouldn't be manipulate us so we won't feel bad about them stealing the natural resources in the so-called Global South.
First the Banksters created the not-so-federal Federal reserve System in 1913. This way they had control of the legislative branch. Remember Mayer Amschel Rothschild's infamous quote: "Give me control of the issuance of a country's currency, and I care not who makes its laws."
Then they created the CFR 8 years later to get control of public opinion (as stated above). They have had full control of every election since then.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in on 11/23/1963. That's when they hijacked the executive branch, and thereby the judicial branch since POTUS appoints judges to SCOTUS.
I recommend a book called "Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigly. He was given access to all the CFR's archives. The management at the CFR understood too late what a mistake that was. Now the CFR's secrets are all hidden in plain sight in said book.
The CFR didn’t keep FDR from creating a national bank to facilitate home ownership for the working stiffs. It didn’t prevent LBJ from pushing through landmark civil rights legislation, that has been effectively undermined by a captive SCOTUS. The CFR had no bearing on JFK’s decision to ignore his trigger-happy generals who advised bombing Cuba when the built-to-fail coup pointed toward escalation. Allen Dulles, who was a member of the CFR, is believed by Oliver Stone, based on a lot of recently released findings, to be the architect of the failed coup and the loudest voice promoting an overwhelming attack in response. Not coincidentally, Dulles sat on the Warren Commission. All of this is to say that the CFR has neither the legal nor statutory weight to control the behavior or policies or leanings of elected officials or the institutions they occupy. Before Clinton, the DP was not a tool of corporate greed. It promoted labor union membership and courted popular vote to advance small “D” democratic representation. It faced an existential problem in that it’s lack of corporate monies suggested that the WH was going to be the permanent home of corporate-boot-kicking Republicans. If you see Jimmy Carter’s presidency as a Watergate-triggered anomaly, no Democrat after LBJ gained the WH before slick Willie pulled the DP into the corporate sphere.
Anyone that actually think the DC crime syndicate is any different on either side of the party system has chosen the path of a convenient useful idiot.
Over the last 35 years, I concur. My point is that there was a moment when representing voters’ concerns was a serious, ethical and possible course of action. There may have been an inevitability regarding money’s corrupting power, but there COULD have been a moment when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution could not survive the onslaught of a politicized corporate agenda. If that road had been taken, Bernie Sanders would be a moderate, and Donald Trump would be seen for the ass-hat he has always been.
I also commonly claim '92 as a major turning point, only to be schooled on the long road that came before. But these "points" are subjective and relative.
There is also a case to be made for 1949, Dulles, and the birth of the CIA as a turning point.
So ideals fall in some order or randomly.
But the systemic capture of US democracy by plain private interests is certainly a big event, and I still say we have it right in 1992.
1992 and then 2008 proved invaluable for neutering Team D.
"The CFR didn’t keep FDR from creating a national bank to facilitate home ownership for the working stiffs. It didn’t prevent LBJ from pushing through landmark civil rights legislation, that has been effectively undermined by a captive SCOTUS. The CFR had no bearing on JFK’s decision to ignore his trigger-happy generals who advised bombing Cuba when the built-to-fail coup pointed toward escalation. Allen Dulles, who was a member of the CFR, is believed by Oliver Stone, based on a lot of recently released findings, to be the architect of the failed coup and the loudest voice promoting an overwhelming attack in response. Not coincidentally, Dulles sat on the Warren Commission."
I never said any of that. The CFR does not micro manage world events, or even domestic US events. It isn't an alphabet agency. It's, as I'm sure you know, a think tank. There is no denying the CFR's nick name: The REAL State Department.
The CFR is responsible for making plans that have kept "developing countries" exactly at that stage. Developing. They are responsible for the thought in that exists in the heads of most of the population in the western hemisphere, namely that "third world countries are unable to manage themselves. They need us to see to it that they don't slip back into the stone age."
This is how the powers that shouldn't be manipulate us so we won't feel bad about them stealing the natural resources in the so-called Global South.
First the Banksters created the not-so-federal Federal reserve System in 1913. This way they had control of the legislative branch. Remember Mayer Amschel Rothschild's infamous quote: "Give me control of the issuance of a country's currency, and I care not who makes its laws."
Then they created the CFR 8 years later to get control of public opinion (as stated above). They have had full control of every election since then.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in on 11/23/1963. That's when they hijacked the executive branch, and thereby the judicial branch since POTUS appoints judges to SCOTUS.
I recommend a book called "Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigly. He was given access to all the CFR's archives. The management at the CFR understood too late what a mistake that was. Now the CFR's secrets are all hidden in plain sight in said book.