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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-003
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
Alexey Navalny @navalny – 18:13 UTC · Jan 9, 2021
1. I think that the ban of Donald Trump on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship (THREAD)
Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek – 10:33 UTC · Jan 10, 2021
Entrusting Silicon Valley oligarchs to police speech on the social media platforms that dominate the exchange of information is gonna turn out great for the left for sure. No concerns here
I remember when Instagram and Facebook removed leftist videos about the elections in Bolivia following last year’s fascist coup. I’m sure that was just an accident and more of that won’t happen.
Also the many many many Palestinian posts and accounts that have been censored for challenging Israeli criminality surely isn’t coordinated or intentional, no reason to be concerned, really. Daddy Zuck and Jack are just trying to protect our minds from bad ideas 🙏🏽
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Other issues:
Covid-19:
Source – bigger
Venezuela:
Iran:
ICYMI:
Use as open thread …
I have long thought that the decline of the U.S. could be thought of as the ‘Indianization’ of American Society.
In this spirit, I offer the following:
The American Caste System
A sub-system of the Anglo-American Caste System
I. The Elites
1. The Old-Moneyed Elite (Anglo-American)
These are the small number of families whose money dates back to the 19th century and Colonial Britain. They are the ultimate power that rule the Global (i.e. Western) industrial, financial and political systems, like Mafia Dons.
2. The New-Moneyed Elite (American)
These are the relatively small number of people who have become fabulously wealthy running the Old-Moneyed Elite’s legal and illegal economic activities.
3. The Power Brokers (American)
These are the small number of people who run the non-financial systems (i.e. Government, Military, etc.) on behalf of the Old-Moneyed Elite. They have also become extraordinarily wealthy through the opportunities for graft offered by their roles as power brokers.
4. The Stars (American)
These are the elites of the sports and entertainment industries. This relatively small caste has two purposes, to distract the lower castes from their miserable existence and to show that the ‘American Dream’ is available to everyone. These people are also paid unimaginably high salaries for their services.
II. The Professional and Managerial Caste
These are the people who manage the economic and political systems on a day to day basis, and carry out the high level professional activities. Their loyalty is ensured by generous economic and social benefits, and by the threat of they and their families being shunned, broken and sent to the lower castes should they be disloyal.
III. The Servant Caste
These are the people who labor in the service and government sectors (85% of economy). These people are generally paid only survival wages, or preferably as gig workers, with token access to education and health care and no economic security. Identifiable minorities (black, gay, Latino, etc.) are the preferred members of this caste as all of their grievances can be blamed on their minority status, i.e. the mirage of systemic discrimination, and they can be mobilized to support the Elite narratives by empty promises to address this mirage.
IV. The Deplorables
The Deplorables are what used to be called the ‘Middle Class’. When the U.S. was an industrial power, and still had some semblance of democracy, i.e. BR (Before Reagan) these people were the largest group of American Society. Producing goods of value, they enjoyed well paying, secure jobs, with enough money to provide a comfortable life, a secure future for themselves and an education for their children, They also enjoyed political power, based on their numbers, and the ability to make the political and economic system work for them.
However AR (After Reagan), with the transformation of their democracy into an oligarchy and the transfer of industry to Asia, the ‘Middle Class’ lost both its economic well-being and its political power. The few jobs that are left to actually produce something of value (now less than 15% of the economy), are far too few for the number of people who need them, and are subject to competition with low wage Developing Nations. Thus the old ‘Middle Class’ became the ‘Deplorables’, lamenting the both the loss of ‘American Greatness’ and their own personal loss of wealth, security and hope.
V. The Dregs
The Dregs are fastest growing caste in the American Caste System. They include the homeless, the addicted, the inhabitants of ghettos, etc. These people are pushed to the margins of society with little or no income, no protection, and no services. They live off of crime and charity (which is a very important component of ‘Virtue Signalling’ for the upper castes). The life expectancy of the Dregs is very short.
