Posted on 06/11/2009 8:13:48 AM PDT by Starman417
Life Magazine fabricated a mythical monarchy in the early sixties by applying polish and airbrushing to John and Jacky Kennedy, elevating them into a Camelot. America couldn’t get enough of the magazine, and rewarded its uncommon “access,” to the JFK White House with financial success. The corporate strategy very successfully built an unprecedented, but mutually beneficial, relationship.
This was not the first popularization of an American President, but it was the most successful anointing of an almost-monarch. We all admire true heroes, however, there are many who seem to require more than honored heroes. To satisfy that craving, we create stars and surround them with irrational adoration bordering on veneration. The mainstream media (MSM) plays a role in the process, and has much to gain from it just as Life Magazine solidified itself, and its profits with the creation of the American version Camelot.
Life Magazine presented a glossy veneer of a young President and his family, because it could, and because it would not have been as profitable to have done otherwise. The public reaction was extremely receptive, and the oversized periodical continued to publish its principal stars’ immaculate images.
America has long succumbed to Hollywood’s very adept star manufacturing machine. Studios and production companies very effectively and profitably practiced the art of star production, as well as veneer creation, for a century. Whether the individuals in question believe their own press, matters little to the studios and the machinery that creates them. They are ephemeral creations that have no truth other than that of existence in the percepts of adoring devotees. They scatter nonsense, and often lies, and all utterances are gratefully accepted. Stars step into the light, feigning timidity, as they engage in absorbing gushing adulation. The star making process has been perfected and whether young, old, intelligent, rich, poor, educated or not, it seems that everyone is susceptible to its affects.
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America is wh*ring for a god-emperor, just like the old Roman empire did.
Monarch? You mean dictator!
But certain people who consider themselves to be the political elite wish to be considered part of a new Aristocracy. Therefore, they desire that the country have a monarch so that they may curry favor and estates from their lord and master.
That's what we're seeing.
“People get the government they deserve” Joseph D’Maistre
Gang, we HAD a shot at cleaning these places out this last election and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!
While I, like many of you, am saddened that McCain and Palin couldn’t keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, let’s try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: ACORN elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.
For years, I’ve been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) “PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.
People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER ARE IN CONGRESS and current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF they wanted to. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)
But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Don’t get me started on the ENERGY thing!)
1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?
2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.
3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right.
And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS and doing it as many times as necessary to get it done.
A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.
The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more incined to harken to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.
And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to GRADEGOV at
for your guy’s voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.
As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.
I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.
One final thought: With the exception of the guys who pass muster at GRADEGOV, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!
Standing by for a record breaking flaming by the fanatics.
But there is, in the heart of man, the desire to worship blindly, to follow without question, and to be entertained without end. Be it a monarch, a celebrity, or a trend, most people naturally surrender themselves to glamour as a reflex. While people are also fickle, and may run from hot to cold on a given idol, some are amazingly enduring. Like, as the author points out, the Camelot mystique from the early sixties.
We can only hope that we're not stuck with the razzle dazzle of Obama worship fifty years later.
Who doesn’t want someone to make the hard decisions for us? Who doesn’t want to be responsible for all the bad decisions?
VICTIM MENTALITY that’s who.
“It take a village” NO, it takes a married 2-gender couple.
“We’re all guilty” NO, the person or persons who committed the crime is/are guilty.
Collective Guilt is one of the Left’s most useful propaganda tactics.
Does Anyone Actually READ The US Constitution any longer? It’s about being responsible for yourself and HELPING your neighbor, not being responsible for him or making his decisions.
LIFE, LIBERTY, PROPERTY (changed to pursuit of happiness because slaves were thought of as property).
Does America Yearn For A Monarch?
Americans are yearning for leaders. Something we DO NOT HAVE in the White House or Congress at this time.
READ the 17th Amendment and READ Article 1, Section 3 of the US Constitution.
We MUST get the 17th Amendment repealed. We MUST. Senators originally were appointed by their State Legislatures. They owed their allegiance to their States. But with the 17th Amendment, they can be owned by anyone with a lot of money, because they need a lot of money to be re-elected. They’re not graded on their performance for their State in Congress. They’re graded by how much tax money they’ve given to the people who have given them money to get reelected.
We MUST get the 17th Amendment repealed. It’s just one gift of the Progressives in 1913 that never should have been approved.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
If I wanted a queen at the top, I would just make Barney Frank Dear leader.
Only if he is the most conservative of all freepers...
No, we do not want a monarch, but many want a Big Daddy to take care of them.
you know, if we could retire Barry and Michelle to Monarch status (give them a palace, limosines, generous allowance, let them hobnob with the beautiful people, etc.) but no real power, I’d take that deal.
No, the LEFT is yearning for a monarch. They have been since FDR.
There is a very large leadership vacuum. This can be a very good opportunity for the right person, or it can be a very dangerous time for us all.
We’ve had caesars since Clinton.
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