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Death of Democracy Propagated on Purpose
Another chapter in the slow death of politics ... The public has lost faith in Left and Right – and it's hard to see how it can be recovered ... Apathy rules: the late Philip Gould compared politicians to footballers playing in an empty stadium because the spectators have lost interest and gone home. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Politics are the lifeblood of nationhood.
Free-Market Analysis: Another startling article in the UK Telegraph, this one from columnist Sue Cameron.
There's no dominant social theme we can determine directly from this brutal assessment of regulatory democracy. Are the larger powers behind the British Empire contemplating a new kind of government? Is this article idiosyncratic or is it part of a larger meme?
We are well aware that the target of the powers-that-be continues to be world government – as best we can tell, anyway. Cameron's article doesn't advance world government or any government and may be sparked by a new book that she mentions in the article, Philip Gould – An Unfinished Life.
The book is about how British political analyst Philip Gould shook up the Labour party by modernizing it. Of course, Cameron didn't need to write about the book necessarily so we are still left with questions about how such an incendiary article could appear so prominently and at such length.
Since her brief at the Telegraph involves covering politics as a columnist, we can interpret this perhaps as an aberration, a yelp of frustration over the way her "beat" is headed. In any event, the article presents us with many salient points, especially in light of upcoming US elections. It reminds us that many US political issues and problems are shared by Britain.
Here's more:
The late Philip Gould, Labour's brilliant political strategist, used to compare politicians to footballers playing in empty stadiums: the spectators have all lost interest and gone home. A new book out this week shows how Gould, the first man to make systematic use of focus groups and the first to use the term New Labour, managed not only to breathe life into Labour but also to save the Conservative Party ...
Yet the book also chronicles what is surely the slow death of politics as we have known it and the impotence of our political leaders to halt the decline. Gould recognised that voters, whose party allegiances were once firmly based on class, were becoming less ideological, more aspirational and much more fickle. They were changing, but the politicians were not.
The battle to force change on the major parties was one of attrition. In the book, uber-moderniser Lord Mandelson talks of how he designed a new batch of Labour membership cards and "forgot" to include Clause IV – Labour's historic commitment to nationalise just about everything. The party dinosaurs ordered the cards to be pulped and reprinted with the magic words ...
As political parties continue to shrivel, politicians themselves are acutely aware of the system failing. As David Miliband notes: "While there has been a lot of talk about the radical wave of democratisation in the Middle East, there has not been much reflection on the sense of disempowerment that people feel in Western countries – not just from the political process but from key decisions that affect their lives."
All our politicians are struggling to find answers. They are losing power to the markets, to the big global corporations, to the emerging economies and to the media, notably to the social media made possible by new technology ... It is hard to see how our politics is going to be revived.
You see? This is pretty gloomy stuff, and deservedly so. The problems faced by Western democracies are indeed generated by an electorate that feels powerless. But the powerlessness is REAL. Democracies in the West have increasingly been exposed as a sham by what we call the Internet Reformation.
A combination of impending depression, expanding militarism and regulatory authoritarianism is no doubt responsible for the sentiments being enunciated here.
What is worth pondering at length – and we do ponder it – is why those behind these trends are propagating them. If those at the top of Western society want to cause a social explosion they couldn't go about it a better way.
In fact, there are explosions taking place throughout Europe and soon they will spread to the US as well, we figure. In Europe, the current violence has been sparked by the misguided policy of austerity.
To avoid the blowup of Southern Europe, one would have to undo a string of "mistakes," including the expansion of European power and the current straightjacket of monetary policy.
If European PIGS could simply devalue, then the pain would be spread throughout society and soon be forgotten about. But this option has been "precluded" by an obsession with European unity.
European unity, of course, will only cause disunity in the end, as it already is doing. Not only that but the EU is an increasingly authoritarian enterprise itself, with plans for continent-wide wiretapping as a matter of course along with increased militarism and general statist expansion.
All around the world, as a matter of fact, populations are reeling from regulation, militarism and economic decay. It is like an invisible plague – and our impression (as we regularly report) is that this state of affairs is far from coincidental.
There are forces that want to create world government and are assiduously trying to accomplish this by destabilizing current regimes. Sound too conspiratorial, dear reader? Is all that is occurring truly accidental?
The idea is to create the maximum amount of chaos apparently in order to begin to migrate more fully to global government. We have no idea exactly how this will come about but if people are made miserable enough, presumably they will welcome any antidote, even a bigger political system.
Within this context, we are not surprised that people are losing faith in "democracy" (whatever that is supposed to be). This faith is being relentlessly stripped from them, seemingly on purpose.
Conclusion: We only wish we were more optimistic about what will be proposed next ...
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Posted by Danny B on 10/09/12 10:17 AM
I finally found my links;
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Plan "B" is to kill them. GOV wants it's employees to get flu shots.
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People who get flu shots have a high incidence of narcolepsy, seizures and other problems.
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The game goes on.
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Posted by dave jr on 09/30/12 07:41 PM
Sorry, my previous post is on the wrong DB article.
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Posted by dave jr on 09/30/12 07:24 PM
I haven't finished reading the interview yet because a question is burning my brain, so forgive me if this is covered. When currency devaluation (inflation) goes vertical, it has always been because markets rush to a different currency.
But as G.E.G expertly points out,
"... real inflation, at least here in the States, in terms of the major components of what people buy to live day to day, such as groceries, gasoline and clothing,... "
leads to my question.
If the things we need to live and survive like fuel, food, utilities, etc. are all priced in dollars, and the suppliers are all on the same team of elite control, why would there be a rush to a different currency?
