The Red Pill Primer

Okay, time to update. I've been busy writing and posting elsewhere, but there's been so much going on! So from March 10 here's the Red Pill Primer:


The Iraq war is bankrupting this country. No doubt about it. We have been borrowing astronomical sums money from China and W's friends in the Middle East to pay for carving that country up and letting W's pals make a killing (sorry) on it. But that money comes at a fairly steep rate of interest because after all, if we're going to have friends in high places in China and the Middle East (who are growing their own middle classes right now even as we snooze, so don't think that "cheap Chinese imports" are going to be your problem for much longer – pretty soon you won't be able to afford Chinese manufactured crap), we have to scratch their backs too. So in essence, we are simultaneously carving this country up and giving it away to W's other pals whose names we cannot pronounce, in countries we cannot locate on a map. Most people actually cannot point to Kuwait on a globe. Nor do they have any idea where Singapore is located or how much of the United States they actually own. Not their political leaders. Their businessmen. That's who really owns everything. Politicians are just the former and future board members who sit in the executive dining rooms and decide how much your grandchildren will pay their grandchildren for the privilege of working for them. What, you thought it was the other way around? Think again, my friend. As long as you cannot locate or identify the players, it's fairly easy to lie to you. Do you really think these guys are too morally pure to refrain from lying to you just because they oppose the murder of fetuses? Oh babe. They don't care about your damn fetus. They just want to make sure YOU care about all those fetuses. That way you aren't paying attention when they rob your pension fund and raise the CEO's salary to $100 million. Nope. It's the fetuses, stupid. They feed us (didja catch that?) the ten minutes of daily hate that George Orwell predicted and we lose all reason. Take the red pill, hon. You are being lied to.

And just give me 10 seconds here to get this one thing off my chest: for all you clowns who thought Dubya wanted to have a beer with you too, nice going. Of course you will someday be invited to dine at that table in the executive dining room and sneer at all the losers you can now step on. Sure. You just keep on obsessing over whether or not your neighbors are having gay abortions and we'll fix ya right up. You didn't get your invitation to the golden feast? Musta got lost in the mail. Ya fuckin dumbass. People who vote with their eyes squeezed shut tight and their fingers firmly plugged into their ears are the very reason the DNC decided to institute the seating of "superdelegates". The entire purpose of this little strategic gem is to ensure that the party bosses retain control of the nomination process and relieve you of the necessity of exercising your presumed stupidity in any meaningful way – like say voting. Essentially, they aborted the entire electoral process, and just left the show up and running on CNN for entertainment purposes. They pulled this stunt in 1984, but nobody noticed until now. At this point, the DNC calls it "tradition". It is not. It's a new invention designed for the sole purpose of robbing you of your vote. I would posit that robbing you of your voting rights is not the best solution to curing the "uninformed voter" problem. There's a better way. Stop inhaling all that lovely hate, no matter how intoxicating it is, and go take a good long hard look at where all the money is flowing. Take the red pill babe. You are being lied to.

Are ya with me? Good. Thomas Jefferson feels for you. He really does. I have no doubt but that he is writhing in agony in his grave. It took this country 12 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to ratify a Constitution, largely because the rights of the unwashed masses were important to him and his pal James Madison. The landed gentry, who had actually studied history and knew a little something about the underpinnings of western civilization, were very much opposed to letting a bunch of uneducated farmers run anything but their farms. They saw no need to provide any Bill of Rights or offer specific protections against federal intrusion into the private lives of the citizenry. On the contrary, the Federalist position was that the idiots who comprised the bulk of the population were largely unable to tell their ass from their elbow and needed a firm governing hand lest they begin refusing to provide sufficient income for their betters. (Don't you be fooled. Those farmers back then were better educated on average than your typical college graduate today. But that's another story.) The Federalists understood that our entire economy has always been based on the slave trade and so long as you think someone else is the slave, and that this is perfectly okay, they've gotcha. For Jefferson, your right to live free from the encroachment of a tyrannical government was a matter of simple principle. And I will say that I applaud that principle, even though it hurts. It is the same principle that permits each and every one of you to own a handgun. I know this is a very unpopular view among the liberals who have bought into the rationale that they are obligated to protect idiots from themselves by applying parental controls. But for those who wish to keep and bear arms, Jefferson was your man too. The right of the people to keep and bear arms was his last and non-negotiable line of defense against the tyranny of the wealthy who would usurp all of your fundamental rights if they could. He did not care if your militia was an army of exactly one. He supported your right to kill those bastards if they set one foot upon your farm against your wishes. He would not be happy with the way things are going these days. The landed gentry has in fact taken over your farms. And your political parties, cities, schools, future, and everything else, constitutions be damned. Oh, they tell you that it's your decision, your future, your property, and your life. After all, you have a vote. Take the red pill folks. You are being lied to.

