10/30/08

What if.....

More curious statements from Joe Biden:
BIDEN: “First of all, we’re no where near there. We have 8 days to go. This is the most important election in the public’s life. They are looking at these races very closely. I think this is going to be much closer than everyone thinks it is. Second, with regard to the Democratic Party, this is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order.” He went on to say, “I think there is going to be a collaborative effort to make the 21st century an American century.”
Now what does that mean? Predictably, it will be ignored in corporate media while the internet buzzes with the worst-case interpretation: Zionist-controlled Obama/Biden tools ready to implement NWO agenda while corporate media slavishly protects Obama.

Now this could be true. A good case can be made for that. But in following this line of reasoning for months now, I have to say, I don't trust it. I don't trust the provenance of this argument. I'm not convinced that it's not psyops intended to peel away the highly engaged people who do independent research, making them distrust Obama. As anecdotal support, look at the juicy question given to 'Joe the Plumber' by a Jewish McCain supporter, Stan Chapman, the other day:
The Ohio plumber, who has no license and is actually named Samuel Wurzelbacher, spoke at a McCain campaign event in Columbus Monday. A McCain supporter asked if "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel." JTP hardly batted an eye.

"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher said.
So who really fears Obama? Israel-firsters and fake 'Joe the Plumber.' I have nothing in common with these people, so why should I be afraid of Obama? As a matter of fact, it becomes harder and harder to deny that just about everyone in the world prefers Obama except some ignorant, pro-war, racist Americans and Israelis. In other words, except for the people who by all rights should be harshly marginalized -- all things being equal, which they aren't, and that's the problem.

Here's where the whole fear Obama thing falls apart in my mind. We know about ponerology and psychopaths. We know that the vast majority of people in the world are not psychopaths, but the psychopaths have ascended to positions of power due to their lack of conscience and their ability to lie without remorse. Due to their 'success,' the psychopaths have ordered the entire system to run on lies and corruption, because that's the game they excel at. We are all adversely affected.

Are all politicians thus forced to lie? Yes, I would say so. But that does not mean everyone likes it. That does not mean everyone accepts it. The system has been arranged to benefit people who have no consciences. These people, by their nature, cannot appreciate how utterly appalling their system appears to people with consciences. If you were an idealistic, conscienctious young person going into politics or corporate America, for instance, you would eventually either 1) be eaten alive and drop out or 2) become enured and succeed at the game. If 2), you might long for the day when you could dump these psychopathic bastards out with the garbage for making you compromise your integrity and hurting so many people along the way. But perhaps you stay in the game because you find ways to still accomplish some good. Why cede all power to the assholes? Maybe you are stubborn and tenacious. Maybe you have some faith.

Is Obama one of those people? I don't know. Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. I know this comes down to a numbers game. I know that the people who keep trying to throw him under the bus are frequently the very same people who have supported psychopaths in the past. I know that if he is as dirty as they say, he's the best faker I've ever seen because he sure looks good on the top layers. I know if he's really as good as I hope, he's the best faker I've ever seen because he has taken some really bad positions. Nobody really knows what Obama might do, though we're pretty sure what McCain would do (start WW III, die, leave us with that crazy shrew). Do I hold this mystery against Obama? How could I? He didn't make the system, he's just working it like a master. That does not prove he's a psychopath.

As a matter of fact, you can look at Biden's comment this way:
"...this is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order."
Perhaps he's simply saying that this is a party that has experienced 1) and now does 2). It does not follow that everyone is happy about the NWO. It does not follow that everyone accepts it and wants it and can be bought off to make it happen. In order to believe that, you have to believe that everyone in politics has no conscience. The work on ponerology does not support that conclusion. Look at the numbers. Some of them must be compromised, but with conscience, and therefore seeking justice. Psychopaths would be deathly afraid of such people. That's what I'm seeing.

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