The Election Has Already Been Hijacked and the Winner Decided: "We the People" Lose By John W. Whitehead!
(2020-10-01 at 04:37:37 )

The Election Has Already Been Hijacked and the Winner Decided: "We the People" Lose By John W. Whitehead!

"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." - Herbert Marcuse

Republicans and Democrats alike fear that the other party will attempt to hijack this election.

President Donald Trump is convinced that mail-in ballots are a scam except in Florida, where it is safe to vote by mail because of its "great Republican governor."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is worried about foreign hackers continuing to target and exploit vulnerabilities in the nations electoral system, sowing distrust about the parties, the process and the outcome.

I, on the other hand, am not overly worried: after all, the voting booths have already been hijacked by a political elite comprised of Republicans and Democrats who are determined to retain power at all costs.

The outcome is a foregone conclusion: the Deep State will win and "We The People" will lose.

The damage has already been done.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has been tasked with helping to "secure" the elections and protect the nation against cyberattacks, is not exactly an agency known for its adherence to freedom principles.

After all, this is the agency largely responsible for turning the United States of American republic into a police state. Since its creation, the DHS has ushered in the domestic use of surveillance drones, expanded the reach of fusion centers, stockpiled an alarming amount of ammunition (including hollow point bullets), urged United States of Americans to become snitches through a "see something, say something" campaign, overseen the fumbling antics of TSA agents everywhere, militarized the nations police, spied on activists and veterans, distributed license plate readers and cell phone trackers to law enforcement agencies, contracted to build detention camps, carried out military drills and lockdowns in American cities, conducted virtual strip searches of airline passengers, established Constitution-free border zones, funded city-wide surveillance cameras, and undermined the Fourth Amendment at every turn.

So, no, I am not losing a nights sleep over the thought that this election might by any more rigged than it already is.

And I am not holding my breath in the hopes that the winner of this years popularity contest will save us from government surveillance, weaponized drones, militarized police, endless wars, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture schemes, overcriminalization, profit-driven private prisons, graft and corruption, or any of the other evils that masquerade as official government business these days.

You see, after years of trying to wake United States of Americans up to the reality that there is no political savior who will save us from the police state, I have come to realize that Americans want to engage in the reassurance ritual of voting.

They want to believe the fantasy that politics matter.

They want to be persuaded that there is a difference between the Republicans and Democrats (there is not).

Some will swear that Donald Trump has been an improvement on Barack Obama (he is not).

Others are convinced that Joe Bidens values are different from Donald Trumps (with both of them, money talk)).

Most of all, voters want to buy into the fantasy that when they elect a president, they are getting someone who truly represents the citizenry rather than the Deep State (in fact, in the oligarchy that is the American police state, an elite group of wealthy donors is calling the shots in cooperation with a political elite).

The sad truth is that it does not matter who wins the White House, because they all work for the same boss: Corporate America. Understanding this, many corporations hedge their bets on who will win the White House by splitting their donations between Democratic and Republican candidates.

Politics is a game, a joke, a hustle, a con, a distraction, a spectacle, a sport, and for many devout United States of Americans, a religion. It is a political illusion aimed at persuading the citizenry that we are free, that our vote counts, and that we actually have some control over the government when in fact, we are prisoners of a Corporate Elite.

In other words, it is a sophisticated ruse aimed at keeping us divided and fighting over two parties whose priorities, more often than not, are exactly the same so that we do not join forces and do what the Declaration of Independence suggests, which is to throw the whole lot out and start over.

It is no secret that both parties support endless war, engage in out-of-control spending, ignore the citizenrys basic rights, have no respect for the rule of law, are bought and paid for by Big Business, care most about their own power, and have a long record of expanding government and shrinking liberty. Most of all, both parties enjoy an intimate, incestuous history with each other and with the moneyed elite that rule this country.

Despite the jabs the candidates volley at each other for the benefit of the cameras, they are a relatively chummy bunch away from the spotlight. Moreover, despite Congress so-called political gridlock, our elected officials seem to have no trouble finding common ground when it is time to collectively kowtow to the megacorporations, lobbyists, defense contractors and other special interest groups to whom they have pledged their true allegiance.

So do not be fooled by the smear campaigns and name-calling or drawn into their divide-and-conquer politics of hate. They are just useful tactics that have been proven to engage voters and increase voter turnout while keeping the citizenry at each others throats.

It is all a grand illusion.