So. Here we are, and the DNC has a bunch of delegates you didn't elect deciding who the Democratic candidate will be. That's because you have given up your right to think and accepted the ruling class' determinations about what is good for you and your children. They took over the education of your children over a century and half ago, on the theory that you are not competent to manage that task. They did this for the simple reason that they could see what they were going to need from your children – a large and compliant labor force to keep their factories producing the goods that would someday provide $100 million annual salaries for the CEO's of those businesses. The Industrial Revolution needed employees. And to this day many people actually believe that they should leave the herculean task of educating their children to the "experts", who do such a spectacular job that the cash registers at McDonalds now sport pictures of the various food items so that the kids will know which button to push. Do you really think they intend to let those kids vote in a free and fair election? Do you really think they would willingly teach those kids to follow the bouncing dollar and see where it lands? Forget about fetuses folks. If the school systems are producing workers who don't know what Jefferson wrote, you may be absolutely sure that this is precisely what they intended to produce. This stuff doesn't happen by mistake. It's time for the red pill. You are being lied to.

Do you still think you could do a worse job of raising your children than an overblown and self-serving bureaucracy that spends more money on its administrators than on its teachers or buildings or materials? Do you really believe that the folks in charge of your children's so-called education have only your little darlings' best interests at heart? Have you ever actually seen a bureaucracy that existed to serve the best interests of anyone but itself? Do you really think that training children to please authority by circling the "correct" answer and filling in the blank with the word that the teacher told them to use is a good substitute for teaching them to think, criticize, and discuss? Listen. Nobody will ever love or care for your children more than you do. Nobody wants a better life for them than you do. Nobody is looking out for their best interests like you will. Wake up and get busy. There are millions of books in the world, and a network of public libraries that will make them all available to you at no cost. Forget the predigested "history" books that the authorities have approved out of their deep concern for your best interests and their low regard for your intelligence. Read what Jefferson himself had to say. It is not secret knowledge. Just because they think that you are too stupid to understand it, does not mean that you have to agree with them. Surprise yourself. Take the red pill. You are being lied to. And you are smarter than you realize.

Now here's the saddest part. I know this is going to hurt, but I believe you can take the pain. I have faith in your fundamental intelligence. The Democratic Party is a hoax. Hillary isn't worried about your problems. She just wants to win the election. Obama is not your new best friend. He's a politician, just like Hillary. He's just the shiny new model equipped with a whole new slew of slogans. He's going to tell you whatever it is he thinks you want to hear. He thinks you want to hear that he doesn't need experience because he is going to give this country back to You The People. He thinks you want to hear that fixing the looming economic disaster before us is no more difficult than organizing a soup kitchen. He thinks a lot of feel-good rhetoric about how he believes in you is going to work to secure the most powerful office in the land for ….. HIM!!! Do you really think Bubba's going to help him figure out how to lower the key long-term interest rates and stabilize the bond markets while he creates money out of thin air by *not* taxing the shit out of the rapidly dwindling middle class? Let me tell you something. Bubba thought "creative" and "financing" looked real good when you put them together. Bubba is a dumbass. All he knows is that somebody lied to him. Lotta somebodies in fact, but he isn't even sure how many. What do you think Bubba knows about the Treasury Dept., the Federal Reserve, or even what word "dollar" means? He just wants somebody to bail him outta this mess that they all made. And bail him out they will. But not because they care about Bubba and his dim understanding of how he got into this mess. They'll do it because it's cheaper in the long run. But you're the one who's going to foot the bill for it either way. You and your children and your grandchildren. So it would be in your best interest to find out just exactly what the plan is for reducing the deficit, stimulating the economy, and creating jobs for the folks who are about to start losing them in record numbers. Whichever candidate you vote for, at least take the time to find out what s/he intends to do, and see if that plan makes sense to you. Remember that if they're pumping money into a program, every dollar has to come from somewhere – we don't actually own any dollars. Remember that the first time s/he tells a Senator that s/he's going to cut funding for some pet project, that Senator is going to fight tooth and nail and he'll have every other Senator fighting right beside him because they know their pet project will be next on the hit list. That could cost them their own elections. Ain't gonna happen. Remember that the president is thinking 4 years out, but the investors who make this economy run are thinking 30 years out. When they start jumping ship, taking all their enormous profits and investing them in foreign markets, we start spiraling into a massive depression. Reducing the deficit is critical. You know the single most important thing that FDR did to put this country back on its feet? He threatened to issue new money. Yes, he did. He gathered all the Morgans, Rockefellers, and DuPonts and told them that if they didn't return 1/3 of their capital to US investments, he'd start issuing redbacks instead of greenbacks on Monday, thus rendering all their greenbacks worthless. They were livid, but they couldn't be sure that he was just bluffing. They were afraid he actually meant to do what he said. So they caved. He also did a lot of other things that I could take issue with, but that's another story. The White House cannot just "tax the rich", cut porkbarrel spending, and solve the problem. It helps, but it is not enough. Your next president had better be prepared to play hardball, and had better have enough clout to make it real. Clout matters. Take the red pill, my friend. You have nothing left to lose by taking the red pill. You are being lied to.

