The Money Party, Part 3
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Big Lies That You Must Believe
Written by Michael Collins
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Thursday, 15 November 20

Because if you don't, the whole scam may fall apart. Michael Collins on the corporate media's job: to emulate George Orwell's 1984 by generating meaningless concepts that bind us to false choices.
Smash your television á la Bansky


Nov. 14, 2004 – Washington, DC (Scoop Independent News) – In the first two parts of this ongoing series on The Money Party, we discussed the fact that there is only one political party in the United States, The Money Party. It has two wings, Republican and Democratic. That party represents excessive concentrations of wealth in the hands of corporations, other organizations, and individuals. They put up the money and get what they pay for every time.

They make sure that the election system is rigged to rely on money like a junkie relies on heroin. The system takes care of them. They don't have to obey the same rules that we do. Why? Because they're above the law.

The Money Party owns the mainstream media entirely. NBC is really General Electric, ABC is Disney, CBS was Viacom but now it's just the name for a mega-corporation, and Fox is News Corp., the Rupert Murdoch financial empire. That's why it's called the corporate media. They're publicity shops, "corporate communications divisions," owned and controlled by Money Party members.

Their job is to emulate George Orwell's "1984" by generating meaningless concepts that bind us to false choices.

It's a series of interconnected lies. Let's look at some of the key lies that we must believe to keep them in power.

Big lie 1: "We're the world's leading democracy." Not since Bush-Cheney took over. We're dropping fast. Maybe it has something to do with the Patriot Act and all that illegal wire tapping of U.S. citizens? Maybe it has something to do with a Congress that does nothing to stop an out of control president. Ratings on democracy show us behind 14 other countries.

Big lie 2: "Just let the markets handle it. The free enterprise system will work it out." This is supposed to appeal to our love of capitalism. Well, we don't have capitalism in the United States.

We have socialism for the rich and survival of the fittest for the rest of us.

When you hear about the wisdom of "the markets," you know that The Money Party is attacking some new law or regulation that might give us an equal footing and create real competition. The party can't stand free enterprise because it won't play any game that it might lose. Count on it. NAFTA - just let the markets handle it. Health care – it's the market at your service. Pollution – you guessed correctly, it's a "market thing. "We wouldn't understand." Dumping mercury in the Great Lakes, it all makes sense to the party.

Big lie 3: "There are two sides to every issue." Does that have anything to do with two parties? Where in the world did this come from? Who knows? But the corporate media rides this one into the ground.

Take climate change for example. Two sides, really? Well just about every respectable scientist in the world, at least those who get published in real science journals, says climate change is real, it's man made, and it's dangerous. The explanations are varied (many sided) but there's only one side of the larger issue if you want your children to survive. Climate change is a very real, scary deal. We're all threatened. But a correction might hurt their short term profits. As a result, the dangerous lies persist brought to you by The Money Party "communications divisions."

Big lie 4: "The federal government just screws everything up." Oh, like going to the moon, developing the internet, and providing health insurance (Medicare) for many times less overhead than private health insurance companies. The Money Party hates the government with a passion when it serves the general public. But when the federal government fixes competition so that only big money wins, when it ignores problems that might require some sacrifice, and when it prolongs a war for profits, the federal government is their best friend.

It's not a conspiracy. It's just what they do, what they've always done…further their own interests at our expense. There used to be some restraint to maintain appearances but the Money Party is now on steroids.

When you see some corporate news reader cock his or her head to deliver a "gem of wisdom," count on it to be a big fat lie, one that's essential to justify the theft of our well being for the interests of a very few, their bosses. They don't care because they don't have to. We're the ultimate donors to The Money Party through our hard work, time, and taxes.

The Money Party thinks that they own the country, they know that they own most of the politicians, and they're 100% sure that they know what we need to believe. These are just a few of the big lies that we hear all the time from the usual suspects. It's time to wake up and call their bluff.

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."

