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Kunstler: The Mystery Revealed
The mystery is at last revealed: why does the field of candidates for president score so uniformly low in trust, credibility, likability? Why are there no candidates of real substance, principle, and especially of real charm in this scrim of political basilisks? (Surely there are many people of substance and principle elsewhere in America — they just don’t dare seek the job at the symbolic tippy-top of this clusterfuck of faltering rackets.) The reason is that the problems are unfixable, at least not within the acceptable terms of the zeitgeist, namely: the secret wish to keep all the rackets going at all costs.
This is true, by the way, of all parties concerned from the 0.001 percent billionaire grifter class to the deluded sophomores crying for “safe spaces” in their womb-like “student life centers” to the sports-and-porn addled suburban multitudes stuck with impossible mortgage, car, and college loan debts (and, suddenly, no paying job) to the deluded Black Lives Matter mobs who have failed to notice that black lives matter least to the black people slaughtering each other over sneakers and personal slights. None of these groups really want to change anything. They actually wish to preserve their prerogatives.
The interests of the 0.001 percent are obvious: maintain those streams of unearned, rentier, notional wealth as long as possible and convert them as fast as possible into hard assets (Caribbean islands, Cézanne landscapes, gold bars) that will theoretically insulate them from the wrath of history when the center no longer holds. The poor (and ever-poorer) formerly middle class suburban debt serfs, for all their travails, can’t imagine living any other way or putting less of their dwindling capital into the Happy Motoring matrix. The Maoist Social Justice Warrior students are enjoying the surprising power and thrills of coercion, especially as directed against their simpering professors and cringing college presidents anxious to sustain the illusion that something like learning takes place in the money laundering operations of higher ed. The Black Lives Matter crowd just wants to be excused from their failure to follow standards of decent behavior and to keep mau-mauing the other ethnic groups of America for material and political tribute.
It must be obvious that the next occupant of the White House will preside over the implosion of all these arrangements since, in the immortal words of economist Herb Stein, if something can’t go on forever, it will stop. So the only individuals left seeking the position are 1) An inarticulate reality TV buffoon; 2) a war-happy evangelical maniac; 3) a narcissistic monster of entitlement whose “turn” it is to hold the country’s highest office; and 4) a valiant but quixotic self-proclaimed socialist altacocker who might have walked off the set of Welcome Back Kotter, 40th Reunion Special. These are the ones left standing halfway to the conventions. Nobody else in his, her, it, xe, or they right mind wants to be handed this schwag-bag of doom.
On Saturday, the unstoppable Democratic shoo-in Hillary lost her 7th straight contest to the only theoretically electable Vermont Don Quixote, Bernie Sanders. This was a week after it was reported in The Huff-Po that her campaign crew literally bought-and-paid for the entire 50-state smorgasbord of super-delegates who will supposedly compensate for Hillary’s inability to otherwise win votes the old-fashioned way, by ballots cast. Wonder why that didn’t make nary a ripple in the media afterward? Because this is the land where anything goes and nothing matters, and that’s really all you need to know about how things work in the USA these days.
The Republican mandarins are apparently delirious over loose cannon Donald Trump’s flagging poll numbers in the remaining primary states. Should Trump fall on his face, do you think they’ll just hand Ted Cruz the Ronald Reagan Crown-and-Scepter set. (They’d rather lock Ted in the back of a Chevy cargo van with five Mexican narcos and a chain saw.) The GOP establishment insiders are already lighting cigars in preparation for the biggest smoke-filled room in US political history, Cleveland, July 20. But what poor shmo will they have to drag to the podium to get this odious thing done? Who wants to be the guy in the Oval Office when Janet Yellen comes in some muggy DC morning and says, “Uh, sir (ma’am)… that sucker you heard was gonna go down…? Well, uh, it just did.”
As for the Dems: they are about to anoint the most unpopular candidate of our lifetimes. The BLM mobs have promised to deliver mayhem to the streets of the party conventions and don’t think they will spare Hillary in Philary, no matter how many chitlins she scarfed down last month in Carolina. The action in Philly will unleash and reveal all the deadly power of President Obama’s NSA goon squads when the militarized police put down the riots, and Hillary will be tagged guilty by association.
And that is how Kim Kardashian gets elected president.
15 Comments on "Kunstler: The Mystery Revealed"
IFuckYouOver on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 4:03 pm
My personal observations about human nature lead me to the conclusion that there is really about 5% to 10 % intelligent and well balanced people. I also noticed that intelligent people want to quit the system as soon as possible and move to a simpler live by detaching them self from other human. Most human are stupids followers with no imagination, without personal ideas or creativity. Most people will follow the heard and never questioned anything. The power structure at this point is populated with greed , corrupt, stupid, narcissistic people. The best hope is to vote for someone like Trump in a hope that he will collapse the whole thing and give a chance to new people to move into critical society position.
