Comments on: An Optimist’s Version of Apocalypse Now

By: Monty Pelerin

Monty Pelerin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:20:53 +0000

Your points in both comments are well taken. There is nothing to disagree with. As Yogi Berra allegedly said, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” We are now at that fork. The people seem to want to go one way and the politicians the other. It should be an amazing next decade or two.

By: jer_the_bear

jer_the_bear — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:11:26 +0000

J.-A.-I.-S.:

Banking is not capitalistic, it is oligarchic and transnational in nature. Since it relies on monopoly and exists by gov’t blessing, it is more socialist than it is anything else. Whose dime sent Lenin to Petrograd?

Socialism is alive and well in America and killing it dead. The best-looked-after proletariat in the world renews your driving license, indoctrinates your children, delivers your mail, writes your parking tickets and tells you who you can/can’t hire/fire and what you can do with your own property, IN ADDITION TO driving tanks and flying Predators. Besides these it has a dependable and massive cadre of single moms, illegal immigrants and gangbangers to ensure it is never voted out or dismantled regardless of party in power.

The rest struggle uphill to keep shops open, mills and mines running and farms growing our food while bureaucrats and those gov’t-sanctioned “legal persons” called Corporations slowly squeeze the life out of them. (Jefferson warned about them too.)

Nietzsche is no foundation to build any society on, unless you plan to exterminate all the “shopkeepers, Christians, cows, females, Englishmen, and other bourgeoise”.

Do you?

By: jer_the_bear

jer_the_bear — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:29:50 +0000

Agree. Even here in Canada there are too many people who watch Glenn Beck and consider themselves on the “inside track” of information (those crooked Democrats, those bumbling Republicans). You have two hand puppets, a Donkey and an Elephant, and everybody arguing over them. The puppeteer just smirks.

The 3rd Party option had a great chance 17 years ago and the PTB shut Perot down. A groundswell of support for Ron Paul got no traction in the Republican Party. If he went 3rd Party he’d be assassinated. So the situation has to be bad enough that a literal Nobody can rise up. And that Nobody could just as easily be a Bonaparte as a Jefferson.

Do what you can to reform your system, but you must personally prepare yourself as best you can for the worst, and do it yesterday.

“Money controls the world. Bankers control the money. Lucifer controls the Bankers.”

By: Monty Pelerin

Monty Pelerin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:43:32 +0000

A third party effort cannot succeed in my opinion. At best it can make a reasonable showing and then build from there. Perhaps succeed in 2016 or 2020. That will probably be too late.

By: Jeffersonian-Anti-Israel-Socialist

Jeffersonian-Anti-Israel-Socialist — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:54:21 +0000

Monty: Sorry for my delay in replying. But i think that it is time for people in America to create a United Front against the ruling oligarchic classes of this country, as an electoral option for 2012 or 2016.