by Qutb » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:08 pm
Well, if Kerry was bought and paid for, what was the point of the whole Swift Boat circus? It's actually not a rhetorical question. I dunno. Maybe it was just that - circus, and nothing more. Distraction for the unwashed masses, while the people that matter could sit back knowing that whoever won, it would be <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>their guy</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. Or that Bush would win, and Kerry would lose on purpose, having played his role and done his duty to the Fraternity.<br><br>I think it's a little more complicated though. I'm still puzzled by the case of John Kerry. It truly was a half-hearted performance. Like it didn't matter much to him whether he won or not. I think there are substantial differences between even many mainstream Democats and the Republicans, but only in areas that are not of vital importance to the power/money elite. In other words, they don't threaten the class interests of the upper class. Issues like gay marriage and flag burning are clearly intended only to distract, but there are more important issues where there are some differences. The elite clearly saw no threat in John Kerry, in fact he is one of them. But I still think he and his like-minded disagree with the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>methods</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> of the neo-cons/GOP, in both foreign and domestic policy.<br><br>Kerry and Wesley Clark and George Soros want Wall Street/London dominance through multilateralism and creeping supra-nationality, even though it means conceding some US power. They want stability, international cooperation and rule-based international institutions, and then take out the nay-sayers (like Serbia) in "humanitarian interventions" to "protect human rights". They also prefer a certain minimal safety-net to promote domestic stability and calm social tensions, and to legitimize their rule (like Bismarck).<br><br>The neo-cons have a more radical approach. They believe in American military power as a means to change the geopolitical status quo unilaterally and more pro-actively than the Kerry-Clark-Soros (KCS) faction. While KCS want to strengthen the UN, the neo-cons want to destroy it. They prefer Washington to rule directly with an iron fist and to fight and win major theater wars in order to assert its predominance. The neo-cons are anti-stability - they want to <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>change</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> things (for the worse, of course) and conquer and expand their power, an obvious parallel to the Nazis. Domestically, as well: they want to drown the non-military/law enforcement government in the bathtub, shred the safety nets, employ a strategy of tension, undermine human rights and civil liberties, use the Army to repress the people, etc.<br><br>So while both factions serve the elite, and often agree on things, I would prefer the former over the latter any day of the week. If for no other reason, because KCS are less likely to instigate a thermonuclear holocaust.<br><br>There's no definite demarcation between the two factions, though. Weren't Clark and General Boykin both involved at Waco? And while these are the main ideological, or rather methodological, lines, there are of course private relationships that transgress them, such as between Clinton and the Bushes. And between the Bushes and Kerry through Skull & Bones. Two aristocrats have more in common than any aristocrat has with a working class person in any case, regardless of party affiliation. <p><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:black;font-family:century gothic;font-size:x-small;"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=qutb>Qutb</A> at: 9/10/05 6:26 pm<br></i>
