Is there a cabal of Plutocrats trying to decimate the working class? Yup. [View all]

[Zalatix]

Since I was locked out of my other thread by a jury, I'm going to continue this here. There is a cabal that is working to physically decimate the population of America's working class, and here is the evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal

A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views and/or interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue.

So first I need to show that there is a group of people united in some close design together.

That's easy. The Koch Brothers are a good example of this. They are united with groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Tea Party. In fact, they bankrolled the Tea Party.

http://chamber.350.org/2011/03/the-us-chamber-and-the-koch-brothers/

Now I need to show that they promote private views in a church, state or other community. That much is easy, Google can help you all day on this if you want to look. Here's one supporting link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/08/koch-brothers-lobbying

Their agendas are all aligned: a war against American workers (defense of offshoring), and their agenda includes getting rid of the social safety net. Again, the evidence is all over the place.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its war on American workers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/gop-chamber-of-commerce_n_741970.html

Koch brothers versus health care reform:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald-and-jesse-lava/koch-brothers-v-health-ca_b_1380731.html

Koch brothers and outsourcing American jobs:
http://www.kansasfreepress.com/2011/06/koch-brothers-outsourcing-jobs.html

Kich brothers and their opposition to the social safety net:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch

Koch was the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark. The Clark–Koch ticket promising to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE.

Now I need to show the intrigue. That's a crafty and involved plot to achieve one's ends. I might also, for extra credit, show that said group - defined above - is actually conspiring to subvert the democratic process and run America without any accountability to the American people.

Well, that much is glaringly obvious when you read up on how much money and influence the Koch Brothers wield against Congress... especially the GOP. Again, evidence on that is not all that hard to find:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206

Are they accountable to the American people? Nope. Your opinion doesn't sway them. You can vote the GOP out and these people will simply attempt to buy Democrats with their money and power: particularly, the Blue Dogs. And lo and behold, the Koch Brothers have already had their hands in the DLC's cookie jar:
http://www.americablog.com/2010/08/koch-industries-gave-funding-to-dlc-and.html

Aside from the necessary elements of a cabal, there are other popular traits that are associated with them, too, such as meeting in secret. The Koch Brothers meet that requirement, too!

http://www.alternet.org/story/153998/koch_brothers_convene_super-secret_billionaires'_meeting_for_2012_elections/

They also fund climate change denial groups on the down low:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/

But the most popularly known example is their attempts to secretly fund the Tea Party, a fact that got made public, much to their chagrin.


Mind you, I can name plenty of other billionaires and right wing organizations who are in cahoots with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers, and cite their behavior and their pursuit of a very common goal, all of which fits the definition of a cabal, but really, do we want to destroy the DU's bandwidth that way? And many people won't even read THIS much text, much less all the other evidence I'd be posting in the course of such a long expose'.

It's a cabal. All the necessary conditions for a cabal have been shown and met. This cabal has vast influence and power over Congress and their power completely circumvents our power as voters. It can even be argued, quite logically, that the entire campaign contribution system itself is a BREEDING GROUND for cabals.


Now, is this cabal trying to physically decimate the working class population? Well, let's look at the mechanics of what is happening.

The Koch Brothers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (mind you, as I said, there are more groups doing this besides just these examples, but I'm trying to save you some bandwidth and reading time) have been known to vigorously fight for sending American jobs overseas, even overriding the votes and will of the American people by going directly to Congress with their money and influence. They are known to come right back and fight against health care reform and also welfare and social safety net laws. I've documented this much up above.

So let's follow the inevitable consequences of their efforts. One, your job leaves the country and you are unemployed. Two, your unemployment benefits are cut off at 26 weeks, while your job search will probably take 2 years; which is 104 weeks (this is true for millions of Americans, in fact). Three, when your benefits run out and you need welfare to eat, the aforementioned cabal wants there to be no welfare, so now you need to go to a soup kitchen. Meanwhile you're also homeless. The soup kitchens, as we know, are overrun. There's plenty of news about the soup kitchens: http://www.sanduskyregister.com/sandusky/2010/jul/06/soup-kitchen-overrun-hungry-unemployed?similar

Who here doesn't know about the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis among the homeless? Certainly, the CDC does. This is another risk you face when unemployment renders you homeless. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00019922.htm

Is homeless going up? Yup. http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/hunger-homelessness-increase-nationwide

It would be downright crazy to deny that this is a clear and classic case of proximate and ultimate cause. In short: the act of beating back welfare and defending the deprivation of jobs by sending them out of the country, plus fighting health care reform, sets off a very common chain of events that leads to a LOT of people suffering, and a number of them dying.

