The Thirty Tyrants
Tablet Magazine,
by
Lee Smith
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/6/2021 11:47:50 AM
In Chapter 5 of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the second is to rule directly; the third is to create “therein a state of the few which might keep it friendly to you.”(Snip) I spoke with The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman about an article he wrote more than a decade ago,(Snip) documents the exact moment when the American elite decided that democracy wasn’t working for them. Blaming the Republican Party for preventing them from running roughshod over the American public, they migrated
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earlybird 2/6/2021 11:56:26 AM (No. 687008)
FTA:
In the more than 10 years since Friedman’s column was published, the disenchanted elite that the Times columnist identified has further impoverished American workers while enriching themselves. The one-word motto they came to live by was globalism—that is, the freedom to structure commercial relationships and social enterprises without reference to the well-being of the particular society in which they happened to make their livings and raise their children.
Globalism.
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earlybird 2/6/2021 12:06:33 PM (No. 687013)
This is long. It is intensely interesting. Many will pass it by. “Too much bother”… I hope I’m wrong. Another sample:
Meanwhile, Kissinger’s geopolitical maneuver became the cornerstone of his historical legacy. It also made him a wealthy man selling access to Chinese officials. In turn, Kissinger pioneered the way for other former high-ranking policymakers to engage in their own foreign influence-peddling operations, like William Cohen, defense secretary in the administration of Bill Clinton, who greased the way for China to gain permanent most favored nation trade status in 2000 and become a cornerstone of the World Trade Organization. The Cohen Group has two of its four overseas offices in China, and includes a number of former top officials, including Trump’s former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who recently failed to disclose his work for the Cohen Group when he criticized the Trump administration’s “with us or against us” approach to China in an editorial. “The economic prosperity of U.S. allies and partners hinges on strong trade and investment relationships with Beijing,” wrote Mattis, who was literally being paid by China for taking exactly that position.
Did you know that? I didn’t. And I read a lot. What about those who choose not to read?
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DVC 2/6/2021 12:08:40 PM (No. 687017)
Well worth the read. I sent this to a number of friends yesterday. THIS is what has really been going on.
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DVC 2/6/2021 12:09:57 PM (No. 687019)
I fully concurr with OP/#2. Take the time on this one. This pulls it all together. The ChiComs are working with the eager-to-destroy-America rich globalists to literally destroy and enslave YOU.
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earlybird 2/6/2021 12:33:18 PM (No. 687056)
Re #3-4, thanks. I was so hoping this would be read. In the old LCom days it would have been read, sent on and commented upon by the many intelligent members of the forum. It is so full of information that it almost boggles the mind. Even those of us who have been pretty well-read find ourselves aghast at what has been going on. And who been involved and how. Lee Smith has done what amounts to a scholarly work here. We don’t see much of that….
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DVC 2/6/2021 1:46:32 PM (No. 687136)
#5, get a copy of Gen. Robert Spalding's book "Stealth war". I am only beginning this book, but it looks like it will be covering much of the same ground in more detail. Spalding was an advisor to President Trump.
The ChiComs correctly read our top leaders as corrupt, vile, morality-free people who would sell out the country for money without batting an eye. And they are doing it. All the billionaires, and almost all the politicians, all the movie folks, much of the top business folks and almost all the media....all working for the ChiComs, and against America.
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synchronicity 2/6/2021 1:57:56 PM (No. 687144)
And you can add professional sports to #6's list.
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excalgalcg 2/6/2021 2:06:34 PM (No. 687153)
Thank you OP and readers of this eye-opening article. I read every word and came away sadder than ever. Lee Smith makes sense as to the corruption of the democrats and leaders in the Republican Party. I wonder how many are hiding? China has them right where they want them and we will suffer for it. I’m sending it out to those who will read it and believe what’s happening to America.
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FormerDem 2/6/2021 4:07:45 PM (No. 687226)
Fantastic find. Thank you, OP.
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Heraclitus 2/6/2021 10:44:49 PM (No. 687481)
This is why they HAD to prevent President Trump from being re-elected: he was beginning to expose the perfidious character of those opposing him... and us. Anyone thwarting the plans of the Left is seen as a mortal enemy by the Left and all its nihilistic, amoral associates, foreign and domestic.
The day one realized that Biden Family connections with China were dismissed by a code of silence, and the China virus was made into a tool of dominance, oppression and control, and all the enormously wealthy individuals and conglomerations were backing The Man in the Basement, it was shockingly clear that forces greater than we could have anticipated were afoot.
With that realization came that sense, that giant knot in your stomach, the almost overwhelming feeling of melancholia and powerlessness. Then we shake it off and get to work.
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They migrated to the Democrat Party.
Lee Smith wrote the books The Plot Against the President and The Permanent Coup This article comes highly recommended.