The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class

[Crewleader]

Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity

by Phil Rockstroh / June 21st, 2007

Why did the Democratic Congress betray the voting public?

Betrayal is often a consequence of wishful thinking. It’s the world’s way of delivering the life lesson that it’s time to shed the vanity of one’s innocence and grow-the-hell-up. Apropos, here’s lesson number one for political innocents: Power serves the perpetuation of power. In an era of runaway corporate capitalism, the political elite exist to serve the corporate elite. It’s that simple.

Why do the elites lie so brazenly? Ironically, because they believe they’re entitled to, by virtue of their superior sense of morality. How did they come to this arrogant conclusion? Because they think they’re better than us. If they believe in anything at all, it is this: They view us as a reeking collection of wretched, baseborn rabble, who are, on an individual level, a few billion neurons short of being governable by honest means.

Yes, you read that correctly: They believe they’re better than you. When they lie and flout the rules and assert that the rule of law doesn’t apply to them or refuse to impeach fellow members of their political and social class who break the law — it is because they have convinced themselves it is best for society as a whole.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/within-the-architecture-of-denial-and-duplicity-the-democratic-party-and-the-infantile-omnipotence-of-the-ruling-class/

[nealmhughes]

1. This is an excellent essay. It is an thinly veiled hommage to both Kant's

"What is Enlightenment?" as well as sections of Tom Paine's "Common Sense," two authors to whom I feel duly bound to defend, though they need no apology from the likes of me.

In actuality, we must agree as a corporate whole that what politicians say and what they do are two very separate things. One says what one thinks will get them 50%+1 of the electorate and then they vote according to their own arcane formulae.

Currently it seems that the arcane formulae are increasingly derived from the editorial page of the WS Journal.

When we are warned against the dangers of "sudden action," and continually enjoined to be gradualists, this reader always wonders why one would wish thier house afire to be "gradually extinguished."