The situation today is unprecedented in recent history. Can we take a gold or silver coin to the grocer or the gas station or use it to pay a utility bill or a property tax. No, it first has to be converted to dollars. What happens when QE stops, dollars become short in supply and there is a mad rush to convert PMs to dollars, so to obtain the essentials of living?
What is in a bubble? I hate bubbles. They are a manifestation of manipulation. Yet, the people fall for it time and time again.
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Posted by EdwardUlyssesCate on 09/29/12 11:33 PM
"Apathy rules: the late Philip Gould compared politicians to footballers playing in an empty stadium because the spectators have lost interest and gone home."
True, but in politics the spectators have to keep payin' til they have nothin' left. Then the game is over, and the spectators have lost everything.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 09/29/12 06:55 AM
"The DB asks,"Are the larger powers behind the British Empire contemplating a new kind of government?"" ….. Posted by dave jr on 09/28/12 11:10 PM
Well, yes, the SMARTR powers are, dave jr. And they will be well protected and servered by experienced battle hardened might, one is earnestly advised to never require one encounter in righteous reproach, for turning the other cheek whenever one has been deliberately and maliciously slighted for corrupt and destructive and self-serving personalised advantage is, although a well enough known concept to them, a possible action which may be most improbable and AIMission Impossible. Swift Fleet Extremely Prejudicial Action is the Medicine their ProgramMING Programmed Machines deliver out of the Blue?!. ……. Click to view link
And that will always be a question which will be denied an answer whenever proprietary national, international and internetional security secrets are involved and instrumental in leading developments.
Without leading intelligence, what would systems deliver? Anarchy and Conflict, Madness and Mayhem? What do you imagine the Present shows to all who follow global world developments? And what on Earth do you think leads it? Or do things just happen with nothing and/or nobody at levers exercising remote control?
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Posted by Danny B on 09/29/12 12:47 AM
@ dave jr. I advocate social credit as an alternative to heavy culling. As I've posted a few times you WILL pay in one way or another. Calif has built 23 new prisons and no new universities. The Cold war was a jobs program. Same for the war on terror, war on drugs. The leviathan in D.C. is all about jobs.
In addition, there is a control issue and a Hegelian side but, in the main, it is about jobs. This is a cross-post;
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It has an excellent vid. There is an ever-decreasing need for humans to work.
Voltaire, 'Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need'
The Report from Iron Mountain claims that peace would be a disaster. Their point of view is that nations would fall apart if not faced with a common enemy.
There is nothing good about social credit or socialism. BUT,
I don't want to live in the world of the "Georgia Guidestones" where everywhere that I walk, I'm walking on the bones of those who didn't have a good niche.
Currently, the PTB are into light culling. DRUGS seem to be the mechanism of choice. Crokodil;
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You can get ox-contin easy as pie. "They" seem to be selecting for people who have little self-control.
I suspect that the West is soon to see a complete shredding of the safety net.
Then, we can debate the true cost of social credit vs chaos.
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Posted by dave jr on 09/28/12 11:24 PM
@ Danny
I was going to say impressive, until the advocation of social credit. And your line before that was "socialism can never work".
So close and yet so far.
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Agreed. Social Credit was apparently a Fabian construct.
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Posted by dave jr on 09/28/12 11:10 PM
The DB asks,"Are the larger powers behind the British Empire contemplating a new kind of government?"
I ask, can we contemplate a technocracy were democracy (as if it were desired) is no longer tolerated. All that is needed is armed gaurds. We can call it government if we want.
The sad thing is, it would all be private. The very thing we have been yelping for.
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Posted by Danny B on 09/28/12 08:11 PM
It has been often opined that a democracy can only be temporary. Sooner or later, the slackers and parasites break the bank.
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Knowing this, America was founded as a republic. Universal suffrage can never work.
The have-nots are more interested in themselves than they are in national solvency.
The politicians are more interested in power than they are in national solvency.
Iceland has a long history of democracy. I do not know how they have held on to it.
They recently, popularly rewrote their constitution.
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Somehow, they managed to wrest control of GOV loose from the bankers.
Free market capitalism is the best system BUT, corporations don't want to have competition if they can avoid it.
Non-producers don't want to work if they can avoid it.
Regulatory capture is a see-saw for both groups.
The bankers mistakenly want world GOV thinking that it will bring them uninterrupted and unlimited prosperity.
The have-nots want world communism mistakenly believing that it will bring them a perpetual stipend.
The bankers are mistaken because Fascism brings the opposite of prosperity.
The have-nots believe that a socialist stipend will be better than the trickle-down from the capitalistic system. It won't.
The general erasure of motivation will bring down the living standards of 99%.
This is the Cuban constitution. It guarantees everyone a job.
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GOV had to lay off 1/2 million. Now, they are hard at work to get the private sector to pick up the slack.
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Socialism can never work.
I do advocate social credit as an alternative to heavy culling. I also believe that non-producers should be given the absolute minimum.
The actions of Bernanke and Draghi are insane and desperate. Martin Armstrong said that there is no political will to avoid disaster. Hopefully crony capitalism will die when the credit bubble bursts. Hopefully, millions of lobbyists and lawyers will be on the dole.
Plan "B" is to kill them. GOV wants it's employees to get flu shots.
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People who get flu shots have a high incidence of narcolepsy, seizures and other problems.
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The game goes on.
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Posted by The Federal Farmer on 09/28/12 08:00 PM
One good thing though, you put comments back on yer site! Woot!
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Posted by amanfromMars on 09/28/12 02:47 PM
"We only wish we were more optimistic about what will be proposed next ... " ... . Daily Bell Staff Report.
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