"Is he a meth goony bird? He seems to be flopping around the
stage like a creature who's lost his wings. He's talking about VALUES,
but it's clear he's lost those, too. Something happened to his brain
somewhere along the line. Something bad. Maybe
it all came from too much preaching. Talking super-simple to
simpletons could cause contraction and shrinkage in both lobes. He's
running for the US senate...He's a chunk of cardboard standing on the
shoulders of cardboard, going back centuries." (fragment
from "New Conservatives and Old Conservatives," by Jon Rappoport)
In this piece, I'm not writing about what the conservative position
should be; I'm writing about what it is most of the time. And when it
comes to Welfare, the attitude is: pay the individual less, the family
less, and the corporation more. Find every
possible way to chisel money out of the government on behalf of
corporations. And don't worry---you'll find many allies in elected
government positions. They're basically there to please and assist the
"conservative." Insurance companies, oil companies,
construction companies, biotech, drug companies, defense
contractors---they're the real constituency. They always need more
money. They always need government help. They always need Welfare to
keep going. They talk about freedom and strength, but what
makes them super-strong is government tax money and invented money.
Whoever came up with the term "corporate welfare" wasn't kidding
around. Scratch a conservative candidate for Congress and this is what
you usually find below the surface: a Welfarist.
Try to find justification for corporate welfare in the Constitution.
Good luck. A typical conservative may shower praise on the Constitution
and the original intent of the Founders, but he somehow misses the
point when it comes to shoveling huge amounts
of government budget money on to corporate tables. To put it another
way, he wants to be known as a pure priest of Original Intent, but he's
actually a whore. And, to put a cherry on the cake, all his life he's
assumed bullshit is the only reliable product
in the marketplace. Maybe that's why he wears such a big grin in
public. Maybe that's why his clothes and his hair and his tone of voice
keep screaming FAKE.
A long time ago, I interviewed a "conservative politician" off the
record. When the subject turned to re-election, he said, "Of course I
know who the major companies are in my district. You can't get elected
unless you're on their side. They want government
money for new pet projects. They expect you to get it for them.
Actually, this creates jobs. I'm a bleeding heart for companies and
their workers. I want to get them more money, no matter what tricks I
have to pull off..."
Imagine, I don't know, 20 thousand politicians, at various levels of
government, operating in this way across the whole country. Do you
think this comes pretty close to government owning the means of
production---in other words, socialism?
"Hi, I'm a stone cold conservative socialist. Let me explain. I think
you'll be on my side when you understand the realities of the
situation..."
What I'm describing in this article is a major reason big government is
such a convoluted mess. It's a Rube Goldberg machine, contradicting
itself and turning forward and backwards at the same time. Almost all
elected officials are socialists of one brand
or another, no matter what they profess. Speaking of messes, many
people remember Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld's famous statement about
the "unaccounted for" trillions of dollars in Pentagon bookkeeping
accounts. Without going into the deeper darker implications
of that remark, it illustrates an (intentionally) hopeless tangle of
hundreds of separate accounting government money records. This is what
you'd expect from a behemoth dedicated to unconstitutional spending from
one end of the sky to the other...
What about governments' contracts with biotech giants like
Monsanto/Bayer? How much government money has flowed into the coffers
of those toxic outfits? That's tax money plus money invented out of
thin air. You might think a conservative politician would
staunchly oppose this practice, but in most cases you would be wrong.
No, gigantic government $$ landing in corporations' laps is
characterized as being "in line with the basic principles of
Constitutional government." After all, "the business of America
is business."
One of the central tenets of conservatism is preservation of property
rights. How does EXPANDING THE PROPERTY of major corporations, through
filling their coffers with government money and more money, have
anything to do with property rights? How is the right
to Pork a conservative notion, in any traditional sense?
When a so-called conservative pol gets up on his hand legs and speaks in
favor of one of the Globalist trade treaties, like GATT or NAFTA, he is
essentially handing major corporations billions of dollars in tariffs
THAT DON'T HAVE TO BE PAID. What article
or amendment of the Constitution is that in line with? Granted, the
whole subject of international trade is complex and fraught with
interventionist tactics from the get-go---but tariffs on imported goods
go a long way toward protecting free and open competition
among domestic companies. Globalism picks and chooses favored
corporations, to the gross detriment of smaller businesses.
In case some readers think this article isn't delving deeply enough into
conspiracies (in that case, see my articles on Antony Sutton and Gary
Allen), consider the vast culture that has been created around fake
conservatives, who rake in votes through appearing
to be "traditionalists." Accepting the honesty of such politicians,
with all their phony tells, is on the level of believing in a Sunday TV
preacher who is spouting clichés at six mile a minute, while "raising
cash for God." How is a nation being engineered
to include millions of these believers? What chemicals, education
system, "family values" are being launched at their minds, on a
continuing basis? Why aren't "conservative" pols laughed out of court?
(Of course, the political Left is no better; I consider
it worse, and I've written many words on the subject.) For every
monumental con game to succeed, you need true believers; and the growth
and nurturing of such suckers in turn requires a culture of programming
that can successfully reduce all issues to super-literal
and super-simple thoughts.
Now that's a covert op worthy of the name.
Addendum: An example of who and what I'm talking about, on the Left,
would be Joe Biden. Earlier in his political career, as a US senator,
he was an extremely sharp talker on matters of foreign policy. Perhaps
because of a life-threatening brain aneurysm,
and two surgeries, he changed. By the time he became vice-president
under Obama, the press considered him a kind of loose-talking clown, a
joke. He seemed "off." But then, the media reshaped him as a
"competent politician." The creepy-Joe scandal aside,
Biden has actually turned into a cliché machine. Who can believe that
what's coming out of his mouth should be taken seriously? Apparently,
many brainwashed people...
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