The Real (Secret) Political and Economic War Being Waged Today

SebastianBlue said:
Drop what you are doing and read the linked article. Then read Nancy MacLean’s work on the subject. It applies to most everyone active on this forum, whatever their country of origin, political affinity, or world view.

The US, UK, and many other nominally democratic nations are at an inflection point. The wealthy elite are attempting to create an omnipotent oligarchical power structure to fully replace representative government (and even capitalist or socialist economic systems).

Once more, they are currently succeeding.

Little-by-little they are chipping away at democratic institutions and—more destructively—the systems of law and order themselves. This is being led by many false ‘conservatives’ and ‘neoliberals’, who are really proponents of fascism and despotism, with none more zealous than the Koch brothers. They have been on a many decades-long mission to conquer the courts in America, Britain, and elsewhere. Because of the way the US and UK justice systems are designed, if they are even mostly captured by the wealthy elite (via sympathetic or controlled judges and jurists), oligarchical power will be nearly absolute for generations to come, regardless of the popular will or which political party is in power. It will allow for the complete gutting of social support programmes, public education, democratic frameworks, legal protections, and nearly all mechanism for public recourse, all of which are already underway. But a truly captured judiciary will enable full realisation and block any challenges. It will eliminate all semblance of civic influence.

And how we choose to respond to this clandestine programme (and many others like it) over the next decade will likely decide whether the majority of people in the western world have any power at all (over government, industry, or their own lives) in the future.

As I have said many times, the real war being waged right now is not a culture war, but a class war. The former is being stoked to distract from the latter. And it’s working a treat, as the majority of us non-elites scream and slap and stab each other over (largely) fabricated or relatively unimportant grievances. We all understand the concept of divide and rule, but we are missing it being done to us right now.

We have to ask ourselves this question and then act on the answer: Are we to be engaged citizens with some measure of agency or are we to accept our role as serfs in the new feudal system?

If we keep fighting the culture war, ignoring the class war being successfully waged against us, there is only one answer.

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
www.ineteconomics.org
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Buy ammo while you still can
 
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Every country in history that has tried to achieve wealth increases for the rich at the detriment of normal working folk has resulted in the same outcome. Revolution.

People will only accept so much before they rebel, and it's a worldwide phenomenon at the moment that people labelled generation X and millenials are rejecting right wing policies in their droves.

In the UK, it has traditionally been the case that 75% of the electorate over the age of 60 has voted tory. That isn't going to happen again because voters in that age range, and younger people as well, despise the tories and everything they represent.

We won't see another tory government for at least a generation, and despite the owners of the Daily Express and Daily Mail trying to convince us with their diatribe aginst the loony left in their comics that anything other than right wing policies will deliver us from the evils of the modern world, that message is lost on all but the declining elderly population that post their collective comments and recieve positive confirmation bias in reading the replies.

Let's enjoy the wipeout the tory party are justifiably going to receive at the next election in recognition of the simple fact that people can only take so much, and the lies and false promises of our clueless and morally bankrupt government are finally being recognised as an unsustainable drain on their standards of living to prop up those that have their bank balances in offshore tax havens as their main concern, and not the good of the country.
 
NPBlue said:
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Every country in history that has tried to achieve wealth increases for the rich at the detriment of normal working folk has resulted in the same outcome. Revolution.

People will only accept so much before they rebel, and it's a worldwide phenomenon at the moment that people labelled generation X and millenials are rejecting right wing policies in their droves.

In the UK, it has traditionally been the case that 75% of the electorate over the age of 60 has voted tory. That isn't going to happen again because voters in that age range, and younger people as well, despise the tories and everything they represent.

We won't see another tory government for at least a generation, and despite the owners of the Daily Express and Daily Mail trying to convince us with their diatribe aginst the loony left in their comics that anything other than right wing policies will deliver us from the evils of the modern world, that message is lost on all but the declining elderly population that post their collective comments and recieve positive confirmation bias in reading the replies.

Let's enjoy the wipeout the tory party are justifiably going to receive at the next election in recognition of the simple fact that people can only take so much, and the lies and false promises of our clueless and morally bankrupt government are finally being recognised as an unsustainable drain on their standards of living to prop up those that have their bank balances in offshore tax havens as their main concern, and not the good of the country.
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M8 I wish I could agree with you but those oldies, those tory fuckers or whatever, they were all born Labour. We all are. Thats what you young dudes dont realise. And neither did we.

