As the U.S. establishment machine approves a patently fraudulent election we are witnessing a phenomenon familiar to readers of the Corporatist Media. The bureaucracy and the tight-knit political and media classes have closed ranks. Indeed, without a unified front the election fraud would not have been possible.
Words are put into the President's mouth. We are told he incited violence, requiring Twitter, Facebook and Google to remove any video or transcript of his words. Thus most people will never know that he said the opposite: "We are the party of law and order. Go home."
The real target is not the President, however. Video appears to show police letting protesters into the Capitol. In that case those who caused a riot were not Trump supporters but provocateurs. The words Trump never said are blamed for a riot by his supporters that never happened. The likely aim is to discredit or ban any peaceful rally by those who consider the 2020 presidential election to be fraudulent and the incoming administration illegitimate.
How much illusion do you need to get out of bed each day? How much lie does your life require? Is it something in yourself that drives you to avoid reality — perhaps those embarrassing, unmentionable primal motives such as envy and tribalism. Maybe it is just something we learned in the schoolyard: that if we gang up we can share the spoils; that every gang requires an outsider — and if there isn't one, we must create one.
Resolute denial is essential if the plan is to be carried to its conclusion. "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." One can imagine the Elizabethan courtier Sir John Harington was a close observer of skulduggery. If those with power conspire in a joint endeavor whose end justifies the means, then by that same token it must be just.
THE PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED
You or I don't get off so lightly. Perhaps not even kings and queens would have such scope to turn society on its head while banning any mention of the deed: to dash out the brains of the masses (metaphorically, or not), to butcher critics and to bribe the tribunes of the people to lie and betray their own. Perhaps Henry VIII qualifies or a Saudi monarch today. Even monarchs however cannot generally impose their will except through the bureaucracy. By the time of Elizabeth I the security state was born and the organs of the state operated in unison to propagandize and punish the people into compliance.
We have lived, in our modern nation state, without much punishment. In a society with a complex mesh of mutual interests, in which each to some extent needs the other, the carrot will do as good as the stick. The meritocratic promise of social mobility means the majority vest their hopes in the system. That may have changed.
The transhuman agenda of The Great Reset, the Green New Deal, a Net-Zero Carbon Society, UN Agenda 21 or whatever you call it is plain: oligarchic society has less need of the masses and thus offers the masses little scope for advancement. The carrot won't work any more. Feel the stick.
But first, persuasion. That is why the mainstream media has resorted to propaganda on steroids. Government ministers huddle with behavioral psychologists and entire brigades or regiments are diverted into influence activities to ensure that only one message gets through, while rival explanations or analyses are discredited. This is probably overkill. After all, the aforementioned psychologists know that the majority will side with the in-group.
You cannot advance in a society that doesn't need you, except by preferment. This is the province of the bureaucrat and the functionary, who seeks to prove his loyalty to the boss and who advances by politics and social connection, and who never says 'no', whatever the order. This is the world of the underboss, the consigliere and, above all, of the made man who has 'gone above and beyond' in proving his loyalty.
It is no coincidence that a slogan of Common Purpose is "leading beyond authority." This is the institutional mindset of the new bureaucracy. Many obtain preferment by signing up to a code of ethics, to a secret society that operates at the heart of officialdom and yet out of sight. There was a time when the press was concerned about the role of Freemasonry in the police. That seems quaint in the modern day of Common Purpose, Senior Executive Service, and the tentacles of a social and political ideology that is as influential as it is unspoken.
The unison of Corporatist and State media, of the executive and the intelligence agencies, the judiciary and law enforcement, and the bland unanimity of the legislature is not achieved by academic indoctrination, by the operation of secret societies, by cohort or class, nor by brute blackmail or bribery. It is all of these together and one can say with confidence that the proof is in the pudding.
The first responsibility of a bureaucracy is to protect and perpetuate itself. This institutional approach is very much the attitude of an entitled establishment elite determined to maintain its grip on wealth, by any means necessary. Harington also wrote, translated from the Latin: "Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue."
A THUMB ON THE SCALES
It was only meant to be a little bit of fraud: the election, that is. The early voting by mail-in ballot was supposed to oust the incumbent, along with a little tweaking of the Dominion Voting System-Smartmatic algorithm, applying a handicap to Trump votes in six swing states (see the evidence of Russell Ramsland on this site).
