Money Makes Politics “Walk”
“Americans have consistently expressed their desire for a third party to break the two-party system, but such a party has so far been unable to materialize.”
On June 14, Karthic Ayyalasomaya published a story with the statement above.
The story made me wonder why independents never win when they run for President.
I read the piece by “The Pew Research Center:
Its claim is in an “election-by-election look at underperformance by third-party and independent candidates.” It may be true, but the underlying reason is they have an uphill battle fighting deep-state-backed candidates who have the money and the glorious endorsements of others people listen to.
The main reason is MONEY. Money that buys publicity. As the old saying goes, money makes the world go around. This is very true by election day.
The Assertion
Today, the typical candidate belongs to the deep state. Eisenhower warned us that the preferred candidates get the backing of the “Military Industrial Complex.”
All candidates are financed by what Eisenhower (Jan 1953 — Jan 1961) in his farewell address called, the “Military Industrial Complex,” Jan 17, 1961. This is the “Government behind the government.”
During WWII, the USA dedicated every and any industry available to support the war effort.
Those who built “hardware” acquired skills in innovation and volume manufacturing not known before, in a magnitude that, at the start, supported England, later England, the Soviet Union, and the American Armed Forces in the front.
In the end, the country celebrated the end of the war against two megalomaniacs in the streets. Millions of now unemployed soldiers came home to work, and the women who had worked in the factories went home.
The gigantic hardware war industrial complex, in conjunction with the DOD, made choices in the industries required to keep the USA as the bellicose power we had become.
We had not only beaten the world in production but could now learn from the advanced designs of the Germans. Winston Churchill’s war mind knew the Soviets hated the West but could not get the American leadership to move our armies against them without cause.
In 1946, in his famous “Iron Curtain” speech, he ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.
“Churchill knew that while the world looked forward to putting the horrors of war behind, events at the beginning of 1946 portended an even darker future ahead. In the wake of the Allied victory, the Soviet Union had begun shaping Eastern Europe in their image, bringing the governments of many nations into line with Moscow. On February 9, Premier Joseph Stalin gave a speech in which he declared that war between the East and West was inevitable. On February 22, the American Ambassador to Moscow, George F. Kennan, sent the famous “Long Telegram” warning of the Soviet Union’s perpetual hostility towards the West.
Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years. The former Prime Minister, with President Truman at his side, articulated the threat that the Soviet Union and communism posed to peace and stability in the post-war world. Invoking the spirit of the Atlantic Charter he called for a strengthening of Anglo-American ties and for the United Nations to become a peace-promoting world organization that would succeed where its predecessor the League of Nations had failed.”¹
Looking back, we could say we fostered the monster of the 20th century.
Churchill’s worst fear came true during the “Cold War,” when the Soviet Union and China instigated the unification of the Korean Peninsula under communist control. The peninsula had been divided since WWII. The Korean War started on June 25, 1950, and ended on July 27, 1953, when the communists were pushed back to the 38th parallel.
How We Became a Warmongering Nation
As we know, General Eisenhower became President Eisenhower after Truman from Jan 1953 to Jan 1961, when John F. Kennedy was elected and later assassinated (Jan 1961 to Nov. 22, 1963).
Eisenhower ended the Korean War (Jan. 1953 to July 1953), so he became aware of the “Deep State’s perpetual wants. Thus, his warning during his farewell address.
The triggers of the Korean War were “the division of Korea into North and South after World War II, the contrasting ideologies of Communism and Democracy, international tension during the Cold War, and the involvement of global powers, namely the United States, China, and the Soviet Union.”²
After Kennedy’s assassination, we became the real “warmongers,” starting with “Vietnam.”
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Less than a year later, on August 2, 1964, we “experienced” the “Gulf of Tonkin incident.” That is all the provocation we needed to get into a war that had been raging since 1955³. With the self-initiated incident, LBJ started the War in Vietnam by delivering “real” capability there — Guns, bombs by the tons, and a “Drafted Army.” One can only speculate that Kennedy, in his right mind, refused to follow the “deep state” orders.
