Posted on 12/13/2015 2:00:02 PM PST by SatinDoll
The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of. No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America.
No, it's not that they're evil.
It's worse, for evil frequently is recognized and fought back yet for decades America has not awakened to what has been going on in the political and media establishment. It was evident during the Vietnam war and has only gotten worse since.
For those who don't recall the Tet Offensive was an attack launched by the NVA and VietCong by some 70,000 troops in a coordinated series of attacks across more than 100 targets. It was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South's population.
Tet failed in its military objective, in that there were too few troops spread too thinly, and once the US and South Vietnamese figured out what was going on they literally slaughtered a huge number of the attackers. To put perspective on this at the Battle of Hue roughly 500 US Marines and South Vietnamese were killed but over 5,000 NVA and VietCong died in that one battle alone.
The story was repeated through the country; while the North managed to attack they lost virtually the entire attacking force, while not managing to take one mile of territory. They also failed to incite rebellion, which was the primary goal of the offensive in the first place.
Our media, however, reported that we lost. They were present and they lied, including Walter Cronkite. Cronkite reported in February of 1968 that the war "was a stalemate and probably unwinnable" despite knowing that the NVA had virtually been rendered soldierless in the Tet offensive as their casualty rate ran ten times the South's.
Tet was a desperation move; the North was in serious trouble. They were failing to take territory and losing men and material at an ridiculous rate compared to the Americans and South. Simply put we were the better fighting force and it wasn't a close call. In the first few days of their "offensive" they lost ten thousand men against about 750 on the other side and it just got worse from there with total losses on their side being close to 50,000, or virtually all of their remaining fighting-age force.
Cronkite didn't care about the truth. He wasn't evil, he was indifferent. He didn't give a damn about the fact that a totalitarian government was being handed a victory over millions of citizens, he simply wanted to make a further name for himself and push his political agenda.
Likewise there are those who claim that Obama and similar are evil in their view of Muslims and terrorism and of course they wish to draw a distinction between left and right sides of the aisle. Wrong. They're all indifferent.
The political goal is more power for them and their friends, mostly economic power. More ability to extract from you by force and threaten you with jail or worse if you try to resist. More power over your daily life. More power to tell you that you must bake a cake for gays (because your religious convictions don't matter) but if your religious convictions are Muslim then they do matter and must be protected because that's where one of the big reservoirs of oil and undeveloped people that can be exploited in the future reside.
They literally don't care if you get blown up or shot and it doesn't matter if they're Democrat or Republican. They don't care if you live under a freeway overpass because your health "insurance" that you are forced to buy covers so little that you have to spend $6,000 before one dime is covered, and you don't have $6,000. They don't care that a Christmas Party was shot up by a couple of Islamic Nutjobs who they could have identified if they did care and in fact they shut down an investigation on "civil rights" grounds that probably would have identified the shooters years before.
Jeb Bush has never apologized for giving Driver Licenses to the majority of the 9/11 hijackers in Florida because he doesn't care. What he cared about was making sure that illegal immigrants could roof houses during the housing bubble so his buddies could make money. That 3,000 Americans died as a plausibly direct consequence doesn't matter to him.
Marco Rubio supports allowing the illegal invaders to remain here because he doesn't care if it screws you out of a job. Like Bush, what he cares about is his corporate patrons that want cheap labor. He cites all these Fortune 500 companies that were started by immigrants but I'll bet that not one of them was an illegal invader. Ditto for his Nobel Prize winner claims. Oh sure, they've been immigrants -- the legal variety. The illegal ones are the roofers working under the table or the gang members. That there is immense criminal and economic collateral damage doesn't matter to him; he's not evil, he's indifferent.
Ben Carson refuses, despite being a surgeon, to speak against the medical monopolies. He knows exactly what's wrong in that regard both in the hospital and drug field. He's not evil, he's indifferent to the damage that his own profession has done to you over the last 30 years.
