Neocon “Win By ANY Means!” Demands Impeachment
(EUGENE, Ore.) - A fact is a fact IS a FACT!! -- Right?
By definition: “fact (as in "reality") n. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed.”
Ever since the Enlightenment, many millions worldwide have come to depend on “the facts of the matter” as the primary means for understanding --and then taking action-- on every issue, problem, policy and pattern, in both learning and life.
That’s no longer true --by absolute necessity --in the realities of this politicized world.
“Spin” has become the weapon of choice to produce distortion, perversion and the royal road to imperial power --provided by “consultants” lushly funded by corporate dues-paid to produce results difficult-to-impossible to get otherwise.
Politics, by definition, is the involved and complex set of social relationships involving power.
These days, increasingly, that has come to include the distribution of wealth; and thus the formation of capital --always the driving engine for creation of more wealth.
Money --in many forms and often “covered”-- is the medium sure to facilitate and ease the accumulation and application of power.
We’ve learned “the hard way” how true that is for America, over the past forty years, by the imposition of “the imperial Presidency”; distorting, perverting and finally perhaps damaging our democracy almost beyond full repair --and the essential return-to-Constitutionalism.
It’s no wonder so many million Americans are so deeply misled, cannily managed, too-easily manipulated and exploited by such powerful persuasive impacts; lushly funded and purposively perpetrated by those malign forces seeking to “WIN by ANY Means!”
You can easily “see with own eyes” simply by sampling the ongoing warfare waged by those ubiquitous powerfully distressing political tv-ads, ostensibly serving both candidates --but, in truth, still further damaging our tattered-torn and disintegrating democracy.
Our once-powerful and preeminent major media --presciently praised and protected by our Founding Fathers in their First Amendment to our historic Constitution-- were developed, supported and strengthened very purposely:
To make sure every citizen could know-and-understand issues, problems and their solutions; as demanded for effective operation of any democracy.
But these essential channels are now owned --and thus controlled--by large consolidated and contorted corporate management, carefully constituted precisely for such purposes.
Even the strongest-and-best of our remaining journalistic “professionals” find themselves swept into contrivance and complicity simply by the weight of corporate culture and often-outlandish compensation.
The Founders sought and studied every possible source for precedent and philosophical power in putting together the component parts of our “radical” democratic governance system. (See The Federalist Papers.)
They made sure to isolate and subdue each of three essential centers-for-power; they played one-against-the others purposely.
That’s WHY we have ”the three-legged throne for democratic rule”, with Legislative, Executive and Judicial “legs”, each doing its well-designed part to uphold the whole.
It was never intended as power-seat for anyone.
That’s WHY they included “essential concepts such as separation of church-and-state” and “careful allocation to the essential state units of locally-demanded control for major functions”, such as education, among others.
They were all too aware of already-recognized deep dangers; and especially of deception, from prior experience with British exploitation.
That’s WHY canny old Ben Franklin told the inquiring lady in Philadelphia, seeking word on the shape of our emerging governance: “...A republic --if you can keep it !”.
Only recently --since the Reagan era, historical record now clearly shows-- has “covering-spin and widely-applied distortion and perversion become paramount” in all areas and levels of American politics; to isolate and separate and “simplify” (!) the perception --and thus the meanings and impacts-- of every issue, every problem, every possible solution; and, especially, “the contribution of party-in-power to what becomes ‘the real reality’ seen by citizens.”
Those seeking power-by-any-means “have no bounds of conscience, morality --or even applied-religion-- to hamper” what becomes that ceaseless surge for strength characterized by the truism: “Power corrupts...and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
What better proof of that provident statement than the facts now known about HOW and WHY we went to “entirely unwarranted ‘preemptive’ war” with Iraq??
We were seeking to plunder and prevail over not only the major oil reserves of the Middle East; but to make of those struggling nations “whatever our imperial American regime chose for them” --all in the name of “creating deeper democracy” --of course!
Has not that always been “the U.S. explanation” of all our previous plunder-and-prevail projects?
The principle of “pre-ordained, God-supported” right to “reduce the ranks of the heathens and capture the entire continent”??
The “Monroe Doctrine”?(See neocon-created Project for the New American Century, designed and developed by Cheney et al, 1998, projecting and continuing “any action justified in pursuit of our national interests and national security.”)
“Corporate campaign contributions”, made possible by long-term corporate enterprise leading to the false provision of assumed “person-hood” --and its right to political speech-- have paved the way for overwhelming dollar-power via “political-campaign contributions”; richly rewarding those seeking “falsified precedent” from a Supreme Court itself manipulated and managed “by ANY means demanded.”
But the first-and-foremost cause --justlfying deep concern for continuance unless “the broken system” is fully restored and remedied by fortification against the same thing happening again-- is the pathetic apathy with which we “as a free-and-responsble citizenry have allowed this to occur” and continue.
Given our vaunted “American exceptionalism” --understood to characterize the “wit, wisdom and will of the American people”-- and the many serious and sensitizing symptoms highly visible for decades, we must shoulder the heavy burden ourselves.
The unavoidable extreme pain, loss of young lives and huge portions of our national treasury --inevitably leading to provocation and possible forced cogitation-- may well be the most powerful process we could hope for to motivate us into the strong and Constitutional action surely right to our hand and ready Congressional application.
It was precisely for the dangers they presciently deemed so destroying and damaging that the Founders presented us with means to try and punish those who create such chaos.
That Constitutional process --already proven so potent that the last President so confronted rapidly resigned-- no longer resides remotely “off the table” in our sovereign segment of democratic governance.
It is ready and already armed in great detail by previous study and preparation recently completed.
WHY do we WAIT? WHAT ELSE do we NEED?
WHEN will we EVER LEARN??
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