It was Trump's landslide that spoiled the original plan: 74 million people voted for him, the most ever for a president running for re-election. That required an even bigger vote for former vice-president Joe Biden — and an even bigger lie.
Amazingly, Biden revealed this before polling began. In his condition of progressive dementia he cannot keep secrets. He let his mouth run away.
Note that Biden is answering the second part of a two-part question: what people WHO HAVE ALREADY VOTED can still do to MAKE SURE you are the next president. That is the question that Biden is addressing when he says we have put together the most extensive voter fraud organisation.
His answer is not out of context as the “fact checkers” insist. It is very precisely in context and a response to a specific question.
Question: “And, part two, for the folks who have already voted, the 50 million Americans who’ve already voted, what can they do over the last 10 days to help make sure that you’re the next president of the United States?”
Answer: “Secondly we are in a situation where we have put together — and you guys did it for president Obama’s administration before this — we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Biden made himself perfectly clear. Now the secret is in the open they are required to lie about the truth about the fraud. 'They' is everyone in this cohort who feeds from the same trough: the same sources of funding and income (largely subsidy, from government and tax-exempt foundations) and the same information (ditto).
Such uniformity and group think is not just disingenuous but dangerous yet they cling to it all the more tightly. This is a class defending its class interest — in the pages of The Guardian, the NYT, the socialist press and union affiliated press. They are the retainers, whether they know it or not, of the oligarchic kleptocracy.
Oh, for the rough and tumble of the politics of yesteryear, when you might have found someone to argue with, followed by a beer.
Despite the ribbons and badges on their lapels, this is a class that looks up, to juicy sinecures, not down to the proles. You will find those ribbon-causes are a source of well-paid employment -- funded by the aforementioned foundations, advertising their jobs in the same newspapers which they pay to place articles flattering the billionaire "philanthropists". How much incest can you take?
And so a quick scan of that press reveals a parallel universe in which the well-documented fraud in six key swing states, that simultaneously stopped counting with Donald Trump in the lead and reopened with Joe Biden coasting, simply never happened.
States in which Zuckerberg-Chan targeted $400 million of patent election interference, where testimony-under-oath and even CCTV provides evidence of the carting and unboxing of hundreds of thousands of ballots, resulting in the statistical impossibility of Joe Biden dramatically outperformed the rest of his party, while losing 18 of 19 bell weather counties and winning more votes than Barack Obama — all the while barely leaving his basement.
TOTAL DISINFORMATION AWARENESS
Fact check any one of those statements and you'll be assured it was otherwise. This is the corollary of Total Information Awareness, the 2003 programme to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States. The corporatist-intelligence-tech-media machine has Total control of the Information of which everyone is Aware.
As former Director of Central Intelligence William Casey stated in the presence of Barbara Honegger: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
This is no longer an intelligence critter's pipe dream. It is legally enforceable through the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to brainwash the citizenry. With this act, Barack Obama's administration ended the restrictions on subjecting the domestic American population to the kind of propaganda that had been used through the Cold War to shape our view of defeated enemies, to characterize the communists and the fascists, and to disguise the purpose and aims of U.S. hegemony.
In short, the Color Revolution and the Fusion Doctrine have come home, just as Douglas Valentine forecast in his books on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. National security is a fig leaf and really means State Security, in the terms that the Tudors would have understood.
"It's a class issue. The CIA has not been running around the world trying to improve the lives of poor people, to raise their standard of living, even though they say they’re out there trying to bring freedom and democracy to the world. They’re just as likely to back a Pinochet, a despot, as they are to fight a Communist." So said Valentine in an interview with Suzan Mazur.
The U.S. is about to get its Pinochet or perhaps something closer to the Greek Colonels but at the helm of the still-mighty United States. And it is being brought to you by a coalition of the willing — who constitute exactly the people who have been shrieking for four years about "literal Hitler".
VIRTUAL REALITY
The Corporatist Media has still not told us what spectre Trump is supposed to represent. Is it Ayn Rand's titans bestriding capitalism? Is it brown-shirted brawlers? Or is fascism truly fronted by a property developer with close ties to Chabad-Lubavitch?
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Flinging around the F-word, they failed conspicuously to define it. Not by accident in my view, the Corporatist Media ignored the fact that Fascism is defined by Corporatism. Since 2016 when Media Matters flooded the Internet's chat rooms as Hillary Clinton was running for president, fascism has become a shorthand for an uncouth populist with whom we don't identify.
