Public Enemy Number One: The Elites (aka, the "Have's")

[wcepler]

Once upon a time there was a country which had high ideals and a noble constitution and even though the people didn't agree about everything, life carried on and they made the best of their lives.

But all was not well in this country and no one really knew why. They paid their taxes, loved their kids, and many of them (not all) were devoutly religious, but they kept being dragged into war after war (which massacred their beloved children) and the rest of the planet increasingly hated their guts.

Also, no matter how hard they worked (in their squirrel cage world); they had to run faster and faster to stay even with their family's needs. There was a time when these needs were met with the income of one parent, but now BOTH parents had to work and often one or both of them had to have two jobs.

And somehow their health plans (and "insurance" in general) kept going belly up along with their 30 and 40 year earned retirements. In fact practically nobody "retired" any more since most people had to keep working into their 80's to pay mortgages which never seemed to pay down.

Also, suddenly (although it really only "seemed" suddenly) Mother Nature kept being gang banged by Texas Energy Corporations who forced people to buy Earth-killing fossil fuels -- even though there were literally 5 or 6 alternative energy methodologies (excluding atomic energy) which had been cost effective for ten or more years. But it was secretly whispered that the Texas OIL Corporations kept "buying them out" (i.e., declaring financial war on them), so the country was trapped into using the LEAST cost effective and MOST Earth-killing "energy" methodology on the planet.

Indeed, even more secretly it was discussed that the wars which killed tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent people (naturally many of them children), were really criminal invasions of other countries (justified with presidential lies) to STEAL THEIR OIL.

And then a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions happened to this country. Two planes crashed into two buildings in a major city and the buildings collapsed. The political party in power claimed this was an act of "terrorism" from another country and used this to "counter attack" with vengeance. However, it tuned out that the countries they attacked were countries with (you guessed it!) OIL, so people began to wonder if these "wars" were really about stealing the oil of the countries there was NO PROOF were responsible for the planes. Indeed it WAS proved was that the president of this country lied over and over again to justify the wars.

This catastrophe was called 9/11 and it was FANTASTICALLY beneficial to the party in power and what was called the "neocon agenda". But what was tragically worse was (is) exponentially growing scientific and observational evidence which basically proved these disasters were not merely the result of the "ineptitude" of the ruling party (since they had received a blizzard of very detailed warnings of EXACTLY would was set to happen), but this “day of infamy” was even worse than the WW2 one, since it seemed to be an "inside job", i.e., far from happening in spite of the government, it was engineered or at least facilitated BY the government. In short, mountains of objective evidence point to 9/11 as a day of infinite treason.

And finally the "government" of this country took away basically all regulations of food, environmental protections, pharmaceutical regulations, and regulations of complex financial markets and corporations. This resulted in a broken economy, a raped and murdered environment, poisonous food, and a catastrophic worsening of such life and death issues as vastly enlarged ozone holes and a melting of the ice caps due to global warming, and the deliberate destruction of ecosystems necessary for widespread human existence.

In short, the current government of this country instituted policies and changes that looked more and more like deliberate genocide of the middle and lower classes. For example, a city was intentionally murdered (called New Orleans) by systematically allowing the life and death levees to fail. People also remembered that white Europeans FORCED inoculations ("for their own good") on trusting and defenseless Africans which was followed by an epidemic of aides that decimated the Continent. Indeed, the horror of what was “done to” Africa by arrogant white Europeans would make Jesus weep.

Also, during the reign of this "government", educational programs were dumbed down to a level of illiteracy never known before in this country. Science too, suffered terribly, since it was virtually under funded out of existence by a congress and president, most of whom were probably in the lower 40th percentile of human education and intelligence. In short the dumbos were running the show.

Clearly, we're describing a country in very, very dire straits.

And now to the why

The nearly limitless power at work here is no longer "behind the scenes" (as they mostly were eight years ago).

