Over the long weekend
before the Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was
black with corporate jets.
Apple’s Tim Cook,
Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Napster’s Sean Parker, Tesla Motors’ Elon
Musk, and other members of the super-rich were jetting into the exclusive
Georgia resort, ostensibly to participate in the annual World Forum of the
American Enterprise Institute.
Among the advertised
topics of discussion: “Millennials: How Much Do They Matter and What Do They
Want?”
That was the
cover story.
As revealed
by the Huffington Post, Sea Island last weekend was host to a secret conclave
at the Cloisters where oligarchs colluded with Beltway elites to reverse the
democratic decisions of millions of voters and abort the candidacy of Donald
Trump.
(Full text at link below)
What we see at Sea Island
is that, despite all their babble about bringing the blessings of “democracy”
to the world’s benighted, AEI, Neocon Central, believes less in democracy than
in perpetual control of the American nation by the ruling Beltway elites.
If an
outsider like Trump imperils that control, democracy be damned. The elites will
come together to bring him down, because, behind party ties, they are soul
brothers in the pursuit of power.
Something else was
revealed by the Huffington Post — a deeply
embedded corruption that permeates this capital city.
The American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a 501(c)(3) under IRS rules,
an organization exempt from U.S. taxation.
Million-dollar
corporate contributions to AEI are tax-deductible……
How many are
like AEI, scheming to predetermine the outcome of presidential elections while
enjoying tax exemptions and posturing as benign assemblages of disinterested
scholars and seekers of truth?
How many of
these tax-exempt think tanks are fronts and propaganda organs of transnational
corporations that are sustained with tax-deductible dollars, until their
“resident scholars” can move into government offices and do the work for which
they have been paid handsomely in advance?
How many of
these think tanks take foreign money to advance the interests of foreign
regimes in America’s capital?
We talk about the “deep
state” in Turkey and Egypt, the unseen regimes that exist beneath the public
regime and rule the nation no matter the president or prime minister.
What about
the “deep state” that rules us, of which we caught a glimpse at Sea Island?
A diligent
legislature of a democratic republic would have long since dragged America’s
deep state out into the sunlight.
