The link
The reason America never fixes its problems is that it believes they will auto-correct. This article is the ideological foundation of authoritarianism. If you prefer to smear it, I guess you could call it “emergency dictatorship,” “capitalism in decay” or “fascism.” It is the idea that freedom and liberty “don’t work,” but the logical conclusion is that authority is needed to patch society. It is not really stressing class conflict or the need for the complete elimination of private property, and thus not really addressing the issue from a Marxist-Leninist standpoint but a corrective authoritarian standpoint.

It requires a religious belief in capitalism in order to keep trying to succeed against all odds, because otherwise it is easier to give up. After all, to succeed requires many failed attempts and/or a special networking connection, especially in this global economic meltdown. I can attest to the fact that most hardcore entrepreneurs truly believe these values.

WASHINGTON — The most popular religion in America isn’t Christianity, as most of us have been taught to believe. The most cherished belief system celebrates the principles of unfettered capitalism.

That misplaced faith in free markets was on display in this past Thursday’s health care summit, when — between sound bites and talking points — Republicans argued that “choice and competition” would largely resolve the country’s health care problems. That belief — that the arbitrary, confusing and consumer-unfriendly policies and practices that we euphemistically call a health care “system” can be transformed by relying on free market principles — is confounding.

Except for beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Affairs system — all government-run insurance programs — those of us who have insurance are utterly reliant on the private market. That’s what got us into the mess we’re in.

The health care market simply doesn’t operate like the market for cars or computers or flat-screen TVs. Sony and Samsung make their profits by selling as many of their products as they can. Health insurance companies make their profits by selling as many of their products as they can and then trying very hard not to actually deliver them.

Try to imagine that you’re awaiting delivery of your brand-new 50-inch TV, for which you’ve already made a hefty down payment. But the company calls to tell you that you violated some obscure clause in your contract, so they’re not going to bring it! In the health insurance world, it’s called “rescission.” Insurers decide they won’t honor the contract because of some alleged violation by the policy-holder.

They do that to keep their fat profit margins. Health care giant Wellpoint has proposed substantial rate increases in the individual market (policies for individuals who don’t have employer-based insurance), not just in California but in several other states. In congressional testimony last week, WellPoint president Angela Braly said the company had to raise premiums because of soaring health care costs. But Wellpoint hardly seems to be hurting; it reported a profit last year of $4.7 billion.

California’s Wellpoint subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, is not only proposing stunning rate hikes. The state’s insurance commissioner has announced that the company has also repeatedly violated state law by failing to pay medical claims on time and by misrepresenting policy provisions to consumers, according to the Los Angeles Times.

So, it seems, the company tells you that a policy offers broad coverage when they’re trying to get you to buy insurance. But when you need the coverage, you find out that the policy doesn’t offer broad coverage, after all. That helps explain why so many people, even with health insurance, go bankrupt after a costly illness.

Without stricter government oversight and regulation — which is the essence of the health care reform proposed by President Obama — health care costs will continue to soar while consumers get less and less. Obama’s proposals don’t represent a “government takeover,” as critics contend. The vast majority of Americans would still get their insurance in the private marketplace. But insurers would have to live by a different set of rules.

Vice President Joe Biden said it best at the summit: If Republicans agree that insurance reform is necessary, that health insurance companies should be prohibited from turning away consumers because of pre-existing conditions, that they should be prevented from enforcing lifetime caps on benefits, then the GOP must see the need for strict government regulation. You don’t get those changes in the “free market.”

And, unlike the choice of buying a computer or a car, you’d don’t really get to walk away from health insurance. If you do, you take your life into your hands. Having health insurance increases your chances of longevity.

Once upon a time, political leaders realized that all Americans needed access to electricity, and they stepped in to ensure that all households got that small miracle at reasonable rates — something that the “free market” could not provide. Americans need a similar intervention in health care now.

