Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Ex-CIA: Exposing the Politicization of the CIA & Potential War with Iran | Mike Baker" video.
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MAGA and the CIA. The problem with the CIA is everyone knows it's there to interfere with other societies, start wars, all for the goal of making the world safe for corporations to exploit. It's all about continuing American dominance, globally. But people have caught on: this is a fraud.
How so? Wealth and political power in America, for a variety of reasons, evolved to mostly benefit the managerial class, mostly people in the north east, where most elite universities are, to draw upon for CIA employees. We have wealth concentration, so that all this adventurism globally, mostly goes to the prestige and financial benefit of at most the top 20% of Americans.
Victor Davis Hanson was interviewed by Megyn Kelly 3 days ago, he talked about how politics can be understood in America as a contest between economic classes, with the college educated having a whole bunch of social beliefs that are completely at odds with the rest of the population. That's true. It also reflects what I said, wealth concentrations and a set of ideas about the how the world works, this has patterns for who benefits from the projection of American power. In America the pattern is the elite patterns of the CIA view of the world, really is about the college educated benefitting from American adventurism around the world. It's an upper middle class racket, especially a racket of the 1%. Patriotism is now about being enthusiastic about the American elite getting richer around the globe. For instance Black Rock wants to exploit Ukraine, Joe Biden blew up the Nordstream pipeline, so that Russia would be hurt, so that Iraq could replace Russia, as Europe's gas station. That's why we are going to war with Iran, to weaken Iran while we continue to build up Iraq to balance out Iran. To me this geo-political game seems obvious and again this is just rich Americans manipulating politics and using the working class to go fight their wars, since the Army is not a draft anymore, it's the working class 'volunteering' for the Army. Then it's rich Americans making money in Iraq or Ukraine or wherever American power is projected. The nub of it all is American power is projected for the benefit of the few in America, not the many. We should be patriotic about this? We should all turn into cheer leaders for the rich, while getting nothing out of it? No. Not so much. That's a very bad social deal, for most people. Nothing in it for most Americans. Don't make me laugh.
The only real objection I have to the CIA running the world, all this is the same time as the American elite are trying to run the world, as all empires do, is the same American elite is simultaneously trying to actively screw over, the bottom 80% of the country. Then, the bottom 80% is supposed to enthusiastically get aboard with the American elite view of things, go fight their wars, so the wealthiest Americans, the Larry Finks, can run the world and make more money for themselves. No thanks. We should all be enthusiastic about wealthy Americans running the world, using the government, for their own benefit....while most people's lives get no better, and often worse? No thanks. In other words the American elite agenda is everything for themselves, while power and wealth is concentrated in a small part of the population. Start cheering America? To which most Americans react by MAGA and by electing Donald Trump in the maybe naïve belief that he can reverse the exploitation of the bottom 80%, by the American financial elite. MAGA is just Americans reacting to the social order, realizing the elites are not on their side, they really aren't then many Americans telling them to go take a hike.
The border is just one more example, we're supposed to protect Ukraine's border, obviously so Larry Fink can exploit Ukraine. Same time our elites push Open Borders, to flood America with hard working fine people who take our jobs, drive down wages for the bottom 80%, both black and white. Open Borders has a curious effect: most fine people coming here have low levels of education. They aren't lining up to be doctors and engineers. So they don't drive down wages for the top 20%. Open Borders tends to hurt the poorest Americans, black and white, the most, since most people who come here can do most jobs done by Americans with lower education levels. So Open Borders is obviously the elite Americans screwing over, the middle and lower classes. And MAGA is telling our elites, we've caught on, we noticed, we're not quite as stupid as you obviously think we are, the social order is the American elites get everything, run the world, while our elites actively screwing over most Americans. And this is the thing we should support? lol....no. Memo to Martha's Vineyard: we've caught on.
Life's a deal. The American deal is great for the rich, horrible for 80% of the country.
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