by El Gallo on Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:02 pm
There really is an establishment, having a strong, controlling presence in both major parties, central government (elected politicians, political appointees, federal courts, and career high-level bureaucrats) media, major business, academia, etc. They do not "own" or want to own all, or even a majority, in each institution. But they control what they need to. They are lock step on things that really matter to them.
They allow for different political positions, so long as it does not mean much practically. For instance, which Administration was actually more liberal: Clinton or Bush? Strip out some gratifying points like Bush's defunding of international abortion support (and which the establishment is not keying on), and you can argue the Bush Administration actually furthered the expansion of government and control of the little people more than Clinton. Romney's record indicates he would be BHO light. (Even then, he seems as reluctant as McCain to be President.)
Upshot is noone in the establishment cares a wit about whether BHO is legally qualifed, or what the people think of the Wall Street bailouts, or a plethora of other issues that bother the "little people". That is simply the way it is. Sure, sometimes their people (like in Clinton's scandels), do something which cannot be ignored. So there is a pretense of cleaning things up.
A more recent example is the "discovery" that big private banks across the world are fixing interest rates and manipulating markets to benefit themsleves, while regulators look the other way. Independent people like Gerald Celente and Jim Sinclair who know what to look for and care, are now yelling, and cannot be ignored. So now the show trials will crank up. Some heads will roll, politicians will feign indignation, then it will be largely swept under the rug b/c the establishment knows very well it has been going on, since they intended that to happen!
To the extent that politics matters these days, change will have to be at the state level or below. The battle line will be at the Tenth Amendment (as it was in the Arizona case), not inside the establishment battlements.
What I say to you I say to everyone: Watch MK 13:37