This is not a country victimized by "bad luck", "Acts of God", or random events. This is a country with a government of elite ONE dem/pug party puppets (e.g., DLC = RNC). Ironically, elites" is really a flattering word, since it simply means national/international billionaires and multi-billionaires (many of whom are also religious fanatics).

Alas (as we all heartbreakingly know), the above isn't a gruesome fairy tale, it's the United States of America (more accurately, the United States of the Elites). Elites (aka the pig, pig rich, aka the "Have's") are the literal Gods and Goddesses of planet Earth. Not so long ago, they were called Kings and Queens, or more generally the "Aristocracy", and we were called variously peasants, peons, serfs, or slaves.

The "gap" between their world and working class (or middle or lower class) Americans is astronomical. They live like Gods and they have the power (i.e., wealth) of Gods and they know how to use it to reduce the rest of the human race cattle or corpses.

But how does a relative handful of (usually "old money") elites manage to maintain the American Dictatorship of the Rich? Of course, the same question applies to nearly every country on the planet which is similarly an oligarchy, or God forbid, and oligarchy/theocracy, since NOTHING on planet Earth is as poisonous as a billionaire, retarded religious fanatic.

Of course they do it with money, money, money, but the infrastructure of the elites is so bewilderingly complex and secretive that it seems invulnerable.

But is ISN'T invulnerable and it ISN'T hopelessly complex, since if we can create the art form glories of human history, transcend the common sense box with transcendental scientific intuitions, and even "somehow" keep our families afloat in this working class financial hell, we can to ANYTHING.

Step one is to "know your enemy" and with absolute certainty "Public Enemy Number One" are the vampire elites. THESE are the devil-humans who are killing our country, our planet, and our very lives, and they've been doing it basically uninterruptedly for 6,000 years or more.

Step two is how do you destroy your enemy? And yes, "destroy" is the word, for there's no compromising with Greek God-like elites. We should never forget they see themselves with infinite conceit (phrases like "Divine Right", "Manifest Destiny", and "Survival of the Fittest") come to mind.

But knowing the ultimate cause of human suffering (infinite elite greed and evil) shows us where to focus OUR infinite frustration and rage. We've been eating their s___ for literally thousands of years and enough is enough is enough.

The good news is that their number one "fire wall" has already been breached, because that fire wall was identical to their Heart of Darkness. Evil best flourishes "in the dark", but thanks to eight straight years of hog trough greed of the Bush/neocon/fascists, the elites have totally and permanently "blown their cover".

And what about the "complexity" of their elaborately constructed financial/legal spider web of secrecy and power? Yes, that's a tough one, but you know what? Once you start looking deeply into it, gradually, gradually it all becomes clear. But that's where the buck has to stop with us. WE have to dig out the loathsome details of how they got and keep their money (e.g., as just one example, it's actually rather easy to site documents about how much of the Bush fortune came from "deals" with the Nazis before, during, and after WW2).

One warning. Astounding corruption starts coming out when you examine the elite infrastructure. You won't believe what filth supports, for example, the Rockefeller's, Rothschild’s, and Harriman’s -- all of whom had (and have?) VERY direct connections with WW2 Nazis. These "people", these elites have sold the souls of their countries over and over and over again to keep and expand their astronomical wealth. Most of these "wealth families" are beyond corruption. They transcend what we usually think of as human evil. They are devils incarnate and, like literal vampires, their teeth are dripping with the blood of the human race.

If the elites could be destroyed (remember, NO COMPROMISE), the wealth that would flood the planet would liberate literally BILLIONS of suffering human beings from early death, disease, and despair.

Just as the evil of their hoarded wealth has no bounds, so would the "good" of returning this wealth to the human race in general have no bounds.

Lastly, remember we're talking about only around one percent of the human community. But it is not hyperbole to say that this one percent (or less) is directly or indirectly responsible for 99% of all human suffering.

