United States Presents a Parody of Itself

On 08/04/2012 it was indicated to me from the Spiritual Side to read page 578 from the book “The Rich and the Super Rich” by Ferdinand Lundberg, published by Lyle Stuart, Inc on June 1968.  Page 578 is under Chapter 13,  “The Cleverness of the Rich”.

Page 578

“Just as the level of educational attainment is not sufficient to meet the general needs of the time so, it is my argument, the level of educational attainment is not sufficient to meet the political needs of the people in selecting  political personnel devoted to the needs of the nation.  One gets instead the well-known variety of peanut politicians, mainly exemplified at or near the top in streamlined hicks like Lyndon B. Johnson, Everett Dirksen, Orville Faubus and George C. Wallace, to name only a few of the currently most obtrusive and obnoxious.

As politics is the realm productive of public policy, the troubles of the country trace back inevitably to politics.  Here we find largely inadequate officeholders chosen by largely inadequate people on the basis of largely irrelevant criteria, always allowing for the fact that a minority of the officeholders and a minority of the people are fully adequate to their responsibilities.

The democratic system thus comes full circle and in the United States presents a parody of itself on the governmental level.  As a consequence the entire land is officially plunged into Madison Avenue nonsense.  The system, it turns out, has been infiltrated and subverted by boobocrats.

While institutional inadequacy is involved it is (contrary to a long line of radicals, liberals and plain democrats) by no means the whole story.  Although many Americans above age twenty-five are inadequately educated and schooled, nobody at all is twisting their arms to make them remain that way.  The major cities are all heavily supplied with public night schools on every level from the primary grades to university postgraduate levels and anybody may rectify his educational defects very readily, usually free of direct charge.  Some do; most don’t.  Again, most of the major cities have excellent libraries, very lightly patronized.

Where the interests of the broad public lie may be discerned on any weekend when they hit the roads in their cars.  While this aimless driving about on superb highways may be cosmically innocent, like praying, it is not done by a populace seriously concerned about its destiny.  It is done, in fact, by handicapped boobs.”

(Comment: So since this came to me out of nowhere in August 4, 2012, obviously someone on the other side wanted this out, so here it is finally on April 18, 2020.  I guess better late than never).