The World's Most Important Political Prisoner

[Tom Scully]

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James, Alastair Crooke, a former senior officer of Britain's SIS has just written an article that speaks of the elites in this respect - at least from the European perspective. The wholly destructive neoliberal ideology they adhere to, and which we have lived through these past 40 odd years, is fracturing. I rather suspect that similar pressures are extant in the US too.

I'm posting his article below:
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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2...continent/

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Longer, it seems, than "these past 40 odd years," and U.S. society "serves up" a much more diverse political class...more "self made" individuals who literally came from nothing. Is there a conservative party PM, aside from Major or May, for example, with a background of unconnectedness comparable to Bill Clinton's. Also, it does not appear that Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, or Richard Nixon were, as the popular phrase here describes it, "born on third base".

IOW, it has been common of both major U.S. political parties to nominate candidates for the office of the presidency who are
of working class families.

There are many people who don`t know what real pressure is. Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. - Barry Switzer

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-x...story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opini...mpire.htmlOpinion
The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class
With Brexit, the chumocrats who drew borders from India to Ireland are getting a taste of their own medicine.


By Pankaj Mishra
Mr. Mishra is the author, most recently, of "Age of Anger: A History of the Present."


Jan. 17, 2019
Describing Britain's calamitous exit from its Indian empire in 1947, the novelist Paul Scott wrote that in India the British "came to the end of themselves as they were" that is, to the end of their exalted idea about themselves. Scott was among those shocked by how hastily and ruthlessly the British, who had ruled India for more than a century, condemned it to fragmentation and anarchy; how Louis Mountbatten, accurately described by the right-wing historian Andrew Roberts as a "mendacious, intellectually limited hustler," came to preside, as the last British viceroy of India, over the destiny of some 400 million people.


Britain's rupture with the European Union is proving to be another act of moral dereliction by the country's rulers. The Brexiteers, pursuing a fantasy of imperial-era strength and self-sufficiency, have repeatedly revealed their hubris, mulishness and ineptitude over the past two years.
...Such a pattern of egotistic and destructive behavior by the British elite flabbergasts many people today. But it was already manifest seven decades ago during Britain's rash exit from India....
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Mountbatten, derided as "Master of Disaster" in British naval circles, was a representative member of a small group of upper- and middle-class British men from which the imperial masters of Asia and Africa were recruited. Abysmally equipped for their immense responsibilities, they were nevertheless allowed by Britain's brute imperial power to blunder through the world a "world of whose richness and subtlety," as E.M. Forster wrote in "Notes on the English Character," they could "have no conception."....


....Forster blamed Britain's political fiascos on its privately educated men, callow beneficiaries of the country's elitist public school system. These eternal schoolboys whose "weight is out of all proportion" to their numbers are certainly overrepresented among Tories. They have today plunged Britain into its worst crisis, exposing its incestuous and self-serving ruling class like never before.


From David Cameron, who recklessly gambled his country's future on a referendum in order to isolate some whingers in his Conservative Party, to the opportunistic Boris Johnson, who jumped on the Brexit bandwagon to secure the prime ministerial chair once warmed by his role model Winston Churchill, and the top-hatted, theatrically retro Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose fund management company has set up an office within the European Union even as he vehemently scorns it, the British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.
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