I just reviewed old threads started on the phora, and found them embarrassing, because they were so obviously influenced by bourgeois liberalism and an attempt to appeal to the fox news crowd. What kind of Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein and Vlad the Impaler fan tries to collaborate with Republican neo-liberals! And they lacked a clear cut message! It’s so obvious that I do not believe in liberal democracy and I do not know why I was not more explicit about the sham of the two party system.

In 2007 however, as opposed to 2006, The pro-JTF posts were cool because at that time the JTF used to be cool, but all this talk about “white racialism” and “western civilization” is just a bunch of Republican non-sense. My views are increased in sophistication by several orders of magnitude, but really I realized that trying to frame views into a mainstream context is cowardly! In addition to being a coward’s move, trying to “go mainstream” does not get results!

I note a few recurring themes in the posts, but that was mainly because of the environment. If a pond is full of bass fish, then your line will catch bass fish. If a forum is full of people who enjoy talking about certain themes, then you’ll adapt to that. It’s hardly autistic as the clowns on stumble inn would suggest, and more that I was responding to the environment by discussing the same topics, of course with different viewpoints! Contrary to me being autistic, my ideological opponents were, as they latched onto old fashioned ideologies and defended them whereas I always look forwards and sideways, much to the consternation of others.

I note high levels of criticism of Catholicism and Paganism. And criticism of nationalities. I guess you can say the posts weren’t all boxed into one issue.

From the Free Media Productions News Room
The system of exploitation and nepotism imposed on Americans is unjust and can be defeated. We have a numerical advantage and the average person knows that the elite leadership is disloyal to American interests. It is only a matter of time until these nepotistic and greedy animals are put down for good. It is only a matter of time until the average American has a voice, because the patience level is decreasing. It is only a matter of time before patriotic citizens rise up in defiance. It is only a matter of time until we see real “change.”

February 24 – A new poll from CNN shows that a mere 14 per cent of American citizens have “faith” in the United States government and its ability to handle the problems currently confronting it.

The poll, conducted by CNN and Research Corp., was published earlier this week and showed that an overwhelming majority of American citizens – a staggering (but not surprising) 85 per cent – of those surveyed believed the current US governing system was “broken,” according to CNN’s report on the poll findings.

The results of the latest poll are consistent with recent surveys which have shown a dramatic decrease in popular support for US President Barack Obama, who at one point garnered impressive approval ratings following the hype of the President’s massive campaign push in 2008.

But since coming to power in January 2009, President Obama has done little, if anything, to substantiate his highly emotionally-charged campaign rhetoric calling for “change.” In fact, disappointment and disillusionment have perhaps best defined the President’s first year in office, particularly in the policy areas in which the President had said he was most interested in making change: health care reform and US aggression abroad.

However, the President has done little to distinguish himself from his predecessor, including his ongoing failures to manage the unprecedented unemployment resulting from the latest worldwide capitalist crisis, failure to even bring about shallow, surface level “reform” to the US’ broken privately-run health care system and his plans for deploying 30,000 additional US soldiers to war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Source: CNN

Enough of this politically correct bullshit.

Younger predominately male workers need to stop waiting at the back of the line (we’ve waited long enough, how long are we supposed to wait), and really start to discriminate against older workers wherever we have the power to do so. It is the older generation, this baby boomer generation of screwups, who ruined the economy, and it is the older generation who imposes flawed ideology on the younger the generation. The older bourgeoisie useless parasites can shut their mouths about age discrimination, and realize how unfairly good they have it. They can shut up about how hard they worked to get to where they are, and realize that it was easy to succeed until they screwed everything up. The blatant nepotism! The preference of age over skill! The desire to hire a worker solely because he/she is more experienced, when he/she may be an idiot. They run up deficits, they deconstruct the ethnic identity of nations, they outsource jobs, they start imperialistic wars for liberal capitalism, they flood the working class with more immigrant competition and they think they are clever with their two party system.

(note that this article is merely artistic and I don’t really advocate violence)
Death to the bourgeoisie! Exterminate them. Imprison them. Kick them. Spit on them. Throw rocks at them. Hell piss on them. Throw them into volcanoes and then clap when the volcanoes erupt. Make them suffocate on their dollar bills.

