Starve the Beast

[bleever]

It's been discussed for so long, it's hard to believe that this might really be the time. I mean, THE time where we actually see it happen.

But so many factors have come into confluence, it would be folly to turn away from acknowledging what opportunity is really presented here. After all, we've waited so long.

It's time to stand up, speak up, and make sure this monstrosity is finally put down. We must starve the beast.


The Beast we speak of is known by its many marks:


It claims that America is broke. It plaintively begs us to understand that there IS no money. Not for anything that that Gubmint has selfishly and obtusely and treasonously grabbed as its domain. Including the building of roads. The defending of our shores. The creation of a fair and regulated marketplace. The oversight of the safety of food sold in the free market, the fairness of financial transactions, the support of non-profit, universal-access, everyone-is-an-American public education.

The Beast that says that everything must be on the table, except for the revenues collected.

The Beast that says that the greatest form of government ever created, by our revered Founders, in the document we as Americans (and in fact people around the world) revere as the U.S. Constitution, is actually not the solution, but the problem.

The Beast that thereby says that our enemy is the greatest form of governance ever created.

The Beast that does, in fact, claim that America's greatest threat is the government bestowed upon us by our Founders in The Constitution.

This Beast has roared and postured and been used by the wealthiest to rage against the actual voices of the people, and the exercise of the sacred right to vote. This Beast suggested that American government should be shrunken and drowned, like a baby, in a bathtub.


The Beast has finally gone so far that we can all see that it is anti-American, in all the senses that we hold America dear.


The Beast is the corporatist vision of America. It only exists in our willingness to consider it a good-faith partner in the American Dream. It is not.


America is rich. We are not limited in our abilities. Do not hesitate to stand up against those amongst us who want to convince you otherwise.


Starve the Beast.

[JFN1]

1. indeed

stop participating in their system.

it is the only way for us to reclaim it.

[EFerrari]

2. That isn't a table. It's a conveyer belt from the Treasury

to the same fat wallets every time.

[Newest Reality]

3. Starving the Beast

is a great metaphor and I wholly support the idea because it seems practical.

The problem is that this beast has ownership and control of just about everything that is vital to our well-being and survival from a contemporary point-of-view. The problem then proves to be far more complex and suggests a far greater amount of extreme change and sacrifice from vast numbers of us in order for a starvation to be effective in this undeclared war.

The Beast knows that, don't you see?

Can we re-localize? Can we overcome our divisions, both intrinsic and artificial? Can we give-up a lifetime of conditioning that has created a lifestyle that, at this point, is manufactured and supported my multinational corporations? Can you imagine a life outside the beast even? Some can, but it is certainly a major transition and a long road to hoe for most of us. Some are doing it, but the Beast has feelers and fangs at every juncture for their efforts to break away.

Yes, do consider the starvation of this predatory monster eating our lives more and more each day and turning us all into a form of livestock that exist only as fodder for its games and food for its financial dinners, but don't take the task too lightly and leave it as nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky notion without a full consideration of what is required to make this gargantuan abomination grow weak, sicken, and die-out for good.

On the other hand, it seems to me that vast numbers of us joining hands to fight this fight would be effectual and victorious. In fact, you could look at the sacrifices as inevitable, (as the deadbeat rich and their corporate veils restrict our access to the limited resources they want to reserve for themselves) anyway, and by taking the lifestyle change on early, it is merely a way to preempt the outcome and turn the transition towards our favor as The People. One way or another, there is change to come and we can decide how it is going to go if we don't continue to buy-into the illusion and play its game. That's a path to a binary world of Techno-Lords and their eternally indentured Serfs ... after the essential culling of vast numbers for the sake of a Utopia for the wealthy that is to come, that is.

[Javaman]

4. The beast is fed by the corporations. nt

[bleever]

5. .

[bleever]

6. Tonight Lawrence O'Donnell talked about the "starve the beast" GOP meme.

The Reagan "Starve the Beast" legacy.

Everyone should know about this if they want to understand the political dynamic that has dominated our national discussion for the past thirty years.


And I think President Obama did an excellent job of speaking directly to this dynamic today. Well beyond my expectations.

[bleever]

7. And a late night unrec! I for one welcome our new corporate overlords.

Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.