I was there during the Tea Party. And what you learn is that those donors, it's not even that they will pay for the politicians. It's that the people who want the opposite canes their minds so often that there is no reliable constituency outside of the Patriots class. So if you're in politics and you want to survive, you need the donors because the people who are in your back one day are going to be telling knives that you look at greedist and castiness. I actually see politicians as lower in the totem pole in sort of way I view the world, which is going to sound conspiratorial, but whatever. Until you change the fundamental nature of money until you change
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Carl von Clausewitz described war as politics by other means. In many ways the reverse could be said, with the modern state in the West seemingly arrayed against its own citizens in a constant battle of misdirection and interference in their lives. Tom Kawczynski, author of ‘Surviving the Fall of America’ and former town manager of Jackman, Maine, has actually run for political office in an attempt to address some of these problems. Tonight, he gives us an insider glimpse into how the system actually works, what we can expect going forward, and some potential solutions to what he sees an an almost inevitable decline of a once great society.