People are pushed into the Dregs Caste when they are of no more economic value to the ‘Elite Caste’, when their assets have been exhausted, having been ‘strip-mined’ by the Elite’s financialization schemes, or when they are disobedient and question in any way the Elite’s narratives or the American Caste System itself.
In general movement between castes is only allowed in one direction: down. In rare cases, people of exceptional talent can be promoted to a higher caste on the conditions that their talent is of value to the Elites and that they pledge fealty to the Elites and the ‘American Caste System’.
Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 10 2021 21:39 utc | 51
Stephen Karganovich–No More City on the Hill Is quite a read, opening with Edward Bernays’s “generous concession to the common man, ‘People are entitled to the choices we give them:'”
“The indoctrinated nation that over two centuries was meekly contented, in Bernays’ terms, to settle for the choices it was given, has now fully realized the systemic scandal of that cynical arrangement, and it no longer feels comfortable with it. Still not all, but certainly a good half, and then some. Their overwhelming electoral preference for the ‘losing’ Presidential candidate, regardless of the ruinous economic and health situation of unparalleled severity, is a telling sign. Since, as all pundits know, Americans always ‘vote their pocketbook,’ even if the incompetent incumbent’s opponent happens to be an impaired dotard, such electoral behaviour is a game changer that the Bernays-inspired ruling elite disregard at their peril….
“But more fundamentally, beyond mere discontent, and in spite of the greatest coordinated news blackout ever seen, the unhappy masses, some intuitively and some empirically, through the still unrepressed alternative sources, have now grasped the shocking magnitude of the fraud played on them. One of the basic props of the engineered consent upon which public order and social stability have rested for decades, the naïve belief in the democratic essence of the system, was foolishly overturned on November 3rd, and it was done precisely by those who should have been the most interested in keeping it intact. The schism that shattered faith will engender is bound to have incalculable consequences.” [My Emphasis]
Wow! He’s letting it all out, but wait and read what comes next:
“But the sacrilegious mob incursion into the hallowed precincts of the Congress definitely was not one of those consequences, the carefully contrived appearances notwithstanding. It was a classical false flag operation, an American adaptation of the standard color revolution playbook that previously had been successfully applied elsewhere in numerous regime change situations. The incessantly battered and largely demoralized regime, headed by a political illiterate whose grasp and cunning do not go far beyond routine prevarications required for New York real estate deals, apparently was thoroughly infiltrated as well, exactly like its third world homologues. Violent Antifa shock troops, now the elite’s Brown Shirts, were bussed into Washington in white vans, under police escort. Capitol Hill guards facilitated the storming of the Congress by removing barricades and letting the mob through. Nor did the choreographers forget to make sure that there would also be the obligatory sacrificial victim. From an operational standpoint, Gene Sharp would have been pleased, though it is unlikely that in his day the domestic application of his technology had actually been envisaged”…. [Four links at original]
“The curious fact that in the end establishment figures of both parties and from all major institutions of formal and informal governance were aligned on the same page, certifying a totally implausible electoral outcome, is perhaps the ultimate proof of attorney Lin Wood’s otherwise shocking explanation of how the system works.
“Personalizing the issues underlying this crisis, as many outside the United States are wont to do, is mistaken. Both principals are strawmen devoid of substance. In his whimsical quest for the Presidency four years ago, engaged in as a rich man’s ego trip rather than with a serious intention of winning, probably accidentally the incumbent articulated the brooding masses’ deepest concerns and frustrations. They, in turn, projected their exasperation, bitterness, and illusions back onto him, turning him by default into their standard-bearer. The fact that after four years in office their symbolic champion has nothing to show, yet in the midst of economic collapse he was still able to garner about eighty million votes, is a huge sign. It is a sobering warning to the ruling elite that blatant electoral manipulation and ruthless information censorship may serve as Band-Aid solutions, but are losing their effectiveness.” [My Emphasis]
Sorry to reproduce so much, but then it stands far better without my analytical interruptions. Do read it all since I did omit some points and linkages.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 11 2021 0:42 utc | 75
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