This is just a “theory” and not a call to action!

A dictatorship modeled off of Pol Pot’s khmer rouge could really rewrite the religious culture of the middle east, and then allow it to progress technologically after its original period of purification.

And don’t forget that pol pot was a nationalist!

From the Red Phoenix, official organ of the American Party of Labor

Part I of VI: Beck’s Countless Lies about America & the Founding Fathers

By Marcus Winter, Farabundo Morazán and Ismail LaLanne

On January 22nd 2010, another hardened reactionary tried to attack the history of leftism and Marxism and (surprise) managed to bring nothing new to the table at all. Shock jock Glenn Beck, an admitted alcoholic and former cocaine addict, has made a career out of appealing to the most lunatic fringe of the right-wing. Even so, this week he finally managed to outdo himself, even after the time he said Obama was “a racist” and had a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die begins oddly—with white X-Files font letters against a crackling static background. What this has to do with or why this is the least bit appropriate for the subject matter Beck tackles is anyone’s guess. As we shall see though, this is symbolic for the entire presentation, which, while clever, is the same hodgepodge of anti-communist views that we have all seen and heard a thousand times before.

A good question for Glenn Beck: why is such radical anti-communism necessary today if communism is discredited, dead, and buried? If communism is supposedly dead in the water, a footnote of history, and so on, and if capitalism is truly the greatest system, then why is it that we are facing a wave of anti-communist hysteria not seen since the Cold War? Mr. Beck, it might do you well to remember that hysteria and desperation are signs of weakness…and liars.

No matter how hard he tries, Glenn Beck cannot sell his line about how “this story has never been told.” Horror stories about communism have been told since before communists ever came to power in the first place. The opening of the secret Soviet archives actually reveals that these claims were in fact ridiculously exaggerated, not worse, than previously claimed.

So, what are his intentions here? Many things all at once—among them licking the boots of the bourgeoisie and re-packaging old and debunked lies. We shall tackle them one by one using our own sources and information. The complete transcript of Beck’s program is available here until further notice: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583732,00.html.

Because of the length of his program, we have decided to break this presentation up into several parts. For right now, we will content ourselves with refuting the introduction to his program.
We invite you to stay tuned for a little series of our own.

Beck’s Thesis
Glenn Beck’s allegedly “groundbreaking” exposé of “progressives,” whom he conveniently lumps together, is by no means new or groundbreaking at all. Revolutionary Holocaust seeks to establish a link between Joseph Stalin and communism on one side, and Adolf Hitler and Nazism on the other. While doing this it also seeks to talk about the reign of Mao Zedong in China, along with a segment about liberal icon Che Guevara.
This same “thesis” of fascism and communism being almost exactly the same or at least sharing fundamental similarities, has been repeated for us endlessly since we were kids. For Beck to champion this as a “new and groundbreaking” idea is either foolish or stunningly arrogant. It has been the dominant narrative shoved down our throats since the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 by Hannah Arendt. For a closer look at this laughable “theory,” look here: http://theredphoenix.wordpress.com/2009/09…otalitarianism/

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, & Slave-Owning Freedom
The video begins with Glenn Beck praising the United States of America and its associated American Dream. “The story of America,” he pines, staring into the camera with his intellectual glasses on, “is really one of self-reliance and optimism, and profound faith.” He continues to milk this image for all its worth, bringing up the merits of the US Constitution and the Founding Fathers.

Glenn Beck has willfully ignored the history of the American Revolution. The spirit of the American Founding Fathers is only a myth and not a reality.

