THE REAL POLITIK EDITION: ISSUE 61, VOLUME 91
THE PARADOXICAL DRIFT
The Rise of the False Idols
by Malik Isasis
The investment class in America has been elevated to the level of deities, Masters of the Universe and for the past 30 years, have been given unfettered access to writing public policies—think health care, energy and war, making profits hand over fist in the billions. These so-called gods sponsor our politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, like NASCAR drivers. In affect, our politicians have become agents of the investment class, passing policy on behalf of corporate interests. Forget Madoff, the CEOs of these multi-conglomerate corporations have managed the largest Ponzi-scheme ever created by man, the bankruptcy and the fall of the United States government.
The false idols must know something we don’t because they are taking money as if the house is burning down. During the Bush Era, $9 billion dollars completely disappeared into thin air. During that same time period the corporate news used this opportunity to exploit another kind of looting, that of poor blacks during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
After Hurricane Katrina Congress immediately, appropriated $85 billion dollars for relief. The Bush administration immediately gave no-bid contracts to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, New Orleans currently still lay in waste. Read Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast, by Rita King. Disaster after manmade disaster, there has been profiteering from chaos and utter misery.
Bush After Effects and False Idols
Bush, Republicans and their supporters have ushered in an era that should be known as The Paradoxical Drift, whereby failure is actually seen as success. This country elected a man who’d failed at every career he attempted from an oil tycoon to a baseball team owner, to a Texas governor and yet his failure was rewarded with the presidency, where he went onto to become the biggest failure as a president in the history of the United States.
Bush who once bragged about the investment class being his base has led the way in failing upwards. He and his cabal have found away to capitalize off of destruction. Naomi Klein referred to it as Disaster Capitalism.
Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate "post-conflict" plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries "at the same time," each lasting "five to seven years… Gone are the days of waiting for wars to break out and then drawing up ad hoc plans to pick up the pieces. "
Novelist Daniel Quinn in his novel, Ismael explored the conflict between the Leavers those whom modern culture sees as primitive (hunters and gatherers) and the Takers, the industrialists who see themselves as the pinnacle of evolution (or creation), that the world was made for man, and that man is here to conquer and rule the world. It is within this self-indulgent narrative, that Takers, the investment class, have laid waste to animal cultures, the environment and threaten our very existence.
My criticism of Obama has been the criticism I have charged the whole of the Democratic Party with, and that is accepting Republican talking points as a baseline for debating policy; accepting that Republicans are better with the economy; accepting that Republicans are better on national defense. Just because they say so doesn’t make it true. Reality is my witness. Democrats have internalized Republican hatred of them and over compromised, but when they compromise, the corporate media and Republicans call them “flip-floppers” or weak with no core values. When the Democrats understand that Republicans are out to destroy them, maybe—who the hell am I kidding? Democrats will eventually wither away because of their inability to stand up to the corporate pirates who pay their election bills, and the Republicans who approval they constantly seek.
The corporate media understands that when Republicans are in power, they benefit. So don't be surprised that Obama and the Democratic congress take the fall for 8 years of Republican failure in governance--e.g. the banking system, and two occupations. After 60 days in office the media has already begun trying to raise the Republicans from their political graves by making them seem like the Greek prophetess Cassandra, on bailouts, and fiscal responsibility--only in Bush world, does failure equals success and that any of this would make any sense.
Notice how Corporate Media advances Republican talking points:
THE PARADOXICAL DRIFT
The Rise of the False Idols
by Malik Isasis
The investment class in America has been elevated to the level of deities, Masters of the Universe and for the past 30 years, have been given unfettered access to writing public policies—think health care, energy and war, making profits hand over fist in the billions. These so-called gods sponsor our politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, like NASCAR drivers. In affect, our politicians have become agents of the investment class, passing policy on behalf of corporate interests. Forget Madoff, the CEOs of these multi-conglomerate corporations have managed the largest Ponzi-scheme ever created by man, the bankruptcy and the fall of the United States government.
The false idols must know something we don’t because they are taking money as if the house is burning down. During the Bush Era, $9 billion dollars completely disappeared into thin air. During that same time period the corporate news used this opportunity to exploit another kind of looting, that of poor blacks during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
After Hurricane Katrina Congress immediately, appropriated $85 billion dollars for relief. The Bush administration immediately gave no-bid contracts to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, New Orleans currently still lay in waste. Read Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast, by Rita King. Disaster after manmade disaster, there has been profiteering from chaos and utter misery.
Bush After Effects and False Idols
Bush, Republicans and their supporters have ushered in an era that should be known as The Paradoxical Drift, whereby failure is actually seen as success. This country elected a man who’d failed at every career he attempted from an oil tycoon to a baseball team owner, to a Texas governor and yet his failure was rewarded with the presidency, where he went onto to become the biggest failure as a president in the history of the United States.
Bush who once bragged about the investment class being his base has led the way in failing upwards. He and his cabal have found away to capitalize off of destruction. Naomi Klein referred to it as Disaster Capitalism.
Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate "post-conflict" plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries "at the same time," each lasting "five to seven years… Gone are the days of waiting for wars to break out and then drawing up ad hoc plans to pick up the pieces. "
Novelist Daniel Quinn in his novel, Ismael explored the conflict between the Leavers those whom modern culture sees as primitive (hunters and gatherers) and the Takers, the industrialists who see themselves as the pinnacle of evolution (or creation), that the world was made for man, and that man is here to conquer and rule the world. It is within this self-indulgent narrative, that Takers, the investment class, have laid waste to animal cultures, the environment and threaten our very existence.
My criticism of Obama has been the criticism I have charged the whole of the Democratic Party with, and that is accepting Republican talking points as a baseline for debating policy; accepting that Republicans are better with the economy; accepting that Republicans are better on national defense. Just because they say so doesn’t make it true. Reality is my witness. Democrats have internalized Republican hatred of them and over compromised, but when they compromise, the corporate media and Republicans call them “flip-floppers” or weak with no core values. When the Democrats understand that Republicans are out to destroy them, maybe—who the hell am I kidding? Democrats will eventually wither away because of their inability to stand up to the corporate pirates who pay their election bills, and the Republicans who approval they constantly seek.
The corporate media understands that when Republicans are in power, they benefit. So don't be surprised that Obama and the Democratic congress take the fall for 8 years of Republican failure in governance--e.g. the banking system, and two occupations. After 60 days in office the media has already begun trying to raise the Republicans from their political graves by making them seem like the Greek prophetess Cassandra, on bailouts, and fiscal responsibility--only in Bush world, does failure equals success and that any of this would make any sense.
Notice how Corporate Media advances Republican talking points:
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