THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
OK, a blanket statement of purpose to start: Nothing said in newspapers and TV outside of reporting on highschool football is done for any reason except to misdirect Americans while a dozen or so "not so secret" organizations do things to us that would make a rat puke its guts out.
If you are thinking Illuminati or the Elders of Zion, they got you already.
I sometimes suspect our entire country is either clinically depressed, bipolar or hopped up on meth and oxy. Actually, if one believes the American Psychiatric Association, this is actually true, especially for members of the American Psychiatric Association. Why would we be depressed? No other place on Earth has a population that looks to elected leaders as "Homeric" figures, not the Simpsons, that Greek writer who wrote about naked guys with big swords.
Any other country knows everyone elected to office has a mistress or rent boys, takes bribes, snorts cocaine and secretly, or not so secretly, thinks "regular people" are a joke. Look at Italy. Their president hires hookers by the busload. In the military we learned that troops who didn’t complain continually about everything would never hold together in combat. Every few years, Americans go into a funk over feeling betrayed by the delusional narcissists we vote for. Isn’t it time to get a clue?
Bush is a liar and a thief. Sarah Palin is secretly trailer trash. Obama is a lawyer from Chicago, a compendium of all possible faults. Bill Clinton is always going to be Bill Clinton. Ronald Reagan read an entire presidency off cue cards. How should this effect us? Should anyone care? Who the hell are these people anyway?
Americans live to be disappointed. Maybe this makes us crazy. We believe the liars then feel betrayed. What if everyone was right? What if Obama is from Kenya and is a right wing Fascist and left wing Socialist all at the same time? What if Bush really had the World Trade Center blown up? What if all of it is true?
If we are all crazy, how does this effect how we act? There are two big risks to being totally nuts. One is "self medication." Folks use alcohol, drugs, religion or go totally delusional as a way of trying to stop feeling lost, alone and hopeless.
I forget the second one. Perhaps the first one ate away that braincell.
Profiting from this is a way of life for almost a third of Americans. Everyone is addicted to something, lottery tickets, pornography or watching sports and then babbling on about scores and statistics later. This may be the worst thing of all.
What has made America a center of insanity is a massive welfare system that everyone is on in one way or another but everyone is in denial about. I have seen statistics, I think maybe on Fox News, that only 3 people in America have real jobs and two of them are illegal aliens.
What we do have is millions of unemployed joining the tens of millions who work at home, pretend to work at home or are getting a check in the mail, disability, retirement, trust fund or are members of Congress. This breeds too much talk show, TV news and blogger addition, and the slide down the fantasy slope.
While almost every American will admit that there is some kind of secret government running things, none of us can agree what it is. Currently, we are split 60/35 between Communist Democrats and Nazi Republicans with 5% voting for Nazi Democrats.
Behind closed doors, it goes to a 70/30 split between Jews and the Vatican. Bill Clinton is sticking with his vast right wing conspiracy while many others find that absurd, especially based on the educational level of most "conservatives."
One of my friends teaches "American Studies" in Britain. Its his job to explain how we think based on what he sees on television. I have invited him to come visit as soon as "drive by shooting" season is over. I am sending him a membership application to join our local militia and instruction in how to tear down and clean an M-60 machine gun in the dark.
I have to go now, I have to get with my boys for a raid into Amish Country. Weaponry is minimal but the Amish can be tough as anyone who has seen Harrison Ford in Witness can tell you. The shunning alone can scare the beJesus out of you.
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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