First, the Constitution of the United States was not set up by “the” people or any sort of popular democracy, but by financial autocrats. White males with property were the only ones allowed to vote under the system that men such as George Washington (the richest man in America), James Madison (owned enormous slave plantations), John Hancock (a rich merchant), Benjamin Franklin (a wealthy printer) and others aimed to set up. Of the 55 men who gathered to write the Constitution in 1787, most were lawyers and men of enormous wealth, making their fortunes in landowning, slave trading, manufacturing or shipping. Half loaned money out for interest, 40 held government bonds.
Regarding the writing of the Constitution:
“The manufacturers needed protective tariffs; the moneylenders wanted to stop the use of paper money to pay off debts; the land speculators wanted protection as they invaded Indian lands; slaveowners needed federals security against slave revolts and runaways; bondholders wanted a government able to raise money by nationwide taxation, to pay off those bonds” (1).

Governments are not neutral. They reflect the economic interests of the dominant class, expressed in America as men such as the Founding Fathers. The Constitution protects “life, liberty, or property” and little else in reality. Women, Blacks, Indians and poor whites were not mentioned, but the defense of private property was.
The clause about the “freedom of speech” was soon enough violated, as it is today, by clauses such as the Sedition Act of 1789, which was a response to the French and Irish Revolutions. It forbid under law the practice of writing or saying anything “false, scandalous and malicious” against the United States government, the Congress or the President. It is not immediately apparent that anyone’s “liberty” should be left to a government run by the rich and powerful.

Despite this, Beck says that “[…] those seeking a different path than the ones the founders settled on realized the only way to really defeat the Constitution was for the people to stop reading it.” He then insists that the Constitution, through its supposed system of check and balances, “kept dogs at bay” for 200 years. Despite this Utopian dream, the Founding Fathers were not men seeking a “balance” in society, and certainly didn’t believe that all men were created equal. If they wanted any sort of balance, it was between the wealthy, and not between such groups as Indians and whites, blacks and whites, men and women, boss and worker, or rich and poor, slave and slaveowner, and certainly not property owner and the propertyless.

Next Article
In the next part of the series, we shall see how Glenn Beck uses the story of Nazi Germany and WWII to further his own ends, and ends up whitewashing Nazi crimes in order to attack the USSR.

Sources:
1) Zinn, Howard. Peoples’ History of the United States, page 91.

Dear Metal Gear please post this,

The other posters here just don’t get it.  Freedom is not free.  Free market liberalism is based on “principles” rather than greed.  In other words free markets are about the liberation of the individual and not about the profit of corporations which are separate from the state.

If it was not for American imperialism, real Communists and real Fascists would have you all interned in camps.

MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH BEUTIFUL FOR SPACIOUS SKIES!

DON’T WANT TO BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT

(blood from slit wrists was found on the document)

The Kahanist approach of opposing all Arabs is incorrect. Kahanists may have common enemies but they are only useful to an extent.

Kahanism is not the right path to fight Islamic extremism.

The neo-con path is not the right path either. Liberal democracy is not the right path when confronted with theological threats.

A third way is the real option.

Everyone knows that lying, cheating, nepotism and butt kissing are what cause people who are far intellectually inferior to rise to the top in the liberal capitalism system. The only people who don’t realize this are the most self-deluded fools and their gold digger wives who sit all day in the kitchen.

Goldman Sachs…These dysgenic cowards should have been in the trade towers when they went down. Paying themselves benefits after they ruined the economy for everyone else. Nothing short of revolution will change the situation. Obama is as much a part of the system as Bush.

A tiny amount of globalists continue to serve their own interests instead of serving national interests.

It is not my generation that ruined the country but the previous generations. It is not my generation that is responsible for the unemployed state of the young but your generation. It isn’t me, it’s you. Shut the fuck up. You get to where you are because you lie, cheat and kiss ass. Then once you gain power, you immediately betray the national interests of America to globalize the economy.

Nothing short of mass executions and bloodshed will fix the question of liberal capitalists who control the American government. I wonder how big the bonuses will be in 2011.

It isn’t a third positionist state so I don’t really care about it until it becomes one.

I do support some movements in Israel, like the revisionist Zionists, outcast pagan extremists, atheists, national Bolsheviks etc. Kahanists may be useful if they stop being so damned PARANOID!