Weren't they insulting the memory of those who died in the fight against fascism by using it as a cheap epithet, the devalued currency of political caterwauling? They admitted to demeaning the F-word but said it didn't matter in the short-term battle to oust Trump.
Four years later we stare real fascism in the face. As Glenn Greenwald wrote (Dec 28, 2020): The Threat of Authoritarianism In The U.S. Is Very Real -- And Has Nothing To Do With Trump.
Locked in a reflexive knee jerk, the liberal left is unable to make the transition from cartoon fascism to the real thing. Like Socrates' shadows on the wall the Corporatist media creates a false reality while the people accept ever more chains.
Socrates' allegory of the cave is becoming ever more relevant: along with the physical chains come electronic ones. The priests of big tech are dangling the prospect of virtual reality headsets. Only just out of reach for the masses, this future will soon offer everyone the illusion of life at two or more removes.
WALKING WITHOUT ANIMALS
Combined with the depopulation agenda, the smart cities programme and the push for so-called renewable energy, huge swathes of the real world will become nature reserves, reserved for the pleasure of an elite. Socrates' higher levels of reality will include the actual world, the one children once learned about with St Francis of Assisi.
Regardless of your faith or lack of it, the words of his prayer speak a truth. We are fools if we allow someone else to delimit what is ours to enjoy. We are doubly foolish if we allow those same people to tell us what is real. And we are lost if we are complicit in a plan to tell us that humans and animals inhabit separate parts of the same Earth.
"The animals of God's creation inhabit the skies, the earth and the sea and have a part in human life. We, therefore, invoke God's blessing on these animals: over all the creatures of the earth."
That life is about to be stolen from us by an oligarchical collectivism in which surveillance is largely conducted by corporations on behalf of the state. In which military and tech oligarchs give up any sense of personal responsibility in return for unlimited government contracts and subsidies; in which governments are happy to let corporations evade tax, practice monopoly and abandon any semblance of the rule of law, so long as the military and tech oligarchs do their dirty work for them.
The logic goes like this: it's not fascism if it's Google and Facebook doing the surveillance; it's not a military regime if police and military contractors are privatised; and we can get away with compulsion and intrusion that Hitler could only have dreamed of, so long as get consumer's agreement, buried deep down in the terms of service.
When privacy disappears the people become no more than numbers.
When a person is simply a digit, he is a resource, a raw material.
Once humans are capital, humanity is fungible.
Humanity can be offset like a carbon trade.
That is to be bought and sold.
It is slavery.
LOVING YOUR INNER FASCIST
The Washington Post (owned by cloud provider to state security, Amazon's Jeffrey Jorgensen-Gise aka Bezos) deliberately misrepresents fascism, providing cover for the Corporatist State. In its Aug 2020 article: How fascist is President Trump? There’s still a formula for that. Not that much, at least compared to the 20th century’s leading fascists, John McNeill, professor of history at Georgetown University pays his dues.
The mindset displayed in this article is worth exploring at length because the majority are heading blindly into an authoritarian society. We should understand why.
Excerpt:
“A few weeks before his election, Trump earned 59 percent of possible Benitos, which made him “the most dangerous threat to pluralist democracy in this country in more than a century”. Four years later, we can assess how fascist Trump has been in power.
Hyper-nationalism. 2016: 2; 2020: 2
Militarism. 2016: 2; 2020: 3
Glorification of violence: 2016: 1; 2020: 2
Fetishization of youth: 2016: 0; 2020: 0
Fetishization of masculinity: 2016: 4; 2020: 3Leader cult — Trump never tires of posing as the decisive man of action. 2016: 4; 2020: 4
Lost-golden-age syndrome — Obsessed with a politics of nostalgia, he even signals sympathy for those whose mourned-for golden age is the Confederacy. 2016: 4; 2020: 4
Self-definition by opposition — Fascists had no difficulty explaining what they were against: socialism, labor unions, democracy, traditional elites, foreigners — particularly those judged racial inferiors. 2016: 3; 2020: 4
Mass mobilization and mass party — Mussolini and Hitler built their own parties that enjoyed considerable popularity. Trump has with remarkable success suborned the Republican Party, making it his own. But he has shrunk it in the process, losing seats in Congress. 2016: 2; 2020: 1
Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.
