Madison was the victim, not the problem
The writers at Strategic-Culture hit the mark more sharply than writers elsewhere. Most of the time.

Lazare misses the mark with this article.

He tries to explain why Americans have the habit of blaming RUSSIAN_MEDDLING instead of blaming the media and Deepstate for our chaos and division.

Lazare takes it back to Madison's implantation of divide and conquer as the principle of the "Constitution".

It's not that simple and it's simpler than that and it's not the right question.

1. Not that simple: Every functional mechanism, including every living creature, requires negative feedback. Madison and Jefferson were steam-era thinkers who understood negative feedback in terms of engine governors and clock escapements. They tried to create channels for negative feedback in their governmental machine. This was a good idea in general, though their channels were closed in 1803 by Marbury vs Madison. The case itself was trivial, and Madison technically won the case, but the Supremes deleted Madison's Constitution in their decision. The Supremes stole absolute and total legislative power, breaking the main loop and reducing the government to two branches. The written Constitution gave Congress ultimate control over the Supremes, but Congress never tried to reclaim its channel or its branch.

2. Simpler than that: Those same founders understood outside influence PERFECTLY because they were working for France. Every successful revolution has outside funding and support. This is completely separate from productive and necessary internal divisions.

3. Not the right question: Blaming foreigners isn't entirely wrong. We should blame foreigners for some of our problems, and we should blame Deepstate and media for most of our problems. Every country is always trying to influence and weaken its enemies. Weakening is a lot cheaper than war. Our error is BLAMING THE WRONG INFLUENCER. Deepstate has ALWAYS blamed Russia, which is just one of the many foreign influencers. Russia has never been the strongest influencer, and right now it's completely insignificant. Israel and Saudi are the bosses. Our media and government are abjectly enslaved to Israel, and secondarily enslaved to Saudi when Saudi agrees with Israel, which is most of the time.

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Personal sidenote: Putin has a useful and sane comment about internal divisions and negative feedback. I'm strongly influenced by Putin because Putin is sane. I try to be influenced by sane people, and I try to ignore insane people. All of our politicians and leaders are hopelessly insane, so you either have to look abroad or look back through history or look inside yourself to find sanity.

Labels: From rights to duties, malign misattribution

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