Mara Ribbens wrote:
Mayacaman, I am so sorry about your daunting losses and that you barely escaped with your life. I, for one, am glad you are still on the planet... You are raw and tender.... and who wouldn't be after such an uprooting.
I would say a few things: Your worth is not dependent on anyone - or everyone's - acknowledging it. I wish you didn't take Barry's editing as a personal attack (Four Agreements) and, then, attack him back…
There are the Four Agreements, Mara, and there is also Rabbi Hillel, who said "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?"
Our moderator in this forum is not without his merits. – But he is unable to discern the difference between a “conspiracy theory” and a missive that was intended (and was received by the entire faculty of the University of California, @Berkeley) as an expression of “systems analysis”.
This seems to be a common problem in Amerika these days. Indeed, there is a whole generation {or two} of Amerikans who see & hear “conspiracy theories” when they are presented with authentic facts.
This thread was initiated by Edward Mendoza ("Valley Oak") about Biden and how - supposedly - Biden's Victory in the Polls represents the Victory of "Democracy over Fascism". I begged to differ, and was promptly trashed by Barry.
My points, and the substance of what I said are glossed over, by an ad hominem attack on my person, and the whole subject of the thread has been deflected.
Let me state this - for the Record: I never intended to become the subject of this thread. Furthermore, I do not wish to be. I would like to return to the theme of this thread, and re-iterate the thrust of what I was attempting to put over.
Paraphrased: '…the idea that there is an organized cabal ... is by definition a conspiracy theory'...Peter/podfish wrote:
…the idea that the DE [Davos Elite] is an organized cabal who pulls Biden's puppet strings is by definition a conspiracy theory.
This is a refrain & a soundbyte that one hears endlessly these days - in so many words...
To which I answered, in part:
"...the Men of the World Economic Forum are by definition not a Cabal; they are, quite simply, a "Class". By way of distinction, a “Cabal” is a very small group: The original "CABAL" consisted of five people - the Cabinet ministers in the 1673 Cabinet of the English King, Charles II. They were : Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale – hence the five letters, C-A-B-A-L.
What the World Economic Forum Is, is a Union of the World’s Billionaires. There are over two thousand of them. The inner core of the power elite - roughly one hundred thirty men - is known as the "Bilderberg Group." See the symmetry in that: there are wheels within wheels. And you are quite mistaken when you infer -Or if you believe- that they are not organized. They are far better Organized than any Union of mere service workers..."
My Socialist grandmother instructed me in Socialist Catechism (Second Internationale) at the tender age of two, and sang to me as a bedtime lullaby the Internationale, that contained the words :"It is the final conflict, let each man stand in place".
Perhaps that is why I understand the theory and practice of Class War somewhat better than you who are died-in-the-wool Democrats. But I tell you - as I have told you previously in this forum : The plutocrats are waging War against the plebians at this point in Time. They maintain that there are "too many" of us.
And They [THEM, Inc.] have got most of us so bamboozled and brainwashed that the majority of us are in denial that we have become the terminal objects of their wrath. In short, the "Globalists" - the Men's Club of Billionaires, the Men of the World Economic Forum - are imposing Fascism & Genocide upon the entire planet from the aerie of their roost in Switzerland, the Centre of Global Finance Capitalism.
This not-so-subtle class warfare - concerning the reality of which, most of the viewers of this forum are in denial - is not going to cease, simply because Joe Biden won an election.
Is that so hard to understand?