“Enemy Mine” an essay by Brian

Today’s Guest Saturday post comes to us from Brian of the Frankenstein Government blog. He originally published it on March 30, 2014.

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Enemy Mine

I can hardly believe it’s been 30 years but it has been. Sometime in 1985, a movie was released called “Enemy Mine.” It was a science fiction flick about two warring worlds- ours and an alien force. During an aerial or interstellar dogfight, two opposing fighter pilots get shot down and land on another planet. Eventually they make nice with each other when they discover that there are other, more deadly, adversaries trying to kill them. On this planet, they discovered there were far greater enemies than each other.

They were taught to hate each other because their culture had indoctrinated them with this belief.
Of course the belief was nonsense. That was the point of the story.

The American people have been indoctrinated with the same foolishness. It is called “Democrat vs. Republican or liberals vs. conservatives.”

Why is that? Is it just human nature to identify with one tribe and hate the other? Yes, actually I think that is part of it. Opposing ideology is the yin and yang of our existence. Unfortunately, while we are all caught up in this fight without end- the real enemy hides in the shadows and snickers. The real enemy could care less about gay rights, abortions, the environment. The real enemy actually feeds on those types of distractions- pitting one side against the other.

It is a game for fools. Like arguing with atheists or religious zealots.

There are literally millions of people fully invested in this epic struggle while the real enemy- laughs at all the suckers. Suckers are obsessed with capital punishment, abortion, or any number of unsolvable issues. It’s not that those issues aren’t important per se- it’s just that each of these issues and many more- provide fuel to keep the opposing tribes fighting while the educated and elite, the crony capitalists, steal everything in sight.

This week I’d like to turn you on to one of my favorite blogs, “A Lightning War for Liberty.” The author, Michael Kreiger, gets it. Krieger himself is a fascinating kid. Young enough to be my son. Extremely rich.

What Krieger understands, all too well, is that the real enemy of the American people is not some ridiculous philosophy. The real enemy in America is a corporate oligarchy that has bought and paid for our millionaire Congress all of whom practice- crony capitalism. They have literally ruined the Republic. I say ruined in the past tense.

Here’s a fantastic piece from Mike on corporate welfare. http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/03/28/the-new-york-times-covers-oligarch-welfare-tax-breaks-for-private-planes-yachts-and-more/

Crony capitalism got it’s start with lobbyists and bribes. It was facilitated by a Congress without term limits- Congressmen and women who stay in power seemingly forever and who get greased with all kinds of goodies like free loans from Angelo Mozilo at Countrywide. Or lucrative job offers, trips, speaking engagements, stock tips, and gawd knows what else. All that is required is a vote here or there. The rest gets taken care of.

It is no wonder why the Congressmen and women in power absolutely refuse to relinquish that power. They are the greediest, most self centered sociopaths that ever drew a breath. They literally laugh at the concept of public service. With a 10% approval rate-a normal functioning adult might try and do something to improve that image or heaven forbid- quit.

Not this crew of self seeking assholes.

One example. The tax code. Can you imagine the goodwill Congress could get as a group if they engaged in a fair tax? The American people would love them. Why don’t they do it? Because every one of these millionaire Congressmen, every one of their rich banker buddies and crony capitalist friends- benefits from the tax code just the way that it is. So why would any of you think there is a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting tax reform?

There’s not.

All of this greed gets greased by the greatest crony capitalists of all- the Federal Reserve and it’s member banks and Wall Street investment houses. The banking cartel. They hijacked our tax money, bailed out their buddies, and have engaged in the greatest counterfeiting and inflation scandal of the last two centuries. Manipulating every market from libor rates to gold.

So do you really think the enemy is some liberal driving a Prius who thinks the ACA is a good deal? Some guy that thinks corporate welfare is out of control and blames the GOP? Or do you think the enemy is some conservative who thinks abortion is murder? Or who thinks atheists are idiots?

The sad truth is that Americans don’t have a clue who the real enemy is. The enemy is the people who have hijacked your work product, who are diluting and ruining your currency, who have bribed your Congressmen with all sorts of promises implied and overt- and who are blowing the greatest stock market bubble of all time. The crony capitalists are in control of the media, the price of oil, and they are rigging markets with the help of the agencies that are supposed to be regulating them. It’s never, ever, been this bad.

The new age crony capitalists, the elite, have been waging war on the hoi polloi and we’ve been too busy fighting amongst ourselves to realize who the real enemy is. Warren Buffett says the war is over- his side won and he’s not referring to republicans or democrats. I hate to give the old robber baron any props but this time- I think he’s right.