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The Elite "Have No Idea" - Society Is Near The Breaking Point
Zero Hedge ^ | October 14, 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/17/2016 11:46:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 10/17/2016 11:46:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They never do..................


2 posted on 10/17/2016 11:49:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think they know. I also think they believe they can handle the problem using industrialized methods.


3 posted on 10/17/2016 11:49:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neither, it would seem, do the majority of the voters.


4 posted on 10/17/2016 11:49:42 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d call that essay the unvarnished truth.

Yep.


5 posted on 10/17/2016 11:53:29 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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I agree. I think they know, and I think they drove it here on purpose. But it is in their interest to have plausible deniability to the accusation that the politicians have deliberately destabilized things, so “industrialized methods” can be justified.


6 posted on 10/17/2016 11:54:48 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great article! Thanks for posting!!!


7 posted on 10/17/2016 11:54:50 AM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

New YouTube video showing the Deplorables and ‘we’re not gonna take it...!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niW-TjQwq3M&index=1&list=LLL2pJCduYJuKckRutmleBZA

Join the movement!


8 posted on 10/17/2016 11:55:21 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are none so blind as those who will not see.


9 posted on 10/17/2016 11:56:31 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; newgeezer
The Elite "Have No Idea" - Society Is Near The Breaking Point

I call BS. I've been watching historical youtube videos about the bombing of England and Germany in WWII. People were living in bomb shelters, loading out bodies in trucks and making due. Actually morale was pretty high in a lot of cases. The firestorm in Hamburg was an exception because that city was torched. Watching WWII and pondering other times in the past makes me see what a bunch of spoiled whiners we've become.

10 posted on 10/17/2016 11:58:31 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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Let them eat tofu.


11 posted on 10/17/2016 11:58:50 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for enlightenment and true justice in these times of mass delusion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Love this!!


12 posted on 10/17/2016 11:59:37 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A nice/harsh dose of reality. Can’t refute a word of it.


13 posted on 10/17/2016 12:00:18 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The image that keeps popping into my heads is the French Aristocracy in 1797. The current US Media/Politcal/Business elite is almost as divorced from reality as the Ancien Regime.


14 posted on 10/17/2016 12:00:26 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eggs- Zactly!


15 posted on 10/17/2016 12:00:32 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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The elite think they can use advanced computers and industrialization to automate a large number of jobs and Turd World semi-slave labor to replace the rest.

What they don’t seem to realize is that their workers with a 6th grade education (if that) and a tendency to violence cannot actually support the society that made them wealthy in the first place; they don’t want a white-picket-fence house or a peaceful neighborhood to live in because they’re content with overcrowded living and dodging shootouts on the way home from work. Nor can they be counted on to protect them or their property when the next war rolls around - imagine Russia invading and the elite having to rely on Central/South America mercenaries. And in the event of any large-scale disaster that destroys infrastructure and/or the advanced machinery, they won’t have the ability to rebuild them. Button pushers simply can’t repair equipment that took a team of MIT graduates years to even design.


16 posted on 10/17/2016 12:01:46 PM PDT by Laser_Ray
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They may be most prone to violence, but when the SHTF, we have the guns.


17 posted on 10/17/2016 12:03:20 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Beginnings

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.

Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.


18 posted on 10/17/2016 12:04:03 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Talisker
As more and more jobs are done by robots or machines, there is now a great surplus of labor. Those at the tippy top don't care they are protected and insured in their insular lives. In the US we used to have a large “middle class” which has been hollowed out. While the averages may look good on paper, the spread of how the actual wealth of the nation is now divided is very one sided. Furthermore, when the notion that everyone has an equal chance on the overall outcome becomes a pipe dream, aside from winning a large lottery, restlessness arrives. There is a strong connection in the latest move to strong gun control to fear in the minds of those who are at the reins of power. First comes buying them off to keep everyone content, then comes subterfuge like rigged elections and finally the use of force to quell any rebellion. In this election we are close to passing step two.
19 posted on 10/17/2016 12:04:39 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I disagree with the year. It is more like 1861 than 1788. Brother against brother. State against state.


20 posted on 10/17/2016 12:05:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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