Former President Jimmy Carter Recently Acknowledged that the United States Is an Oligarchy — but the Mainstream Media Ignored His Statement — Collaterally Proving His Point

03 August 2015

Our democracy is so deliriously sick, that we are not even aware of our surroundings

To wit, former president, Jimmy Carter recently said something that has been treated essentially like a secret for decades. Yet, almost everyone in the mainstream media ignored his comment’s relevance to republican Liberty’s deathbed situation:

Former President Jimmy Carter had some choice words for our form of government, post-Citizen's United, on my radio program this week.

When I asked him his thoughts on the state of American politics since five right-wing justices on the US Supreme Court opened the doors to "unlimited money" in our political discourse via Citizens United [v. FEC] [—see explanation here —], Carter was blunt and to the point.

“It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy [see here], with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.

"So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over."

"The incumbents, Democrats, and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger, so it benefits both parties.”

“Ma, what’s an oligarchy?”

Wikipedia explains:

Oligarchy . . . is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people.

These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control.

Throughout history, oligarchies have often been tyrannical, relying on public obedience or oppression to exist.

Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy.

Out of curiosity, I did a Google search for “Carter” and his comment about “oligarchy”

The first-up links were all to “lefty” outlets.

Not a peep from the majors.

In other words

We have a former president telling us that our system has been bribed, belabored and beheaded — and the mainstream press does not think that his statement is worth reporting.

Don’t you think that’s odd?

Ordinarily, an influential person or celebrity letting a major “secret” out of the bag would constitute a newsworthy item.

The moral? — It is not just government that is enslaved by the dollar

Our self-muzzled press is also. Which means that all manner of things can go on and we probably will never know.

Given how far these processes of institutional sellout have progressed, might we conclude that we have willingly — even willfully — become Oligarchy’s participating quasi-serfs?

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Former President Jimmy Carter Recently Acknowledged that the United States Is an Oligarchy — but the Mainstream Media Ignored His Statement — Collaterally Proving His Point