Real Elites
The Real Elite in corporate society is the wealth elite. These are the people who can buy anything, including favourable legislation, regulation and politicians. However, it would be dangerous for them if ordinary people realised this, therefore they pretend the real elite are those people, especially intellectuals, who disagree with their use of power. They can easily buy this idea, as they control most of the media.
In this view, the intellectuals who justify free markets and rule by wealth don’t count as elite at all, just those who challenge them. Billionaire business families, like the Trumps, do not officially count as elites. The only billionaires who count as elite, are those who try and argue that capitalism is not everything, and who might try to help people, or who occasionally promote liberty for all, rather than liberty of wealth.
As this implies, we don’t have to assume the real elite is completely unified. If they are human they won’t be. They will have different approaches to the same interests. There is an obvious political split, some of the rulers may not like Trump, others realise there is a market for non-proTrump stories, but always he gets off, or they end up excusing him, or moving to the next story, leaving people without a coherent understanding of what is going on, or we get told both sides are absolutely the same and politics is completely corrupt. Often it seems that the media rushes into praise Trump whenever he does something relatively minor, like make a speech that does not attack half the country, or appears to take the pandemic seriously. He is acting like a real president, we get told, no matter what he has done in the past.
Trump gets a tolerance Obama never gained, and never would gain if Obama had displayed Trump’s outbursts and ‘unpresidential’ behaviour, and driven splits in the US, that attempted to make the left angry with the right, and ready to take up arms against them.
Some of the ruling elites who went with Trump, could now be appalled at the choice they made. This would explain why he got such positive coverage during the election and does not get such a uniform praise coverage any more. The President’s tweet aggression, itself, could explain whatever hostility he encounters, and there is plenty of evidence that he stiffed business competitors who will probably not forget, even if he does unashamedly support their agendas of more wealth for the wealthy and more eco-destruction.
With Trump, the only thing the wealth elites might object to is the tariffs but that is temporary. If he wasn’t helping them they would be doing their best to get rid of him, but he seems to be useful, so they leave things alone, or largely support him.
Media
We get told the “left wing”, “elite”, or “liberal” media persecutes Trump, by that very same mainstream media. But there is almost no left wing media. All the media is corporately owned, or owned by billionaire families, and they default to being Right or centre Right, and they usually support the neoliberal order of corporate domination. There is no way that Fox cannot be seen as mainstream, ‘elite’, and owned and controlled by a billionaire family. Same with Breitbart, owned and controlled by billionaires. And the media has not been that opposed to Trump.
For example, despite all the fuss about the Epstein case, almost no one is talking about the fact that Trump is the only politician for whom charges of raping underage girls, has been brought. Unlike many such cases, you do not have to go to loopy youtube channels to hear the allegations. You could have found them reported in the back pages of the mainstream media during the last election, just nobody made a fuss. Only minimal reporting and No Headlines. If a Democrat had been accused of such rape, it is extremely improbable there would be such downplaying or silence.
We can see this as most people do not seem to know about Trump’s alleged crime, and that is significant. Prince Andrew and various other people are in the headlines over similar allegations. Even Bill Clinton has had more written about his flying with Epstein than Trump has about his alleged rape, and Clinton is not president – and of course there was the whole fictional pizzagate thing which got massive coverage, and was widely treated as true, or plausible, and believed to be true. Various churches have been attacked in the media for child rape and protecting rapists. Churches and accused priestly rapists have been defended in some of the media, particularly that media which supports Trump. While the churches are not part of the Epstein case, the open discussion shows there is not a general protection of child rapists going on any more – just Trump.
One extraordinarily significant thing about the Trump case is that it was not one person’s word against another. There was another witness who was essentially self-convicting. And of course Epstein died in mysterious circumstances, so he is never going to threaten Trump and his circle, which he almost certainly would have done, if he had remained alive. This does not mean that Trump had him killed. Trump has plenty of allies who might do this for him, or perhaps Epstein was convinced it was the best way out.
The quietness of the media on this issue shows that the anti-Trump face that some of it presents, is likely a complete deception – a false flag if you like. Even if the story was fake, it wouldn’t normally inhibit them from remarking on it.
What makes it more interesting is that you will hear from Trumpites how Trump is at any moment going to expose child sex rings in Hollywood, and that there are going to be prosecutions of their enemies for child sex at any time, or even that these enemies are being tried secretly now. There is no evidence of this of course, but then you would not expect it, just as there are few reports the Queen is a baby eating lizard in the “lame stream” media. So Trump is protected and his possible crimes projected onto others. The point again, is to create the idea that Trump is being inhibited in his Godly actions by evil left wingers who deserve to be punished.
Likewise, during the last presidential election, the New York Times spent more space on the imagined crimes of Clinton than on the real crimes of Trump. No one really bothered to pursue Trump’s denial of an ecological crisis – perhaps because the corporate sector welcomed lessening of restrictions on ecological damage and on their ability to poison people. The fossil fuel sector undoubtedly welcomed Trump’s promises to support them and increase their activities and profits. The media gave him endless publicity, did not discuss his crimes, his business practice, or whatever – again the media is on the Republican side by default.
His business practice, is rarely discussed outside the business press as it might give him (and business) a bad look – and we cannot have that.
People talk about growing dissent at Fox, but to me dissent at Fox seems trivial. It is as if, to the right, if you are not 100% in their favour then you are traitors. Trump clearly expects the media to follow him mindlessly. Despite the Loyalty of the Murdoch Empire, he gets vicious when receiving the mildest criticism by anyone on Fox. Again a strategy which leads to portraying the opposition as villainous, and therefore easy to kill.
That the media constantly says the mainstream media always attacks Trump, gives people the sense he is a radical and against the ruling elites, and this act hides his adherence to corporate domination from them. If we were really careful we might wonder if this was deliberate?
However, one of the great things about Trump is that we don’t have to go to the media to know about him. We just have to read his speeches (usually present on the Whitehouse website, or together with videos of the speech online) and his tweets. It is pretty constant, the man is full of self praise, blaming others, whipping up polarisation, spreading false information, and attempting to distract people from major problems. It is clear he cannot take even the mildest criticism or contrary advice.
He is a potential dictator, and there is no guarantee he will not sponsor civil war.
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