Nancy Pelosi and the Decline of American Democracy
“History will note she is the most consequential Speaker of the House of Representatives in our history,” Biden said in a statement. “There are countless examples of how she embodies the obligation of elected officials to uphold their oath to God and country to ensure our democracy delivers and remains a beacon to the world.”
- Pelosi stepping down as top House Democrat after 2 decades in leadership
By Gregg Wall (11-26-2022)
Enjoy the above quote, girls and boys, because that’s the only positive thing you’ll read in this piece about the former House Speaker. Do consider the source, pay-to-play Biden. If like me, you are celebrating the former Speaker’s long overdue retirement, then please read on.
The month of November will go down in the history books for the unprecedented magnitude of gaslighting & lies issuing forth from the MSM. First, we were told repeatedly that the Dems won the election, despite losing the House and squeaking by in the Senate. In essence, assuring that centrists, a failed status quo, endless gridlock, and wealthy American oligarchs were this year's true election winners. Certainly, no win for Dem voters, who will now have to contend with the fact that the president and crew wasted his first two years and achieved virtually none of the Dems’ 2020 campaign promises. The second whopper the MSM told… perhaps comparable to an ominous Russian gas leak discovered last summer, in terms of a limitless toxic cloud of methane & gas… was how great Queen Nancy was over the last two decades.
It’s galling to read undeserved & worshipping hagiography, especially volumes of it written for someone so entirely corrupt. So, let’s get on with it and go over the facts, on Queen Nancy’s reign of terror. I really couldn’t decide what was the most monumental of her achievements: endless war & the cowardice of hiding behind the 2001 AUMF, two Wall St bailouts (the first bailout, given QE and interest rate suppression, never really ended), the explosion of national debt, or the passage of Obamacare (for-profit medical care, which is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S.)? All four combined really do Pelosi justice. In January 2007, when Pelosi initially began as House Speaker, the national debt was roughly $9 trillion… today, as Pelosi exits stage right, the national debt, so we are told, is $31 trillion. That’s quite an achievement. To think, all that money went to funding endless bloodshed, bailing out billionaire welfare queens and Wall St., funding obscene amounts of corporate welfare, and endless privatization schemes (which is little more than the transfer of public wealth to serial private sector predators). And let us not forget, tax cuts for the rich.
Which leads us to the fact that - despite forever identifying herself as a liberal and a progressive - Pelosi loved her GOP. And the former Speaker was known for pushing through omnibus spending measures, that basically consisted of the GOP's greatest hits. Omnibus spending measures that always & conveniently instilled & perpetuated globalization, neoliberalism, libertarian industrial policy, neocon foreign policy, failed supply-side economics, and trickle-down tax policies. I do not recall the insider trading diva ever challenging any of this, when it came time to push the mega-spending bills through the House… do you? The reality is Nancy, initially, had nothing but contempt for the Green New Deal and saving the planet. Her memory will be forever soaked in blood for funding wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and goddess only knows where else… and the American people are expected to pay for this fraud. Lost in the rubble of her majesty’s Speakership, there are the broken campaign promises… of both Presidents Obama and Biden… that, like magic, never managed to make it through the congress, as the American people suffered endless austerity.
Oh yes, the American people, who saw jobs offshored, the economy offshored, wages stagnate, and the middle class destroyed under Nancy’s watch and the Democratic party’s blind subservience to free trade and globalization. We saw child poverty soar, the middle class destroyed, the abomination of a monopoly economy, and the formation of evil oligarchy, which systematically preys upon Americans. The Federal Reserve’s printing presses roared. I never heard The Speaker of the House question a word of it, as the US credit line was transferred to the least deserving of Americans: billionaires, the day traders in congress, the MIC, Silicon Valley, and Wall St. (Admittedly, Pelosi doesn’t own all this. But she played a significant role and her power, as House Speaker & Opposition leader, cannot be underestimated.)
Repeat. The Speaker never questioned a word of it… except to chide the press that endemic corruption and day trading in the U.S. congress was about participating in the ‘free market’. Part of the horror show was sheer arrogance … as in, this is the way it is, and this is the way it will always be. Is there any doubt that the new generation of leaders will be equally corrupt? Undoubtedly, much of the hubris stemmed from the knowledge that Americans really have only two right-wing choices every other November. Both parties are wholly own subsidiaries of oligarchy. Conveniently enough, the compromised leader never got around to addressing money in politics.
As the first woman speaker, and aside from the aforementioned, Nancy Pelosi will forever be associated with the broken promise of identity politics… the idea that representation matters. But what good is representation if all it does is stonewall against progressive reform, destroy the planet, and act as a guardian for: plutocracy; systemic misogyny & racism; the world largest penal - and slave labor - colony; the ugliest libertarian economic model the world has ever seen; endless bloodshed & war; and limitless taxpayer funded welfare for wealthy donors and utilities? While the American people suffer and the world suffers endlessly, needlessly in the name of greed.
Satan in a suffrage white pants suit? You better god damned better believe it.
The former Speaker will forever be associated with power's coercive insistence upon civility. Civility in the service of billionaire, corporate, and monopolistic oppression, and mind-numbing corruption.
Someday, Americans may, perhaps, actually get the leadership they deserve -- women, blacks, gays, first nations, & immigrants from all faiths & backgrounds -- that aren’t bought off and corporately controlled.
That is to say, leadership that will be nothing like Representative Pelosi.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2022
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