Goldman Sachs *is* The Federal Government

This is not a surprise to me at all. After reading works by G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc this is something that was predicted to occur over a century ago. Read ‘The Servile State’, it is perhaps one of the best explanations of how and why this state-bank-corporation alliance would form and what would come from it. Basically, capitalism alone was too unsteady and the assault on it by the proletariat was raising so in order to subdue the socialist rebellion they (the state and business) had to come to a formal conclusion on how to do this. Their answer was a welfare state; it would subdue the masses and keep businesses happy by giving them just enough to stay alive but not enough that it would harm profit. It would be the same arrangement as the requirement by law on having to guarantee very basic things to keep slaves alive and protect the slaveholders from an uprising against them.

From this arrangement it would also secure a permanent establishment made up of the banks, businesses, and government. But to those who are observant, such as Chesterton, this definitely was not a better elite than we had before: “Better the blustering bossiness of a baron than the poisonous power of the plutocrat”. Chesterton summed it up when he said:

“There has arisen in modern life a literary fashion devoting itself to the romance of business, to great demigods of greed and to fairyland of finance. This popular philosophy is utterly despotic and anti-democratic…The essential argument is “Specialists must be despots; men must be specialists… We must have commercial civilization; therefore we must destroy democracy”

Our country is run by a cabal of technocrats who are so far removed from the common life of the citizens they rule over that it might as well be a foreign leader. They are so far removed that they are almost connected with all of the technocrats across the world, more so than the people in their own city. We need leaders not technocrats, all they care about are statistics, opinion polls, and money. It is the age of modernity, the age of materialism, where finances triumph culture and politics. Where you cannot rise up unless you are already at the top, us commoners are damned. This is not the nation of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams.

A leader is who we need, a man who is not afraid to march into battle side-by-side with a poor farmer boy from Texas and a middle class girl from Queens. Who in times of crisis would prefer listening to the orders given by the brave man who stepped forward, without questioning his intelligence, wealth, or anything else, rather than listen to the multi-millionaire money changer. That is who we need, but that is the same type of person, the one who embodies true democracy and the American spirit, that our plutocrats despise. We need a George Washington again!

“A degree of silence envelops [George] Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged!” – Francois Rene de Chateaubriand

edit on 11/21/2011 by Misoir because: (no reason given)