by Alex Christoforou, The Duran:
There’s talk in America about a second Civil War coming, but what’s needed is instead a second Revolutionary War — not like the first one, to overthrow a foreign aristocracy, but to overthrow America’s own aristocracy (the super-wealthy few individuals who control — by the revolving door between public offices and highly paid private employment that is also controlled by them — they control both America’s Deep State within the federal bureaucracy, and the politicians who appoint those civil-service employees to higher executive levels in that bureaucracy; and, so, these super-wealthy few who appoint the appointers, actually ARE — they control — America’s Deep State). In other words: America’s super-rich control this Government, and therefore must be overthrown in order for the public to take back control over the Government that rules us.
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The Civil War was based geographically on North versus South, and ideologically on slavery versus equal rights for all; but what’s needed now is to replace today’s American aristocracy — our billionaires — by a democracy: an authentic rule by the public, instead of (like now) rule by the dollars.
The core of the present American conflict is therefore the contest between the idea that control of the Government (like in a corporation, where control depends upon how many shares you have) is aristocratic (based upon how many dollars you have), versus the idea that Americans increasingly desperately NEED to apply in this country, which is democracy, where control of the Government depends instead upon how many (truthfully informed) voters you have. (In today’s America, they’re NOT truthfully informed, because the billionaires control also the media and think tanks, etc.)
In today’s American elections, the billionaires contest against each other by their ‘news’-media and other influencers of the voters, so as to determine which faction of billionaires will dominate the Government, and this is an aristocratic contest in deceit against the public, to determine which side of the aristocracy will be in control of it. (Instead of authentic elections, we have billionaires’ s‘elections’ of nominees, and then public elections of which of those nominees will win.) But it is nonetheless an aristocracy, and not a democracy, because the public’s role in these ‘elections’ is no more important than is the role of a chess-player’s pawns as compared to that player’s king, whose fate actually determines 100% of the game’s outcome. U.S.-and-allied political ‘scientists’ ignore this crucial reaity and pretend that today’s America is a democracy, but it IS the reality in American politics: ONLY the money rules this country — regardless of whether the Republican or the Democratic faction of it does.
In other words: America has become a dictatorship by the country’s richest 1% of its richest 1%, against the remaining 99,999 out of 100,000 of the population, and the only practical question in an American national election is whether the 30% of the nation’s total political money that is donated by the richest 400 American billionaires will be going mainly to the Republican, or instead to the Democratic, Party. Usually, it doesn’t make much of a difference, because all American billionaires are neoconservatives — they place as their highest political priority America’s continuing to grow its (THEIR) international empire — already the largest in all of the world’s history — to encompass ultimately all other countries — or, as Barack Obama repeatedly phrased this, “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation”, which means that all other countries are “dispensable.” He spoke there for all American billionaires, not MERELY for the Democratic ones, because the one thing that all of them agree on is that America must come to control EVERY nation. It isn’t enough for them to control ONLY their own Government — they crave to control the entire world. This is the essence of the world’s largest-ever empire: today’s American empire — it demands to become total. (If you read the reports by the Rand Corporation, American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, etc., they make this very clear.)
In order to be able to do this, America now has 900 foreign military bases, and an annual total military expense of over 1.5 trillion dollars (which includes not only the $900B to the ‘Defense’ Department but the additional $600B+ that’s paid out of the Treasury Department, the Veterans Affairs Department, the Homeland Security Department, the Energy Department, NASA, the FBI, and the intelligence agencies — which $1.5T annual expense is equivalent to the total annual military expenses of every other nation on Earth put together. This $1.5T per year (half of the entire world’s total) has to come from what would otherwise have been productive (instead of such purely destructive) federal-Government spending for the American people: healthcare, education, social security, and general welfare.
