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Title: CFR Member Calls On Elites to "Rise Up Against Ignorant Masses"
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Information Liberation
URL Source: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=55100
Published: Jun 30, 2016
Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Post Date: 2016-07-01 22:39:21 by Deckard
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Views: 668
Comments: 6
In a column for Foreign Policy Magazine, Council on Foreign Relations member James Traub argues that the elite need to "rise up" against the "mindlessly angry" ignorant masses in order to prevent globalization from being derailed by the populist revolt that led to Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump.
Concerned that, "Today's citizen revolt -- in the United States, Britain, and Europe -- may upend politics as nothing else has in my lifetime," Traub notes that Brexit was an "utter repudiation of….bankers and economists" and an example of how "extremism has gone mainstream".
Citing the potential for Trump to split the Republican Party even if he loses and the increasing unpopularity of France's socialist government, Traub argues that establishment political parties in major western countries must "combine forces to keep out the nationalists".
"With prospects of flat growth in Europe and minimal income growth in the United States, voters are rebelling against their dismal long-term prospects," writes Traub. "And globalization means culture as well as economics: Older people whose familiar world is vanishing beneath a welter of foreign tongues and multicultural celebrations are waving their fists at cosmopolitan elites."
Traub's tone is so contemptuous, he even describes the pro-Trump Republican base as "know nothing" voters and sneers at voters in Poland for being concerned about "values and tradition," while stressing that the push for further globalization will pit "poor and non-white and marginal citizens" against "working-class and middle-class whites," whom he describes as angry "fist-shakers".
Traub admits that his outlook is "elitist" but that, "It is necessary to say that people are deluded and that the task of leadership is to un-delude them."
Reaction to the article was piercingly vitriolic, with one respondent commenting, "If you've ever wondered what the conversations between aristocrats were like as the peasants were storming the Bastille, I suspect some of them were a lot like this Foreign Policy article."
The piece is yet another stunning example of how disconnected elites are to the people whom they insult and wish to rule over.
Traub, a Harvard graduate from a super-wealthy family that owns the Bloomingdale's chain of luxury department stores, has no idea whatsoever how things like mass uncontrolled immigration, deindustrialization and globalization impact ordinary working westerners.
His sneering pomposity is precisely why many Brits voted for Brexit and why many Americans will vote for Donald Trump.
In refusing to listen to or understand the concerns of hundreds of millions of people who have been disenfranchised by globalism, and instead arrogantly doubling down on his chutzpah, Traub is only ensuring that more people will join the populist revolt that led to Brexit in the first place.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Viva la Revolution! the sooner people like him are trampled in the rush the better
There was, in 1856, a "know nothing" political party in the US that was also nationalistic or against immigration. The author is riding on that popular sentiment.
The revolt is against the failures of the progressive Wilsonian federal administrative state . Wilson said the constitution was obsolete .He held that the business of politics( elections)should be separated from the administration of government, which would be overseen by unelected "experts", who would write the regulatory controls the nation is governed under .Unelected and highly trained experts could govern the nation more rationally, effectively, and responsibly than elected representatives. Elected legislatures roles would be diminished . This happened in the US over a century of destruction of constitutional principles . It was introduced in Europe 1st through the introduction of Bismarck and Fabian socialism ...then later expanded with the introduction of the EU . Trump would just bring his own 'experts ' into the system. He argues against the incompetence of the people running the government .He does not speak at all of reforming the big federal system .If anything he call for more of it . You never hear him speak of returning to constitutional governance . He would be another emperor with a 'pen and a phone'. The only difference is he would be the better manager of the leviathan .He would pay for his expansive programs by eliminating “waste, fraud, and abuse”.....he'll 'make deals'. You don't believe me ? Read the transcripts of his interview about health care : Donald Trump: Obamacare’s going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at what’s going on with premiums where they’re up 40, 50, 55 percent. Scott Pelley: How do you fix it? Donald Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, ‘No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private. But–‘ Scott Pelley: Universal health care. Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now. Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How? Donald Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably– Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it? Donald Trump: –the government’s gonna pay for it. But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything. And it is not just in health care . He promises big government executive action on almost every issue be it social security ;be it trade. Oh, miserable mortals! Oh wretched earth! Oh, dreadful assembly of all mankind! Eternal sermon of useless sufferings! Deluded philosophers who cry, “All is well,” Hasten, contemplate these frightful ruins, (Voltaire)
Yeah, is typical CFR. He in the article admits they are pro globalization. He is a classic example of why we do not want anyone in the Govt that is from that evil organization. Maybe he would be happier if he and his fellow travelers were lined up & shot. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Now, I am not an artist, so I cannot draw you a picture, but perhaps I can explain it well enough to give you a picture in your mind. Let me, as best I can, tell you why there has got to be a third Revolution, a Second Civil War, and why it will come within the next year or so and let me further add who it will be that does the fighting. Picture if you will a beautiful summer day, a day with no clouds but a gentle breeze, a day when it is 90 in the sun, but the humidity is low, so it is not unduly uncomfortable. You are sitting under a tree on your favorite lawn chair, playing on a blanket on the lawn in front of you is a perfect little blonde headed, blue eyed, 9 month old; you newest grandson. Out of the corner of your eye you see a huge python slithering out of the bushes surrounding your property, as it comes closer you realize it is over 200 feet long and it is slithering right towards your grandson. You sit mesmerized, you cannot believe the size of that snake, a 200 feet python, a snake with a mouth big enough to swallow your grandson in one gulp. A snake your grandson sees, but due to his age, has no fear of, but instead starts crawling towards. Now the snake is 3 feet from your grandson, it’s head is raised, it’s mouth is open, your grandson is laughing, thinking the snake is funny and means him no harm. What are you going to do? 97% of you are going to go yell at the tail or try to compromise with the snake, maybe agree to it only eating a leg and an arm. But, 3% of us are going to go cut off the head of that snake, flat out kill it, by cutting off it’s head. In the above illustration, you are you, your grandson is your grandchildren, beautiful yard is the USA, the 200 foot python is the US G0vt. In Maine there are 1,230,000 legal residents. 