Wall Street and Neo-cons are Pirates

In order to understand what Wall Street and Neo-cons did to our economy and the world, it is easiest to realize that they are essentially modern-day pirates in tailored suits.

Pirates are greedy. No amount of wealth is enough. For many, rich is making $1 million a year, which is equivalent to a $500/hr job. But Wall Street views rich as a billionaire, which is obscenely greedy, because $1 billion is like having a job which pays $500,000/hr. A billionaire could spend $20 million every year, for 50 years, and still have money left.

Pirates make plans to profit off of any weakness or opportunity. Wall Street lobbyists push deregulation and weak enforcement in order to create weaknesses, which Wall Street exploits as opportunities to rake in tens of millions or billions.

Pirates rake in more money than they can ever use, so they bury it on islands hidden with treasure maps. Modern pirates rake in more money than they can ever use, so they bury it in numbered Swiss bank accounts hidden with secret passwords.

Pirates are running Wall Street and our government, which means the rest of us are the peasants. When pirates pillage a town and steal the money, the peasants are the ones who pay w/ more taxes, get less services, and feel greater pain. That is the story of 2000 to now.... at least until the peasants decide to fight the pirates and battle the greedy.

The Small-Minded Masses

Recently watched Bill Moyers Journal with guest Thomas Frank (Wall Street Journal). Here's a summary: Will Rogers once said, "The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." But as Democrats face what many believe will be a tough mid-term election, historian Thomas Frank argues that it might just be the other way around for incumbent Democrats. The Republican Party, which lost Congress and the White House in the last four years, may be poised for a comeback. A comeback Frank believes is only possible because Americans have forgotten what their country looked like under conservative rule, "That's the disease of our time...that sort of instant forgetting."

Started thinking about how the public has forgotten about the major disasters that occurred under neo-con rule under Bush/Cheney. Because the masses are so small-minded, they forget about what happened from 2000 - 2008, so propagandist can replace memories with false memories. That is why neo-con propaganda is so damn effective... the masses are so damned small-minded. That is why the southern conservatives are such a force to reckon with; small minds that are easily manipulated. Even Massachusetts has forgotten who caused the recent U.S. disasters. Small-minded people have difficulty thinking for themselves, so the propagandist tell them what to think.

The above explains why money is such a factor in politics.... the media is such a powerful way to influence what people think. Many intelligent liberals don't understand how small-minded the masses are, because they think humans are basically intelligent. The reality is, the masses have brains like shot glasses. Neo-cons understand how little humans comprehend, so they simply use (corporate) billions to "manufacture consent" via media propaganda. That is why Obama is the first president since Kennedy, who shows his intelligence and still got elected. The public has been trained to be suspicious of (northern) intellectuals. Small-minded people's brains just cannot hold big thoughts.
This explains why the public doesn't stay outraged with all of the corporate criminals and the ideological Republicons. All it takes is a year or two, and the small-minded masses forget. Hitler realized this, which is why the Nazis gambled on death camps. If Germany would have won the war, Germans would simply forget about any crimes. Turkey, by continuing to deny the Armenian holocaust, is gambling that the world will forget. The world has basically forgotten about slavery and the genocide of Native Americans. The small-minded masses simply cannot remember that many things.

Neo-cons want the masses to have small minds, so that they can continue to "manufacture consent". The flaw to the neo-con plan is that corporations do not act for the good of the country or world. Consequently, resources are diminishing, pollution is increasing, and many countries (i.e. China) are going to overtake us because they are thinking more intelligently and keeping the longterm in mind.

McCain/Palin Fairy tale

Hope everyone is aware that neo-cons are con-artists who excel at misleading.
I started to realize that this sudden announcement of Bristol Palin's 5 month pregnancy is a little too strange to buy. Over the past month, Sarah Palin and her family must have been thoroughly investigated, and a 5 month pregnancy had to have been known. Even I don't think the neo-cons and their links to the FBI would have missed that. Really, it seems more like a planned announcement, to help McCain/Palin get votes. Now that I realize that is the plan, it almost seems funny that it might work.

Somebody at one of the neo-con think tanks came up with this fairy-tale story and now the unfolding has begun. There will be plenty of people working on telling the tale. The basic outline has been created with McCain and the Palin family standing up for conservative ethics and morals. As the months roll by, everyone will be interested in the latest on the Palin family. People will grow to like Sarah Palin even more, and darn but even though they don't like McCain, they'll have to vote for McCain/Palin. The economy, oil prices, healthcare, Iraq, Afghanistan, global warming all fade into the background.... what's the latest on that young couple is what everyone wants to talk about. Was it love that brought them together? Hey... do I hear "Made-for-TV" movie here?

This is so cheesy, yet this has got to be the basic plan. Too many $Billions/Trillions are at stake, for the greedy to give up. Since neo-cons operate using, "The Ends Justify the Means", what's wrong with another fairy-tale? With corporate media behind them, pundits will be focusing on the Sarah Palin story/controversy.

If this is what starts to be played out, and I highly suspect that it is, another election will be stolen using puppets. Sarah Palin was chosen because a winning strategy could be created around her and her family, not on her qualifications. When they win the election, they will claim a mandate for everything Sarah Palin stands for: unbridled oil exploration, no abortions, no gun control, no global warming, creationism, a wild west mentality... another words, neo-cons in control for another 4+ years. It might win them the election, but the crash and burn will be all the harder when it comes. Just remember that the greedy aren't worrying about that day/year/decade. It's profits now for the greedy that is what they are after.