No Tea Party for Ma Joad

Actress, Jane Darwell, portraying ‘Ma Joad’, concludes the 1940 film, The Grapes of Wrath, with these words:        

“I ain’t never gonna be scared no more. I was, though. For a while it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat. Looked like we didn’t have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more. Made me feel kinda bad and scared too, like we was lost and nobody cared…. Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain’t no good and they die out, but we keep on coming. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out, they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, cos we’re the people.”       

Yep.  Don’t need to use a bunch of fancy words.  Don’t need to talk good.  You don’t even need to look good.  We, the people, who prefer honest work and yearn for a decent life, intuitively know lies and deceit when we see it.  We know what counts and what don’t.        

Powerful and controversial for its time, The Grapes of Wrath chronicled the plight of the ‘Joad’ family after losing their farm during the 1930’s Great Depression.  Based on John Steinbeck’s novel the film eerily includes scenes and dialog that could be lifted straight out of today’s news.  Indeed, Ma Joad’s affirmation could be the rallying cry for many oppressed by present-day Big Govt/corporate tyranny.       

This past week the first national Tea Party convention was held in Nashville, TN.  Attendees paid $500 a plate and listened to featured speaker, Neocon celebrity, Sarah Palin.  For those that remember, however, the Tea Party movement had a very different origin.  It was started a few years ago by everyday folks tired of corporate manipulated, government intrusion in their lives.  Sounding the alarm of the incremental fascism of Bush (and now, Obama) they called for a return to the Constitution and the freedoms promised in it.  

You Can’t Fool the People 

On the grassroots level, supporters understood the fraud of a two-party (duopoly) dictatorship.  They understood that Republicans and Democrats are really separate arms on the same beast.  The ‘beast’, of course, being the banking cartel that profits from government and social debt, i.e., big war/big welfare government spending.  Many were anti-war, outside-the-box, Ron Paul supporters.  Obviously, things have radically changed.       

Hey pardner, what's the fastest way outta Nashville?

It’s popularity spreading like wildfire, the Tea Party movement became a target for co-optation by the Republican Neocon establishment.  With plenty of propaganda help from CNN and Fox News the Tea Party was converted from a genuine people’s movement into another Republican Party tool to bash Democrats and their big spender, big welfare, policies.  With the Tea Party effectively subverted, the power elite thinks the phony theatrics of GOP – Democrat partisanship can comfortably continue.  Like putting lipstick on a pig, the GOP hopes the Tea Party motif will mask its own big spender, big war, policies.      

Exploiting the Tea Party sentiment sweeping the country the GOP has found a slew of candidates well versed in the lingo of liberty.  Party hacks including stock brokers, lawyers, and other social parasites, are wrapping themselves in “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and expect votes from the poor and disenfranchised middle class.  Forgotten, however, are Ron Paul’s constitutional principles of ending the phony War on Terror and the corrupt Federal Reserve.  His very own Campaign for Liberty is under assault from insider party hacks.  Here in Colorado the organization’s name was recently linked to the U.S. Senatorial candidacy of military interventionist, Ken Buck.  The big lie of 9/11 as justification for endless war persists.   

In the GOP lexicon “fiscal conservatism” now means taking money out of social services and putting it into the military and Homeland Security.  Either way, the banker agenda of socialized debt/private profit will be served.       

On both the Left and Right financial parasites clamor for votes and a chance to serve the banker elite.  Their attempts to manipulate the masses, divide and conquer, however, will only see limited success.  Disillusionment from losing the Tea Party as our voice will be shortlived.  We remember.  We know:  They can’t wipe us out, they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, cos we’re the people.       

Notes:
The Grapes of Wrath, film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath_(film)
Tea Party Sarah is a Neocon: http://www.infowars.com/tea-party-sarah-is-a-neocon/
GOP hijacks Tea Party: http://www.infowars.com/tea-party-activists-bitter-about-gop-hijacking-movement/
Insider party hacks attempt to sabotage Campaign for Liberty: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=31952

Phony Conservatives and Sabotage

In the course of a few years we have witnessed a phenomenal growth of patriot sentiment.  Americans are reacting against ever increasing Big Government intrusiveness, and Big Brother control over their lives, more so now than in recent memory.  Motivated by mounting economic pressure, the present day is marked by self-actualizing activism independent from the phony leadership of establishment Republicans and Democrats.  The veil is lifting exposing a monolithic government with the sole agenda of serving the globalist financial elite.  The theatrics of warring Left/Right factions in Congress, served up by mainstream media, is quickly losing credibility.

