Charles Sullivan: America’s Ruling Clique

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America’s Ruling Clique

By Charles Sullivan

25/03/08 "ICH"--- -Neoconservatives derive much of their political strength from the portrayal of big government as the enemy of the people: a belief that plays only too well in America. Big government is indeed the enemy of the people when it does not serve the people’s interests, or when it betrays them.

Where the neoconservatives and the chicken hawks have been spectacularly successful is in the field of perception management. The super rich—or the ruling clique—constitutes no more than 0.1 percent of the US population. Yet they control the mainstream media, every branch government, the electoral process and the country’s major financial institutions.

Thus, 99.9 percent of the people are being manipulated and cannibalized by a tiny but powerful minority. It is the interests of this powerful minority that are served by government and it is their interests that are defined as the national interest or as national security; and it is hardly benign. Robbing the poor to pay the rich causes irreparable harm to the victim.

There is a continual conflict between the super rich and the remaining 99.9 percent of the people in this nation. Not only is democracy subverted when a tiny minority rules over a large majority, the majority is diminished and betrayed, and social and economic servitude is instituted. The relationship is not only adversarial; it is fundamentally unequal and unjust. You have a situation where a large majority suffers all of the hardships and makes all of the sacrifices but the small minority reaps the reward, without incurring any risk themselves. One should never call this intolerable and immoral situation a democracy.

Through subversion, coercion, and intense perception management the ownership class always gets what it wants, and almost always at the expense of the working class. We pay the price and someone else reaps the financial reward.

Consider, for example, the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States military and who has benefited financially. The military, comprised almost entirely of working class women and men, is being used to secure Iraq’s nationalized oil fields and turning them over to private firms and foreign investors. Those firms have profited from the theft of Iraqi oil by the United States armed forces without running any risks themselves.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Vote against EVERYONE who has attended Harvard or Yale. That's a start. nt

[pocoloco]

2. The neocons spread out from the teachings of Leo Strauss

at the Univ of Chicago,

http://www.alternet.org/story/15935?page=1

[napoleon_in_rags]

4. God DAMN what a read.

Infuriating!

But unlike fellow elitists like Plato, he was less concerned with the moral character of these leaders. According to Shadia Drury, who teaches politics at the University of Calgary, Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior."

What drives me sooooo nuts about the fucking Straussians is the way 9/11 kicked off the beginning of their true rule. When men with boxcutters took over planes. Why did they take over the plane? Because they were superior to those who resisted. Where did they take the planes??? What was the total effect of their leadership?

The beginning of Straussian rule was marked by a huge flying metaphor for why Straussian philosophy is wrong, yet that very metphor caused them all to embrace it more deeply than ever before.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Yes, I've read me some Hayek, but they do not dominate govt. and op-ed pages like Harvard and Yale.

[rwheeler31]

3. Huh

[nikto]

5. Spread The News to all poor, struggling and HUNGRY Americans...

Inside EVERY rich person is a whole lot of healthy, nutritious, good-tasting MEAT.

With careful preparation, any rich person can be turned
into a protein-rich (pun-intended) repast for increasingly-needy American families.

But please, don't boil them alive---That is cruel.
Pith them 1st (to be merciful), then cut-up the carcass into steaks, chops
and chunks (for stews) to feed your family for weeks!

Eat The Rich!!

It's good for YOU, and good for them too!

And you thought The Rich were only good for ripping
you off and sending your kids to distant, profitable (for them), War$.

Let's put the Fat Cats to good use, for once!
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Apologies to Jonathan Swift,
for a great idea!