Pork or
Hogwash, the Voter’s Choice
Pork is some concrete benefit to the voter’s district, job,
family, and community. Pork is honest,
something useful in the cultural survivability strategy from Food & Family
by Roles to Nurture and Protect, in accordance with Rules regarding Social
Status and Tools to make it happen, leading back to dinner and a date, feeding
and breeding, or not. There is a direct
link between survival and the pork. Pork
is honest. It means jobs, contracts, benefits, and infrastructure.
By way of contract, Hogwash is washing someone else’s pork
which leverages the roles of Rescuer, Victim, Protector vs Villainy, even when
there is no pork benefit from the Hogwash.
Sometimes hogwash is often bullshit.
Sometimes it’s a warm blanket.
By way of example in the current political imbroglio
starting with the Democrats (liberals, progressives) with their demands for
student loan deferments, schooling and medical care for the less fortunate
constitute pork for the less fortunate, but hogwash for the affluent advocates
seeking to play rescuer and protector to the stupid and unwashed.
The Rainbow
Coalition
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| Pollution from Russian industries in Siberia. |
The latter Democratic Hogwash campaigns against fracking,
offshore drilling, nuclear power and the Polar Ice Melt are camouflage for
someone else’s pork, which is to say the Russian Energy and Defense Industries. Long standing linkages back to the days of
the Comintern of the Thirties theoretically in line with Communist World
Conquest, but now are acting in the corporate interests of Gasprom, Lukoil and
Uralvagonzavod.
The flap over
depleted uranium rounds in Leftish Academia after Russian built tanks
were shredded by uranium depleted rounds from relatively small cannon.
Inverse Attribution.
What simplifies the confusion is the application of the Law
of the Inverse Attribution Reflex (LIAR). Inverse Attribution (Bragging &
Blaming). Brag of one’s weakest virtue, blame with one’s biggest vice. http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2016/01/liars-advertisers-and-true-believers.html
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| Bragging of one's weakest virtue - gas mileage |
Accusations by the Left of Corporate Greed, Wall Street
Avarice and Capitalist Excess fall under the category of inverse attribution
(blaming with one’s strongest vice) as greed, avarice and excess are inherent
in the offensive nature of the defense of pork. Likewise, the Right’s accusation of the
Liberal’s Class Warfare, is an example of the Right’s War against the “welfare
cheat” and losers, and in favor of the protection of wealthy welfare (tax
breaks, contracts, etc.).
The
Thunderclap Coalition
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| Blaming with one's biggest vice |
The other side of the political scramble this current
election cycle is heavy into hogwash with links to pork not so clear. Certain themes made by alleged Conservative
punditry, if taken seriously, would call for the violent overthrow of
the Constitution to be replaced by a designated dictator subject of back room
manipulation. These are some of the popular arguments:
1.
Courts are supposed to interpret the law, not
make it. Since the Anglo-American legal and political systems are based on
precedent, case law, and the Common Law which cases go back before the Magna
Carta. The term is “stare decisis”, let
the decision stand, all cases with same facts and law should be treated the
same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
2.
Judicial Review is not in the Constitution
despite Case Law going back to Marbury vs Madison in 1803. Statutory law generally over rides case law
except when the case law involves a Constitutional precedent such as due
process of law, or when the law is arbitrary and capricious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison
3.
The Founders were Demi-Gods whose godly
pronouncements have been blasphemed by all Amendments after the 12th
(The loser in Presidential Elections would not be VP). In fact, the Founders
were brilliant and practical men who had just defeated one of the largest
empires in the world, and knew the tragic history of abuses and misuses of
political power as evidenced during the course of English history, particularly
from the Tudors to the Stuarts with the English Civil Wars in between. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
4.
Congress is irremediably corrupt, and should be
purged of the politically correct. The essence of a republican form of
government (guaranteed in the Constitution) is a legislature. Anglo-American political systems are built
around protecting the legislative function, Federal and State. This goes back
to Queen Elizabeth’s barring the bishops during consideration of the Book of
Common Prayer, and Cromwell’s purge of Parliament in 1648. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride%27s_Purge
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| Colonel Pride of Cromwell's Ironside Army purge the Parliament |
What is difficult in the case of Conservative Right Wing
propaganda is the nature of the Pork of interest to the Right. In part, the war over Pork is treated as a
zero sum game, someone else’s loss is automatically your gain. It is difficult, however, to see how a
collapse of civil and criminal law benefits the Conservative base. In short, the four points of how to do a coup
should not be taken seriously, as such a coup would destroy the one percent
even if the downtrodden stayed in their place.
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| Another way to purge a Congress |
Donald Trump did not invent the current coup credo he is now
stuck with. The true authors of the coup
credo are obscured by a maze of fake institutions and quack publishers. Behind them, perhaps lurks the ghost of
hippies past, as these techniques are Sixties familiar. The Atlantic Monthly suggests that Carl Rove
and his propaganda machine are lurking back there, perhaps. http://www.rove.com/
Foreign
Influence?
Foreign influence influences both influential influencer both
affluent and articulate. Moscow is fully
represented in the Rainbow Coalition as they have been since the Thirties. Tel Aviv has likewise fake institutions which
have built a fanatic Thunderclap Coalition of Conservatives, and which leverage
Christian eschatological interpretations of the Rapture and the Second Coming
which will be triggered by the unification of Greater Israel…in which all but
144,000 Jews go to Hell half way through the Tribulation.
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| From the Left Behind series of comics illustrating the Rapture |
See Nicolas Cage in the Left Behind Movie:
and the website
The historical roots of this twist go back to the English
Civil War of the unreconstructed and unforgiving Puritans who still do not
accept the Restoration or the Glorious Revolution in which Roundhead and
Royalist cut a deal.
Gordon S Fowkes, LTC USA RET, KCTJ
Gordon S Fowkes, LTC USA RET, KCTJ