Hillary Clinton knows damn well that during the Benghazi attacks there were military resources available to interdict them. But she has famously said "what difference does it make" and, in her view, she's right. She's not evil, she's indifferent -- to the lives lost there and to any other collateral damage including the arming of what has turned into Daesh! Her goal is globalism, socialism and statism, all for her own personal aggrandizement. That you are harmed or even killed doesn't matter to her.
Folks, this is where Trump is really freaking the establishment out. See, Trump already has anything material that he wants, and if something pops up he wants and doesn't have he can simply stroke a check. He has no need to play the indifference game; there is no amount of money he can gain or lose in his lifetime that will change his lifestyle. He has his own security and doesn't need yours, he has his own money and also doesn't need yours.
The visceral reaction you're seeing in the media isn't about Trump's policies. It's fear that's motivating them.
They fear that you might come to realize that you can't demonize the "other side" for being evil; rather, they are both equally guilty almost to a single man and woman at being simply indifferent as to how much you get screwed and by whom, up to and including your death and the death of your children, so long as their desire for more power and control, either for them or their friends, is realized.
If that happens -- if you quit the left/right, republican/democrat, liberal/conservative game and instead demand the indictment of all of them for their treasonous and outrageously unlawful behavior along with their removal from office and are willing to back that up with action up to and including a general strike until they are all gone and in chains then they are all screwed.
That is what is driving the animus toward Trump.
Half the population is below average.
BTTT both of your beautiful posts!!
thanks Jane!
That thought ran through my mind the entire time I was reading the article. I agree whole-heartedly!
I read that war is when your government tells you who the enemy is.
Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.
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Excellent post.
Orwell was so far ahead of his time. He had a keen understanding of human nature and the lust for power. This passage from 1984 always struck me as what I would hear if I read the minds of the autocrat:
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
Ask Castro
Castro could have been held up as a poster child for this statement, personified.
Re #214:
No dummy. The writer needs to establish his contention or point in the first three paragraphs. Good Lord can’t you read?
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No dummy. The writer needs to establish his contention or point in the first three paragraphs. Good Lord can’t you read?”””
Yeah, I can read. Who decided that you were the expert on op-eds?
Every one else seemed to like it.
I’m guessing you’re incapable of reading more than three paragraphs before your brain shuts down.
Well said, Indeed!....We agree!
Awwww....verrry nice of you to say so :)
People who want power are not in it for anyone other than themselves.
This DOES NOT apply to Donald Trump.
He has had hatefilled crapola thrown at him.....regugitated.....and thrown again for 6 long months.
No power is worth that......
UNLESS
The person seeking the power is seeking it for a goal higher than himself
We are so fiercely supportive, protective and vocal for him because we innately know we may never have this opportunity again.....with a man such as this!
TRUMP IS OUR AVENGING WARRIOR......(actually there could be some William Wallace in him, his mother is from Scotland!!!!)
He did get to the point in first few paragraphs. The rest was damn good reading.
“They literally don’t care if you get blown up or shot and it doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat or Republican. “
This is now the sad truth.
Paul Ryan, who I thought was good, cant see the forest for the trees. They sit in Washinton DC, getting wined and dined by Muslim activists from CAIR and ISNA, and they believe every word of their bullshit.
When banning Muslims from immigrating into the USA, they say it goes against our values of religion. They have it backwards. Importing ISLAM goes against our values, as ISLAM has no respect for other religions. It is anti American to import it.
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnel will not wake up until we have a slaughter of thousands a day. They fly the flag at half mast for the 14 in San Bernardino. A day later the flag goes back up and we then wait to see who the next 14 or 3000 are going to be.
This is why Trump is going up in the polls. It is bullshit that we sit like fish in a barrel waiting to get shot by the enemy as our leaders import them so they can slam the bullets into our brains.
The Republican and democrat party can both go to hell. I’m with Trump.
Ditto!
You’re about to be mugged by reality.
Nothing I can say or do will have any effect on you.
I think Trump understands that the left has contempt for us and freedom.
When Hillary said that her enemy is republicans, he gets it.
The only way you beat these Marxist a-holes is to dismiss them with contempt and to run through them with a battering ram of contempt and illuminating insults. Make them eat it.
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