Most folks don't pay much attention to politics anymore. They've given up, they are depressed (financially and emotionally), likely on meds, and long ago determined that it was a waste of time to fight city hall.....let alone the feds. But they do care, worry about things, and some of them even mouth off at work or in the local bar. People are indeed agitated.
Years ago (god why didn't I save the link?) I found a story that reported the oil-i-garchy's strategy was to make politics so dirty, so ugly, and so dominated by big $$$$, that the public would not go near it thus giving Mr. Big virtual control. They are close to the goal now.
Sooner or later though Mr. & Mrs. Average in the US will have to get engaged due to the overabundance of shit they are eating these days - literally and figuratively. The remaining question is when they do engage will they be non-violent or make the mistake to 'let loose' using guns. We tried Civil War back in the 1860's and it was a disaster. Virtually every town in Maine has a Civil War statue on the town green with the names of local boys who died.
Democracy at home has been "occupied" by Mr. Big and now he's set his sites on the rest of the planet. One effective tool that is being used is called the National Endowment for Democracy. They spent $100 million or more on the Ukraine project. They are destabilizing democracy around the world each day. Take a look at the board of directors here. The names that jumped out to me included Elliott Abrams, Norm Coleman, Zalmay Khalilzad, Vin Webber and Robert Zoellick. All big time neo-con operatives.
Breathe deep....
But we get to decide what is right, and what is an illusion.
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Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
By Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
http://bit.ly/1hsTabT
It's too bad that this song is still so relevent. In particular, the part about the IMF will soon apply to the Ukraine:
IMF Announces Staff Level Agreement with Ukraine on US$14-18 Billion Stand-By Arrangement
You can follow IMF media releases on Ukraine.
Call It Democracy - Bruce Cockburn, November 1985
Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
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