How The Rest Is Going To Happen

[Nemo]

Basis for a deal.

Be sure to read it all.

Nemo

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

Thirty Tyrants
The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta
by
Lee Smith
February 03, 2021
Original photo: Wikipedia
Original photo: Wikipedia

In Chapter 5 of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the second is to rule directly; the third is to create “therein a state of the few which might keep it friendly to you.”

The example Machiavelli gives of the last is the friendly government Sparta established in Athens upon defeating it after 27 years of war in 404 BCE. For the upper caste of an Athenian elite already contemptuous of democracy, the city’s defeat in the Peloponnesian War confirmed that Sparta’s system was preferable. It was a high-spirited military aristocracy ruling over a permanent servant class, the helots, who were periodically slaughtered to condition them to accept their subhuman status. Athenian democracy by contrast gave too much power to the low-born. The pro-Sparta oligarchy used their patrons’ victory to undo the rights of citizens, and settle scores with their domestic rivals, exiling and executing them and confiscating their wealth.

The Athenian government disloyal to Athens’ laws and contemptuous of its traditions was known as the Thirty Tyrants, and understanding its role and function helps explain what is happening in America today.

For my last column I spoke with The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman about an article he wrote more than a decade ago, during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency. His important piece documents the exact moment when the American elite decided that democracy wasn’t working for them. Blaming the Republican Party for preventing them from running roughshod over the American public, they migrated to the Democratic Party in the hopes of strengthening the relationships that were making them rich.

A trade consultant told Friedman: “The need to compete in a globalized world has forced the meritocracy, the multinational corporate manager, the Eastern financier and the technology entrepreneur to reconsider what the Republican Party has to offer. In principle, they have left the party, leaving behind not a pragmatic coalition but a group of ideological naysayers.”

In the more than 10 years since Friedman’s column was published, the disenchanted elite that the Times columnist identified has further impoverished American workers while enriching themselves. The one-word motto they came to live by was globalism—that is, the freedom to structure commercial relationships and social enterprises without reference to the well-being of the particular society in which they happened to make their livings and raise their children.

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[pkveazey]

I read most of it. I didn't have to read very far before I got the answer to the question that has confused me for some time now. Hmmmmm..... Why is Big Business backing the Liberal side? The liberal side leans toward Communism and would be opposed to Big Business. When I read it, it made sense that Big Business would align itself with the Devil himself in order to get what they want. Both, Big Business and the Liberal Left want total domination of the masses.

[grizz]

I read most of it. I didn't have to read very far before I got the answer to the question that has confused me for some time now. Hmmmmm..... Why is Big Business backing the Liberal side? The liberal side leans toward Communism and would be opposed to Big Business. When I read it, it made sense that Big Business would align itself with the Devil himself in order to get what they want. Both, Big Business and the Liberal Left want total domination of the masses.

Not only the left, there are PLENTY (most) of those on the right jumping on that band wagon. And regardless of how much of their corruption is exposed and proven outside of the legal system, not one person is being held accountable.

We're screwed

[JohnyMac]

Good article (Thx for posting Nemo) however, nothing new here. The article tells us how we got to where we are - which many of us have been preaching for years - but not how we are able to turn the tide.

Just thinking out-loud here...Trump is gone because he tried to to control the USA Oligarchy. Okay we got that. However, the question remains, what can we do to change the direction that the oligarchy is moving towards?

On another note, I wrote somewhere that "debt is debt". I wonder if the Biden administration along with the US Oligarchy, going to deed to the Chicoms the west coast of the USA to pay our debt ($1.07-trillion in July 2020) off or a down payment on the principle. Time will tell however, it certainly happen before the mid-term election's of 2022.

Keep in mind that China is part of the World Economic Forum and certainly has its finger in the cake mix of The Great Reset.