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Published: Aug 5, 2007
Author: Clell Drumheller
Post Date: 2007-08-05 09:25:05 by cdrumheller
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Understanding the “Two-Party” System By Clell Drumheller
“…Come out from among them…” (2 Corinthians 6:17)
Judging from their behavior alone (not their labels or rhetoric), Democrats and Republicans often cannot be easily distinguished from one another. Nevertheless, for the sake of discussion let us treat these sections of the current political duopoly as fully separate political parties. If a fair-minded person of, at least, average intelligence studies and observes the actions of these two parties and the effects of these actions, certain mutual trends become obvious. Could it be that pretty much the same people are “calling the shots” for both parties? Many excellent writers have researched and expounded accurately and extensively on this matter. However, this article is directed not so much to the well-informed few as it is to the largely uninformed and misinformed many. What is sacred or, even, intelligent about having only two choices at the polling place? In addition to using hard ball political tactics, the current, self-serving political cartel has presented numerous spurious arguments to protect its advantaged position. One canard used by establishment apologists here in Texas is to say that free access to the ballot will clutter the voting form and, thus, confuse voters. We have had onerous and stringent ballot access laws for so-called “third parties” only since the 1960’s and, yet, prior to that time no more than six parties ever appeared on the ballot. There was no clutter or confusion. I guess the state’s majority party, the Republicans, doesn’t like competition as much as they claim – at least, not in electoral politics. Another bold faced lie that the political establishment occasionally puts forth is “We already have a conservative party.” Would that be the party of Bush, McCain, Specter, Hutchison, Collins, et al.? How do these individuals, when not pressured by their constituents, notably differ from Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry et al. on issues like illegal immigration, subjecting the USA to the UN and NAU, unconstitutional spending, and treasonous “free” trade? Many Republicans in the US House of Representatives and in state government offices are no better – and they are not improving. Incidentally, how many varied views and interests can only two parties truly represent, anyway? Mid-level Republicans and Democrats are composed largely of infighting special interests – both foreign and domestic - with narrow agendas and a willingness to risk the nation’s future for the sake of their often extra-constitutional aims. It is interesting that their goals are often similar. For example, both the home builders lobby and the socialist illegal immigrant lobby demand open borders and an endless flood of unregulated immigrants. The former group is composed mainly of Republicans, the latter of Democrats. Hasn’t their bipartisan involvement in immigration “reform” been heart-warming? Isn’t it also encouraging knowing that there is such a preponderance of grifters in the halls of power to serve special interests with sweet back room deals? Grassroots Republicans and Democrats are often well-meaning folks who just don’t grasp the fact that they are almost constantly being played for fools. The propagandists of these two parties serve up their own forms of snake oil and the foot soldiers drink it – often without a second thought. GOP (Graft Over Principle) politicos typically treat members of their support base in much the same manner that an abusive, adulterous, alcoholic husband treats his wife. Then, the slick, double-tongued Republican media propagandists rush in to express empathy for the abused, enabling dupes. They claim the elected Republican officials have forsaken their principles (which, of course, they never held in the first place). Frequently, the spinners mouth platitudes and yak about patriotism – a virtue possessed by many of their listeners – while their own practical loyalties are not the same. At the end of the day, these caring spin doctors invariably counsel the abused grassroots folks that they have no choice but to return to their abusers for another beating. After all, they cant, “You don’t want Hillary Clinton in the White House, do you?” – as if there could be no third possibility. The Democrat machine operates, more or less, in the same manner as the Republican machine. In reality, for the most part, a comparatively small group of powerful elite money men run both of these parties and their media spin operations from the top down. Sound scholarship has turned up and verified reams of irrefutable proof of this fact. Some of the most telling evidence comes from the oft-cited book Tragedy and Hope (1966) written by the late Professor Carroll Quigley – a sympathizer with inside information. The following extended quotes from that tome are must-reads for every American who would protect and preserve our country for future generations.
There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.
The dominant Round Table Group in the Western Hemisphere is the Council on Foreign Relations, which is headquartered at Pratt House in New York City. Even so, the CFR is just one of an increasing number of overlapping think tanks, bureaucracies, etc. intent upon the same globalist goals. Some of these groups seem unrelated or, even, hostile to each other, as, for example, the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. However, this appearance is only superficial. A favorite strategy of the globalist elite, given the fact they are philosophical Communitarians (or “Third Way” devotees), is the Hegelian “thesis v. antithesis leads to synthesis”. Thus, the standard procedure of political compromise in the current two-party system almost invariably moves our nation, at all levels, further toward supranational government by a comparatively small number of people and economic interdependence on other nations. This necessarily results in a more vulnerable national economic condition for the United States, an erosion of our national sovereignty, and a weakening of the Constitutional protections of our rights as citizens. Experience teaches that the existing political establishment seldom works in favor of the actual interests of this nation’s citizenry or of our Constitution. To the contrary, with increasing frequency, ruling class policies hurt the general interests of our nation and violate our rule of law. Both socialism and globalism are anti-American, as well as anti-Christ. Also, both these contagions have a stranglehold on the two-party power structure in this country. The only reasonable response to this situation that an American patriot, and especially a Christian, can engage is the total rejection of the Republicrats. Fortunately, there is a legitimate, unsullied alternative. You can check it out at http://www.ConstitutionParty.org.
*In Texas you can contact the state level Constitution Party at http://www.cptexas.org.
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