If you would like to see just how sick the American elite really is –
how morally depraved, how intellectually diseased,
how addicted to the taste of human flesh, the scent of human blood, and the sight of human suffering – then you need go no further than the speech given by Mitt Romney to the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7, 2008.
This is of course the witless "horse-race" view that dominates political discourse in America:
who's up, who's down, who's getting the column inches, who's on TV?
But in reality,
the American elite – or the Establishment, or the power structure, call it what you will (as long as you don't call it what it really is: the ruling class)
– is like an iceberg: most of its vast bulk exists unseen, it plows on beneath the surface, unperturbed by the media storms that rage around the small bit of exposed material at the summit.
And thus the climax of Romney's peroration:
a frantic blithering about "evil and radical jihad" and
"the inevitable military ambitions of China" and
the burning need to "raise military spending to 4 percent of our GDP" and
overriding imperative to keep the Terror War raging, particularly on its central front in Iraq.
None of this is remotely connected to the actual wellbeing, security and prosperity of the American people; quite the opposite.
It is, however, absolutely vital to the preservation of the elite's power, privilege, self-image and status. And as they demonstrate day after day, they don't care how many people must die or suffer for this.
This is moral psychosis on a monumental scale.
It is the complete and utter repudiation of every civilized ideal, of every fragment of enlightenment wrenched from the blood-drenched slagheap of human history.
Yet it passes for normality in our political discourse.
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