(Soz if you are 90)
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
M8 I wish I could agree with you but those oldies, those tory fuckers or whatever, they were all born Labour. We all are. Thats what you young dudes dont realise. And neither did we.

(Soz if you are 90)
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No. I'm not 90, nothing like that age. I have a few decades to go before that milestone, if I ever get there!

I'm just stating what poll results are saying at the moment regarding voting intentions of the millenials and genereation X individuals. They detest the tories and will never vote for them, and the tradition of them turning to the tories like their parents have over the years as they age isn't happening.
 
NPBlue said:
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Every country in history that has tried to achieve wealth increases for the rich at the detriment of normal working folk has resulted in the same outcome. Revolution.

People will only accept so much before they rebel, and it's a worldwide phenomenon at the moment that people labelled generation X and millenials are rejecting right wing policies in their droves.

In the UK, it has traditionally been the case that 75% of the electorate over the age of 60 has voted tory. That isn't going to happen again because voters in that age range, and younger people as well, despise the tories and everything they represent.

We won't see another tory government for at least a generation, and despite the owners of the Daily Express and Daily Mail trying to convince us with their diatribe aginst the loony left in their comics that anything other than right wing policies will deliver us from the evils of the modern world, that message is lost on all but the declining elderly population that post their collective comments and recieve positive confirmation bias in reading the replies.

Let's enjoy the wipeout the tory party are justifiably going to receive at the next election in recognition of the simple fact that people can only take so much, and the lies and false promises of our clueless and morally bankrupt government are finally being recognised as an unsustainable drain on their standards of living to prop up those that have their bank balances in offshore tax havens as their main concern, and not the good of the country.
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I agree with a lot of what you said.

But, as I outline in my post (and what is covered in the article and MacLean’s research), is that the Kochs (and co) are working to circumvent the electorate entirely via the court systems.

They understand demographics—and with them political ideologies—are changing in the US, UK, and elsewhere. In fact, that is likely what they see as most threatening to their livelihoods, legacies, and, ultimately, power. So they have been working to grab power via means that will allow them to override the will of the majority entirely. They’re doing it right now via the US Supreme Court and Federal Courts and, by all accounts, their cohorts here have been working to do the same in our system.

This effort is what has to be fought and stopped. Otherwise the only solution is revolution, and those tend to be very messy.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Over the last few years, the extremely rich have wanted to get even more rich, more than they could ever spend. So what is their aim apart from power?

Maybe they all want to get into space like we’re seeing, but why is that?
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That’s my question as well, why? What’s the motive?
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Over the last few years, the extremely rich have wanted to get even more rich, more than they could ever spend. So what is their aim apart from power?

Maybe they all want to get into space like we’re seeing, but why is that?
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SWP's back said:
That’s my question as well, why? What’s the motive?
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Well, as far as the billionaire space race is concerned, even though many of those clamouring for off-world human habitation are partly responsible for the smear campaign against climate change science intended to sow doubt and resistance to efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas production and environmental destruction, they know better than most of us how much we are actually fucking the only known ideal habitat for human life in the universe. And that the shit hits the fan long before the actual ecological collapse. They want to ensure they continue to have the resources to pursue a potential escape plan (along with the recent trend of billionaire bunker complexes).

That partly plays in to the efforts to grab and consolidate complete control: they can’t ensure they and their progeny’s existence—much less dominance—in the future if their means of power (wealth) is reduced or taken away. And they certainly don’t want the parasites of society (non-wealthy people) to influence their lives in any way.

You should read some of their statements and the works they venerate, including Buchanan’s. I am sadly not exaggerating when I say the wealthy elite behind these campaigns to seize even more power from the majority non-elites see us as only pawns, parasites, and production inputs. If you are poor it’s because you deserve it. You weren’t clever enough or strong enough or well-connected enough to become wealthy and therefore you are worthy of nothing more than subjugation. It’s literally in the writings of Rand, Buchanan, and a few others regularly cited by the Koch brothers and their cohort.

Which is quite ironic given most of those that have adopted and now espouse these beliefs were born in to wealth/privilege and would not have it now otherwise. Not to mention that we non-elites largely sustain their wealth (directly and indirectly). Though, that in of itself is also a motivation to establish a new absolute oligarchy: maintain control over the source of your power.

This isn’t deranged conspiracy theory, it’s literally their platform, described over and over via various statements and documentation over the last few decades. And now they have a new batch of ultra-wealthy hypocritical cunts like Musk and Bezos to aid and abet their efforts.
 
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