3% is 36,900 men, women, boys and girls, more than enough to cut of the head of not just a 200 foot snake but a 2,000 foot snake. I know that I am no smarter than our members of Congress, I know I am no smarter than Barak Hussien Obama, I know that Gov. Paul LePage is every bit as smart, if not smarter than me, as are the majority of Maine's Legislature, Sheriffs, Police, Courts and Media, it is they who are so much smarter than the rest of us, those who know what is best for us, those who would devour our grandchildren, they we must guard against. Let me quote Bob Ownes: What you’ll see in the rebellion Let me explain, gun grabbers, how your confiscatory fantasy plays out. Let us imagine for a moment that a sweeping gun control bill similar to the one currently suggested is passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by a contemptuous President. Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stroke of a pen. Citizens will either register their firearms, or turn them in to agents of the federal government, or risk becoming criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold their arms, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered. Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves. They will be leaderless, stateless, difficult to track, and considering the number of military veterans that would likely be among their number, extremely skilled at sabotage, assassination, and ambush. After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter. What matters is that when illusion of the government’s invincibility and infallibility is broken, the hunters will become the hunted. Unnamed citizens and federal agents will be the first to die, and they will die by the dozens and maybe hundreds, but famous politicians will soon join them in a spate of revenge killings, many of which will go unsolved. Ironically, while the gun grab was intended to keep citizens from preserving their liberties with medium-powered weapons, it completely ignored the longer-ranged rifles perfect for shooting at ranges far beyond what a security detail can protect, and suppressed .22LR weapons proven deadly in urban sniping in Europe and Asia. While the Secret Service will be able to protect the President in the White House, he will not dare leave his gilded cage except in carefully controlled circumstances. Even then he will be forced to move like a criminal. He will never be seen outdoors in public again. Not in this country. The 535 members of the House and Senate in both parties that allowed such a law to pass would largely be on their own; the Secret Service is too small to protect all of them and their families, the Capitol Police too unskilled, and competent private security not particularly interested in working against their own best interests at any price. The elites will be steadily whittled down, and if they can not be reached directly, the targets will become their staffers, spouses, children, and grandchildren. Grandstanding media figures loyal to the regime would die in droves, executed as enemies of the Republic. You can expect congressional staffs to disintegrate with just a few shootings, and expect elected officials themselves to resign well before a quarter of their number are eliminated, leaving us with a boxed-in executive, his cabinet loyalists trapped in the same win, die, or flee the country circumstance, military regime loyalists, and whatever State Governors who desire to risk their necks as well. Here, the President will doubtlessly order the activation of National Guard units and the regular military to impose martial law, setting the largest and most powerful military in the world against its own people. Unfortunately, the tighter the President clinches his tyrannical fist, the more rebels he makes. Military commands and federal agencies will be whittled down as servicemen and agents will desert or defect. Some may leave as individuals, others may join the Rebellion in squad and larger-sized units with all their weapons, tactics, skills, and insider intelligence. The regime will be unable to trust its own people, and because they cannot trust them, they will lose more in a vicious cycle of collapse. Some of these defectors will be true “operators,” with the skills and background to turn ragtag militia cells into the kind of forces that decimate loyalist troops, allowing them no rest and no respite, striking them when they are away from their most potent weapons. Military vehicles are formidable, but they are thirsty beasts, in terms of fuel, ammo, time, and maintenance. Tanks and bombers are formidable only when they have gas, guns, and can be maintained. In a war without a front, logistics are incredibly easy to destroy, and mechanics and supply clerks are not particularly adept at defending themselves. Eventually, the government will turn upon itself. The President will be captured or perhaps killed by his own protectors. A dictatorship will form in the vacuum. If we’re lucky, the United States of America, or whatever amalgam results, will again try to rebuild. If we’re very lucky, the victors will reinstate the Constitution as the law of the land. Just as likely though, we’ll face fractious civil wars fought over issues we’ve not begun to fathom, and a much diminished state or states will result, perhaps guided by foreign interests. It will not be pretty. There will be no “winners,” and perhaps hundreds of thousands to millions of dead. Yet, this is the future we face if the power-mad among us are not soundly defeated at the ballot box before they affect more “change” than we, the People, are willing to surrender to would-be tyrants.” Elected and unelected Bureaucrats, leeches, and cockroaches are all part of the same family in the animal kingdom.
Very interesting scenario Bob. I do not see any points that I would quibble with. You would think that the elites would be happy with what they have. But no, they are pigs, and always want more. They have a false sense of security. And sooner or later, being greedy, they will go too far. They are due to get a very rude awakening. Some will say you are dreaming. I do not. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"know nothing" voters
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
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#4. To: paraclete (#1)
" Viva la Revolution! the sooner people like him are trampled in the rush the better "
#5. To: Deckard (#0)
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Written By: Bob Owens - Dec• 28•2012
#6. To: BobCeleste (#5)
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