{"id":265331,"date":"2023-02-20T07:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265331"},"modified":"2023-02-21T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:12:00","slug":"in-america-democracy-is-a-veil-behind-which-the-oligarchy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265331","title":{"rendered":"In America Democracy Is a Veil Behind Which the Oligarchy Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts — paulcraigroberts.org Feb 19, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Can Americans govern themselves as the Founding Fathers intended?\u00a0 The clear answer is no, not under the arrangements that exist today.\u00a0 Self-rule pretends to exist, because people vote.\u00a0 People might get the candidates for whom they voted, although we know that that was not the case in the past two national elections.\u00a0 It is easy for big city machines to steal the vote as was proved in Biden\u2019s \u201celection\u201d and the last Arizona \u201celection\u201d for governor.<\/p>\n

Even if the elections are fair and the candidates who win are declared winners, it doesn\u2019t mean that the people are represented.\u00a0 The reason is that the representative, senator, governor, and president elected knows that his success depended on large campaign contributors, such as pharmaceutical companies, the military-security complex, energy, mining, and timber corporations, agribusiness, real estate developers, etc.\u00a0 Unless a candidate is a billionaire, it is impossible for him to run unless he has large contributors intent on having their interests served.<\/p>\n

This means that the interests of large campaign contributors come first.\u00a0 They are the ones who originate bills and control the outcomes with lobbying.\u00a0 We also know that every regulatory agency is captured by the group that is being regulated.\u00a0 For example, the Covid protocols and \u201cvaccine\u201d mandates proved that the NIH, CDC, and FDA are marketing agents for Big Pharma, not protecters of the public\u2019s health.\u00a0 Why do you think that America alone is always at war?\u00a0 It is because of profits for the armaments corporations.\u00a0 Washington has institutionalized three formidable enemies\u2013Russia, China, and Iran\u2013and that guarantees the budget and power of the military\/security complex.<\/p>\n

Americans cannot govern themselves because an oligarchy governs through campaign contributions. A crazed, indeed one could say treasonous, US Supreme Court destroyed all accountability of government to the people in 2010 with its Citizens United ruling that legalized the private purchase of government by removing limits on campaign contributions in the name of free speech, a ruling that turned corporations into people.\u00a0 Much has been written about this \u00a0nonsensical ruling.\u00a0 You can find plenty to read about the ruling on your own.<\/p>\n

In an article in the City Journal<\/em> (Winter 2023) Martin Gurri describes a constellation of forces that block a popular agenda, by which he means one that the majority of voters wants.\u00a0 Gurri understands that legitimacy is what citizens bestow on government, not what government bestows on citizens, but that is not the way government works.\u00a0 Everywhere in the Western World government of every country ignores what the people want.\u00a0 No population in Europe wants to be drawn into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0 Not a single government cares.\u00a0 No population wants to be overrun by immigrant-invaders.\u00a0 Not a single government cares. All over the Western world there were strong protests against mandatory Covid vaccination, lockdowns, mask mandates, Covid passports, and only Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida paid any attention.\u00a0 The people are against censorship, but it exists. The people are against their kids being indoctrinated in schools with critical race theory and gender theory, but the indoctrination continues with government support and financing.\u00a0 Indeed, a current Assistant Secretary of Education is trying to write the indoctrination into regulatory law as a requirement.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/02\/16\/schools-are-indoctrinating-children-into-believing-that-they-are-in-the-wrong-body\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If the oligarchy miscalculates, as it did with Donald Trump, and a representative of the people gets elected, the oligarchy immediately begins attacks that prevent him from accomplishing anything.\u00a0 If reelected, the oligarchy refuses to acknowledge it and uses its monopoly over power to declare its chosen candidate the victor.\u00a0 President Trump endured four years of \u00a0orchestrated Russiagate, two orchestrated impeachment attempts, with orchestrated Insurrectiongate and \u00a0orchestrated Documentgate still continuing, and his reelection was denied him in the most blatantly obvious stolen election in human history.<\/p>\n

Martin Gurri thinks that digitization will enable the people to govern by referendums.\u00a0 Fat chance that those in power will permit any such thing or acknowledge the referendums if they were held.\u00a0 Surely a person as clued in as Gurri doesn\u2019t think the ruling elite will allow \u00a0government to \u00a0be accountable to anyone but themselves.<\/p>\n

The baldfaced undeniable fact is this:\u00a0 Government accountable to the people is impossible unless all money is taken out of politics.\u00a0 As long as the Citizens United decision stands, it is strictly impossible for government to be accountable to the voters. As long as America lacks an independent media with integrity, it is strictly impossible for government to be accountable to the people.\u00a0 In America democracy is nothing but a veil behind which the oligarchy rules.<\/p>\n

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