You actually have to look backward to see where we’re going. If you view what is going on now through the looking glass of History all the moves right now start to take on shape in terms of a long term strategy.
First you have to see the plays as they stand.
The people in power right now are striking quickly setting the table before their opposition has a chance to respond or even realize they’re under attack. Smart move. The country was sleeping after the elections, we were emotionally spent after a long season of campaign ads and no one wanted to hear more about politics. That’s the perfect time to strike – get us before we come out of hibernation in the summer.
And that’s what they did.
Somewhere in Washington a strategy has been forming for years waiting for the ‘perfect storm’ of political fronts to come together to allow this agenda to be pushed through quickly. Make no mistake; the Stimulus Bill was in the works for years waiting for the right time to roll out. When it came there was not a moment to waste. The recession could start to recover any day and Americans had to still be looking at it on the front burner for there to be enough fear generated to allow Congress to force through at blitzkrieg speed the bills they and the White House wanted to see enacted.
Taking out the private sector in one fell swoop of emotionalism took a lot of skill to recognize the right moment and push the point. After hammering on and on about this being the worst economy since the Great Depression – which most people knew to be false and has now been acknowledged as ‘overstated’ – created fear in the American people. From there it was a short step to demonizing Wall Street and businesses for their ‘greed’ as the cause of the recession.
Looking ahead to where we’re going is a matter of looking back to where the world has been. We have the brewing of a classic class envy conflict like in Russia of 1914 and a power grab like Germany of 1933. Whip the people into a riotous mob and unleash them on the bastions of the French Revolution. The European history of monarchs, endless wars and oppression made Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini possible. By setting up the top wage earners as demons – which is a group of about six percent of Americans – it becomes clear that the group is too small to defend themselves against the masses while being an easy target for class envy attacks from organized groups like ACORN. All this demonizing is going on while trying to grab as much power as possible for the government in the process.
Sooner or later Americans are going to wake up to being played – and that’s where the plan starts to fall apart. How much we will lose before that happens is still hard to tell, but that’s why Congress is working so hard to move so fast.
It’s American history that is going to derail their plans. It’s the uniqueness of the American Experience that is going to be harder to overcome than the current leaders know. The schools may have found ways to quit teaching American history, but we Americans did not quit teaching our kids about the American Experience. Americans have a different take on the world. We fought to overthrow the very bond those aforementioned tyrants put onto their people. We go all over the world to break the shackles our own government is trying to put on us. Americans stand for Liberty and Freedom. We don’t stand for Tyranny. Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.
First you have to see the plays as they stand.
The people in power right now are striking quickly setting the table before their opposition has a chance to respond or even realize they’re under attack. Smart move. The country was sleeping after the elections, we were emotionally spent after a long season of campaign ads and no one wanted to hear more about politics. That’s the perfect time to strike – get us before we come out of hibernation in the summer.
And that’s what they did.
Somewhere in Washington a strategy has been forming for years waiting for the ‘perfect storm’ of political fronts to come together to allow this agenda to be pushed through quickly. Make no mistake; the Stimulus Bill was in the works for years waiting for the right time to roll out. When it came there was not a moment to waste. The recession could start to recover any day and Americans had to still be looking at it on the front burner for there to be enough fear generated to allow Congress to force through at blitzkrieg speed the bills they and the White House wanted to see enacted.
Taking out the private sector in one fell swoop of emotionalism took a lot of skill to recognize the right moment and push the point. After hammering on and on about this being the worst economy since the Great Depression – which most people knew to be false and has now been acknowledged as ‘overstated’ – created fear in the American people. From there it was a short step to demonizing Wall Street and businesses for their ‘greed’ as the cause of the recession.
Looking ahead to where we’re going is a matter of looking back to where the world has been. We have the brewing of a classic class envy conflict like in Russia of 1914 and a power grab like Germany of 1933. Whip the people into a riotous mob and unleash them on the bastions of the French Revolution. The European history of monarchs, endless wars and oppression made Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini possible. By setting up the top wage earners as demons – which is a group of about six percent of Americans – it becomes clear that the group is too small to defend themselves against the masses while being an easy target for class envy attacks from organized groups like ACORN. All this demonizing is going on while trying to grab as much power as possible for the government in the process.
Sooner or later Americans are going to wake up to being played – and that’s where the plan starts to fall apart. How much we will lose before that happens is still hard to tell, but that’s why Congress is working so hard to move so fast.
It’s American history that is going to derail their plans. It’s the uniqueness of the American Experience that is going to be harder to overcome than the current leaders know. The schools may have found ways to quit teaching American history, but we Americans did not quit teaching our kids about the American Experience. Americans have a different take on the world. We fought to overthrow the very bond those aforementioned tyrants put onto their people. We go all over the world to break the shackles our own government is trying to put on us. Americans stand for Liberty and Freedom. We don’t stand for Tyranny. Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.
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