All politics is viciously choreographed. So how do we get an honest dance?

The short answer is, we don’t. But that does not mean we leave the hop or stay at home.

It is very important for the life and health of our crumbling and mostly artificial democracy that all American voters participate in civil life actively and aggressively, I might even say viciously. This is regardless of the superficial nature of American politics.

Why?

Because even if and when we have huge voter turnouts, the rich, connected and powerful turn the dials on the machinery of government to get what they want any way.

To some extent, elections are theater, no matter who wins or loses. The rich, the powerful, the connected and the entire Patrician class understand this dynamic intimately. They always have. They always will. Their knowledge of how power works gives them a lifetime of staying above the fray that the rest of us are destined to suffer.

Elections, no matter what they are about or what issues are involved are public salve on private wounds that will never completely heal. The powerful will always be the powerful and to some extent they will always be above the will of the people.

Lots of money and lots of “position” power allow Patricians to literally live in a different world than you and I. They know this and that is why money and social connections are so important. These things can literally buy citizenship in an Amerika that you and I know very little about; it is the Amerika of the elites.

It is Skull and Bones, it is Harvard and Princeton and Penn and Vassar and Smith College and Stanford and Yale. It is elite country clubs, membership in the best social groups, teenage sons and daughters of the elites “summering” overseas to get “enculturated”.

It is an MBA from the Wharton School of Business or Yale or Harvard and then a high paying job on Wall Street after graduation. It is learning how to manipulate federal regulations and oversite of financial dealings. It is learning how to hide money in overseas accounts so as not to pay a fair share of taxes.

It is not serving in the Armed Forces (it would be beneath a Patrician to do that) and at the same time insisting that the U.S. Armed Forces be continually used as a thug or a heavy in overseas protections of Patrician holdings and emerging market deals. Let working class kids fight and die, let working class kids become disabled veterans. Patricians do not do such things.

It is the complete domination of all government agencies and structures by these “special” people.

They make belonging to the Republican or Democratic Party a joke. Neither Party runs anything. The elites in both Parties run everything. That is the sad truth of how things work in Amerika, which is actually much more real than America.

There are no real rules of any substantive nature for these people. It has been that way for them since childhood. They count on that to get what they want. Money can buy anything. They know that too.

So where does that leave you and me; out in the cold? Not exactly. The people can stage bloodless revolutions too. It is not simply the aristocracy that can arrange a silent coup. Dubya came close but he got caught. We won’t.

Lets take a look at the news and see what I am saying here.

First off, let me say that I grew up in Republican politics in Philadelphia, PA. My grandfather was a Republican ward leader in that city for decades. My family is still involved in GOP politics in that city.

I am actively involved in Democratic Party politics where I live now, in Northern Virginia. But Party affiliation aside, you need to know that American politics really has little to do with party politics. It really has to do with money and connections. It has more to do with bloodlines and school affiliation and other such things than you could ever imagine. It really is that simple.

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