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Ch 20, “Only the Game Remains:

“Religion of Capitalism—The Game Is the One Truth Faith; The Game Is to Lie & Manipulate w/out Consequence”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Adzema

(pub 10/22)

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CW22Q 20/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as wells as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 20/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…the Republicans were at one point cornered by justifiable attacks about being backed by special interests, so they concocted this idea that the Democrats were too.” []

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CW22Q 20/3

[] “An added benefit for Republicans & the Filthy Rich in ‘democratizing’ the guilt this way is that folks thinking all politicians are the same, that they’re all taking money, means they would be unlikely to vote.” []

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CW22Q 20/4

[] “And keeping the masses, who are helped by Democrats, away from the polls can only help Republicans engaged in swindling them.” []

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CW22Q 20/5

[]“…when the term was coined, the *special* interests were thought of as the interests of the very small numbers of wealthy people & their financial arms,..”[]

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CW22Q 20/6

[] “…big businesses, who sought favors from government that were at odds with the welfare of the masses of less moneyed Americans.” []

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CW22Q 20/7

[] “…the common good would be reduced for the temporary financial benefit of a relatively small group of individuals, in this case, coal barons.” []

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CW22Q 20/8

[] “Keep in mind also it would only be the rich capitalist owners in these industries who would see the benefits. That is the real meaning of *special*.” []

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CW22Q 20/9

[] “The threat of workers losing their jobs is always, always, the gauntlet thrown down to jimmy profits into the hands of a few.” []

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CW22Q 20/10

[] “And saving workers’ jobs is always, always thrown out to the public as the justification for granting these singular boons.” []

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CW22Q 20/11

[] “What is recklessly ignored is that when this regulation easing, as in our example, goes into effect, it will actually kill some people; it will diminish people’s lives….” []

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CW22Q 20/12

[] “…that’s the magical meaningless mantram—‘American workers will suffer’—which is another one of those lies again added to create fog, to create confusion,..” []

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CW22Q 20/13

[] “…in this case a smog of misinformation, stifling the reasoned understanding of what is actually at stake.” []

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CW22Q 20/14

[] “The Filthy Rich, in the guise of investors, pulled off one of the biggest extortions in American history & got away scot free.” []

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CW22Q 20/15

[] “…with George W. Bush at the helm, these bankers were rewarded for the harm done the rest of America & the world.” []

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CW22Q 20/16

[] “…small groups with higher rates of crime, when there is smaller mounds of money to protect them, are labeled as ‘criminal gangs,’ ‘hoodlums,’ ‘organized crime,’ ‘gang-bangers’ & the like.”[]

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CW22Q 20/17

[] “Not so, when the perpetrators dress in such fine suits & stink with money.”[]

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CW22Q 20/18

[] “…the immeasurably larger crime of the super wealthy is let go...and this in spite of the fact mentioned that the future threat is larger & considerably more likely if the current wrong is not addressed.” []

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CW22Q 20/19

[] “One way or another the idea is to obscure the reality that help to the banks will help primarily this small group, in this case, of bankers, & to make it that their problem is seen as our problem, the public’s problem.” []

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CW22Q 20/20

[] “This increases the pressure on politicians to grant the favor. For it is spun that it is not the wealthy investors whose welfare is at stake but the public at large” []

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CW22Q 20/21

[] “…in retrospect that money would have been much more wisely spent going somehow directly into the people’s hands who needed it, not by funneling it through the hands of gluttonous banking institutions.” []

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CW22Q 20/22

[] “…society *did* pay dearly, did suffer, even though the banks *were* paid their extortion money, handsomely too. & since so much of that loot went to the folks who didn’t need it, overall the economy ended up worse off.” []

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CW22Q 20/23

[] “…in borrowing from the future to help rich people today it guaranteed the problem would get a permanent installation in America’s economy.” []

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CW22Q 20/24

[] “…the game is to claim that the pain of those with wealth is really the American people’s pain, so as to make it seem a large number of people would be helped when they get the bailout,.." []

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CW22Q 20/25

[] “…[to make it seem a large number of people would be helped when they get the bailout,] when they succeed at their larceny against the American people.” []

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CW22Q 20/26

[]“…the Filthy Rich would always package any benefit to them as being not for them, really,at all but for a great number of people.”[]

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CW22Q 20/27

[] “…& if [the Filthy Rich] could pull that off, if they could make that magical equivalency, then it was like they had a home run.” []

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CW22Q 20/28

[] “That’s a lot of what the difference is. It is that some people [Republicans, MAGAts, the Filthy Rich, Trump] will wager with any amount of harm to others; they will say anything, will make up anything.” []

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CW22Q 20/29

[] “They [Republicans, MAGAts, the Filthy Rich, Trump] don’t have to have any facts; they don’t have to know if that’s the way it works.” []

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CW22Q 20/30

[]“…their game—that of the Filthy Rich—involves winning at any cost to others, being willing to assert anything, with no thought that truth *should even come into a bargaining situation*.”[]

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CW22Q 20/31

[] “It’s like, we can make a good argument; we can convince people; we can persuade people; we can fool enough people into thinking it’s true...and that’s all that matters.” []

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CW22Q 20/32

[]“…they don’t bother even to come with any evidence to be laid out on the table; it becomes the most elegant spectacle in sophistry imaginable.”[]

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CW22Q 20/33

[] “The Filthy Rich are seeing these matters, which are of dire importance to most of society, about the way we do when playing a game of Monopoly, in which we compete without consequences & try to win without remorse.” []

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CW22Q 20/34

[]“The consequences of their cavalier play are being felt somewhere. Yet the Filthy Rich cover up their unconcern through the pretense of acting on interests not of their own, but of that reliable home base of the society at large.”[]

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CW22Q 20/35

[] “No longer were phrases like ‘society-at-large,’ the common good, government of & by the people, the welfare of the majority, government ‘caring’ for people, anyone’s suffering being eased, & such even brought in.” []

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CW22Q 20/36

[] “Words like *suffering, compassion, ease, good, benefit, the people*, were not uttered anymore. In fact they were felt to be counterproductive.” []

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CW22Q 20/37

[] “[Words like *suffering, compassion, ease, good, benefit, the people*,] were considered deal breakers if let into the conversation on matters that were deemed, well...‘real.’” []

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CW22Q 20/38

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 20 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22Q 20/39

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CW22Q 20/40

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CW22Q 20/41

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CW22Q 20/42

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CW22Q 20/43

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CW22Q 20/44

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