Vietnam was the big “welcome to the party” of the Real Deep State. They got to use various weapons and learned what was effective and what was not. B-52 got to drop bombs by the tons and tons on the Ho Chi Min trail; we used “Napalm” sticky incendiary bombs that burned the enemy and the jungle to a crisp. Civilians, too, as shown in the photo below.
The Wikipedia file: “The Terror of War,” a photograph showing Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road near Trảng Bàng, Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village of Trảng Bàng by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force. The village was suspected by United States Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold. Kim Phúc survived by tearing off her burning clothes. Kim Phúc (aged 9; middle left) runs naked in the street. Also pictured is her older brother Phan Thanh Tam (aged 12; far left), younger brother Phan Thanh Phuoc (aged 5; background left, looking back), and younger cousins Ho Van Bo and Ho Thi Ting (boy and girl, respectively; middle right). This Associated Press photograph won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. From Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc”
We left Vietnam in less than an honorific way. Their simple strategy of continuing to fight out of a very extensive network of tunnels with light guns won the day. One last major assault along the entire border of Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, from January 30, 1968, to September 28, 1968, basically finished the job. If we had protests since the war started, with the Tet Offensive, the American public protests got worse. Millions of people protested. The fall of the Afghanistan war had a similar exit, except in huge military transports.
Since the fall of Vietnam alone, the US has been in 30 wars. The most notable and Expensive were: 1. The Gulf War (1990–1991); 2. Afghanistan (2001–2021); 3. The Iraq War (2003–2011); and4. US Intervention in Iraq (2014–2021).
All, except for Vietnam, were fought by a “hired” army. Volunteers recruited for a “salary.” No more war protests — Another invention of the Deep State. after Vietnam, they could fight all the wars they wanted without us, the people caring what happens to our fellow citizens.
Although, to be fair, it needs to be said that compared to Vietnam (58,220 Deaths), the sum of all the others listed above is 7,111 Deaths (12%).
The deep state has all the “corporations” involved in “staying in business.” For this reason alone, the “Corporations,” i.e., “The Military-Industrial Complex,” knows how to finance those politicians who will return in kind favors. The “Lobbying industry” was invented for this.
“When the Constitution was crafted by Framers such as James Madison, their intent was to design a governmental system in which powerful interest groups would be rendered incapable of subduing the general will.⁵”
Today Our Government Behaves like a Cemetery
The Government grows without limits and develops nothing that helps our continued prosperity.
We are slowly becoming a “Socialist” country.
No socialist entity can sustain the support of its citizens without killing the enterprising ideas generated by its people and sustaining a dynamic economy.
Governing the USA has always involved a two-part set of responsibilities:
- The Federal Government has the “up-and-out” responsibility. It is paid a stipend to ensure that Federal Laws are fair to the population and that we maintain diplomatic equilibrium with the rest of the world.
- The States have the “down-and-in” responsibility for their citizens and their economy.
Our VOTE Does Not Matter
Today, we have an “All-Up-and-All-In” Federal Government. It counts on “Social Programs” to keep their hands in our pockets, but they spend all our money warmongering worldwide.
The Proof
Think of it this way — the Chinese are “thinkers” and know there are many ways to fight wars. Today, they are supporting Russia because it is convenient (they have been enemies in the past); there is no way to prove it, but COVID was very “convenient to have.” it put our debt into the stratosphere. We are fighting a “Money War” with the Chinese today.
The Citizens
Where are our priorities today? We are in a “Deep Dive” being sunk by a “Debt” anchor.
How do we get the message across? Write to your congressman. Demand,
a. “Term Limits!” It is the only way for us to control government;
b. To Make “Lobbying illegal;”
c. To “Pay the Debt.”
To Start with.
References:
- The National World War II Museum, Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech — March 5, 1946
- Study Smarter, Causes of the Korean War.
- Vietnam War, November 1955.
- A Summary of History Since the 1960's.
- History of Lobbying in the United States.
I love the Declaration of Independence and …
