{"id":50783,"date":"2020-01-28T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50783"},"modified":"2020-01-28T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:02:33","slug":"the-establishment-doesnt-fear-trump-and-it-doesnt-fear-bernie-it-fears-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50783","title":{"rendered":"The Establishment Doesn\u2019t Fear Trump, And It Doesn\u2019t Fear Bernie. It Fears You."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Establishment Doesn\u2019t Fear Trump, And It Doesn\u2019t Fear Bernie. It Fears\u00a0You.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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During the George W Bush administration it was popular in conspiracy circles to speculate<\/a> that events might be orchestrated which would allow the Bush family to complete a coup against the US Constitution and hold on to power indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such paranoia and suspicion of government power in the wake of the extraordinary post-9\/11 advancements in Orwellian surveillance programs and unprecedented military expansionism were perfectly understandable, but predictions that the younger Bush would not cede power at the end of his second term proved incorrect. In today\u2019s hysterical Trump-centric political environment we now see mainstream voices<\/a> in mainstream outlets<\/a> openly advancing the same conspiratorial speculations<\/a> about the current administration, and those will prove incorrect as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What these paranoid presidential prognostications get wrong is not their extreme suspicion of government, but their assumption that America\u2019s real power structures require a certain president to be in place in order to advance depraved totalitarian agendas. As anyone paying attention knows, intense suspicion of the US government is the only sane position that anyone can possibly have; the error is in assuming that there is no mechanism in place to ensure that the same agendas carry forward from one presidential administration to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schiff dwelling on the fact that Trump departed from the talking points prepared for him by national security officials so he could act “contrary to official US policy,” which is to “deter Russian adventurism.” Glad to know even the president is not permitted to change US policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a sense, the conspiracy theories about a Bush coup were actually correct: the Bush administration\u00a0didn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0truly end. All of its imperialist, power-serving agendas remained in place and were expanded under the apparent oversight of the following administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Establishment Doesn\u2019t Fear Trump, And It Doesn\u2019t Fear Bernie. It Fears\u00a0You. During the George W Bush administration it was popular in conspiracy circles to speculate that events might be orchestrated which would allow the Bush family to complete a coup against the US Constitution and hold on to power indefinitely. Such paranoia and suspicion of government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5434,17039,158,10726],"class_list":["post-50783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-conspiracy","tag-establishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50784,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783\/revisions\/50784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}