Because I wasn’t particularly fond of most of the ghetto black people I encountered growing up in Washington DC, and had a Confederate flag t-shirt and was a huge super fan of the Dukes of Hazzard I am apparently a “white supremacist.” Because I oppose US wars for Israel, the power of the Israel lobby, and Jewish double-standards when it comes to basically just about everything, that makes me a “neo-Nazi.” And because I think feminism is ridiculous and figure most women and men are happier in more or less traditional gender roles – and that children are best raised and educated by their own mothers – that makes me “far-right.”
But that’s wrong. I’m actually a radically moderate, center-left liberal extremist whose views were perfectly mainstream when I was growing up in the 1990’s.
My political instincts were shaped by the works of 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Barlett and Steele vividly reveal how Congresses and presidents of both parties repeatedly make decisions that favor the few at the expense of most Americans. But the authors show that this need not be. To make the American dream a reality for all Americans, our government must reassert itself on behalf of all the people—with regulatory oversight that balances public safety with business interests, more equitable tax policies, and programs that assure all Americans of basic health care and a decent retirement.
Radical, I know. These days this is pure National Bolshevism. But back when I was a young man, in the 1990’s, this was all quite moderate, common sense, middle of the road reformist Democrat. I haven’t changed much.
But my radicalization didn’t end there. Pretty soon I was down at the local radical bookstore reading the works of notorious anti-semitic conspiracy theorist, Princeton graduate and Washington Post reporter William Greider.
Seriously, click on the link to understand how I was radicalized:
By the time I finished Greider’s Secrets of the Temple : How the Federal Reserve runs the Country, I was thoroughly down the rabbit hole. Greider’s view – straight out of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion no doubt – was that the Federal Reserve system wasn’t actual a neutral, technocratic institution, but was in fact, political, and that the political decisions it made favored creditors and disfavored debtors, meaning in the grand scheme of things, helped the rich and hurt the poor and the middle class.
Truly, the idea that the central bank helps the rich at the expense of the poor and the middle class is a extremely radical idea, something only a Commu-Nazi like William Greider would believe. But as an impressionable young man, I didn’t realize how I was slowly being radicalized.
It got worse. Soon I was supporting the radical political movements around extremists like Raph Nader and Ross Perot.
I am now very ashamed to admit this, but I actually registered and voted once or twice. Hey – it was the 90’s, man, everyone was experimenting with all sorts of degeneracy. I thought I could handle it, but by 2004 I had given up the habit and have been completely clean since then.
I could write some trademark fanfic here, and talk about the time I worked for a certain three letter agency and attended the 1999 Seattle WTO protests as an anti-globalization activist. But I won’t do that, it would just spoil the mood.
Pretty soon I was using terms like “mystification” to describe the ideologies and rhetoric of the ruling class capitalists they use to obscure their – and our – class interests. I started using phrases like “neo-liberal” and discussing obscure, wonky issues like the “North American Free Trade Agreement” and objecting to multilateral free trade agreements, offshoring jobs, union busting, and mass immigration of cheap scab labor.
I went from a mildly bookish young man with an interest in economic, trade and tax policy to someone completely #DerangedAndAimeePilled.
I started claiming that “woke” “social justice” politics are mystification of class interests and, in fact, a rather natural outgrowth of what Gloria Steinem called “the liberal CIA”. That elite academia – like Harvard and Yale – pushed “Critical Race Theory” to mystify their promotion of their own class interests, the class interests of elite capitalists and managing bureaucrats of non-governmental organizations that are, in fact, often actually just CIA fronts. That, as in the 1960’s the CIA created the Congress for Cultural Freedom to promote a kind of “non-communist leftism” that was not at all concerned with economic issues, but instead a cosmopolitan lifestylism that attacked tradition, high culture, and the conservative social values of the proletarian family, Harvard and Yale promote anti-whiteness for much the same reason; mystification of their class interests and their class war on working and middle class Americans.
This process of radicalization can happen to anyone. In my day, it started with a library card. These days, young people are exposed to all sorts of unapproved opinions on the internets.
That’s how I went from a moderately socially conservative, economically liberal labor-oriented progressive to a radical neo-nazi white supremacist red-brown anarcho-nazbol domestic extremist without changing a single opinion.
It only took about twenty years.
Greider’s use of the word “Temple” re the Fed, i.e. the Rothschild Third National Bank, is extremely anti-ashkenazic.
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One of the great things about that book is addresses all the various “conspiracy theories” and, like in the Quigley book, points out that the Fed isn’t the center of power. It is the coordinator for the bankers that actually have power. The Fed is there to keep Congress, thus democracy, as far away from monetary policy as possible.
“Jews run the Fed” is not just wrong, it’s a stupid conspiracy theory that mystifies the real power relationship, and how Jewish power really works.
Traditional “anti-semitic conspiracy theories” are the Jew’s best friend.
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Alan Greenspan 1987-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
Ben Bernanke 2006-2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke
Janet Yellen 2014-2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Yellen
With Stanley Fischer as vice chair. 2014-2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fischer
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@Kjeasd
“It must not be felt that these heads of the world’s chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called “international” or “merchant” bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks.”
https://bannedhipster.home.blog/2021/08/19/build-back-blackrock/
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@bannedhipster
Using that logic makes the categorization all fucked up, *** Pete Buttigieg isn’t controlling the department of Transportation because their is bigger fish who can throw he’s ass away anytime. If we really stretch it out no one is running anything since their is always “a bigger fish”.
I understand what you mean and you want to go to the root of the problem.
” investment bankers (also called “international” or “merchant” bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks.”
So who’s the big fish behind these banks according to you?
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The “big fish” are the richest people, the billionaires. They have a list of them. Most people do not understand that the Federal Reserve is not the power center, the people who own their member banks are the power center.
In fact, under Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve itself was stripped of a huge amount of power which reverted to Larry Fink at Black Rock.
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“They have a list of them.” Who are “They”? And which people are on the list?
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@Kjeasd
Literally … read the word right before what you quoted.
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All I want is some names on the highest top of the hierarchy, or are you meaning that all of the billionares share an equal amount of power in the current system? Their are no hierarchy within the current power structure?
Saying billionares is like saying globalist, and when you ask the people spouting out globalist! If they can name them, they usually can’t.
I don’t know which people are at the top of this current power structure, maybe you do? If you don’t, just say so. We are here togheter trying to figure that out.
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Why do you think I’m interested in your pedantry? I’m not here to argue with you. You are always free to not comment and not readd.
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Don’t try diverting the argument to “pedantry” when I ask for the names at the top of the pyramid in the group you call billionares.
Either you have some names or you don’t. No need for this to become a cockfight, just be honest with what you know.
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You are claiming a “pyramid” – I never claimed there was a “pyramid.” I tried to gently correct your misunderstanding of how central banking and the financial system works, as you clearly have some sort of “conspiracy theory” understanding based on four of the last six chairmen.
Then, you start with the pedantry:
>“They have a list of them.” Who are “They”? And which people are on the list?
You are actually unaware of the financial press and their lists of billionaires? No, of course you aren’t.
So you are trolling, upset because I’m not buying your conspiracy theory about something you clearly don’t understand.
So, you aren’t tall enough for this ride. Good luck elsewhere.
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Uh, why does williamgreider.com now redirect to donaldjtrump.com?
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