Gen. Colin Powell visited North Carolina to speak to a closed meeting of company CEO’s.
Although he did not share the stage with Gov. Pat McCrory, he lambasted the
governor for signing the legislation to suppress voting in the state of North
Carolina. That was notable but what was more notable was that it was a closed political
meeting of Republicans. It strikes me that what the expression “closed political
meeting” means is significant.
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The news is full of reports arising out of “closed political
meetings”. While trying to understand current
Republican psyche, I keep running into this block; they want everyone to vote
for their platform but they only talk about in closed meetings to a selected
few. This suggests that they are really only want a few people to know the truth
about what they really want. Once you know
what they want is to have a “ruling elite”, an economic royalty, to control the
government, the reason for closed meetings becomes clear.
Republican leadership invites only people who can buy votes;
working people are not welcome. The working people, in their minds the unwashed
masses, are the ones they need to vote for them to elect them as the “economic
elite”. For a politic group, this kind
of behavior not only seems bizarre but also is bizarre; however, the reason
they do it is that it works, to a point. The way it works is that people are subjected
to massive “expensive” advertisement campaigns, which explains why the economic
part of the expression “economic elite” is so important. The campaign casts a
shadow over the intelligence of the working people—the people who are subjected
to campaign rhetoric including lies as told by Pat McCrory about what he swore
he would not do once elected.
The Republican controlled legislature in North Carolina intended
the voter suppression laws to prevent the “unwashed masses” from voting. Their
calculation is that the economic elite and the ignorant innate Republicans, a surprising
large fraction of the unwashed masses, will have enough votes to keep them in
office. In fact, that was grist of a pronouncement make by Reince Priebus, the
chair of the Republican Nation Committee, “in a closed meeting”.
Of course, it is not just enough to suppress voting, they have
to take over the 100 country State Election Commissions, which they have done,
perhaps the subject of another closed meeting—who knows. They have to suppress the
middle class so there is no money to oppose them: labor unions, teachers
unions, public service employees, and cut the 47%.
My question for General
Colin Powell is why did you accept the invitation and the big speaker’s fee to
speak at a closed meeting if you feel the way you do. In fact, why are you
a Republican? Republicans do not want the
“masses” to vote, which was what you were calling for. As a four star general,
you did not want soldiers questioning your orders because you understood the
army does not work that way. In contrast, how can you not understand the only
way the country will work is if the people question their leaders: the nation
is a democracy and the army is not. You are an enigma only in so far as that you
seem unable to separate the two. Why are you speaking at a closed Republican meeting
when you are an innate Democrat? Don’t feel lonely: Eisenhower had the same
problem: witness his Military-Industrial Complex speech; he was warning us
against the industrial CEO’s in those closed meeting—the economic elite. By the
way, he had one more star than you had.
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