Comments on: The U.S. Ruling Class Needs to Upgrade its Performance or Move Aside http://robertlterrell.com/2009/11/the-u-s-ruling-class-needs-to-upgrade-its-performance-or-move-aside/ A photo journey of social, political, economic and human rights in today's society Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:25:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elisha http://robertlterrell.com/2009/11/the-u-s-ruling-class-needs-to-upgrade-its-performance-or-move-aside/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Elisha Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:22:09 +0000 http://www.robertlterrell.com/blog/the-u-s-ruling-class-needs-to-upgrade-its-performance-or-move-aside#comment-173 You said "public opinion polls consistently confirm that a definitive majority of the nation’s citizens want a comprehensive health care system". What opinion polls were you looking at? It was clear that it was just the opposite, the people did not want the Obama Healthcare bill. But of course it is being jammed down the people's throat and at a great expense to the people. Seems to me that the "rulers" don't care what the people want, as usual. Since there is money to be made in this piece of crap bill and of course they will be the ones making the money. Humpty Dumpty is about to fall of the wall! YEAH You said “public opinion polls consistently confirm that a definitive majority of the nation’s citizens want a comprehensive health care system”. What opinion polls were you looking at? It was clear that it was just the opposite, the people did not want the Obama Healthcare bill. But of course it is being jammed down the people’s throat and at a great expense to the people. Seems to me that the “rulers” don’t care what the people want, as usual. Since there is money to be made in this piece of crap bill and of course they will be the ones making the money. Humpty Dumpty is about to fall of the wall! YEAH

]]> By: David Benfell http://robertlterrell.com/2009/11/the-u-s-ruling-class-needs-to-upgrade-its-performance-or-move-aside/comment-page-1/#comment-56 David Benfell Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:15:37 +0000 http://www.robertlterrell.com/blog/the-u-s-ruling-class-needs-to-upgrade-its-performance-or-move-aside#comment-56 What you barely begin to acknowledge is that there is nothing special about any ruling class that qualifies them to lead. They obtain their position through a system of bizarrely-defined "merit" that rests principally on inheritance--hence Paris Hilton is, by virtue of her class, better qualified to lead than anybody in the middle or lower classes, and could rapidly acquire the corporate structure to do so. We are at a point where the "politics of the possible" justify not just the economic rape of the middle and lower classes in the West, but the murders of over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan through ongoing wars. The "politics of the possible" crush any hope of ending the mentality that got us into Iraq as we escalate in Afghanistan. The "politics of the possible" enable a denial of climate change that will likely reduce arable land area in at least the developing world and probably the developed world. The "politics of the possible" keep the Doomsday Clock maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at five minutes to midnight due, they say, to the combined threats of nuclear annihilation, climate change, and bioengineering. The "politics of the possible" will leave this planet like Easter Island, with only odd monuments left behind to attract the interest of extraterrestrial explorers who happen upon a desolate planet. What you barely begin to acknowledge is that there is nothing special about any ruling class that qualifies them to lead. They obtain their position through a system of bizarrely-defined “merit” that rests principally on inheritance–hence Paris Hilton is, by virtue of her class, better qualified to lead than anybody in the middle or lower classes, and could rapidly acquire the corporate structure to do so.

We are at a point where the “politics of the possible” justify not just the economic rape of the middle and lower classes in the West, but the murders of over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan through ongoing wars. The “politics of the possible” crush any hope of ending the mentality that got us into Iraq as we escalate in Afghanistan. The “politics of the possible” enable a denial of climate change that will likely reduce arable land area in at least the developing world and probably the developed world.

The “politics of the possible” keep the Doomsday Clock maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at five minutes to midnight due, they say, to the combined threats of nuclear annihilation, climate change, and bioengineering. The “politics of the possible” will leave this planet like Easter Island, with only odd monuments left behind to attract the interest of extraterrestrial explorers who happen upon a desolate planet.

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