Posts Tagged ‘duopoly’

Awareness is the way out.

Even the most propagandized, corporate captured, patriotic, colonizer friendly American voter has to know something is up, something is amiss to have the same two candidates in back to back presidential elections, with one candidate being the front runner for a third consecutive election.

No one ever went broke under estimating the intelligence of the American people.

America is the most propagandized country on Earth by such a wide margin. North Korea only gets it from the government. In America, our citizenry gets it from the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Wall Street, and Corporate America literally every time they look at a screen. And screens are everywhere now.

People who are pro Trump and pro Biden…know something is aloof here.

But to think about it, to question it, is the end of bliss. Because ignorance is bliss.

As the late great George Carlin (the original, not the AI remake) would say… ā€œthe owners of this countryā€ …and… ā€œit’s a big club, and you ain’t in itā€ā€¦

The populace is so docile and scared in America that the money in control of the political duopoly that is American politics won’t be bothered to change the wrapper anymore. It’s all Ronald Regan anyway. If they could, they would put him as an AI on the ballot, and that’s probably not far off.

There is an counter force. Vote third party. Vote local. Organize to push ballot initiatives and referendums. Politics is bottom up. All politics is local is the old saying. That’s the long game. The long game is the only option. And the only thing we have less of than patience is attention.

If people are struggling to pay their rent and bills at historic levels, if income inequality is at historic levels, then why would the populace treat the presidential election like anything other than another reality tv show. A reality tv show host is a duopoly front runner for the third election in a row after all.

When the majority of people are completely identified with their ego and thinking mind, then they are reaction junkies. Unaware there is a space between stimulus and response. So they can be trained like animals. They can be taught to react when certain buttons are pushed regardless of repetition. They will salivate no matter how many times the bell rings.

So they’ll fall in line to vote against the lesser or two evils in the most important election in their lifetime for the third decade in a row. Then wonder why nothing changes, why they have more debt, less money, more work, less leisure, more rules, less rights, more fear, less love.

I am regularly around people not from America. I enjoy it. I enjoy different perspectives and experiences and perceptions and opinions.

One of my favorite things about regularly being around foreigners is their reactions when they see American political advertising aka campaign commercials. Which is common because election season in America never ends now, since it’s a set it and forget it emotional trigger and decisiveness tool for the unwashed masses.

After they see one or two…dozen…political ads in an hour, they’ll inevitably start asking the people around them what they think of politics, what they think of democracy, what they are thinking about the upcoming election, etc.

If/when they ask me, my answer is a sloppy version of the following; American politics is theater for the capitalist oligarchy and the military industrial complex to give the masses the illusion of choice, control and influence.

If I’m talking to a European, they quickly understand what I’m talking about. If it’s an Australian or South American, there is usually an explanation of what an oligarchy is and that the MIC is and how they are the shadow authoritarian government and have been for a minimum of half a century.

Any doubt or skepticism towards that can be directed towards the 2008 bank bailouts, 2020 TARP bailouts, the volume of assassinations of anti-war organizers in the 1960s, and of course the never ending wars we have never ending money for while homelessness and wealth inequality reach all time highs in the richest country in the history of the planet.

I remember in the 90’s when Jessie Ventura became governor of Minnesota as an independent. When asked why he was an independent he said that the only difference between a democrat and a republican is the speed at which their knees hit the ground when their donors walk into the room.

Those who would say that America is a democracy and isn’t a corporate captured, authoritarian state; would also openly admit how corrupt Washington is. They would call me a conspiracy theorist, and then complain about how nothing ever seems to get done in Washington. Drain the swamp! But we live in a direct democracy. What does duopoly mean anyways?!

As long as we’re blaming the rank and file voters of the opposite party, obsessing over pronouns, or thinking an ex billionaire game show host is to blame for all of our problems, then we certainly won’t have the mental capacity to comprehend the people who control the currency, the land, the bombs and the resources are the ones controlling the government and that the combination of the two controls our lives.

Because then we would have to admit that we aren’t free, we own nothing, we have no rights. And I know from repeated experience, that ignorance…is…bliss.