Hierarchical party structure and tendency to purge the disloyal — He has done his best to eliminate from positions of authority anyone but fawning supporters. His purges obviously lack the murderous violence of Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives, but they may prove no less effective in quashing dissent in the GOP. 2016: 1; 2020: 3
Theatricality — Trump works hard for dramatic moments, even risking coronavirus infections among his supporters to stage events in Tulsa and at Mount Rushmore. 2016: 3; 2020: 3
How does Trump stack up against fictional dictators? Pretty well, actually.
Those 11 attributes characterized fascist movements on the rise. Fascism in power demonstrated several additional features. They are not unique to fascism, but they are important characteristics of fascist rule.
Chaotic administration — Mussolini and Hitler pretended to run tight ships, but their governance was shambolic and improvisational. Trump’s administration shares this feature. Its handling of the coronavirus pandemic is a showpiece of inconsistency, mixed messages and internal conflict that is responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Four Benitos.
Information and media policy — Fascists lied constantly. Trump has set records for presidential dishonesty and seems to regard information as true only when it helps him politically. But unlike Mussolini and Hitler, he has not closed down newspapers, TV channels or media platforms. He has not jailed journalists or arranged their murder. Two Benitos.
Consolidation of power — Trump started slowly and met considerable resistance. He still has not tamed the media, the military or the intelligence services, despite lavishing money on the Pentagon and appointing loyalists of dubious qualifications to high posts. But after 43 months, he has done far, far less than Hitler and a good deal less than Mussolini. Two Benitos — but if he is still in office next year, he’ll probably earn a third in a hurry.
Pecuniary and institutional corruption — Mussolini and Hitler tolerated gluttonous corruption among loyalists while restraining their own venality. Trump and his family use the power of the presidency to advance their business interests. He calls into question the legitimacy of elections unless he likes the results, and he seeks to undermine public faith in the electoral process, for example by claiming that voting by mail invites fraud. Three Benitos.
Economic policy — Fascists had no particular economic doctrine aside from preparing for war. They wanted to build autarkic economies that could withstand blockade and did not rely on foreign trade except for bilateral deals with weaker countries. They built up military industries through debt that they intended to repay by looting conquered lands. They quickly reached deals with big business, heavy industry especially, without which they could not build their arsenals. Trump, too, likes protectionism and has sacrificed the common interest to serve his business supporters. But, crucially, he has not geared the economy for war. One Benito.
Foreign policy — Trump doesn’t care (or understand) much about foreign policy aside from his eagerness to sign trade deals. He uses foreign affairs mainly for theatrical purposes, hoping for something to trumpet, as with his early efforts to intimidate, then court, North Korea. Like fascists, he hates international agreements and eagerly disrupts the status quo, but he does not seek war. Two Benitos.
Cultural policy — Trump invokes culture, heritage and history frequently, but he has no coherent cultural policy. He wants Confederate monuments to stay on their pedestals. He encourages, usually in dog-whistle fashion, racism as a cultural attitude. Two Benitos.
Racial policy — Trump has not enshrined racism in law. Nor has he enacted wide-ranging discriminatory policies. But he has tried to make immigration policy more racist, stoked White grievance. Racism is more central to Trump’s governance than it was to Mussolini’s early years, but much less so than it was to Hitler’s. Two Benitos.
So where does Trump’s administration stand as he is nominated for a second term? He earned 47 of a possible 76 Benitos, or 62 percent. He remains the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War, but his exercise of power only partly resembles that of real fascists. He still faces checks and balances in Washington. He hasn’t shut down rival parties or uncompliant media.”
Thus a political polemic poses as academic insight. Professor McNeill succeeds only in queering the definition of fascism, ignoring the elephant in the room which is the Corporatist State and fails by his own measure to identify any coherent authoritarian strategy on the part of Trump. It is patent nonsense but it provides a narrative for the class interest that I mentioned above. To believe a lie is itself a test of loyalty, as the Soviet dissident and later Israeli lawmaker Natan Sharansky said.
"I was loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen was to say what you were supposed to say, to read what you were permitted to read, to vote the way you were told to vote and, at the same time, to know that it was all a lie."
The effort to remove a pantomime villain from office has just been used as justification for the wholesale subversion of democracy on a scale not seen since the Second World War. As Hitler was elected, we have to go back to China or even to the Bolshevik Revolution for the potential ramifications of a putsch on this scale.
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