tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post1751047395111491020..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Optimistic Imagination Minus Reality Equals Severe Traumabionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-52383079331401314592015-01-22T09:04:53.899-08:002015-01-22T09:04:53.899-08:00Tony, it's been the same song-and-dance for a ...Tony, it's been the same song-and-dance for a while now, and apparently it's been all too easy. As Hermann Goering said: "All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."<br /><br />The pro-interventionism soundbite has always been "It's a dangerous world out there, and it'll get more and more dangerous unless we stop it." Apparently, the most effective way of convincing "the masses" of the first part is to show them directly - by way of allowing (or causing!) certain events to happen that strike mortal fear in their hearts. They'll go along with it because they've been inculcated to trust "the authorities". The whole enterprise is basically a glorified cattle prod.Autolykosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-6303180324015721972015-01-22T08:53:48.738-08:002015-01-22T08:53:48.738-08:00Thank you very much for this comment. I was not aw...Thank you very much for this comment. I was not aware of those aspects of the 1940 presidential election. Now that I am, I definitely think that election was rigged.<br /><br />My understanding is that the US joined the side of the UK in both world wars because of business interests. Basically, if the UK lost (especially if it was conquered by Nazi Germany), the financial losses in the US would be tremendous. Clearly, the people who'd be facing those losses stopped at nothing to prevent them.Autolykosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-81189627099048948352015-01-11T15:41:49.428-08:002015-01-11T15:41:49.428-08:00Tony, you might have just very succinctly explaine...Tony, you might have just very succinctly explained why the meida labels that generations as "the greatest generation," meaning they were greatly responsible for making the final shift to the worship of state and empire.<br /><br />Thank you!bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-81280624649146349792015-01-11T13:38:39.285-08:002015-01-11T13:38:39.285-08:00You have to wonder what happened to the American p...You have to wonder what happened to the American psyche between World War I and World War II. After the Great War, Americans, by and large, decided they had been duped. German imperialism? The sun never set on the British Empire! <br /><br />Americans could see the con. They weren't having any of this League of Nations nonsense.<br /><br />Oh, how things would change after World War II! The U.S. knew it could no longer be "isolationist." It had to play the role of globocop, intervening always and everywhere--for no reason, for bad reason, for contradictory reason. War without end. Amen. <br /><br />It represented a sea change in public opinion. And it all happened in one lousy generation. This is to say the Greatest Generation. Of course!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242683448708605585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-46259255164123830772015-01-09T17:56:58.862-08:002015-01-09T17:56:58.862-08:00One of the most damaging thing to happen to US dem...One of the most damaging thing to happen to US democracy was in 1940 when Wendell Willkie somehow became the Republican candidate<br /><br />In 1940 there was a significant amount of anti-intervention sentiment in the US. So much so that Roosevelt had to keep on pretending he was not in favor of joining the war. Yet even though there were at least 3 major Republican candidates who had at least moderate anti-war beliefs the Republicans at the last minute of the Republican convention chose Wendell Willkie as their candidate. <br /><br />This was even though Willkie was<br /><br />A life long Democrat<br />Had voted for and given money to Roosevelt in the 1932 election<br />Had never run for office<br />Only claim to fame was being a lawyer and running a power company<br />Was just as much an interventionist as Roosevelt and in fact went to work for Roosevelt pushing interventionism after losing the election<br /><br />Stalin is supposed to have said "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Yet in fact the communist system was set up where it did not matter who won the vote since the only candidates were ones approved by the communist party.<br /><br />This is what happened in 1940, the interventionists could not lose since they had set up the election where the only candidates with a chance of winning were interventionists. The same thing happens today, for all they hype does anyone think that Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, have major differences in policy. Sure they have some small groups they throw a bone to once in a while in order to pretend they have differences but in major policy they have few differences.<br /><br />You can say that Obama pushed through Obamacare but it was based on Romneycare and was similar to Bush II program for prescription drugs where the prescription drug makers wrote the rules just like the insurance companies wrote the rules for Obamacare<br /><br />Foreign policy is still invade the world, invite the world, go in debt to the world.<br /><br />Economic policy is still to do whatever makes the international financiers happy<br /><br />Etc, etc<br />DJFnoreply@blogger.com