... and they're the people who stole the elections, with the complicity of a mass media dedicated not to pursuing the truth but creating an artificial construct that allows people to pretend that everything's hunky dory in the land of uninformed, apathetic armchair flag-wavers.
Same wonderful conniving folks that brought you the 9/11 myth, the proxy wars fought on behalf of the fossil fuels industry, the noose of domestic repression tightening around the necks of those who call bullshit on all official excuses, the phony build-up to an attack on Iran, the theft of absolutely everything that's not nailed down under the big con of privatization, the unconscionable waste of maniacal war spending enabled by the full complicity of the alleged opposition party, and so much more pap, swill and drivel brought to you by professional liars pitching infotainment on TV and funded by their corporate masters.
And who would these overlords be? The leading lights of corporate America along with the old-money elites, who are sick and tired of sniveling, rebellious little people getting even a crumb, and who want each of us to function as wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate model, which is a merger of the Stalinist security state with the good old days of free-form unregulated capitalism.
Looks to me like the end-game is in sight. All systems are in place and just waiting for the official go-ahead. And as TheWatcher notes in post # 7, anyone who dares question the official happiness model is branded as a paranoid fantasist and conspiracy nut.
Companies spend fortunes and still can't buy the kind of PR mass media gives these snakes for free. And because the big con is omnipresent and has the buy-in of a critical mass of unquestioning American simpletons, it actually wins the competition among competing versions of reality.
Therefore, the creators and distributors of the big lie get to dictate the dominant social control mechanisms for the New American Century. And so far, that's been all about supplying an external threat, and scaring the shit out of our former swaggering rugged individualists -- the same chowder heads who now cower in terror that some swarthy fanatics might do them in. They try to cover up their fear through the use of totems like the flag and little magnetic ribbons and tribal screams of USA! USA! USA! But they're still living narrow little lives, limited by the scope of their cowardice and their visceral dread of the official bogey men.
Pretty amazing job when you think about it, considering the whole sorry act has played out in less than seven years. But hardly revolutionary. Reichsmarschall Goering knew all about this stuff:
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
From an interview in his jail cell while awaiting trial on war crimes at Nuremberg
This kind of social control was understood long before this sorry pack of thieves and sociopaths was even born. All they had to do was follow the script. And even BushCo must have somebody around who can read and comprehend a user manual.
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