by Joni Dahlstrom, sedonaeye.com contributing writer We’ve all felt it. First, the frustration of clueless candidates who are utterly unaccountable to the actual voters. Second, that sense of excitement as a new issue arises and seems to coalesce around a personality or organization, a new face, a new election, a new opportunity. Finally, the sense of betrayal as life continues on as usual; rising taxes, declining services, rising prices, more regulations, disappearing jobs.

One must conclude that for the most part, American elections are a three step dance to nowhere.

How did we get here and why? Why can’t we break out of the box? If democracy is so great, why does it stink so bad?

Very simply because there is a time-honored plan that you, as an average voter, don’t know about; maybe the plan should be called a model. Whenever real representation threatens the system, the plan is pulled out, dusted-off and implemented. It is a fairly repetitive boring plan as all evil plans are, but it is a sure-fire winner. Let’s look at the Tea Party movement, the most recent example:

First, angry citizens decided they had had just about enough of their crummy masters in DC and assorted State Legislatures. Spontaneously, a movement arose to protest the taxes, maddening regulation, and complete lack of accountability in the electoral process.

I was State Coordinator for Arizona, I can assure you, this was truly a no-budget grass roots effort. I heard the rant from Rick Santelli on television, who said he was going to host a Tea Party and thought, I’m going to do one too, even if I have to stand on a corner with a sign all by myself. So I put a Sedona Tea Party notice out on the web, and then found a website created to allow people all over the state to put their info in one place. A call went out for a state coordinator, I volunteered, and the job was mine. We never had a meeting; I don’t know the actual names of the people I coordinated with, because we did it all through e-mail. None of us in this organization were paid anything, not a dime.

There was a lot of energy there, and a lot of chaos. Nobody knew what would happen; nobody knew that those April 15 demonstrations would grow into the largest march on Washington in history in a few short months. Most of us had no clue what we were doing. As State Coordinator, I can attest, most of the nineteen Tea Parties in our state on that day were organized by people who had no political experience whatsoever. They were just mad and wanted to do something. So I helped out with suggestions like, arrange a location, check about permits, announce the date and time, get a team of friends to help out. As you can see, I take a light hand in management. Other than an admonition to avoid anything smacking of obscenity or violence, and a suggestion that the issue was larger than Obama and to stay focused on what matters, that was the extent of the coordination effort. I never even got around to providing e-mail lists so the parties could coordinate their efforts.

But, immediately following the grass roots organization, well-funded groups arrived upon the scene. A lot of talking heads took up the Tea Party banner and spun it to fit the purposes of the Republican/Democrat establishment. Glenn Beck appeared from nowhere, championing the 9/12 movement, which was linked to the Tea Parties. Somehow, money appeared from somewhere to create a whistle-stop campaign, called the Tea Party Express, which was a platform to recycle Republican hacks and create new ones, like Scott Brown and Sarah Palin. And the Tea Parties, so angry with both parties they would gladly march and demonstrate on their own dime, became nothing more than a RINO tool.

Before the movement had a chance to form its own center, its own values and carry weight, it was co-opted and turned into yet another branch of the unaccountable RNC.

This brings us nicely to the False Choices model. It is well-known that the peeps are angry. There is a movement afoot to vote out every single incumbent in Washington. For the first time in a very long time, all kinds of newbie candidates came out of the woodwork, people who weren’t aligned to and approved by the masters. School teachers with law degrees passing out copies of the Constitution and pledging to vote against the craziness in government put their hats in the ring to run for public office.

It was simply unprecedented. And entirely unacceptable to the Powers That Be.

So they pulled out the plan, tired and worn as it was. Their first step had been to co-opt the nascent Tea Party movement. With big funding, their Tea Parties were bigger and better, with star power that could attract media attention. Thus large marches, on the Mall and in Searchlight were ignored by the national media, while Sarah Palin, a tool of John McCain, stole the spotlight and became the “face” of the Tea Party.

The next step was to tweak the election pool. This is actually surprisingly easy. Simply find people to run against the incumbents who could say the right thing, sort of, but wouldn’t actually rock any boats if elected. Or another tactic which could be used is to find some hapless victim, some naïf, who will say all the right things and has a tiny bit of name recognition, like Chris Simcox of the Minutemen.  He was presented as a Senate Candidate. He had been a kindergarten teacher, he had no money, and he had no election experience. So they pumped him up as the challenger to the old hack McCain.

Of course, he wasn’t up to the task. It sort of felt like, see, those Tea Party folks are kooks.

But the Tea Party wouldn’t go away so a new challenger had to be created, to channel the angst against John McCain. The new face to challenge the old hack, JD Hayworth. Of course, JD had been a Congressman for 20 years; he was a well-known political tool. He entered the race very late. He had nothing much new to say.

