The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I donтАЩt plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. ItтАЩs not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidatesтАФa great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. IтАЩm not sure how empties are tabulatedтАФthere are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentageтАФsay ten per centтАФof ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hackedтАФhacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral systemтАжif itтАЩs even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
IтАЩm assuming empties were tossed because there were so few. But if ten percent were empty, that would at least cause circumspection (if not panic) in the offices of the Secretaries of State. However, the various efforts by Ds and Rs over the last two elections to deligitimize presidential election results may have already done enough damage to electoral trust in the system to make all future presidential elections disputable, so it may be irrelevant.
Once Roe v Wade is overturned, I wonтАЩt be surprised if some states test the legality of secession. Combine that with all the other usual problems of empireтАФoverreach, hubris, the feeding frenzy of competing internal power factions, the rise of credible foreign alternative systemsтАФand there is a plausible chance there wonтАЩt even be another U.S. presidential election. So thereтАЩs that.
I'll certainly agree that the validity of American elections have been under attack since Reagan was elected and William Casey made his deal with Iran over the hostages. I wouldn't be surprised to find the student leaders of the hostage takers were paid by the USA in some way.
The New Atlas put out a very thorough expose of the NED's (National Endowment for Democracy) efforts in Thailand to overthrow that nation's government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYSzaZQyro
We are in the middle of WWIII and have been since PNAC was formed. We're just too ignorant to see it because it was being carried out by NGOs and PMCs. Gonzalo Lira has a very short explanation (12 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSN85dsx4XY&t=57s
The Oligarchy runs the show here now. It maybe has since the American Revolution. A revelation as horrible as this can only make you doubt everything. Was Tom Brokaw's homage to "The Greatest Generation" nothing more than a propaganda yarn to get them to shut up and not talk about how they were finally understanding why WWII came about?
Now we're talking "conspiracy theory", but it's a "Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory" under which all others make sense. Like physics and the search for the God Particle.
We seem to have the same taste in media content--I've seen both the New Atlas and Lira videos. While I'm a natural cynic, I do try from time to time to find a silver lining, and the fact that more an more people are finding accurate news sources is heartening. While the censorship hammer has yet to completely fall--I expect a total purge on YouTube any day now--more and more people are waking up...I think...I hope.
Regarding the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, that is a vast rabbit hole, but it is worth exploring. However, under the current thought control regime, such explorations quickly get into ideas of such enormity that even those of us with open, rational minds begin to exceed cognitive limits and/or the limits of what we've been brain-trained since birth to find within "the bounds." Still, that is the game, and we must keep trying to sort it out.
"Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, that is a vast rabbit hole,"
I almost agree with you, but it kind of isn't because it takes all the Rabbit Holes we can possibly go down and gives us a reason to believe they just might have some kind of validity. The question is how to reexamine our biases and reconcile the differences.
but, yeah, it would be easier to keep our discussion on God.
Agreed. All we have to do is undo all the neuro-linguistic-logic damage caused by a life time of bogus education, military and religious indoctrination, Hollywood enculturation, media manufactured consent, mass formation, endless psyops, a hundred million advertisements, forced use of pharmaceuticals, and exposure to industrial toxins and electromagnetic radiation and itтАЩll all become crystal clear. At that point, I suspect the whole topic of God will become either a) irrelevant or b) elementary.
WaitтАжI think IтАЩm suddenly realizing what Kubrick was doing with the planet-sized fetus at the end of тАЬ2001тАЭтАж.
Don't forget to account for the influence of the Soros/Schwab/WEF/Davos crew.
At this point I am hoping for chaos and destruction. Wait for 2025, when we may well have a Coronal Mass Ejection Event that will take out the Internet for several years (I hope). Check it out. The NOAA already has a CME tracker on their web page.
