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To re-paraphrase: "You cannot serve both your personal money interests and your nation." You have to hate one and love the other. The signs of hating are stopping the nation from touching your money interests and then making the nation a slave to your money interests, then making the nation your personal cash cow.
Don't we all do this to some extent, greed being the downfall of the nation? We hate taxes and vote against them. We latch onto the financial rewards of entitlements losing sight of the intended benefits to the common good. The nation in fact is a machine for our economic best interests so the lines are blurred? Is this not how the people become so ambivalent in the land that safeguards and praises the individual but united we stand to protect the rights of all?
Is the hate and love merely an emotional seesaw? Or is the idea of hating your country exposed when you consciously work against the nation and thus the interests of most of your fellow citizens? Is there some ambivalence, some ground for fudging, understanding or compromise? The ruling, dull, safe pragmatism of capitalist democracy always suggested the answer was compromise and dialog between greed and idealism. This is what seems to drive the middle road of the party and would succeed in the lukewarm middle of America(largely made of self-occupied non-participants and non-idealists).
Tragically, under ferocious assault by a plutocracy that purely proves the maxim and covers it even more purely with patriotic hypocrisy protected by advanced PR, a big chunk of our leadership rides the center of the seesaw. You have to believe the hearts of most of them are toward loving the national interests, but what frightens them most is upsetting the balance and falling off as they move toward the "left"(if you will).
So who are object lessons that in the end, in practice, and in the falseness of "balance" that people with gold in their souls constantly violate to everyone's disadvantage, show that greed is poison to a nation? The villains and maddening hypocrites surely, but the ever less fleet-footed and effective balance keepers becoming ludicrous and even more infuriating because national order and public welfare is something they hope to define but cannot defend. The have NO leverage in the center of inaction. The ones preaching for the national interests of the common good think by dampening the efforts of the heavily weighted(in a supposed democracy) populace that they can preserve the balance when the minority on the purely selfish end is piling on the gold and shooting at both the national interests AND the deluded, noble balance keepers.
This is the point when you think you have proved that people should all rally to radical socialism or, God forbid, the practice of individual poverty in redistributing one's own property to the poor to serve an even higher maxim of Christianity. But it is a question of the language and deception allowed to accrue over the reality teetering on the brink of a plunge toward corporatist dictatorship. We are for the national interests and against the ruling interests, because the ruling interests hate America.
By destroying America's social network in order to enrich private interest, the self styled ruling class that destroyed the fulcrum of a fair vote constantly proves the point.
Take the Dubai deal. When the Cole was bombed in Aden the cover issue of terrorism and response was clear. But for those who hate such clarity about lost lives and national interests, this is what it has led to. Forget the terrorists, they have merely opened a door to opportunity. Firstly, Dubai profits from taking up more port security leading to dominance in trade control between Asia and the ME supplanting the long held former sick partnership of Aden and Britain. Both Aden and Dubai financed and coddled terrorists and their ancient dictatorships easily succumb to the principle of loving private economic advantage over all else. They have indeed a smaller population, no democratic fulcrum, even a partnership or enslavement to Western plutocrats to contend with. Despite the fact that their vaunted "security" business may be instead a centuries old protection racket and that the best way to hinder terrorists is to buy them off(under the money rules all principle), a deal is made under the auspices of pure unadulterated "free trade" under the best hypocrisy mask. Sure you could use money to police the criminals but the circle of tribute(a disgrace and a constant threat to the subjugated national interests) has the win/win of recirculating the money(ours mainly, but also extricating the wealth of the sheiks) back to our ruling plutocrats.
In Iraq it is the same. There may be far better ways of helping a people and thus affirming our own democratic values, but when greed rules, it is better to throw bombs at the people and gold to the circular business interests. That trillion dollars or two? Relax, it isn't as crazy as it sounds because our tax money largely is and will come back into the pockets of the ruling interests in America. That is how the purer hypocrisy of today's Coup justifies their seeming destructive madness. The national interests they hate and they oppress in America and Iraq to keep the scales plunging into their fortune favor wear now constantly and unabashedly the mask of hypocrisy, where good is evil and evil good.
Anyone not too busy scrambling for purchase on the tipping fulcrum sees only the mask, an everlasting lie. If the mask falls, which is debatable since all the vices demand the most deception not the most public clarity, one would see a few people worshiping themselves, taking it all for their own benefit. But hypocrisy, infliction of misery and strife among the masses up in the air and falling off is something they must always have because if the pretense dissolves the majority would see, in the heroes of self-interest, that the common good must rule and prevail without equivocating with the forces diametrically working against them.
The game of pretend is over. If the spiteful Coup flees of a sudden they think to let the seesaw slam down the people with a painful fall. The fulcrum sitters really have no power in the matter except they are personally saved from most of the blow. So the nation is blackmailed into inaction, in the end, by the other side which cannot sustain its dirty tricks. Now, to reassert truth and the national interests we have to absorb the pain and end the game.
The campaign cannot take the purest form but it can energetically rally people for the needed sacrifice to win this battle, people stuck and lost. By moving to the left leaders think they will cause them harm and they are right, but the longer this goes on the worse it gets. The GOP is a lost party that no longer, by even the slightest margins, supports the national interests or common welfare above private interests. That is a fact. Furthermore, they work against the common man and the needy and the national interests to further those private interests and protect them by crippling civil government itself. Not only are offices of service filled with people appointed to destroy the national welfare, they loot and corrupt everything they touch. it is hell incarnate. Sustainable capitalism? Whatever gymnastic arguments one could make have been made a veneer of hypocrisy and hopelessness. It's them against us, as before, as now, as they wish forever.
And whenever the GOP serves the national interests they have to be bribed, to find a buck in it, and always enlarge the opportunity to consolidate their win/win system. The inner mask tells them that eventually the people will profit too and that the harm is rationalized away easily. This is why such thinking creates the poor, creates and finances organized terrorism, profits from eternal war among the duped masses, creates tyranny, ruins education and progress, and in the final throes of greed gnaws away the last resources until the whole human race is swallowed up into it own moral black hole. In the end, quickly approaching, there is no sustainable balance, only sacrifice to make the common good work- for all or none.
And all this without putting on the Christianity mask like the Coup does!
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