I should no longer be astonished, but the ignorance of the American people at large (indeed all publics including the UK and Nordic and European publics) combined with the craven complicity of the fake news media led by the Crap News Network (CNN) has resulted in there being a very large number of people — perhaps including Steve Bannon — who are delusional about the reality of US politics. The USA is not a functional democracy. When James Baker says this on national television (on the Crap News Network, of course, with the sock-puppet interviewer not challenging him), James Baker is lying. He is hypocritical. He knows that 40 odd billionaires control the two-party tyranny. He knows that while some of the billionaires play the left of center game and others play the right of center game, they are all fascists — they are all about the 1% controlling the economy, the government, and society for their benefit and that none of them — not even Tom Steyer who once had the best of intentions — actually give a shit about the public interest. Not one of them — including Michael Bloomberg — is capable of intelligently discussing why electoral reform is root and why holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering (OSEE) must become the foundation for creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for the 99% not just the 1%. I have not given up on the oligarchs — if Donald Trump gets a strategy and a staff to match his brains and balls, I expect some of these oligarchs to become constructive allies. I single out Lynn Rothchild, whose concept of Inclusive Capitalism has merit but will never come to fruition as long as she is surrounded by pedophiles and sychophants.
