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The Illuminati are supposedly the real power behind world events, a kind of shadow world government. Novelist Taylor Caldwell wrote about them in her masterpiece, The Captains and the Kings. Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea wrote about then in 1975, in The Illuminatus Trilogy in 1975. They seem to morph with the times.
Right now in the second decade of the 21st century, the Illuminati appear to be a handful of about 1000 zillionaires worldwide who come from major corporations – Prudential, Dow Chemical, Goldman Sachs, Chevron…you get the idea. These 1000 individuals are funding many of the negative attack ads for the upcoming election and funneling their contributions through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Frankly, I never realized there was a huge bureaucracy called the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. This entity doesn’t represent small mom and pop businesses. That’s the work of the local chapters. Rather, it’s a machine that’s taking huge sums of money from foreign governments and doesn’t have to report the source of this money for campaign ads because of the Supreme Court’s decision in January to alter campaign spending laws. The U.S. Chamber advocates outsourcing jobs to China and elsewhere to increase profits for large corporations, fewer federal regulations governing Wall Street, no “government mandated health care” and fewer federal regulations on energy.
Wall Street. Alan Greenspan, a student of Ayn Rand, contended that the market would “regulate itself,” as though the market had some sort of moral compass. Well, we saw how well that worked when Bush, during the final weeks of his presidency, announced that the financial sky was falling, our entire financial system was near meltdown, and we had to bail out Wall Street. Now Goldman Sachs and AIG, which benefited from the bailout, are a couple of the biggest donors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but still owe the American taxpayers untold billions.
Health care. No surprise that some of the largest donations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce comes from insurance companies. You would think they’d be tickled pink about mandatory health care. Millions of new clients. But oh horrors, they have to insure people with pre-existing conditions and children can now stay on their parents’ plans until they’re 26. And, oh yes, they don’t like that the reform closed that pesky loophole in Medicare about buying prescription drugs.
Energy regulation. Well, look no farther than the oil debacle in the Gulf of Mexico.
In other words, the agenda here is to continue moving toward a plutocracy based on greed and fear. (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus…and the Government is from Pluto.) It’s the old paradigm. It’s putting up a hell of a fight.
The rich seek to get richer, and they have since Bush implemented his tax cut for the wealthiest two or three percent of Americans. The Democrats want to end these tax cuts for the wealthy. (The Dems have their hands in this corporate greed scheme as well, but not nearly to the extent of The Repugs.) According to Forbes Magazine, the combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans climbed 8% this year, to $1.37 trillion. Wealth rose for 217 members of the list, while 85 saw a decline.
Charles and David Koch, the energy magnates who are convening a conference in January 2011, are pouring huge sums of money into Republican coffers and sponsoring tea partiers all over America. Each of them grew richer this year by $5.54 BILLION. They’re worth $21.5 BILLION respectively. On the wealthiest of the wealthy list, 109 of the richest 400 are in finance or investments. 25 top hedge-fund managers got an average of $1 billion each, but paid an average of 17 percent in taxes.
It sure sounds like class warfare, doesn’t it?
The Dems want to keep their Wall Street reforms in place, the Repugs seek to repeal them. The Dems hope to see the full health care reform bill implemented in 2014, the Repugs intend to repeal it. The Repugs want to see social security privatized. Hey, isn’t that a great idea? The stock market would love it and when it tanked, so would your meager hedge against old age.
This brings us right to the Tea Party, a bunch of zealots who seem to have hijacked the Republican Party. Their mouthpieces – like Christine O’Donnell – are so incredibly dumb it’s an embarrassment In a recent debate, O’Donnell showed just how dumb she is. She seemed surprised that the first amendment to the Constitution is about the separation between church and state. It says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. September 17, 1787.
And she’s just the visible tip. The whole pathetic story of American politics in the last decade is a bit like Philip K Dick’s Blade Runner meets Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s the dying gasp of a belief system that has run its course – and knows it. And like any dying thing, it’s fighting hard to remain viable even though it’s on life support. Makes me wonder if this paradigm is having an out-of-body experience that the rest of us are witnessing.
I cried with joy the night Obama was elected. Rob and I set off firecrackers in the back yard. I thought Bush politics and the old paradigm were done, gone, history. Oops. It goes back to that dying thing struggling for breath, that last gulp of oxygen. It fights hard. It’s nasty.
Don’t let these jerks turns us into a corporate or religious entity, a bygone republic that historian fifty years from now will puzzle over, asking themselves,
How the hell did this happen? How did the greatest democracy on the planet become a joke? If you didn’t get to vote during early voting, by all means get and and do so on November 2. If these guys win, we’d better be looking for another planet that will accommodate the rest of us. Or maybe we can just shift to another dimension where none of this took place and the world looks more like the lyrics of John Lennon’s
Imagine.