So time to DO WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO: change laws, transcend politics, mount the barricades, optimize the internet, etc., etc., to assist evolution to permanently select out the elites, since they are not only responsible for unimaginable human suffering; they also so upset the checks and balances of biological human existence, they are rapidly (and rapidly indeed, compared to even bare minimum geological time) dragging the human species into the abyss of extinction.

So, it's the elites or us. It really is that simple.
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W. Christopher Epler

<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>

Addendum: When you factor exponentially expanding 21st Century technology (for evil or good) into this, the brutal truth is that our generation is very probably the human race’s last chance to heal itself from the metastasized and terminal cancer of the elites. So it’s not only the elites or us -- it’s also, now or never.

[leftofthedial]

1. but, but, but, they're rich! They're better than us!

They deserve more! They're entitled!

[Dragonfli]

2. It has metastasized hasn't it? An old game, an old disease

And indeed we are running out of time.

The hard part my friend is finding the cure before it is too late, I only hope there is one. Keep me posted if you learn of any treatments.

[Sherman A1]

3. I support the idea, but

I believe the Robber Barons will always be with us in one form or another.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Higher tax rates and closed shelters/loopholes

The hyper-rich have gotten that way because none of their wealth is ever taken from them. They are allowed to accumulate vast sums -- and therefore vast power -- because they are allowed to KEEP whatever they have. And under a capitalist system, capital is rewarded far more than labor. Therefore, those who have the most capital reap the most rewards. It's a vicious, vicious cycle.

That cycle must be broken. In theory it can be done very simply.

1. Higher tax rates on unearned income -- capital gains, rents and royalties, non-wage compensation (option, stocks, use of company jet, post-retirement office and staff, etc.)

2. Reinstitution of inheritance tax -- inherited wealth (with exemptions for surviving spouses and on-going businesses owned/operated by heirs) should be taxed as unearned income, which is exactly what it is.


Is this socialism? You bet it is! We need to lose our fear and loathing of it. It's what makes many people in western Europe describe their countries as having "The richest poor people and the poorest rich people." They have high rates of literacy, excellent and affordable universal health care, affordable higher education, all of which and more are simply paid for by EVERYONE's taxes.

They are, in truth, far more democratic and liberal than the U.S.


Tansy Gold

[wcepler]

9. realistic, pragmatic ideas that would WORK

Tansy,

All WONDERFUL ideas! The problem is to get them through a congress owned by the elites, e.g., the 2006 "dem" Congress was a congress of elite puppets traitors who did everything but run Bush's bathwater -- and this was even when his number were in the toilet. Why? Obviously because they were owned, body and soul, by the elites.

How about Obama? Is he already the property of the elites? Time will tell, but his appointments to date strongly indicate that. Nevertheless, I think he should have his hundred days. We'll know everything then.

But that doesn't change your "realistic" (not just wishful thinking) and pragmatic strategies, and I can't think of a better place to begin than to immediately start pushing Obama to support them.

Thanks, Bill

[snot]

4. Manichean.

It's not that the elites are inherently evil, or that the rest of us aren't -- imho. We all have the capacity to rationalize evil in our own self-interest, esp. when given the power to get away with it.

Killing elites won't end that capacity in ourselves; it will just make way for others of us to take their places.

What's needed is effective checks and balances, preventing concentrations of power, eternal vigilance. I.m.h.o.

[tbyg52]

7. I don't think anybody wants to kill them

(although I admit to only skimming the article), just separate them from a large portion of their money.

[wcepler]

10. Destroy the elite infrastructure -- the individuals are academic

I probably should have "defined my terms" better. "Destroying" the elites doesn't have to mean killing them, since the "individuals" are more a symptom of the problem than the cause anyway. Plus, historically, revolutions generally make everything worse.

The "cause" is the vast and unbelievably convoluted infrastructure the elites have created over the centuries to surround their wealth with probably a hundred firewalls. THIS social/financial/political/legal system is the problem. It's like a metastasized tumor that radiates throughout our entire body politik. And so long as this social structure endures, the elites will endure. We can destroy them only by systematically dismantling this structure.