It used to be that the cogs, wheels and gear shifts in the government machinery worked to keep the republic running smoothly. However, without our fully realizing it, the mechanism has changed. Its purpose is no longer to keep our republic running smoothly. To the contrary, this particular contraptions purpose is to keep the Deep State in power. Its various parts are already a corrupt part of the whole.

Just consider how insidious, incestuous and beholden to the corporate elite the various "parts" of the mechanism have become.

Congress.

Perhaps the most notorious offenders and most obvious culprits in the creation of the corporate-state, Congress has proven itself to be both inept and avaricious, oblivious champions of an authoritarian system that is systematically dismantling their constituents fundamental rights.

Long before they are elected, Congressmen are trained to dance to the tune of their wealthy benefactors, so much so that they spend two-thirds of their time in office raising money. As Reuters reports, "For many lawmakers, the daily routine in Washington,D.C. involves fundraising as much as legislating.

The culture of nonstop political campaigning shapes the rhythms of daily life in Congress, as well as the landscape around the Capitol. It also means that lawmakers often spend more time listening to the concerns of the wealthy than anyone else."

The President.

What Americans want in a president and what they need are two very different things. The making of a popular president is an exercise in branding, marketing and creating alternate realities for the consumer-a.k.a., the citizenry-that allows them to buy into a fantasy about life in the United States of America that is utterly divorced from our increasingly grim reality.

Take President Donald Trump, for instance, who got elected by promising to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Donald Trump has paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the rest of the Deep State (also referred to as "The 7th Floor Group") to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

The lesson: to be a successful president, it does not matter whether you keep your campaign promises, sell the United States of American people to the highest bidder, or march in lockstep with the Corporate State as long as you keep telling people what they most want to hear.

The Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme Court-once the last refuge of justice, the one governmental body really capable of rolling back the slowly emerging tyranny enveloping the United States of America-has instead become the champion of the American police state, absolving government and corporate officials of their crimes while relentlessly punishing the average United States of American for exercising his or her rights.

Like the rest of the government, the Court has routinely prioritized profit, security, and convenience over the basic rights of the citizenry. Indeed, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky makes a compelling case that the Supreme Court, whose "justices have overwhelmingly come from positions of privilege," almost unerringly throughout its history sides with the wealthy, the privileged, and the powerful.

The Media.

Of course, this triumvirate of total control would be completely ineffective without a propaganda machine provided by the worlds largest corporations.

Besides shoveling drivel down our throats at every possible moment, the so-called news agencies which are supposed to act as bulwarks against government propaganda have instead become the mouthpieces of the state.

The pundits which pollute our airwaves are at best court jesters and at worst propagandists for the false reality created by the United States of American government.

When you have internet and media giants such as Google, NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting, Thomson Reuters, Comcast, Time Warner, Viacom, Public Radio International and The Washington Post Company donating to political candidates, you no longer have an independent media-what we used to refer to as the "fourth estate"-that can be trusted to hold the government accountable.

The American People.

"We The People" now belong to a permanent underclass in the United States of America. It does not matter what you call us-chattel, slaves, worker bees, it is all the same-what matters is that we are expected to march in lockstep with and submit to the will of the state in all matters, public and private. Unfortunately, through our complicity in matters large and small, we have allowed an out-of-control corporate-state apparatus to take over every element of United States of American society.

We are playing against a stacked deck.

The game is rigged, and "We The People" keep getting dealt the same losing hand. The people dealing the cards-the politicians, the corporations, the judges, the prosecutors, the police, the bureaucrats, the military, the media, etc.-have only one prevailing concern, and that is to maintain their power and control over the citizenry, while milking us of our money and possessions.

It really does not matter what you call them-Republicans, Democrats, the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex-so long as you understand that while they are dealing the cards, the deck will always be stacked in their favor.

As I make clear in my book, "Battlefield America: The War On The American People", our failure to remain informed about what is taking place in our government, to know and exercise our rights, to vocally protest, to demand accountability on the part of our government representatives, and at a minimum to care about the plight of our fellow United States of Americans has been our downfall.

Now we find ourselves once again caught up in the spectacle of another presidential election, and once again the majority of United States of Americans are acting as if this election will make a difference and bring about change. As if the new boss will be different from the old boss.

When in doubt, just remember what the astute commentator George Carlin had to say about the matter:

The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You do not. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They have long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I will tell you what they do not want. They do not want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They do not want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They are not interested in that. That does not help them. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.. It is a big club and you aint in it. You and I are not in the big club. ..The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.. Nobody seems to care. That is what the owners count on.. It is called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Reprinted here with the gracious permission of "The Rutherford Institute" - Dedicated To The Defense Of Civil Liberties And Human Rights!!