Now I must explain how this amounts to said cabal CONSPIRING to cause suffering and death on a large scale as to intentionally decimate the population of America's working class. Because according to Occam's Razor, this could simply be called sheer negligence on the part of the Plutocracy.

This is where logic invalidates Occam's Razor.

If you go driving through a neighborhood in a Hummer and you hit 5 schoolkids, killing 1, and you keep on driving, what is that? Homicide, vehicular manslaughter, all that stuff. You go to court and you fight it, you lose and pay the fine and do the time, or you win and go off scot-free. Negligence and a bit of sociopathy, too, right? Still not intentional mass slaughter.

But now let's say you do it again. And again. And again. 2 kids die in the next incident, then the incident after that you kill 1, then 3, then 5 survive but with bad injuries, then 2 deaths, etc. Each time you go to court and fight it, until you decide, fuck it, let's just buy off the judge and threaten the jury with moving your jobs out of the area and making the whole city unemployed. Now everyone backs off, and you're free to run over schoolkids at will.

At what point, after you just keep doing this, does it become PREMEDITATED MURDER? At what point does said town realize that this Hummer-driving madman is running over schoolkids for the lulz? How long does the mere negligence argument hold?

How many times does Occam's Razor have to get used until its blade becomes blunt and useless?

This is what that aforementioned cabal is doing to the working class: they're pulling out the entire world from beneath the working class and at some point

Now, we get around to understanding why President Barack Obama said that the Republicans will usher in an age of social Darwinism.

President Obama is a Harvard educated lawyer. He doesn't use hyperbole. His words are precise and intended to be on the mark.

Social Darwinism is a philosophy that says we must cull the weak and useless for the species/society/etc. to remain strong. The very concept of social Darwinism calls for mass exterminations.

President Obama would not call the Republicans social Darwinists unless he also saw their oft-oft-oft-repeated pattern of running over the working class despite having been shown the consequences of doing such.

Is it any coincidence that we've been told, publicly, that a global economic collapse, resource crash and population crash are due to happen by 2030?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.html

Is it any wonder why a collapse is happening RIGHT NOW, in the form of a very slow decimation of the world's working class? It's not like we haven't talked about this on the DU before.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002639524

Every once and awhile I'll be listening to a podcast with one or the other writers specializing on the subject of Peak Oil or collapse and the subject of timetables will come up. When will the collapse finally be here, the callers ask insistently, almost pleadingly, so that they can finally justify their investments in freeze-dried foods, water purification tablets and solid gold coins. Inevitably the guest will demur, and speak more in general terms. But I'm going to be the first pundit to go out on the limb and assign a timeline for the collapse. Spread it far and wide, and let's see just how good my predictive powers are. Are you ready? Here it is: Right now.

What do they think a collapse is supposed to look like? It seems people just cannot just cannot get past the "Zombie Apocalypse" theory of collapse. They imagine hordes of disease-ridden folks dressed in rags stumbling around and fighting over cans of petrol and stripping cans of food from shelves. That's not what collapse looks like. It never has been. In fact, there's very little evidence that a Zombie Apocalypse style collapse ever occurred in the historical record. Instead we see subtle patterns of abandonment and decay that unfold over long periods of time. Big projects stop. Population thins. Trade routes shrink and people revert to barter. Things get simpler and more local. Culture coarsens. High art stagnates. People disperse. Expectations are adjusted downward. Investments are no longer made in the future and previous investments are cannibalized just to maintain the status quo. Extend and pretend is hardly a recent invention. And I remembered a comment I heard from Dmitry Orlov in an interview about how much of his high school class were now dead. Yet there were no headlines and there was never any official crisis or emergency. They did not die in gunfights over scraps of food like in The Road. Rather, more quotidian things like alcoholism, unemployment, suicide, homelessness, exposure, lack of medications and ordinary sicknesses like bronchitis and pneumonia took their lives.

Do you think that the Plutocrats will experience any kind of crisis? Nope. The crisis is for the rest of the 99%, not them; and it is entirely by design.

This is why it is NOT a conspiracy theory to say that there are a group of people of great wealth and power who are in fact conspiring to do a mass culling of the working class, and that mass culling is happening right now. Slowly, just like I said in the other thread.

The means, the motive and the weapon have all been laid out right here.