But hallelujah, we have choices. Old political hack, tried and true Republican bagman McCain, or the underdog challenger JD Hayworth, who is an old political hack, tried and true Republican bagman.

What a choice, bagman One or bagman Two, don’t worry, both are owned by the same power structure. In the meantime, Jim Deakin, a true Constitutionalist and businessman is ignored.

To make it clear, in a general sense rather than the specific of a particular election, if bagman One is likely to lose due to anti-incumbent sentiment, a new and improved bagman can always be found. The challenger is bought and paid for by the same power block that gave you the champ.

This is done at every level of politics. The teachers make sure that even as the faces change on the school board, the attitude of protecting teacher pay always remains paramount. The City Council must support the City Unions and a few larger business interests. The State Legislature will also support unions and big businesses, particularly those owned by their friends. And so it goes.

There is real money on the line folks. Your $25 contribution isn’t squat in the larger scheme. No matter how much money and time is put in locally, it can and will always be overwhelmed with outside money, particularly if the Powers That Be feel threatened.

The selection process doesn’t happen on Election Day. It happens on Contribution Day, when Goldman Sachs gives Barack Obama a contribution of a couple hundred thousand. Go ahead, scratch your head. You thought contributions were limited to $2500, so how does a company contribute almost $200,000? Keep scratching, since everyone in office got there playing ball in the same system. There is no way to break it from within, the rules are not enforced against the selected, and they only apply to outside challengers.

The pattern of false choices is insidious and carefully thought out by the masters. Sure, a school board or city council candidate might slip by, but their career will end with their first non-conforming vote.

At the national level it is particularly interesting to watch. Both parties have a maverick outlier, McCain and Lieberman. Both men have a created reputation for voting their conscience, primarily because they are so willing to speak out against their parties stated tenets. Both absolutely serve the highest master class that always pushes for more war, taxes, regulation and surveillance. These two are the drivers of the unthinkable, like endless war and internet censorship.

They are vital to the big game, because both parties have platforms that at least nominally represent the people. That isn’t a problem for the brave mavericks, thus the power structure inches forward and freedom dies.

Both parties also have two outside very rich spokesmen; both rich men are fronts for globalists who fund them. They are Buffet and Soros, Republican and Democrat spokesmen, respectively. Although, lately, the lines have somewhat blurred and both were consulted by the Executive Branch of the opposing party. Buffet is actually an adviser to Obama although Buffet’s fan club is solidly Republican. Buffet’s fans might do well to wonder why their hero supports a man who promotes such egregious economic policies. But they won’t, because the media won’t put that question into the matrix of controlled thought.

Both parties endlessly recycle iconic figures, who mouth the platitudes we love to hear. Thus the wise-old man is succeeded by handsome youth, and lately that is followed by a minority candidate, so that the first “blah blah” ever can be announced. All packaged, audience tested and created.

So the Democrats create minority candidate Obama and the Republicans simultaneously wheel out minority candidate Palin. Both utterly lacking experience, both with obscure pasts, both young and good looking, iconic of a certain type of healthy youthful middle-aged American. Both fake, both owned, both mirror images of the other.

Really, not to bum you out, voting is a terrific waste of time. Candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties are thoroughly vetted prior to being allowed to run, or at least prior to being allowed to collect big bucks to run. But they aren’t vetted for strong principles or honesty or industry or brains. They aren’t vetted for any of the things you would desire in a candidate from right, left or in-between.

They are vetted for skeletons in the closet, seen as a good thing by the masters, because it keeps them in control on crucial votes. They are vetted for not too bright, so they will never realize all the corruption they are swimming in and suddenly discover honesty and fairness. They are vetted for venality, the willingness to sell votes to the highest bidder, the willingness to destroy their home town in the name of progress, the willingness to give up their first born for the party powerful.

A nice checklist might be the following:

Can you lie convincingly?

Are you open to bribery/financing?

Are you vain, really vain?

Do you think you are more important than others?

Do you like perks?

Do you have a problem with dropping bombs on people far away?

Do you think there are too many plebeians?

Do you think the lower classes eat too much and are stupid and lazy?

Do you like a little teeny bit of power?

And that my friend is what candidates are made of.

The False Choice plan guarantees it: Three Model Choices to Fool the Public

Step One: co-opt any alternative movement in its infancy.

Step Two; present pre-selected candidates, who don’t differ from the old candidates.

Step Three; once in office, control those elected with threats and bribes.

Isn’t democracy grand?  It’s a system to rule the world through puppets, and it seems to work surprisingly well.

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