There Is No Transition Of Power
It is all power all the time
Attached at the hip of corruption
The helm residers are
Always temporary at best
Some longer than others
Passing torches of evil
Disguised as democracy
To placate the proletariat
While bemusing the bourgeois
With distractions and deception
Designed to deviate from divinity
By fighting amongst themselves
As power gains more power
Muddling the masses into malignancy
Twisting slavery into freedom
Ignorance as the ideal
Violence as the new peace
“Free speech as
Free as its thought
Controlled behavior
Reacts as its taught
Fighting for Peace
Can’t comprehend
Hate out of love
Is violent pretends”
– John Trudell
If it is not a war overseas
It is a war at home, all by
Dehumanizing humans
Just add enough stank
To its pronunciation and
Voila, you have a bogeyman
To be feared with an
Unconscious desire to eliminate
Having once yearned to be free
Doesn’t count as much now
Since one’s ancestors got here first
Well, second, but who’s counting
Because words control thoughts
Power controls words via deception
In and out of content and context
Focusing forever on the frivolous
Mundane, ridiculous, and benign
How do I think I may know this, you ask?
Because when I was about nine years old
I read a news article that I saved and copied
Finding it would circumstantially resurface
When I “needed” to reread it again to refresh
Here it is digitally for my readers to read.
The copy I found was originally published by N.E.L.P.A. News
Northwest Electric Light Power Association
“US Downfall Plotted 50 Years Ago” (now 106 years)
“In May of 1919 at Dussoldorf Germany, the Allied Forces obtained a copy of the “Communist Rules for Revolution. “
Nearly fifty years later, the “Reds” are still “following the rules.” As you read the list, stop after each item and think about the present-day situation and where you live, and all around the nation. We quote from the Red Rules.
A. Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; Destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby :
1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule, and obloquy.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with high prices and general discontent.
6. Forment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
7. By spacious argument, cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continued faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
That was quite a list, wasn’t it? Now stop and think, how many of those rules are being carried out in this nation today? I don’t see how any thinking person can truthfully say that the communists do not have any part in the chaos, that is upsetting our nation. Or is it just coincidence? I doubt it!”
That last part was part of the article, not mine.
Methinks the word communist or ” Reds” is interchangeable with whatever the current bogeyman is at the time. It doesn’t matter. Could be bogeyman itself, when it is not, terrorists, or socialists, or transgenders, or the latest bogeymen, DEI. That “painful” diversity, equity, and inclusion subversion, that is causing fires and plane crashes, oh the horror.
Since it has letters, rearranged to spell DIE, or IED, which plays subconsciously into people’s easily triggered fears, for the sake of fear.
Walk back in your mind to each previous American president who has not presided over continuing a war or starting one to leave for each subsequent administration.
I do not even have to do a internet search engine search to know that since I have been alive 59 years, this country has always been in a state of violent conflict, with other countries either directly or with monetary or military support.
As a self-declared leader of the free world, it is certainly engaged in lots of killing of a lot of people. When on the surface, it tries so hard to save babies, “only to raise them to be dead soldiers.” – GC
China, which always seems to be a dangling threat, hasn’t had any major conflicts since 1979. Besides, why would they want to inflict harm on their best customer? That’s not good for business. Oopsie!
“We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now, this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Power stands on top of a three-legged stool, conducting how each behaves so as to have a sturdy base to wield its constant power.
Fascinating perspective. It does seem like people are paranoid enough to jump on a bogeyman bandwagon with a small pointing of the finger in whatever direction.
Maybe that’s where a faithful detachment comes in handy.
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Yes, they always fail to see the three pointing at themselves.
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China is taking a little break, after having slaughtered as many as 80million of its own people under Chairman Mao in the mid-20th Century. (Not including the 30-60million baby girls they disappeared in the 1980s & 90s thanks to their 1-child policy and everyone wanted a boy.)
Humans as a collective don’t really know what they’re doing. But we can make it nice where we are!
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Thanks for the enlightenment. It is amazing how many people can decide to kill fetuses to adults, as long as it can be justified. For any convenient purpose .
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