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Punditry
Frank Rich is damning the paper we is writing for:
ELECTIONS may come and go, but Washington remains incorrigible. Not even voters delivering a clear message can topple the town’s conventional wisdom once it has been set in the stone of punditry.
Right now the capital is entranced by a fictional story line about the Democrats. As this narrative goes, the party’s sweep of Congress was more or less an accident. .. And now the party is deeply divided as its old liberals and new conservatives converge on Capitol Hill to slug it out.
It’s Not the Democrats Who Are Divided (liberated version), (emphasis added)
NYT OpEd, Nov. 19, 2006
Rich is right here of course – the "split" that is seen within the Democrats is pure fictional. There are discussions in any party. Racist lover Trend Lott was voted to House minority leader with just one vote lead. It is obvious that the Republicans are the ones who are more divided.
But facts do not keep Rich’s colleagues away from writing just the fake stories he is damning – on the same day, in the same publication, on the front page.
Democrats Split on How Far to Go With Ethics Law
After railing for months against Congressional corruption under Republican rule, Democrats on Capitol Hill are divided on how far their proposed ethics overhaul should go.
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Some Democrats say their election is a mandate for more sweeping changes, and many newly elected candidates — citing scandals involving several Republican lawmakers last year — made Congressional ethics a major issue during the campaign.
Bigot punditry all over – of course there is discussion. But the same discussion is happening within the GOP. But the "liberal" NYT will not touch on that party.
Rich should think about changing the publication … they may fire him soon anyway.
The Owners of our Ownership Society are those persons who own actual shares in America’s corporations. These legal entities, who are considered Super Persons under American law, increasingly own all the physical and financial assets of the country, and face fewer and fewer consequences for operating them without regard for the common good.
These legal entities are increasingly international in nature and financing and operations. They have no more loyalty to any one country or currency than they do to raw numbers on a spreadsheet.
These Owners are increasingly recognizable as America’s foreign lenders — the Saudis, the Japanese banks, the Chinese and Asian banks. More and more of the physical and financial assets of America belong to them — every day — than belong to Americans. It’s all legal and correct. They bought them up fair and square with solid money. That isn’t the issue.
It is this: whether these Owners be foreign or native, it is not in their interest to have the huge, consumer-driven American marketplace reverse its mad shopping spree, or drive less, or save more, or become more energy efficient, or reduce its carbon footprint and emmissions at the expense of industry, or to return control of its political apparatus to the people instead of the corporations. None of that is the reason they invest in American assets, mortgages, loans or government.
They want America strung out, baby, and bleeding assets and money. If America decides to start living within its means, and saving for the future, and passing on surpluses to the next generation, and rebuilding its energy and industrial sectors then control of America’s physical and financial assets will begin to slip away from the current Owners, and back to America’s working class.
The American Dream is a real nightmare to the current Owners, be they foreign or native.
The Owners like things the way they are headed right now. No change is welcome, or going to be welcomed, or going to be permitted if these Super Persons have any say in it. They prefer to keep things rolling along, to keep bleeding the remaining assets and efforts of the middle and lower classes into higher, tighter hands.
They prefer to put the whole population, and the next two American generations, in hock up to their ears. That’s the Owner’s goal. Call it consumer culture, write up TV adverts and happy jingles about consumer toys, offer discounts and deals on all sides, make the rubes come to the malls, and mortgage their homes to do so. That’s the goal. Git ‘r done!
These next few years in America’s experiment in self-government are either going to be organized around reversing this class warfare, this bleeding out of a dying empire, or it is going to be a lot of smoke and noise and screaming about inane political puppet shows of absurd proportions, with the end result that things keep rolling along.
Nothing short of a massive, popular uprising against this institutionalized theft will change the absurd course we are on.
Nothing can cause — or prevent — that uprising as effectively as our national media. That means, right now, a free press freely informing an awakened electorate is where the entire battle lies.
Right now, that media belongs to the Owners. And it lies. And lies. And lies. The Owners view is the only view permitted. The only ads allowed are for politicians backing the Owners. All bloggers, pundits, news anchors, letter writers, and unwashed persons are the Enemy, and they are to be hushed, ridiculed, and destroyed.
Once the dollar “devalues sharply,” and the American populace wakes up to find that the dollar in their pocket is worth a dime, and the nation’s physical and financial assets belong entirely to a very few, very wealthy Owners it will be entirely too late. Even bloody revolution will be of little avail at that point.
The only political events of the coming two years that will matter, in the long run, are efforts for a free American press and an informed American electorate.
Change will not come from politicians of any sort or stripe. It is not in their power to make such changes. They are representatives of the Owners, or they wouldn’t be there. They were funded by the Owners, and elected by uninformed lemmings.
The change will come from the people, and it will need to overwhelm the media, and the government, and the Owners.
We citizens pass the bottle, place our bets, stare at this tipping point in America’s history, and face a private choice of gambling on it, investing in it, swimming upstream, or getting the hell out of the river.
Only a precious few Americans will be delighted with where we are headed.
Posted by: Antifa | Nov 19 2006 12:53 utc | 3
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