George Orwell

ENDS

Previously:
The Money Party – The Essence of Our Political Troubles
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00549.htm
The Money Party (2) – Why We Get Such Lousy Leaders and How to Get Rid of Them
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00107.htm

...it's time to say goodbye to the twisted philosophy and aberrant actions.

Is good... It beats the drums, etc.

But there are a few factual issues:

1) This is a "democracy"... This is what "democracies" look like. This is what they have always looked like... Except for a brief period when we were growing up and even then, the rose colored glasses weren't issued to everybody. Ask Jim Crow.

2) This is the "free enterprise system". This is what the "free enterprise" system looks like. It has always looked like this. To think otherwise is to believe the propoganda of Libertarians, yuppies, and shop owners from Taos. BTW, those people are double idiots because what they "believe" won't save them.

3) The federal government? Now that is a confusing idea. Do you mean laws and programs forced by the people (like the Civil Rights Commision)? Do you mean the instruments of the state that constantly have suppressed all dissent? Do you mean the institutions for the preservation of the infrastructure of the rich? Or do you mean that shit that substitutes liberal pocket-lining bullshit programs for stuff people really fought to have.

The "federal government" confuses everybody. It makes them start thinkin' they are "taxpayers", which is the same as saying it makes everybody stupid.

4) Who's "we"? Can't understand nothin' if you're talkin' about "we" one minute, "they" the next minute, and you mean the same people. Try "Them and Us". If it ain't us its them. If its them, it ain't us.

I know the above is a redux but I'm restating my point... just as you have.
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Is good... It beats the drums, etc.

But there are a few factual issues:

1) This is a "democracy"... This is what "democracies" look like. This is what they have always looked like... Except for a brief period when we were growing up and even then, the rose colored glasses weren't issued to everybody. Ask Jim Crow.

2) This is the "free enterprise system". This is what the "free enterprise" system looks like. It has always looked like this. To think otherwise is to believe the propoganda of Libertarians, yuppies, and shop owners from Taos. BTW, those people are double idiots because what they "believe" won't save them.

3) The federal government? Now that is a confusing idea. Do you mean laws and programs forced by the people (like the Civil Rights Commision)? Do you mean the instruments of the state that constantly have suppressed all dissent? Do you mean the institutions for the preservation of the infrastructure of the rich? Or do you mean that shit that substitutes liberal pocket-lining bullshit programs for stuff people really fought to have.

The "federal government" confuses everybody. It makes them start thinkin' they are "taxpayers", which is the same as saying it makes everybody stupid.

4) Who's "we"? Can't understand nothin' if you're talkin' about "we" one minute, "they" the next minute, and you mean the same people. Try "Them and Us". If it ain't us its them. If its them, it ain't us.

I know the above is a redux but I'm restating my point... just as you have.
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He also slipped in a 'bonus' 4th Big Lie lol

Is good... It beats the drums, etc.

But there are a few factual issues:

1) This is a "democracy"... This is what "democracies" look like. This is what they have always looked like... Except for a brief period when we were growing up and even then, the rose colored glasses weren't issued to everybody. Ask Jim Crow.

2) This is the "free enterprise system". This is what the "free enterprise" system looks like. It has always looked like this. To think otherwise is to believe the propoganda of Libertarians, yuppies, and shop owners from Taos. BTW, those people are double idiots because what they "believe" won't save them.

3) The federal government? Now that is a confusing idea. Do you mean laws and programs forced by the people (like the Civil Rights Commision)? Do you mean the instruments of the state that constantly have suppressed all dissent? Do you mean the institutions for the preservation of the infrastructure of the rich? Or do you mean that shit that substitutes liberal pocket-lining bullshit programs for stuff people really fought to have.

The "federal government" confuses everybody. It makes them start thinkin' they are "taxpayers", which is the same as saying it makes everybody stupid.

