February 26, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Tucker Carlson:
American Elites Have Wrecked America
Friends,
I pass on
today the transcript of a short commentary Tucker Carlson made last Friday
night (February 21) on his prime time program. Carlson has been featured before
in these pages; he has critical things to say about what has happened and is
happening to the American nation and to our future. In fact, on an increasingly
left-leaning Fox News with its normalization of behaviors that would have been
considered flagrantly immoral and outside the bounds of morality only a few
years ago, and its acceptance of an ahistorical Neoconservative view of the
world, Tucker Carlson—on occasion—can be a breath of fresh air, something that
is becoming rare in the mainstream media.
Once
again I also recommend highly his recent book, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing
America to the Brink of Revolution, which should be a
primer for all concerned Americans.
Here is the transcript:
US Elites Wrecked America, Cling to Power by Any Means
February
21, 2020
The story
of American decline is the story of an incompetent ruling class.
You'll hear many self-serving explanations for it. But the truth is, it's that
simple.
The people in charge inherited an
industrial superpower with unchallenged military dominance. In a
little more than a generation, they squandered all of it. In exchange for
short-term profits, bigger vacation homes and cheaper household help they
wrecked what they did not build.
They outsourced entire sectors of
our economy to China. They imported a serf class to drive down wages, and they
crippled the middle class while doing it.
They ran up trillions of dollars
in unpayable debt. They turned the finest universities in the world into a
joke. They watched from their decadent little bubbles of affluence as families,
faith and public decency died in this country and they laughed because they
didn't care.
How people so awful wound up in
charge of a nation as great as ours is a question historians will have to
answer – and they will, someday. But at this point, it's clear the population
has grown tired of it. Donald Trump's election is one clear sign of that. The
rise of Bernie Sanders is another.
The ruling class in other words,
is losing its grip on power and the ruling class members can feel it. They can
smell it. It terrifies them.
Their first response was denial.
It always is. They retreated into fantasy. They wondered why can't we be just
like Joe Biden and make it 2009 again? Well, that didn't work and when it
didn't, they reverted to their governing instinct, which is authoritarianism.
They stopped trying to convince
the public of anything and instead decided to scare them. Fearful people are
easier to control. You saw it on the front page of their newspaper Friday
morning – The New York Times. “Lawmakers are warning that Russia is meddling to
re-elect Trump,” read the headline. Inside the story, there was nothing – no
evidence, no detail, not even a coherent set of accusations.
But it was enough to alert the
morons on cable news. It was time to do their job, which is now and always to
run interference for the people in charge. Now remember, most of the people on
television have no idea what they're saying, even as they're saying it.
They're just reading the scripts
that were written for them by some 23-year-old women's studies major from
Wesleyan – somebody who knows even less than they do.
On MSNBC, host Chris Matthews
said: “It's official. Russia has endorsed the reelection of President Donald
Trump, who is trying desperately right now to keep that matter secret.” Also on
MSNBC, former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash said: “If the Russians are
attacking our election processes, and they're doing so to benefit Donald Trump,
I think frankly, the president welcomes it. He wants it.”
On CNN, host Don Lemon said: “So
as bad as it is … the Russians are back at it. Trying to help Trump get
reelected. It's far worse that the president of the United States is – he is
trying to cover it up.”
On MSNBC, host Lawrence O’Donnell
said: “The president is a Russian operative. That sounds like the description
of a bad Hollywood screenplay, but it is real. And it is Vladimir Putin's
greatest achievement. This is one of those shocking news days if you retain the
capacity to be shocked in the Trump era by the Trump regime, which might be
better labeled the Trump-Putin regime.”
So these people claim the
president of the United States has colluded with Russian President Vladimir
Putin to steal an election. No, not just the last one, but the next one, too.
Be afraid, says Don Lemon, be very afraid.
Yet the public doesn't seem
especially afraid. Maybe they've heard it before somewhere. Their lack of panic
is deeply distressing to the Democratic Party, which is counting on another Red
Scare sometime between now and November.
So Brian Williams – trustworthy
Brian Williams – stepped in to scold America for not being more terrified. Williams said on his show on MSNBC: “We begin
tonight with sad word that funeral services are pending this evening after the
death of outrage earlier today – outrage officially died of exhaustion though
buoyed at the very end by the one bright spot, the realization that its close
relative, apathy survives and is thriving.”
Got that? They are saying: screw
you, America. You ought to be falling for it a second time. How dare you? You
can see the frustration on their faces.
On the other hand, you think they
might take the time to come up with a new hoax occasionally. Why can't they
invent Argentine sappers once in a while or saboteurs from Malawi? Something
new and interesting. But no, like a robot vacuum cleaner stuck carving circles
under a chair, they are going to keep doing the same thing over and over and
over until the batteries run out.
And now they're trying it on
Bernie Sanders.
New York Times reporter Peter
Baker said on MSNBC, where he is an analyst: “Now you might ask the question as
some people have, would they want Trump over Bernie Sanders? Sanders, of
course, a democratic socialist is, you know, more ideologically in tune with
the old Russia anyway and remember, of course, the Russians did favor Bernie
Sanders in the primary in 2016 over Hillary Clinton.”
Wait. Bernie Sanders? He is a
Putin Stooge, too? We thought he was a Brezhnev stooge, whatever. He's
colluding with the Russians. He's got to be because he's not with the program. Just
this afternoon, The Washington Post reported: "Bernie Sanders was briefed
by U.S. officials (Intel officials) that Russia is trying to help his
presidential campaign."
Now that happened weeks ago, he
learned about it weeks ago, but the Sanders campaign never leaked the story.
Now, on the eve of the Nevada caucuses, someone in the so-called intelligence
community did leak it, just as they repeatedly leaked selective information in
the first Russia hoax in an effort of course, to derail Donald Trump, whose
policies they disagree with.
You see what's going on here?
Yes, you do. Our democratic system is in fact under attack. That much is true.
But it's not the Russians who are attacking it. It's not even the Chinese. It's
being attacked by our own ruling class. They're undermining democracy because
they have no choice.
If they left it up to voters to
decide where to go next, they'd be out of a job tomorrow, because they've been
terrible stewards of this country. Some of them would be in jail.
So they've got to subvert our
system. Their livelihoods depend on it.
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