{"id":38131,"date":"2016-05-16T06:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38131"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:20:54","slug":"app-dies-in-stillbirth-elections-are-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38131","title":{"rendered":"APP Dies In Stillbirth: Elections Are An Illusion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nMay 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>N. B.: On February 25th of this year, I announced the formation of<br \/>\nthe American Peace Party (APP) to be formally launched on June 1st.<br \/>\nWith that date fast approaching, I feel compelled to report on what has<br \/>\nhappened to my ambitious plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><br \/>\nBelow is my update.<\/p>\n<p>George Carlin told us years ago: if voting mattered &#8220;they&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nlet us do it. Yet we persist, in part out of ignorance; in part out of our<br \/>\nbasic civic duty; in part as a gesture of hope that he was wrong and<br \/>\nthat maybe, just maybe, this time it will make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>That was clearly what happened in 2008 with Obama.<\/p>\n<p>It is happening again this year&#8230;..twice: once with <em>The Donald<\/em> and<br \/>\nonce with the man from Vermont who is making Hillary feel the Bern!<\/p>\n<p>But as this article (<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=130157)\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=130157)<\/a> and many<br \/>\nothers clearly demonstrate, it is all an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is gonna change in the immediate future. Trump is showing<br \/>\nclear signs of being co-opted; Bernie will cave into the warmongers<br \/>\nif elected, and Hillary will do exactly what everyone knows she will do<br \/>\nbased on her neoliberal, progressive internationalism.<\/p>\n<p>President Hillary Clinton will launch more wars! If you don&#8217;t believe me,<br \/>\nask Paul Craig Roberts who is a lot smarter and far more experienced in<br \/>\nthe ways of government than I am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-05-09\/paul-craig-roberts-warns-killary-will-be-last-american-president\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-05-09\/paul-craig-roberts-warns-killary-will-be-last-american-president<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He calls the aspiring first female president &#8220;Killary&#8221; because he is<br \/>\nconvinced that her past actions and present rhetoric guarantee she will<br \/>\nreplicate the failed foreign policy that has been at the basis of the<br \/>\nWashington consensus (see Andrew Bacevich) for many decades.<\/p>\n<p>Whether neoliberal or neocon, this means lots of neo (new) wars in the<br \/>\nMiddle East, Ukraine, North Africa, South Asia and god forbid, with Russia<br \/>\nand\/or China.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what&#8217;s in store with her. Bernie has shown little willingness to<br \/>\nbreak with that agenda despite posing as a lefty concerned with domestic<br \/>\nissues rather than foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>And Trump is destined to fall on his own petard despite calling for better<br \/>\nrelations with Russia and a new relationship with NATO. His stronger<br \/>\nmilitary is bound to be used to expand our influence abroad rather than<br \/>\ndefend &#8220;America first&#8221; here at home, if the gurus who are advising him<br \/>\nbehind the scenes and who love pulling off false flags have their way.<\/p>\n<p>As for my big dream of a new political party grounded in a common<br \/>\npeace agenda bridging the antiwar right (paleo-conservatives, Tea Party<br \/>\nmembers and Libertarians) with the anti-war left (environmentalists, New-<br \/>\nAgers, and Occupy Wall Street idealists), that is looking quite bleak right now.<\/p>\n<p>As countless excellent observers are describing in their various big<br \/>\npicture summaries of the current situation, the immediate future gives<br \/>\nvirtually no reason for anyone to be even slightly optimistic that the West<br \/>\nwill pull back from its imperial designs and hegemonic pretensions!<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the prospect for peace and the APP are dim!<\/p>\n<p>Will war with Russia be the basis for an October Surprise that allows<br \/>\nObama to suspend elections? <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=130514\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=130514<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps. A war with Russia will provide a perfect excuse to evoke<br \/>\na national security emergency, announce the election will be postponed<br \/>\nand have Obama stay on as Dictator-In-Chief.<\/p>\n<p>What I can say for sure is that the entire election process is suspect,<br \/>\nthe voters are likely to be screwed and the insurgencies within the two<br \/>\nmainstream parties (Trump and Sanders) that could have made a real<br \/>\ndifference had they combined forces&#8212;as the APP suggested&#8212;will<br \/>\nprobably succumb to the divide and conquer strategy developed by the<br \/>\nglobal elite to maintain their domination.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps as things continue to decay over the coming years, a peace<br \/>\nparty will finally emerge out of the ruins of our once great Republic.<br \/>\nAs things now stand, June 1st will come and go with no APP to lead<br \/>\nthe peace movement that is longing to be born in America.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few recent articles by other observers of Pax Americana<br \/>\nconfirming my analysis and demonstrating how hard it is to promote<br \/>\npeace today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44650.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44650.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44649.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44649.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is much more to say but I will end on this note. As he prepares<br \/>\nto depart for a visit to Viet Nam and Japan, few mainstream pundits<br \/>\nwill remind the public that the Nobel Peace Prize winner has endorsed<br \/>\nthe expenditure of almost 1 trillion dollars to modernize our nuclear<br \/>\narsenal. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=19376\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=19376<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Obama will have the imperial duty of visiting one country<br \/>\nwhich we decimated with Agent Orange and endless bombs from<br \/>\nour B52&#8217;s and then heading to the nation we double nuked at the<br \/>\nend of WWII <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44643.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44643.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a spectacle that is easy to pull off at a time in our history when<br \/>\nthe voters are dumbed down, manipulated and endlessly distracted<br \/>\nby an entertainment industry that produces propaganda and distractions<br \/>\nfar more effectively than anything the Soviets or Nazis did.<\/p>\n<p>So I repeat: elections are an allusion. The APP has died in stillbirth.<br \/>\nAnd our descendants are faced with a Huxwellian world of endless<br \/>\nwars, endless entertainment and a future fraught with the potential<br \/>\nfor a singularity that is totalitarian and dehumanizing \u00e0 la The Hunger<br \/>\nGames.<\/p>\n<p>God have mercy on our souls!<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2016\/4\/8\/andrew_bacevich_americas_war_for_the\">http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2016\/4\/8\/andrew_bacevich_americas_war_for_the<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37897\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37897<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2016\/4320_time_justice_now.html\">http:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2016\/4320_time_justice_now.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/05\/13\/obama-should-heed-hiroshimas-survivors\">http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/05\/13\/obama-should-heed-hiroshimas-survivors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/defense-bill-coming-this-week-a-boost-for-war-and-tyranny\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/defense-bill-coming-this-week-a-boost-for-war-and-tyranny\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}