30-01-2013, 02:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-01-2013, 03:00 PM by Jim Hackett II.)
It seems to me that to sacrifice credibility for the sake of the Empire is a fool's errand.
The present trend in the US is ever more lack of credibility since very shortly after the September 1964 release of the Warren Report. Lies about SE Asia games, the illegal actions taken by the "state" against the civil rights efforts, on into the Cover-up of Woodstein re:watergate lies. A steady continuing trend down in confidence by WeThePeople since that time.
The 1960s alone destroyed the Elite and the Government credibility and thereby eroded the "consent of the governed"
So called approval rating of Congress (H of Reps and Senate) hover about 10%. Today the theft of the International Bankers of NY, London, and Stuttgart in 2008 finished the question for all the folks I know.
An Empire built on BS as this one is, cannot but fail sooner or later. To worry about the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship floods is my perception of the efforts to preserve empire. Keeping the 3rd class peons locked below decks while the servants served others.
The question of consent of the governed is an issue. The ST threw it out with the bathwater and are not even aware of the error yet. The credibility issue is sacrificed to no benefit.
Twice WeThePeople have spoken for change, but get nothing much of the voice expressed in the votes of 2008 and 2012. Only by comparison to GWBush does BHObama fair well.
Jack Kennedy he ain't.
I cannot imagine how the Government or any Governments can ever recover the consent of the governed after the last century of history.
One thing about the enemy, they are not stupid, therefore I must assume they do not think credibility and the consent of the governed matters at all.
A certain arrogance, to be sure. (I beg pardon of GMEvica).
A potentially fatal arrogance.
The present trend in the US is ever more lack of credibility since very shortly after the September 1964 release of the Warren Report. Lies about SE Asia games, the illegal actions taken by the "state" against the civil rights efforts, on into the Cover-up of Woodstein re:watergate lies. A steady continuing trend down in confidence by WeThePeople since that time.
The 1960s alone destroyed the Elite and the Government credibility and thereby eroded the "consent of the governed"
So called approval rating of Congress (H of Reps and Senate) hover about 10%. Today the theft of the International Bankers of NY, London, and Stuttgart in 2008 finished the question for all the folks I know.
An Empire built on BS as this one is, cannot but fail sooner or later. To worry about the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship floods is my perception of the efforts to preserve empire. Keeping the 3rd class peons locked below decks while the servants served others.
The question of consent of the governed is an issue. The ST threw it out with the bathwater and are not even aware of the error yet. The credibility issue is sacrificed to no benefit.
Twice WeThePeople have spoken for change, but get nothing much of the voice expressed in the votes of 2008 and 2012. Only by comparison to GWBush does BHObama fair well.
Jack Kennedy he ain't.
I cannot imagine how the Government or any Governments can ever recover the consent of the governed after the last century of history.
One thing about the enemy, they are not stupid, therefore I must assume they do not think credibility and the consent of the governed matters at all.
A certain arrogance, to be sure. (I beg pardon of GMEvica).
A potentially fatal arrogance.