Don’t expect intelligent people to do anything now. They are waiting for the collapse and are ready to build something new from the ashes .
eugene on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:31 pm
The thing that fascinates me is the absolute faith that there will be anything or anyone to build from the ashes. But then that’s what gods are for ie to guarantee the true believers that they will, indeed, survive. From my reading of history the true believers are way too busy killing each other to prove, I guess, who is actually the true believer. If there are any ashes or people to build from them, they will be killing each other over the ashes.
IFuckYouOver on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:42 pm
I would like to know what part of history you are you talking about. People rebuild after the dark ages, people rebuild after the Maunder minimum.
My reading of history tell me that people will try to rebuild, like they did in the past.
makati1 on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:47 pm
Eugene, I agree with IFYO’s intelligence numbers, but I too disagree with his idea that there will be anyone or anything left to rebuild after. The intelligent ones will likely be killed by their less intelligent neighbors for what the intelligent ones have that the less intelligent want or need.
The idea that you are safe if you own a few guns, is a joke. One that will guarantee your early death.
The idea that your neighbor is gong to leave his family and stuff to come to your aid, is a joke. Human psychology says otherwise.
The idea that BAU in some slightly smaller form will still exist, is a joke. Think total systems.
There will be many intelligent people who will lose the game because their “exceptionalism” got in the way of rational thought. Maybe 1% will survive, and it will NOT be the 1% who control us. Or maybe, Mother Nature will wipe the slate clean, sigh, and start a new ecosystem without humans. The better option, I think.
IFuckYouOver on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:51 pm
Intelligent people like him will rebuild a new world with the scrap and trash left over,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKx-Jms624A&nohtml5=False
IFuckYouOver on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:57 pm
Red neck like him living in the wilderness will rebuild this world with the trash left over, like they did after the dark ages. We might even see a new Renaissance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLaF9xKNX0sjoYzNlq1n1XY_JZ0V7gJzBk&v=ZmHY9DkD1Hw&nohtml5=False
Davy on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 7:57 pm
IFUOver, there is always a first time. Quit being habituated to a human survival narrative. Maybe we will maybe we won’t but there is nothing indicating we can’t go extinct. In fact I see more evidence we are heading towards extinction than a transition to something else. Who knows because it is one of those review mirror thAngs.
penury on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 8:15 pm
My bet is that none of us will ever know. If you survive please post and let us know.
IFuckYouOver on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 8:18 pm
Eugene penury and davy are probably going to die first and it is a good because it improves the genes pool. In a new world there is no place for such losers with such a lack of initiative and constant negative attitude.
makati1 on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 9:45 pm
penury, thanks for the chuckle. ^_^ The internet is going to be among the first props to disappear when the SHTF. THAT will be one of the best things to happen to humans in a long time. When every techie fan under 30 realizes he has no real friends or support because he wasted his life with I-toys and chat buddies no more real than the ones and zeros that used to be his savings.
joe on Mon, 11th Apr 2016 11:51 pm
Western democracy is dead. Now its pure globalist capitalism. The Dutch people voted against opening EU BORDERS (including Dutch borders) to 40 million Ukrainians in a legal vote, binding on EU by EU rules. Guess what? Ignored. Next year 70 million Turks get free access. Turkey has visa-free access to almost all muslims nations!
Democracy is dead, globalist liberalism is coming to your door. San Bernadino/9-11, just the begining.
GregT on Tue, 12th Apr 2016 12:25 am
IFYO,
In the new world that we are creating for ourselves, there may very well be no place left for anything larger than bacteria. The positive people with initiative are hoping that we can leave fossil fuels behind, before the Earth is turned into a barren wasteland. The losers believe that we can continue on doing what we are without extremely dire consequences.
Pennsyguy on Tue, 12th Apr 2016 1:59 am
The human race was doing okay until we blundered into agriculture. Cities and fossil fuels made things worse and sealed our long-term fate. Or perhaps dolphins and whales got it right when they returned to the oceans.
dooma on Tue, 12th Apr 2016 2:08 am
That redneck can use his’ water wheel to light up the house so that the cannibals can find him more easily.
Davy on Tue, 12th Apr 2016 6:26 am
IFUover first if your call sign is any indication of your dna then we know what will improve the gene pool and it is not you. Actually, when people die nowadays and it is a decent death I think “that lucky MF got out easy. Many of us have a Jacobs ladder ahead only not the biblical one but the Hollywood version you know with Tim Robbins.