GEN. COLIN POWELL IS INNATE DEMOCRAT

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.

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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