As far as the CME goes, I think the Oligarchy is already well on track to eliminate as many as 7B people from this planet over the next several years. The "supply chain" problems didn't "just happen". Afghanistan is already starving to death and nothing is going to be done about it -- except to ignore it.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
True, Trump/Hillary; Trump/Biden; Obama/McCain; Obama/Romney; Bush/Kerry;
Can't think of a single election where I really had an honest choice. I started sitting them out in 2016.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I donтАЩt plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. ItтАЩs not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidatesтАФa great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. IтАЩm not sure how empties are tabulatedтАФthere are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentageтАФsay ten per centтАФof ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hackedтАФhacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral systemтАжif itтАЩs even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
IтАЩm assuming empties were tossed because there were so few. But if ten percent were empty, that would at least cause circumspection (if not panic) in the offices of the Secretaries of State. However, the various efforts by Ds and Rs over the last two elections to deligitimize presidential election results may have already done enough damage to electoral trust in the system to make all future presidential elections disputable, so it may be irrelevant.
Once Roe v Wade is overturned, I wonтАЩt be surprised if some states test the legality of secession. Combine that with all the other usual problems of empireтАФoverreach, hubris, the feeding frenzy of competing internal power factions, the rise of credible foreign alternative systemsтАФand there is a plausible chance there wonтАЩt even be another U.S. presidential election. So thereтАЩs that.
I'll certainly agree that the validity of American elections have been under attack since Reagan was elected and William Casey made his deal with Iran over the hostages. I wouldn't be surprised to find the student leaders of the hostage takers were paid by the USA in some way.
The New Atlas put out a very thorough expose of the NED's (National Endowment for Democracy) efforts in Thailand to overthrow that nation's government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYSzaZQyro
We are in the middle of WWIII and have been since PNAC was formed. We're just too ignorant to see it because it was being carried out by NGOs and PMCs. Gonzalo Lira has a very short explanation (12 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSN85dsx4XY&t=57s
The Oligarchy runs the show here now. It maybe has since the American Revolution. A revelation as horrible as this can only make you doubt everything. Was Tom Brokaw's homage to "The Greatest Generation" nothing more than a propaganda yarn to get them to shut up and not talk about how they were finally understanding why WWII came about?
Now we're talking "conspiracy theory", but it's a "Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory" under which all others make sense. Like physics and the search for the God Particle.
We seem to have the same taste in media content--I've seen both the New Atlas and Lira videos. While I'm a natural cynic, I do try from time to time to find a silver lining, and the fact that more an more people are finding accurate news sources is heartening. While the censorship hammer has yet to completely fall--I expect a total purge on YouTube any day now--more and more people are waking up...I think...I hope.
Regarding the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, that is a vast rabbit hole, but it is worth exploring. However, under the current thought control regime, such explorations quickly get into ideas of such enormity that even those of us with open, rational minds begin to exceed cognitive limits and/or the limits of what we've been brain-trained since birth to find within "the bounds." Still, that is the game, and we must keep trying to sort it out.
"Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, that is a vast rabbit hole,"
I almost agree with you, but it kind of isn't because it takes all the Rabbit Holes we can possibly go down and gives us a reason to believe they just might have some kind of validity. The question is how to reexamine our biases and reconcile the differences.
but, yeah, it would be easier to keep our discussion on God.
Agreed. All we have to do is undo all the neuro-linguistic-logic damage caused by a life time of bogus education, military and religious indoctrination, Hollywood enculturation, media manufactured consent, mass formation, endless psyops, a hundred million advertisements, forced use of pharmaceuticals, and exposure to industrial toxins and electromagnetic radiation and itтАЩll all become crystal clear. At that point, I suspect the whole topic of God will become either a) irrelevant or b) elementary.
WaitтАжI think IтАЩm suddenly realizing what Kubrick was doing with the planet-sized fetus at the end of тАЬ2001тАЭтАж.
Don't forget to account for the influence of the Soros/Schwab/WEF/Davos crew.
At this point I am hoping for chaos and destruction. Wait for 2025, when we may well have a Coronal Mass Ejection Event that will take out the Internet for several years (I hope). Check it out. The NOAA already has a CME tracker on their web page.
I'd sound like a broken record. :-)
Thanks for bringing up the Oligarchs in detail.
As far as the CME goes, I think the Oligarchy is already well on track to eliminate as many as 7B people from this planet over the next several years. The "supply chain" problems didn't "just happen". Afghanistan is already starving to death and nothing is going to be done about it -- except to ignore it.
Trump is a "good thing"?
That campaign is phony. He's just going to put in his "own experts" whose job is to bilk the US treasury and pay a different set of Oligarchs.