And as convoluted as it is, we can accomplish this if we keep the faith and take one step at a time to return the wealth of the planet to the people.

We also shouldn't forget that "wealth" basically comes from only two thing:

(1.) the fruits of "labor", i.e., the time and energy of billions of human beings, and

(2.) the cornucopia of the Earth, i.e., the raw materials and blessings of this planet

Note that NEITHER of these two things have ANYTHING TO DO with billionaire elites, who do nothing but live like Kings and Queens. Their "time" (if they work at all) is as finite as any worker, and the environment belongs equally to all life forms of the planet (Duh, we're all Earthlings, not just the elites). Hence, they have to "justify" their wealth with rationalizations like "Divine Right" (the French knew just what to do with that one!) and a 70 IQ perversion of of Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" -- you know, crap like that. In other words, no justification is possible.

Solidarity, Bill

[wcepler]

11. yes and no

I wonder. I think I agree and disagree with you. God knows, many humans if given the chance would eat their grandmother to "become" an elite. Indeed, probably more than anything else that's what makes the elite system work. They know many "cattle humans" worship the same wealth god they do.

However, I think that's less and less true. I think the human race is slowly evolving away from being would be clones of the elites. Partly, because on some deep level, many humans are finally beginning to realize that the worship of wealth is killing the planet.

But more importantly, the world is NOT populated ONLY with worshipers of wealth. There are actually millions (probably billions) of human beings who are more driven by rationality and morality, than the worship of wealth. Of course, this is inconceivable to the elites, but that very blindness to the difference of other humans may be their ultimate undoing, since they assume absolutely that all the rest of the human race would do exactly as they do if given the chance. But they are WRONG about that assumption and so can be blindsided by it.

[pipi_k]

6. Well I can't tell you what the real problem is, or what the solution

would be, but I can say that I've seen some real disturbing opinions expressed by some of the "have nots" who actually DEFEND the rights of the "haves" to possess that much money and power.

Some of these people haven't got a pot to piss in...work long hard hours for crappy pay and minimal benefits...yet they'll defend these big Corporate CEOs, etc., for having things they can only hope for (like a life free of worry about which bills get paid this month) because those elites have "worked for" their money and therefore "deserve" it. They'll look the other way when some corporate jerk steals a few million dollars, but let them see some poor slob stealing a can of cat food for his supper and they're ready to throw his ass in jail forever.


What the hell is it about some people? Why do they keep working against their own best interests?

I suppose I wouldn't care so much if they want to play out their life dramas, but when their issues cause them to vote in such a way that the rest of us are feeling the impact of THEIR issues, that's when I want to slap each and every one of them and tell them to knock it off....get some therapy or something.

[wcepler]

8. dipstick enablers, i.e., the majority of Americans

pipi,

I hear you! In psychology, they used to be called "enablers" and in a dysfunctional family with, say, an alcoholic and abusive Father, very often the Mother was an enabler, i.e., she rationalized away "the elephant in the living room" (of course, there's hundreds of such examples). The point is the poisonous adult (if only one) in the family was allowed to be that way because of enablers.

One spin off of this tragic family system, is that often one or more of the children on some level know what's "really" going on, but they don't have the emotional maturity and strength to deal with it, so they end up "crazy", even though they're the only person in the family who has the brains and courage to see things like they are.

Yes, without the deadbeat enablers we would have a real chance to deal with the elites, but enablers probably make up the majority of Americans. They just don't have the grit and intelligence to even minimally deal with anything, so the are the couch potatoes of our dying species.

However, those of us who DO finally realize (and it took me several years!) that we have an elite dem/pug puppet government, know that politics IS the problem, so radical change will never come from the ballot box. It has to be "apolitical". Not necessarily a "revolution" (which usually makes things worse) but SOMETHING radically apolitical.

solidarity, Bill