Powerful elites have always dominated nations, from the Greeks to the modern world, and America is

[midnight]

not an exception, but never have the top one percent of oligarchs acted so aggressively against the interests of the people.



Since the end of WWII, America has been misdirected by its government controllers in the biggest way, and for the most evil designs. John F. Kennedy tried to change course, but he got shot in the head for it. It wasn’t pretty. Forty-seven years after his death, and there still isn’t any sense of national closure because his true murderers have not faced justice. In fact, they still rule America through the usual tricks of the trade: deception, secrecy, and fear. Largely unknown to them until now, the American people have suffered under a tyrannical and traitorous shadow corporate-state that killed their President, and which operates secretly behind a cowardly, and self-serving political class, in the name of "National Security." High treason, war crimes, and state terror are the defining features of this "National Security State." And it was created for purposes that are not much different from those of the Nazi regime; power, greed, and world domination for elite profits.

In short, America was covertly overthrown by a tight-knit group of criminal insiders. The coup happened in stages, and achieved through deception, assassination, and terrorism. The seminal dates are 1913, when the private Federal Reserve Bank was established; 1963, which saw the assassination of a real and independent president; and 2000, the beginning of the Bush Administration and the reign of the neoconservatives, who got into power by stealing the election.

From the fifties onward, with the honorable exception of John F. Kennedy’s brief reign as President, the American people have been treated as slaves, and held hostage by their much despised government, public representatives, and shadow rulers. No more a constitutional republic, America became a totalitarian "top secret" empire that is guilty of the invasion and occupation of two innocent countries in the Middle East, and is waging the largest illegal war in history, a "war on freedom" disguised as a "war on terrorism."http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/61881/

[izquierdista]

1. Cancel my recommend

"...and the progressives follow the Democrat party wherever it leads them."

Had to get to the end of the article to see that bullshit clause that negated all that passed before. If the author thinks that progressives are following the 'Democrat' party, then he is the one who is dumb and gullible.

[notesdev]

3. Ask yourself

how many progressives will vote Democratic no matter what the elected officials in the party actually do, simply because the Republicans are guaranteed to be worse?

[groovedaddy]

4. There are elected democrats who know what the problem is and do confront it in the halls of

Congress, state legislatures and local governments. They don't get much msm attention because these reps know and speak the truth.
In 2006, more of this stripe were elected to Congress.
I don't think the OP's assessment is nullified by his last statement, false though it may be.
When I hear people making such statements, I usually go down my list of favorite Dems in Congress and ask if the person making the statement follows these reps at all, particularly what these reps say on the floor of Congress. They usually don't know.
The truth is that our political system has been corrupted (though not totally) by the monetary system that was set up by design to favor the "monied interests." This state of affairs is being challenged. If we can enough people in Congress, the tide will turn!

[izquierdista]

5. Damn Hobson and all his choices!

[cachukis]

2. I would agree with your interpretation after "Democrat",

but reading "Family of Secrets," by Russ Baker confirms a lot of what this OP suggests. I fear for what Obama faces. Most don't know that these power players don't think what they are doing is wrong. They are really more like Don Vito Corleone in a business that has repercussions. They will do what they have to to control the big stuff like minerals, water, oil, metals etc. The altruism of humanity matters not a wit to them. There are casualties in war and this is like war to them.

[roxiejules]

6. Understanding the most ordinary emotions

I think we should consider the possibility that the liberal movement is being tainted by the tactic of calling everyone on the other side a racist, wing nut or Christian blankety blank.


George Orwell recognized the lack of bleeding-heart patriotism in many leftist "yuppie" intellectuals not as a virtue, but a fault. In his essay "My Country Right or Left," he wrote:

"I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King.’ That is childish , of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions. It is exactly the people whose hearts have never leapt at the sight of a Union Jack who will flinch from revolution when the moment comes," (My Country Right or Left, Orwell’s Essays, pg. 137)