Lawrence Selin: A Stealth Coup d'Etat in the United States!

On November 19, 1863 during the Consecration of the National Cemetery following the July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln pondered whether the new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could long endure. Contrary to Lincoln's hope, the government of the people, by the people and for the people is now perishing from the earth. Military historian Edward Luttwak described a coup d'etat as an infiltration of a small, but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder. The US government has been infiltrated by ambitious and greedy men and women, whose allegiance is not to their country, but to themselves and their political party. The aims and conduct of the Democrat and Republican establishments have become antithetical to the principles upon which the nation was founded. Their aims are driven by political expediency and winning elections for the sole purpose of attaining and maintaining personal power and profit. Their conduct is based on remaining unconstrained by the Constitution and the rule of law, and unaccountable to the American people. Elections are in no way about representative government, but instead are contests to determine who will possess the power to allocate favors and redistribute wealth from ordinary Americans to a small group of political supporters. Corrupt politicians, the front men and operational arm of networked financiers, siphon off the wealth created by hard-working Americans, while preserving the illusion of democracy for the now disenfranchised voters. Faux journalists, who falsely proclaim themselves as tireless defenders of liberty, then distort the news in an effort to manipulate public opinion to further the goals of selected politicians and their wealthy benefactors.