Ch 14.11 - Politics/Government
"The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who don’t." - Thomas DiLorenzo
Narrative: The two-party system represents the public. Our democracy is the best form of government. People who talk about things outside the narrative are extremists.
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a. Politics
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"Politics is Hollywood for ugly people." - Unknown
pol·i·tics - verb - to engage in political activity
pol·i·tics - noun - the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
From Greek politēs meaning ‘citizen.’ Alternatively, from the Greek word poly, meaning many, and tick, the blood-sucking insect (literally covering one in ticks).
"The sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. Once you understand this statement the game changes and you start to understand politics." - Unknown
”An uninformed majority will always lose to an informed minority.” - Unknown, on the game Werewolf
”1) The poor - work & work.
2) The rich - exploit the poor.
3) The soldier - protects both.
4) The taxpayer - pays for all three.
5) The banker - robs all four.
6) The lawyer - misleads all five.
7) The doctor - bills all six.
8) The goons - scare all of seven.
9) The politician - lives happily on account of all eight.” - Marcus Cicero (43 BC) on the Roman Empire valid even today!
"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." - Frank Zappa
"Still being plugged into political theater in 2024 is like still drinking fluoridated water and believing the official 9/11 narrative in 2016." - joelrafidi
"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, and music. . ." - John Adams to his wife Abigail 1780
"Diogenes, one of the ancient world's illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens in the daylight. If asked why, Diogenes would say he was searching for an honest man." - Unknown
"I'm going to repeat this over and over... my grandad told me politicians can only do two things... take your money and tell you what to do. How hard do you really want them to work?" - Unknown
"When was the last time you’ve even see a politician? Imagine a western leader walking through a mall. They’re insulated from their decisions." - Andrew Tate
"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within." - Saul Alinsky
“He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders” - Elizabeth Warren on Larry summers
"As I've often said, there are two types of people in the world: People who like to control physical reality and build things. And people who like to control other people. They're the kind who go into government and push these ideas." - Doug Casey
"The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus
"We hang out petty thieves and appoint our great ones to office." - Unknown
"Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them." - Isaiah 1: 23
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts." - H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
"This shocking announcement has electrified the base; no one can stay grounded, and all they hear is static. And that's right off the wire, folks; it makes my hair stand up. A revolting situation. Charge it to my credit card so I can amp my points. More power to ya! Stay positive. The good and bad news are alternating, continuously ..." - Unknown
"In any given political situation, the best outcome one can reasonably expect generally happens when politicians do nothing. Politicians rarely do nothing. That's why things keep getting worse. We have a messed up healthcare system, education system, public pension system, because politicians keep trying to solve our problems for us." - Unknown
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics.” - Unknown
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office." - Psalms 109:8 KJV
b. Overton Window
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky
"Fvck it. [It’s time to] throw a brick through that goddamned Overton Window." - Unknown
"Overton window - an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies where politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window. The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is and then moving to be under it. Overton window consists of six degrees of public acceptance of new ideas with policy in the middle:
Unthinkable - Socially Unacceptable
Radical - Socially Unacceptable
Acceptable - Policy Window
Sensible - Policy Window
Popular - Policy Window
Policy - Policy Window
Popular - Policy Window
Sensible - Policy Window
Acceptable - Policy Window
Radical - Socially Unacceptable
Unthinkable - Socially Unacceptable" - Unknown
"Distinctions in politics is like saying you would rather get run over by a truck than a car." - Unknown
c. Uniparty
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"The Uniparty:
• Pro Fiat Money
• Pro Central Banking
• Pro-War
• Pro Pharma Corruption
• Pro Regulatory Capture
• Pro Censorship
• Pro Deep State
• Pro Globalism
Isn't it time to stand up for what we believe in?" - Unknown
"The price men pay to be indifferent to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.” - M. Stanton Evans
"Two parties by day. One big party at night." - Jesse Ventura
”If you’re made to choose between the lesser of two evils, you’re still picking evil.” - Jesse Garcia, The Grateful Dead
"Wasn’t it said - when you hear 'bipartisan,' that means particularly evil **** is incoming?" - Unknown on a bipartisan bill being presented to regulate artificial intelligence.
"We have one party which has two wings, one is called Democratic, the other is called Republican. Each is financed by the same oil companies, and the same defense industries and the politicians are interchangeable" - Gore Vidal
"It isn’t red vs blue. It’s team government vs everyone else." - Unknown
"If you want to control 100 people it’s much easier to divide them into 2 groups of 50 and get them to attack one another than to rule the 100. If 100 people are united, they are focused on you and your job and will demand accountability." - Unknown
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy." - Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
d. Government
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gov·ern·ment - noun - the governing body of a nation, state, or community. From Old French governer 'to rule, command, direct' and ment meaning 'mind.'
"Types of Government over Time #1:
Constitutional republic
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Democracy
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Oligarchy. you are here
Types of Government over Time #2:
Oligarchs
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Lobbyists and the Fed
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Congress critters. ← what you posted. Two levels off.
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The battered serfs
The banking families are large and in charge, and I have no idea their exact numbers and locations." - Unknown
"I have seen this in local politics. Set the incoming elected politicians up for dismal failure by laying out delayed financial bombs." - Unknown
"Governments are always the perpetrators of the greatest evils. That's because sociopaths and psychopaths thrive in the unaccountable environment of government." - Unknown
"Government is necessary because people left unchecked will do evil? The government is composed of people left unchecked..." - Unknown
"No State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men." - Rose Lane
"Governments represent the interests of 1) their members and 2) their clients; a country's citizens are lucky if they have occasional opportunities to express a thumbs-up or thumbs-down opinion via the ballot box (as we recently saw with Turkey, and may see in the FUSA in November). The actual interests of the citizens, though, will always be #3." - Unknown
“When government becomes the only thing holding us together - when government replaces community and civil society - the result isn't greater solidarity and consistency, but rage and dissolution." - Unknown
“Q: Who can name the three branches of government?
A: Corporations, Pedophiles, and the Media!” - Unknown
"Once a government is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back." - Gore Vidal
"The government is just a business with no incentive to deliver agreed-upon services because the customers pay them under threat of incarceration. Things legal when the government does it: murder, selling drugs, tax evasion, pedophilia, money laundering, counterfeiting, kidnapping, confiscation/theft, prostitution." - Unknown
"If you haven't figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid & endless wars. They all hate you & could care less if you suffer & die horrible deaths, as long as they get rich." - @TheRISEofROD
"Slave owners tell their slaves there would be chaos without them. Abusers tell their victims there would be chaos without them. Governements tell their people there would be chaos without them. Fear is your enslavement." - Unknown
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. A Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet… [A]t the constitutional level, speech need not be a sedative; it can be disruptive… [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." - Unknown
"Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that 'the good' was a concept to be defined by a code of moral values and that no man had the right to seek his good through the violation of the rights of another. If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it - well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act." - Unknown
"Everybody is a renter, and the government is the landlord. If you have to pay the govt annually to stay in your house, do you really own it? If you have to rent to a tenant that doesn't pay, do you really own it?" - Unknown
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
"Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." – Benjamin Franklin
"If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -Mencken