Hat tip to Husq.
Even if 100% of all eligible voters in the U.S. of A. had voted for whomever, that is to say, for but one above all other candidates, including Trump himself, American foreign and domestic policy would be exactly on the whole what it has consistently been since the inception of the so-called exceptional nation: imperialism in the service of but one overriding value, the corporate profit margin. If you don’t understand this, you literally understand nothing about modern liberal “democratic ” rule. Elected representatives under “our” westernized electoral systems serve but the capitalist imperative — period. They have no choice. The seat of effective power in western democracies is distributed if also centralized, on the one hand, at the commanding heights of the largest for profit corporations, through interlocking directorates, and in the ‘security’ and judicial offices in the so-called public sector, effectively not under the auspices of the state, but as the state itself. Either elected officials comply with the dictates of the effective and active oligarchy, or the “system” is rendered ungovernable by that mutinous “establishment” or “ruling class.”
For more context, more of the actual interview with H. Rap Brown:
Now, now Norman. The reason the candidates are “pre-chosen” is for your own protection. Otherwise there is a chance that an alien idea could infect the body politic and to date we haven’t an antidote for such a catastrophic event. NOW, put your hand over your heart and repeat after Tubularsock, “I pledge allegiance . . .”
Reblogged this on Worldtruth.
Democracy is dead. For many years it has been an illusory concept advocated by the few to fool the many and in all those years the many have fallen for it hook, line and sinker – and still do.
I screamed this with my fat little fingers all of last year. As you know, Norm, it is the absolute fact/truth, but the vast herd, in America, has no stomach, no guts, for the facts or truth. It gets in the way of their demented little “dream”.
Never saw this video. Brown nailed it, all of those years ago!