rutherford | “The first and most important thing to understand about politics is
this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy.
Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a
kleptocracy, meaning ‘rule by thieves.’ Competing ideologies merely
provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what
they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won’t willingly fork over to end
poverty, then maybe they’ll cough up to fight drugs or terrorism.
Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a
cover for what’s really going on, like the colors of competing gangs.” —
Author L. Neil Smith
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to
suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in
which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful,
and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government
agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict
mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.
Case in point: in the same week that Wikileaks dropped its bombshell about the CIA’s use of spy tools to subject law-abiding Americans to all manner of government surveillance and hacking—a
revelation that caused barely a ripple of concern among the
citizenry—the government quietly and with little fanfare continued to
wage its devastating, stomach-churning, debilitating war on the American
people.
Incredibly, hardly anyone noticed.
This begs the question: if the government is overstepping its
authority, abusing its power, and disregarding the rule of law but no
one seems to notice—and no one seems to care—does it matter if the
government has become a tyrant?
Here’s my short answer: when government wrongdoing ceases to matter, America will have ceased to be.
Just consider the devastation wrought in one week in the life of our American kleptocracy:
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