{"id":32957,"date":"2016-03-04T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32957"},"modified":"2016-03-04T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:13:32","slug":"the-people-are-finally-waking-up-to-the-global-con-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32957","title":{"rendered":"The People Are Finally Waking Up To The Global Con Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOTN Editor’s Note:<\/strong>
\nThe following article expresses a very important point about the 99% waking up to the shenanigans perpetrated on them by the 1%. \u00a0Now that the people know that they have been routinely fleeced over generations by the robber barons on Wall Street they can take back their power from them.<\/p>\n

Truly, the only reason why the 1% ever obtained any power or wealth whatsoever is because the 99% went along with the con. \u00a0As long as they, too, made money many have justified playing the con game. \u00a0Even though many still got hurt, they still went along sometimes just to get along. \u00a0However, we are now at the end of the road and the can cannot be kicked any further. \u00a0There’s simply no more road just as there’s no more gold in the vaults, except in those hidden vaults which are full of stolen gold.<\/p>\n

Finally the people are wise to this multi-decade scam. \u00a0However, it’s too late. \u00a0All that can be done now is to run the kleptocratic class out of town. \u00a0However, the reigning plutocratic oligarchy is quite incorrigible and totally addicted to their various games of institutionalized thievery. Because of this stark reality, there is really no place for them on Planet Earth. \u00a0The planetary civilization will only be safe from them if they are incarcerated off planet with no means of communication with the inhabitants of this world. \u00a0 As a matter of absolute necessity, these pathological thieves should not even have any contact with anyone who has a relationship with the current race of humanity. \u00a0Yes, they’re that dangerous and criminally insane.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why We’re Ungovernable: The “Unprotected” Push Back<\/h2>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Peggy Noonan, former Reagan administration speech writer and current Wall Street Journal pundit has, like most of her peers, been wondering what\u2019s gotten into the unwashed masses lately that makes them such unpredictable voters. And she\u2019s come up with a useful conclusion: The rise of Donald Trump (and similar iconoclasts in other countries) is due to the gradual division of society into the protected <\/strong>\u2014 that is, people who make the rules and therefore benefit from them \u2014 and the unprotected<\/strong>, who don\u2019t make the rules and end up getting screwed. The latter have finally figured this out and have stopped supporting the former. Here\u2019s her latest OpEd piece, in its entirety:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected: Why political professionals are struggling to make sense of the world they created.<\/a><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact of the Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if you\u2019re teasing him. Trump, they say.<\/p>\n

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I had such a conversation again Tuesday with a friend who repairs shoes in a shop on Lexington Avenue. Jimmy asked me, conversationally, what was going to happen. I deflected and asked who he thinks is going to win. \u201cTroomp!\u201d He\u2019s a very nice man, an elderly, old-school Italian-American, but I saw impatience flick across his face: Aren\u2019t you supposed to know these things?<\/p>\n

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In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.<\/p>\n

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But actually that\u2019s been true for a while, and is how we got in the position we\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

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Last October I wrote of the five stages of Trump, based on the K\u00fcbler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Most of the professionals I know are stuck somewhere between four and five.<\/p>\n

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But I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection. It is a theme that has been something of a preoccupation in this space over the years, but I think I am seeing it now grow into an overall political dynamic throughout the West.<\/p>\n

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There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.<\/p>\n

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The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful\u2014those who have power or access to it. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for some time.<\/p>\n

I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let\u2019s stick with the protected.<\/p>\n

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They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they\u2019ve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them\u2014in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union\u2014literally have their own security details.<\/p>\n

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Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They\u2019re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.<\/p>\n

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One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and Western Europe is immigration. It is the issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.<\/p>\n

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It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Britain will probably leave the European Union over it. In truth immigration is one front in that battle, but it is the most salient because of the European refugee crisis and the failure of the protected class to address it realistically and in a way that offers safety to the unprotected.<\/p>\n

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If you are an unprotected American\u2014one with limited resources and negligible access to power\u2014you have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years\u2019 experience of illegal immigration. You know the Democrats won\u2019t protect you and the Republicans won\u2019t help you. Both parties refused to control the border. The Republicans were afraid of being called illiberal, racist, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.<\/p>\n

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Many Americans suffered from illegal immigration\u2014its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did fine\u2014more workers at lower wages. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them personally.<\/p>\n

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It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.<\/p>\n

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The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment\u2014another word for the protected\u2014nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Trump came from that.<\/p>\n

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Similarly in Europe, citizens on the ground in member nations came to see the EU apparatus as a racket\u2014an elite that operated in splendid isolation, looking after its own while looking down on the people.<\/p>\n

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In Germany the incident that tipped public opinion against Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s liberal refugee policy happened on New Year\u2019s Eve in the public square of Cologne. Packs of men said to be recent migrants groped and molested groups of young women. It was called a clash of cultures, and it was that, but it was also wholly predictable if any policy maker had cared to think about it. And it was not the protected who were the victims\u2014not a daughter of EU officials or members of the Bundestag. It was middle- and working-class girls\u2014the unprotected, who didn\u2019t even immediately protest what had happened to them. They must have understood that in the general scheme of things they\u2019re nobodies.<\/p>\n

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What marks this political moment, in Europe and the U.S., is the rise of the unprotected. It is the rise of people who don\u2019t have all that much against those who\u2019ve been given many blessings and seem to believe they have them not because they\u2019re fortunate but because they\u2019re better.<\/p>\n

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You see the dynamic in many spheres. In Hollywood, as we still call it, where they make our rough culture, they are careful to protect their own children from its ill effects. In places with failing schools, they choose not to help them through the school liberation movement\u2014charter schools, choice, etc.\u2014because they fear to go up against the most reactionary professional group in America, the teachers unions. They let the public schools flounder. But their children go to the best private schools.<\/p>\n

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This is a terrible feature of our age\u2014that we are governed by protected people who don\u2019t seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

And a country really can\u2019t continue this way.<\/p>\n

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In wise governments the top is attentive to the realities of the lives of normal people, and careful about their anxieties. That\u2019s more or less how America used to be. There didn\u2019t seem to be so much distance between the top and the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Now is seems the attitude of the top half is: You\u2019re on your own. Get with the program, little racist.<\/p>\n

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Social philosophers are always saying the underclass must re-moralize. Maybe it is the overclass that must re-moralize.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know if the protected see how serious this moment is, or their role in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noonan nails the political\/social zeitgeist but for some reason misses the financial side of the phase change: Governments and other protected classes have borrowed unmanageable amounts of money and are now maintaining their power by squeezing workers and savers. <\/strong>Corporations lower their costs by shipping jobs overseas while governments cut their debt service by reducing (or eliminating) interest rates on the bank accounts and bond funds that once allowed savers to build capital and retirees to eat.<\/p>\n

In this sense, QE, ZIRP and NIRP are a declaration of war on the unprotected,<\/strong> and as the victims figure this out they\u2019re lining up behind anyone who promises to 1) raise the minimum wage, limit immigration, and prevent corporations from moving jobs overseas; 2) break up big banks and jail Wall Street criminals; 3) hand out free stuff, paid for by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of the 1%.<\/p>\n

In the US, this produces a political campaign with Donald Trump giving voice to the darkest impulses of the electorate and both major Democratic candidates running to the left of Barack Obama<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Europe, fringe parties of both the right and left are taking over,<\/strong> leading almost inevitably to a dissolution of the eurozone and a radical scale-back of the European Union. For starters.<\/p>\n

This is starting to look like the French Revolution, with bankers, CEOs and their favored politicians in the role of Marie Antoinette.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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