According to people who should know, The Ruling Class is using our money....draining our money, the money we use to survive and feed our children and to actual produce things, to rescue the very structure...that allows them to BE The Ruling Class. The structures that enable them to Rule us by controlling credit, capital, and our pensions and IRA's and 401k's.
And our regulatory agencies and politicians. And so by extension our military. Which is then used in the service and interests of The Ruling Class and their Party of Business, the GOP.
These people, the Ruling Class, are the ones who got us into this financial armageddon. These are the same Ruling Class that took us to war in Iraq, after ignoring the warnings that an attack was coming.
They are the same people who made America into a nation that tortures people they KNOW to be innocent. They are the same people...if they even deserve the name...who are stopping any serious efforts to mitigate a Climate Crisis of incomprehensible scope.
They are the same people that so unprecedentedly had the Supreme Court decide Bush vs. Gore, so they could have Bush cut their taxes and deregulate the very same structures that we are now being called to give OUR money to prop up. Yes, the very same people who are directly responsible for everything that has gone wrong in our world, are the people who are now telling us....not asking us....telling us, that we have to bail them out. While as always, not telling us the whole story, not telling us what they are doing behind the scenes and behind our backs. They are though, telling us.....That we HAVE to clean up their shit, again, and suffer for their mistakes, just like we did in the last depression. The Ruling Class, they insist, is to big too fail. Even if that means that we have to.
These are the same people who let US drown in New Orleans.
And then threw corporate parties and killed Iraqis instead of rebuilding it.
These very same people, this Ruling Class, who have PROVEN themselves to be incompetent idiots again and again, these "elites" who have plunged the world into ruin and war and who threaten us with a dystopian future of rising oceans and droughts and famine now insist that they can fix it. With our money.
Using the same methods, mindset, and lack of brains, lack of compassion, lack of true comprehension of the consequences of their actions on others (as they remain untouched, well fed and warm) and, as is becoming exceedingly clear...the lack of any shred of moral integrity whatsoever.
They are taking our blood, sweat and tears to continue a system that ONLY benefits them.
What is depressing is that this money - staggering amounts of money - is being wasted when it could be used in ways that actually help the economy (hell, giving a $40,000 check to every living American would be a way smarter use of the same money).
What is so depressing is that the goal still seems to be to save banks when it should be to save the economy.
What is depressing is that people are again being steamrolled into "bailouts" - 5 years after being steamrolled into a war against mushroom clouds by essentially the same people - and the Serious People are still wrong, utterly wrong.
To them the economy IS a game, to us it is food in the mouths of our children. To them, war is a strategic struggle for tactical advantage in order to control and plunder valuable dwindling resources. To us it is our brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers ...and again, our children being horrible maimed for life and killed. To them, torturing human beings, like us, that they KNOW ARE INNOCENT is less important than their fucking careers.
Most Guantanamo prisoners are innocent....
Former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former vice-president Dick Cheney fought efforts to address the situation, Wilkerson said, because "to have admitted this reality would have been a black mark on their leadership."
No one need ask any longer....How far will they go?
If you will hold and torture people you KNOW to be innocent to avoid a "black mark"...
If you will invade a country and kill a million people for no discernible reason beyond potential oil profits...
If you will distort and propagandize and spin to LET the oceans rise and portions of the earth to become uninhabitable and create millions and millions of future Climate Refugees so you don't have to give up your profits and luxurious lifestyle...
If you will DESTROY the world's economy, the world's ability to feed their children, for a little extra cash so you can have thousand dollar brunches, and try to make a quarterly balance sheet look good......
Well we now KNOW how far they will go.
We know now how selfish and soulless The Ruling Class is.
The only thing we don't know is what to do about it.
Because, thank all that is holy and sacred......WE are not THEM.
We are not ruthless, compassionless, rapacious killers and torturers.
WE are Human Beings, dammit. Loving, caring, giving Human Beings.
And we just do not know to fight it....hell we don't even want to admit it exists, let alone have to fight back against the sort of inhuman, immoral, and yes, perhaps even evil, people and the elaborate structures of finance, politics, privilege and media that support them.
And the ultimate irony, and perhaps the only form of TRUE justice that we may ever get is that these people, these 'elites,' this Ruling Class that has dehumanized US to the point where they feel no shame or guilt or remorse or urge to correction....are by these very acts giving up that claim, the claim to be Human Beings. They are, in the unfunniest irony ever, dehumanizing themselves. By renouncing through their repeated and unlamented actions any claim to Humanity itself.
But we don't know how to fight back....because WE do NOT want to dehumanize THEM. Because WE know that that is wrong. Just plain wrong. A concept that they seem to have grown totally incapable of grasping.
Right and wrong no longer seem to exist for them. Only privilege and tactical advantage and how they can use the media they own to spin their latest fuck-up to blame someone else.....preferably us. Because we were stupid enough to buy their loans, and their wars, and their explanations. We are to blame, they want to say, for buying their bullshit.
Are we still that stupid....or are we learning?
Evil always destroys itself, wise men have said, by not being able to stop itself from taking more. And now they have taken too much. And yet still, they come to us and TELL us that we MUST give them more. Because the Ruling Class is Too Big Too Fail.
They say if 'the system' fails people will suffer, well it damn sure looks as if propping up 'the system' will make people suffer to, since we already are suffering at its hands. The System is too big to fail?
Well..........so are we.
They are rapidly reducing the equation to The Ruling Class versus the rest of Humanity.
What are we going to do about it?
Especially while heeding Nietzsche?
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