4) Who's "we"? Can't understand nothin' if you're talkin' about "we" one minute, "they" the next minute, and you mean the same people. Try "Them and Us". If it ain't us its them. If its them, it ain't us.

I know the above is a redux but I'm restating my point... just as you have.
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Thanks! Ignore my PM requesting comments.

I agree with your points 1 trough 3. Incorporating that would have been "truthier." I sacrificed a broader accuracy for what I took to be brevity and rhetorical benefit. This part 3 of an ongoing series which will be a recursive process. On your point 3, that's true, especially the point about programs that people fought for. I may not have said it well enough but my point was different - an attack on the cynicism of money party assholes who pillage the government then kick it to the curb. (On edit: But at least now I'm taking about "the funders" and not "the founders";)

4. "Us versus Them" - Yep. I specifically thought of Mike's explanation of that and meant to include it. My error.

-->The last phrasae, line sucks. You're too kind for not mentioning it: "It's time to wake up, call their bluff, and take the country back." Take the country back? When did we ever have it. Could have left that one out.

Thanks!!!!!!!!

Speaking of Jim Crow - I went to the "Claim Democracy" conference in DC and wrote a bit about it. This is the part about Rainbow Push's efforts in NOLA. I have to say that the Push person's characterization of the disenfranchisement of Katrina's survivors was much weaker than I discovered when I looked at it (the same period she references). She said that they'd persuaded the state to make accommodations for the mayoral race after the catastrophe. There were some very good outreach efforts, almost all of which the state canceled. The only surviving state help was satellite precincts in other parts of Louisiana for displaced NOLA voters (but no precincts in GA, CA, etc.). She claimed that the ability of the displaced to return to NOLA was some victory. Who could afford it? Who offered to pay for flights, buses, etc. Not good when I'm more radical that the Push people just on a common sense basis. When I end up at conferences like this, which isn't often, and realize that I'm the furthest left in the room, I shudder at the absence of a real left to provoke and prod.

"The story of voting after a catastrophe was offered as a cautionary tale. The mayoral election shortly after Katrina faced major obstacles. Citizens lobbied the Secretary of State, Governor Blanco, and the legislature. They got some (not enough) special accommodations for that election. But in 2006, the state shut the door. Jim Crow's generosity had run out. The citizens are not giving up and neither is Rainbow Push." http://tinyurl.com/yp8svs

They had a Q/A session for the "experet panel" of "left" (Spenser Overton & Hedrick Hertzbereg) and "right" (Grover Norqist and a Club for Growth Guy). You had to submit them. Here was my question:

Question: Felon disenfranchisement, voter ID laws, and other methods to shrink the voting rolls are a direct descendant from the racist Mississippi Constitution of 1890. When will politicians who advocate this stand up and claim their heritage?

Can you believe it? The "Reunite America" moderators didn't read my question.

Here was my question:

Question: Felon disenfranchisement, voter ID laws, and other methods to shrink the voting rolls are a direct descendant from the racist Mississippi Constitution of 1890. When will politicians who advocate this stand up and claim their heritage?

Can you believe it? The "Reunite America" moderators didn't read my question.

Y'know if you'd left off the word racist there's a 50/50 chance they wouldn't have got it and might have let the question in. Imagine some Foghorn Leghorn standing up and proudly claiming his Mississippi heritage..

Here was my question:

Question: Felon disenfranchisement, voter ID laws, and other methods to shrink the voting rolls are a direct descendant from the racist Mississippi Constitution of 1890. When will politicians who advocate this stand up and claim their heritage?

Can you believe it? The "Reunite America" moderators didn't read my question.

Y'know if you'd left off the word racist there's a 50/50 chance they wouldn't have got it and might have let the question in. Imagine some Foghorn Leghorn standing up and proudly claiming his Mississippi heritage..

You're right. Damn!!! The forum was really silly. Huge issues reduced to a 'love-in' courtesy of the Reuniters.

I had another one too. "I'm a reanimater, not a reuinter. Is there room for me on this panel?"