RE: The FISA Memo is Our Fight Against the Swamp
"Political victories, not serving the people who elected you, are more important than any other consideration."
Well, I reckon that depends on how you define who elected you, the voters, mere pawns, or the wholly owned media and big money that enables candidates to bamboozle voters.
At this point I have come to see the struggle between Trump and the deep state as between two would be rulers. It is currently necessary for Trump to court the hoi polloi, as it is our outrage at corruption and criminal thuggery that most strongly opposes his enemies.
Some takeaways from the SOTU I noted were his incessant statism, and an apparent focus on maintaining, even increasing, the power of bureaucracies over civilians.
Nothing is a greater threat to our freedom, and as long as Trump perpetuates that power - which I expect he will, as it's now his power - we will be subject to it. Even if he clears out every extant corrupt bureaucrat, it will not take long before all new slimeballs slither into office to extract our essence, colluding with one another and the banksters.
His Goldman Sachs appointees perhaps best exemplify that promise of continued subjection of Americans to the bankster controlled state.
While the temporary purge of corrupt thugs will be a boon, unless the mechanism that potentiates that thuggery is destroyed and replaced with something that enables people to be free of oppression, it will prove to be nothing but a trick that enables those seeking actual freedom to be sucked in.
I watched Infowars voice approval for the very things they were born to oppose: the abuse of intelligence agencies for political purposes, secret and unlawful rendition and indefinite detention, and the growth of federal power over Americans.
That, more than anything else I saw, greatly disheartened me during the SOTU.
It is imperative we not mistake being used to counter Trump's enemies with being set free from abusive government, as Trump appears intent on not only maintaining the bureaucratic structure that has imperiled us, but increasing it.
Thanks!
Yes, the SOTU was a pile of steaming statism. No question about that. But, Trump's job in this is to tear down the current iteration of statism and allow the next generation to define its terms. I don't think it will be as over-the-top Marxist as the current system.
Marxism is the dominant political ideology of the age and as it dies it will try to take the voluntary society down with it. That's why they keep on polluting the word 'capitalism' to mean corporatism. It's why they won't 'go gently into that good night.'
So, all I'm saying with all of my work is that there is an order of operations here that has to be respected. First, expose the system's true corruption for what it is. Then make the case that it was the system itself that was corrupt not the people who made it corrupt.
The system allows corrupt people a path to exercise their corruption and their lust to rule. That's what we're fighting ultimately and that's what we need to stay focused on in our discussions with people as this moves forward.
Trump is just a blunt instrument, a tool to bludgeon the forces of Marxism into submission. He's not a rebuilder.
This won't result in a flourishing anarchic society on the other side, but the pendulum will swing closer than it was during this cycle. This is a process not a state function.