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One of the great unanswered questions of now is this: is the gruesome state of the world the result of a few big idiots, a lot of little idiots, or, perhaps, a lot of little idiots following a few big idiots, like so many times before in history? There’s a simpler way of putting all that: is democracy obsolete?
You don’t have to look too hard to see the tragicomic plight I mention. There are the big idiots. A fascist American president, pimping democracy for cash and favours…then boasting about it…and then throwing tantrums about being caught…as if Monty Python wrote the Godfather. A British PM who repulses decent people with the vapid rhetoric of war, extremism, and hate. The list could go on for a very long time — but let’s delve in.
Then there are the masses of idiots who — stupidly — helped these grotesque men rise to power, only to be…double crossed. The Trump voter who lost his or her job thanks to tariffs. The Brexiter whose career got blown up thanks to businesses moving en masse. And so on. The little idiots got used, manipulated, abused, and dumped by the big idiots. But since they’re idiots — most of them don’t care. Maybe that’s the most astonishing thing of all. Mostly, the Trumpets and the Brexiter are still…the Trumpist and the Brexiter…despite being hurt most by…Trumpism and Brexit. But then how else would they be idiots?
The big idiots and the little idiots — in a suicide pact. These day, the world seems to be plagued by them, in this weird, fatal, dynamic. The big idiots lead the little idiots to the edge of the cliff. They say: “Jump. You’re not going to fall — you’re going to fly!!” The little idiots high-five, and take a leap. Gravity kicks in. They start to plunge downwards, into the abyss. But the whole way down, they keep telling themselves: “any minute now! I’m going to fly! They told me so!” Smack!! Have we hit bottom yet? Nope. And so the suicide pact between the big idiots and the little ones is still at work everywhere. Is that an accurate summary of the world right about now?
So how did we get here? I think that the rise of the idiots has everything to do with neoliberalism, or, more simply, American capitalism as a system with which to run not just the world — but an attitude that came to pervade minds. An attitude of a kind of selfishness to the point of martyrdom. If that doesn’t make sense, think about what the martyr really wants: 72 virgins in the glorious afterlife. They’re not in it for anything other than themselves. But I’ll get to that.
A good sign that the Wall Street Journal was accurate in reporting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on a call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the lack of denial from the White House. The White House and the president deny true things all the time, but generally around the edges — as when press secretary Stephanie Grisham tried to claim that Trump hadn’t urged Zelensky to work with his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani because “Zelensky mentioned [Giuliani] first.”
After the Pompeo report, though? Nothing. No “fake news!!” tweet from Trump; nothing from Grisham suggesting that the Journal was bent on Trump’s destruction. And, sure enough, on Wednesday, Pompeo https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-whistleblower/2019/10/02/80df829a-e494-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_3 (admitted) his participation on the call.
When the Journal story broke, it came as a surprise. A complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower mentioned that they’d been told that a senior State Department staff member was on the call, but not Pompeo himself. So when Pompeo was asked about the call after it became public knowledge, he knew something no one else did: He was privy to it in real time.
That was not information he revealed when asked about the issue. Instead, he offered a master class in misleading the public without technically saying anything untrue.
On ABC’s “This Week” on Sept. 22 — before the White House had released a rough transcript of the call — host Martha Raddatz raised the issue of the whistleblower complaint and the call with Pompeo.
“The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump pressed the president of Ukraine eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden’s son,” Raddatz said. “What do you know about those conversations?”
The honest answer is that Pompeo knew a lot, having been on the phone. That’s not what Pompeo said.
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The money powers behind the unconstitutional federal reserve, which took over the USA in 1913 have been buying off politicians and calling the shots for over 100 years.
President Trump has been castigating the Fed. Trump is NOT The PROBLEM.
President Trump has been castigating the Fed. Trump is NOT The PROBLEM.
