The puppet masters at work

[dan_bgblue]

Davos Elites Struggle for Answers as Trump Era Dawns (http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/01/15/davos-elites-struggle-for-answers-as-trump-era-dawns.html)

[KeithKSR]

A small, very small, number of the richest of the rich hold more wealth than half the planet's population combined.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/richest-62-billionaires-wealthy-half-world-population-combined

[CitizenBBN]

Back in the 70s people talked about the Trilateral Commission, etc. Apparently that stuff was real, and here we are.

The move to globalization is move to lock in a corporatist world that is NOT free market capitalism, and not quite socialism. Honestly I'd call it more similar to Italian fascism than anything else, a melding of a western socialist government with protected corporations who both scratch each other's backs. The corporations make money and get protection from competition and upheaval, and they donate the money to the politicians to stay in power and make sure they have ample retirements.

A tidy package run by, as Keith said, a small group of super-elites like Soros and others.

And those guys have no interest in America being great, or being in the middle of the pack, they don't care. As long as its' stable and as long as they are the ones selling the products.

And they have no idea what has happened, or why we don't like that idea. that's the funniest part, they really don't get it. Yes Populism has "simple answers", but the truth is that Populism in this round is a version of Populism and Nationalism, and both are a rejection of this movement.

we want our country's leaders to put our nations first, and to not be in in that neat arrangement with corporations, entrenched in power. It's funny they can't get that we just want our nation to be first, and our lives to be free of their control.

Yes, we're looking for simple answers, b/c we have an equally simple goal. We call it individual liberty, wrapped up in a blanket of national pride.

[KeithKSR]

Back in the 70s people talked about the Trilateral Commission, etc. Apparently that stuff was real, and here we are.

The move to globalization is move to lock in a corporatist world that is NOT free market capitalism, and not quite socialism. Honestly I'd call it more similar to Italian fascism than anything else, a melding of a western socialist government with protected corporations who both scratch each other's backs. The corporations make money and get protection from competition and upheaval, and they donate the money to the politicians to stay in power and make sure they have ample retirements.

A tidy package run by, as Keith said, a small group of super-elites like Soros and others.

And those guys have no interest in America being great, or being in the middle of the pack, they don't care. As long as its' stable and as long as they are the ones selling the products.

And they have no idea what has happened, or why we don't like that idea. that's the funniest part, they really don't get it. Yes Populism has "simple answers", but the truth is that Populism in this round is a version of Populism and Nationalism, and both are a rejection of this movement.

we want our country's leaders to put our nations first, and to not be in in that neat arrangement with corporations, entrenched in power. It's funny they can't get that we just want our nation to be first, and our lives to be free of their control.

Yes, we're looking for simple answers, b/c we have an equally simple goal. We call it individual liberty, wrapped up in a blanket of national pride.

We were talking about the impending trouble on Friday at lunch today, the paid agitators, etc. My colleagues had no idea who Soros is when they asked who foot the bill for the paid agitators and I told them Soros and othe rich liberals.

Too many people don't know what goes on.

[suncat05]

That's because they're too busy reading BS & fake news on FaceBook, and looking at all of the trashy baby Momma drama nonsense listed.

[PedroDaGr8]

Back in the 70s people talked about the Trilateral Commission, etc. Apparently that stuff was real, and here we are.

The move to globalization is move to lock in a corporatist world that is NOT free market capitalism, and not quite socialism. Honestly I'd call it more similar to Italian fascism than anything else, a melding of a western socialist government with protected corporations who both scratch each other's backs. The corporations make money and get protection from competition and upheaval, and they donate the money to the politicians to stay in power and make sure they have ample retirements.

A tidy package run by, as Keith said, a small group of super-elites like Soros and others.

And those guys have no interest in America being great, or being in the middle of the pack, they don't care. As long as its' stable and as long as they are the ones selling the products.

And they have no idea what has happened, or why we don't like that idea. that's the funniest part, they really don't get it. Yes Populism has "simple answers", but the truth is that Populism in this round is a version of Populism and Nationalism, and both are a rejection of this movement.

we want our country's leaders to put our nations first, and to not be in in that neat arrangement with corporations, entrenched in power. It's funny they can't get that we just want our nation to be first, and our lives to be free of their control.

Yes, we're looking for simple answers, b/c we have an equally simple goal. We call it individual liberty, wrapped up in a blanket of national pride.

It is far from just Soros et al. on the left that want this. The Koch brothers and many others on the right are 100% in league on these goals. They just split the populace on other issues (such as abortion, gay marriage, civil rights) to make it easier to push through what they REALLY want which is 100% corporate control of the government. The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it, pretty much every time they change power you see further corporate encroachment into politics. Just look at Kansas and North Carolina to see how much corporate control the Republicans gave when they took over. Then if the Democrats take back over, watch what happens. There will be little to no roll-back of the corporate control the Republicans gave (usually just a few token wrist slaps at best) and additional groups will gain MORE control, on top of the previous groups. We are no longer a capitalist nation, we aren't very socialist either (at least that would benefit some people), at best we are corpro-socialist or outright corporatist.

[CitizenBBN]

When I say Soros et al I don't mean just leftists. Whether its Koch or "Wall Street" or however you put it, it's always been the case that the uber rich and the big corporations WANT government control b/c it protects them and stabilizes their markets and they get anything from monopoly to oligopoly. They love it.

It was the case when Teddy Roosevelt ran the last successful Populist campaign to bust the trusts, and it's true now as many Americans on both sides realize that BOTH parties are so deep in bed with big business and big labor and big government that you can't tell where one ends and the other begins.

That's why Trump was successful, b/c he ran against ALL of them, including the GOP establishment. That's why he still gets flack from McCain and others, and while people like the Bush family will go along and get along, they are not supporters.

Free markets and capitalism are about the opposite of this corporatist Wall Street merger with big government. A free market lets companies like GM fold so their assets can be reused by more efficient companies that are doing a good job. A free market with proper government oversight of informational asymmetry would have the Lehman guys all in prison.

The Sanders people are not wrong in their outrage, just wrong in their solution to the problem. The solution isn't more government, b/c that's exactly how we became what I agree is more of an Italian Corporate State with more open elections. As long as we insist on concentrating power in Washington we'll only see more of it.

"Drain the Swamp" is about eliminating and diffusing that power and with it the power of corporations to lobby for their own protection and market share. We'll see if it happens.

[badrose]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

[jazyd]

They don't get it

[dan_bgblue]

Soros (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/05/george-soros-battles-10b-lawsuit-familiar-charges-wielding-political-influence.html)

J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ attorney under the Obama administration who is now president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, told Fox News Soros had the Obama DOJ at his beck and call.

“Soros’ organizations in the U.S. were instrumental in shaping DOJ policy under the Obama administration,” Adams said, noting allegations that Soros was involved in police procedures and voter ID rules across the nation. “Americans do not understand the extent to which Soros fuels this anti-constitutional, anti-American agenda.”

[CitizenBBN]

I understand completely the extent to which he is behind all of this anti-American Leftist crap. He's the financial puppet master behind literally hundreds of "grass roots" organizations in the US.

The irony is that the media and the Leftists Soros uses as useful idiots are all bent on the Koch brothers but ignore that Soros is behind their positions. If they had any sense it would make them question ALL of these policies including their own positions.