Most Voters Don’t Know about This Government Con Job

On his Substack, Eric Zuesse explains that most Americans are unaware of the con being pulled by America’s billionaires and the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Zuesse writes:

What is this actually all about? Empirical studies have shown unequivocally that the U.S. Government is controlled by and represents not its public but only its thousand billionaires plus the politically most active of its centi-millionaires. Each of these individuals is catastrophically wealthy and so can buy enough politicians so that even just the billionaires alone actually do donate more than half of all of the money that funds U.S. political campaigns — the ads, the ‘news’-stories in their ‘news’-media, their think tanks and universities, etc. — in order to drown-out whatever few politicians who simply refuse to be controlled by them.

Look at this graph, which shows that by far the best-performing corporate stocks in the U.S. have been in the defense-aerospace sector ever since the Soviet Union ended in 1991. No longer do U.S. Presidents and members of the U.S. Congress have a need to show their voters any military success and buy with all that taxpayer money weapons and military training that win wars; and, so, ever since 1991 (and even before that), America has been losing wars and yet the voting public don’t even care about that but believe all the pro-military ‘news’-reporting and commentary, all of the propaganda, that they receive.

From an armaments manufacturer’s standpoint, this is nirvana: they control their market because they control their politicians and their ‘news’-media etc.; so, no matter how overpriced and underperforming their products and services are, increased ‘defense’ budgets are assured, and the voters won’t even know about this con, because the ‘news’-media hide it and bury it, and cover it over with flag-waving. And we can even have a top financial-political whore to America’s ‘defense’ contractors leading now in at least one poll.

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