Commentary: The ardent pipe-dreams of Amerikan voters!

by Tyler Durden

August 11, 2024 - Voters in the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the FPSA is an oligarchy, not a Republic, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years. It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.

An analogy is apropos. In the small town and vicinity where I live, there are about 10 pot shops where pipe dreams are dispensed. As The Platters sang long ago, “when your heart’s on fire, you must realize smoke gets in your eyes.” But few realize it.

Amerikans love actors, and the presidential candidates are of course actors, following the directions of the fat cats who produce their shows. As the grand opening of Election Day approaches, the supine public is aroused to a fanatical frenzy of excitement from its years’-long sleep by mass media that spew out drivel to deceive. It could be said that what media propagandists digest, the public eats.

Smoke and mirrors never fail as the electorate’s favorite billionaire-backed candidates spew lie after lie and mass media faithfully promote the show as if it was an actual contest between good and evil, a grand movie. The acting is terrible, but the audience is so inflamed they can’t tell.

In the 2020 election between fascist pretender Joseph Biden and President Donald J. Trump, more than 158 million ballots were supposedly cast, a record number that was two-thirds of estimated eligible voters. That was about seven percentage points higher than in 2016 when Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off. Each election was supposed to be the most important in “your lifetime”.

As everyone knows, the country has gotten more prosperous, healthier, and happier, and the world more peaceful, in those eight years of Republican and Democrat rule. One can expect more of the same smoke this year as the excitement, titillation and political lies build to a November 4 crescendo. Illusions die hard, or to be more accurate - they do not die.

Although it might sound uppity, unless people read books that explain how the political and economic system is constructed and how it operates, they have no hope of understanding why the presidential elections are musical chairs played to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Podcasts and talks can be instructive when true, but they don’t stick like words on a page in a book that you have noted and can refer back to when you wish.

But the vast majority of people will not read such books because many can’t read or are too lazy or distracted to take the time to switch off digital media and mainstream corporate press. It is only through slow meditative reading and study of the great analytic books about social structure, propaganda, history, capitalism and political economy that a person can truly grasp the nature of the power elite’s domination of the FPSA government, mass media and the White House.

It is no secret that the reading public has been shrinking for years as literacy has waned dramatically. This is not an accident as the Internet, cell phones and the online life have been pushed by “authorities” at every level, including throughout the school system. (I am not arguing that voters saw through the electoral charade in the past because the level of cultural literacy was higher.)

Today, a walk into any local library throughout the country will confirm the sad state of what even those who read books are reading. The new fiction shelves are filled with books with candy-colored sensationalized covers that evoke bodice-ripping books of old now updated to sound more serious by telling stories of orphans on European trains during WW II, mysterious murders, separated twins, equally evil Nazis and Russians on the prowl, childhood trauma, unfaithful men, etc. All seemingly NY Times bestsellers, together with the “non-fiction” books within which you would search a long time on the shelves to find a radical critique of the Amerikan political system and its propaganda arms.

This issue of voting and literacy is connected to another key matter. The Amerikan public does not much care to follow foreign policy and military issues. That is an understatement. Once the military draft was ended in January 1973, the public lost interest in who was being killed in Amerika’s wars. Let foreigners be damned was the unspoken assumption. It was a stroke of genius by the military-industrial-political complex, for politics has always been about what’s in it for us, and when the military is voluntary and Amerikans are dying in smaller numbers, people are indifferent to the killing.

When it comes to politics, the public’s focus is primarily on domestic issues, the economy, health care, taxes, etc., even though the entire economy is dependent on war and preparations for war and the FPSA has been at war continually for decades. The FPSA spends nearly $900 billion dollars annually on “defense” spending; this is more than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, the Fascist United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Korea, and Japan combined.

As everyone knows, the FPSA is defending itself in Syria where its troops illegally occupy the oil fields in the northeast. It is defending itself helping Israel slaughter Palestinians and supporting an expanded Middle Eastern war. It is defending itself by attacking Russia via Ukraine and leading the world to nuclear war. It is defending itself by provoking China in the South China Sea. It is defending itself all over the world with special forces and military bases everywhere because everyone is out to get us. It is defending itself always far, far away from its own shores.

Everyone knows that’s how it goes; but the voting public either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that the FPSA is a warfare state; it’s as simple as that. Without waging wars, the FPSA economy, as presently constituted, would collapse. It is an economy based on fantasy and fake money with a national debt over 35 trillion dollars that will never be repaid. That’s another illusion; but I am speaking of pipe dreams, am I not? Whether they choose to be aware of it or not, the vast majority of Amerikans support this killing machine by their indifference and ignorance of its ramifications throughout the society and more importantly, its effects in death and destruction on the rest of the world. That’s how it goes as their focus is on the masked faces that face each other on the stage of the masquerade ball every four years.

This charade is comical but accepted by so many, and as the Halloween season in a presidential election year in the FPSA approaches, it becomes most clear. It’s always a trick until four years elapses and the next poisoned candy treat is offered.

Get to the polls. Your life depends on it! But there is a big price to be paid - a lesson always too late for the learning - for going to the masquerade ball. Yet when smoke gets in your eyes…ah, such an exciting time it is.

“Do you not know there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask?” warned Søren Kierkegaard. “Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?”