Now, I don't personally care if you vote for Obama. If he's the Democratic candidate I'll probably vote for him myself. But only because it is clear that McCain thinks WWIII is our best hope for future prosperity. He is already selling that idea and selling it hard. McCain needs to take the green pill, which will make him calm and sleepy. I will not vote for Obama because I actually believe any of the horseshit he's spouting. In fact, I'm a little insulted by it. Insulted, but not surprised. Listen, Obama has no earthly idea what he's going to do about Iraq. I can't say I blame him. But making wholesale promises about pulling the troops out and leaving the women and children to fend for themselves when the men take to the streets in a full blown genocide and blaming it all on the failure of the Iraqi government to do their jobs is just plain criminal. Same goes for any other candidate who has a plan to just "bring the boys home now". It is irrelevant that Obama is not to blame for the war. The war is here. Well, technically it's there. Leadership is not a matter of fixing the blame. It's a matter of fixing the problem. Yes, he's correct when he says we should never have gone there. But he's lying his ass off when he tells you that the pretty little speech he made was politically courageous. It was totally self-serving and it cost him absolutely nothing. Vote for whomever you like, but don't be a sucker. Take the red pill people. You are being lied to.

Obama or Hillary? Barring the appearance of Mother Theresa on the White House lawn, one of these two will be the Democratic nominee. Because we've been asleep at the switch, we will not get to decide which one. Howard Dean and his friends will use their superior judgment to make that call on our behalf, and I'm afraid we actually deserve that. We've earned it through our own neglect. But whichever candidate has the sobering responsibility of sending McCain back to Arizona to complete his tanning sessions, the day will come when it's time to hold their feet to the fire. If you want to take back your country, then you have got to stop being dazzled by all the pretty colors and make those bastards answer you when you talk to them. Put 'em on notice.
And tell Howard Dean to wipe that shiteating grin off his face and explain to the voters just exactly who wrote the rules that stripped them of their vote? We have our rules???? What the fuck kind of answer is that? I can't see any difference between the DNC and those corporate warlords in the White House. Tell me again how that flaming asshole Dean or any of the clowns lined up next to him are all about change? Listen. You want your country back? Demand some accountability from all of the sheep who went along with that plan to just ignore the voters in Florida and Michigan because they're breaking Howard Dean's precious rules. That would include both Obama and Hillary. Where was the outrage? Where was the stellar judgment? Where was all that concern for the struggling middle class? I said it then and I'm saying it now - if they all agreed to that little conspiracy, what on earth makes you think they respect your rights? They'd drop your vote in the shredder with not so much as a wince if it served their personal agendas. Yah, Obama too. He's not the Second Coming, and the sooner everybody groks that little gem the better off we'll all be.

Take the red pill folks. It's your only hope.