"Trust me, I'm just like you, blah, blah, blah."

 If You Can’t Crush the Opposition.., Lead it.

Anticipating that the cat is out of the bag, the Feds are moving to head off discontent and rebellion before the imminent economic collapse.  Reports of FEMA camps and a Northcom troop buildup abound.  In the meantime, the corporatist propaganda machine has cleverly adapted to the current situation and is spinning a new web of deceit.  Sensing that full martial law and complete destruction of freedom is momentarily premature, they are employing mass media mind control to neutralize the opposition.  The globalist aligned Right, i.e., Neocon talking heads, are now donning patriot personas and attempting to convince us that their Obama bashing is all about defending Constitutional freedoms.  Nevermind that a few months ago they were praising G.W. Bush for virtually the same economic and police state programs.  

The Role of Fox News

While CNN’s main job is to craft the reality the elite want you to live in, Fox has always gone a step further to editorialize that reality attempting to elicit certain behaviors and attitudes.  Fox’s latest creation of Glenn Beck and the 9.12 Group serve as a prime example of social engineering using one of the oldest stratagems in the book. 

Co-optation  

The ruling elite…  find ways to explicitly link self-interests of the opposition, [or subsets therein], to its goals…  implie[d] is not dealing stakeholders out of the game but dealing them new cards transforming opponents into supporters.*

The following excerpts from an October 10 article at Infowars.com  describe Beck and 9.12 well: 

Glenn Beck’s 9-12 Project is a deliberate attempt to undercut the Tea Party and patriot movements.

Earlier this year, Amy Kremer, Tea Party Patriots’ National Coordinator, said the movement was being hijacked by establishment Republicans. “We do not want it to be a GOP movement,” she told Newsmax

The stated purpose of Beck’s movement is to get America where it was on September 12, 2001, which is interesting considering Beck’s animosity toward the 9/11 truth movement and  in particular the families of 9/11 victims.**

  It’s about hijacking and taming the Tax Day Tea Party protests, the Independence Day Tea Party protests, and the September 12, 2009, Taxpayer March on Washington. Beck has an established track record of sabotaging the patriot movement. More than any other corporate media figure, he was responsible in wrecking the presidential campaign of Ron Paul. He characterized Paul’s supporters as dangerous terrorists and repeatedly called Paul a kook.

Few seem to see the absurdity of a corporate media television show host claiming to be the leader of a grassroots political movement. Fox News is owned by corporate media tycoon and neocon Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch and Glenn Beck do not support the patriot movement. Beck’s role is to capture as much of the movement as possible and turn it into a harmless sideshow. The 9-12 movement, regardless of the number of sincere Americans who support it, is another attempt by the establishment to continue and magnify the false right-left paradigm and steer meaningful political change down a dead-end that renders if ineffective.

The Fox social engineers are validating frustrations and anger held by ‘middle America’ and channeling those emotions back into the misguided nationalism of the Bush years.  Notice that their prowar hype and constant fear mongering of Jihadist terrorism continues.  The bankster elite care little for what attitudes prevail among the masses.  As long as they can maintain a war economy, a handy pretext for limiting freedoms and financial enslavement will exist.  

Using the power of mass media Neocons are effectively insinuating themselves into leadership positions of the Tea Party movement.  Today, more than ever, it is imperative that this genuine ‘people’s’ movement be rescued from co-optation.  9/11 Truth activists must overcome their own Left/Right biases and work with these folks to keep them on track against the New World Order and all of its schemes.      

*The Politics of Co-optation:
Graziella Bertocchi and Michael Spagat
Journal of Comparative Economics
Vol. 29, Issue 4, Dec 2001

**Parenthetically, I think the author misses the point about Beck and 9/11.  Beck has no interest in 9/11 Truth.  His interest is recapturing the prowar/jingoist fervor that 9/11 incited.