The top people meet at Bohemian Grove.
Who secretly rules the USA?
Who secretly rules the USA?
Edward Luce has been reading:
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, by Mike Lofgren, Viking
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer, Doubleday
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Princeton University Press
Is the US suffering from too much democracy? - FT.com
Luce writes that, according to James Madison, the US constitution does not actually support majority rule.
Voters tend not to notice that they are being manipulated.
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Princeton University Press
Key members of the Deep Sate include the intelligence services, the military, the judges, top bankers, top business people and organised crime.
Mike Lofgren sees Washington, DC. as being like a garrison town.
The military keeps the cash flowing to the outside contractors.
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, by Mike Lofgren, Viking
Trump and Kissinger.
COMMENTS FROM READERSOF THE FT:
1. There was an under-reported plot to kill JFK in Chicago, stopped and bungled by the Secret Service, one month before Kennedy was killed in November of '63....
2. Note the relative success of Switzerland in protecting the well-being of its citizens through two world wars and numerous financial crises...
Is the US suffering from too much democracy? - FT.com
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, by Mike Lofgren, Viking
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer, Doubleday
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Princeton University Press
Is the US suffering from too much democracy? - FT.com
Luce writes that, according to James Madison, the US constitution does not actually support majority rule.
However, when local plebiscites are held, for example on local tax rates, the 'best connected' people often get their way.
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Princeton University Press
Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money, explains how easily democracy can be bent by billionaires, such as the Koch brothers.
Fred Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society, which deliberately used the tactics of communism - deception, ideological warfare etc.
Fred Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society, which deliberately used the tactics of communism - deception, ideological warfare etc.
The Koch brothers use 'libertarian' think-tanks, university institutes, research foundations and political groups - in order to keep the billionaires in power.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer, Doubleday
According to Mike Lofgren, a Republican veteran of Capitol Hill, the USA is secretly run by the Deep State.
And the Deep State is closely connected to Google and Apple.
Key members of the Deep Sate include the intelligence services, the military, the judges, top bankers, top business people and organised crime.
Mike Lofgren sees Washington, DC. as being like a garrison town.
The military keeps the cash flowing to the outside contractors.
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, by Mike Lofgren, Viking
Trump and Kissinger.
COMMENTS FROM READERSOF THE FT:
1. There was an under-reported plot to kill JFK in Chicago, stopped and bungled by the Secret Service, one month before Kennedy was killed in November of '63....
2. Note the relative success of Switzerland in protecting the well-being of its citizens through two world wars and numerous financial crises...
Is the US suffering from too much democracy? - FT.com
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