I believe that you need some fairly radical restructuring of this, and rethinking of this.
The permanent political class that controls our country is going to stay exactly like it is, until you have true disruption.
It’s a tough story to tell…The West Point girls’ volleyball team was going to get new uniforms, and they bring the uniforms in boxes off to the side, and the girls are practicin’ in this huge old dirigible hangar, where the volleyball team plays — from the 1920s. Looking at this, looking at the West Point girls, and I look over at the boxes. I just kind of go over and look at the new uniforms. They’re sealed. ‘Made in Vietnam.’ ‘Made in Vietnam.’ I lost it. ‘Made in Vietnam.’ Fifty thousand dead, you know, a hundred thousand wounded, families torn apart, the whole of Southeast Asia, what, 10, 20, 30 million people murdered? Right? What was it all for? What was Monaghan’s kid, what was that for? ‘Made in Vietnam.’
With all the jobs lost to globalization. It was an incredibly clarifying moment for me.
It wasn’t the common man that got us into WW I, and in WW II, and in Vietnam, and all the other wars that have been fought. It’s Monaghan’s son that’s always the recipient of all that crap. When you say, these ‘nation states,’ it’s the elites that got us into that mess, and then they came up with some sort of supranational apparatus that’s gonna take care of it. I disagree 100%. They are the ones that drove the destruction of the 20th century.
Morris: What good does it do to allow corporations to pollute the environment? Is this populism? Or is this something much uglier?
Bannon: Uglier being what?
Morris: Serving big business and the rich. It’s anti-populism. That’s what bothers me. That’s what makes me think you’re crazy.
Bannon: And why?
Morris: Why? Because I think there’s an inherent contradiction in the views that you hold.
If [Hillary Clinton’s] going to preach identity politics, and we preach populism and jobs and bringing manufacturing jobs back, we got it. For all their brilliance and all their money and all their professionalism, they don’t have an understanding of what this election’s about, and that’s when I knew we had her.
The 16 candidates the Republicans had, all of them combined, could not have beaten Hillary Clinton. It took a blunt force instrument. He understands that the modern world, particularly the modern political world, has become media. The medium is the message and he understands that. That’s why he can speak in a very plainspoken vernacular, not in political speak. He’s an armor-piercing shell. From the first day he came on the campaign in June of 2015 until today, the news cycle’s Trump.
[Trump] actually said, ‘I thought it’d be different. I thought the NY Times would be wishing me well and everything like that.’ And I said, ‘You do understand they hate you. They literally detest you. Everything you ran on, everything you stand for…everything you won on. And the people that support you they detest. This is gonna be trench warfare every day.’ And by the way, I’m the enabler and I take great pride in it, that just, ‘Here’s what we ran on, here’s what we said we’re gonna do. Let’s just do it. You’re not a politician. You’re a leader. Don’t act like a politician. Just do it. Build the wall. Eradicate ISIS, right? Get manufacturing jobs back here. Confront China. Get us out of Afghanistan. Get us out of Iraq. Just do what you said you’re gonna do.
What Have I Done? (Col. Nicholson from The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Paths of Glory is based upon the beginnings of the mutiny, when the French soldiers said, ‘We’re not going to do this anymore.’ They couldn’t take being treated like animals. That’s the Deplorables right there. The officers and the politicians are all in these chateaus. They’re having balls — It’s the Deplorables that are in the trenches. I’d like to have those guys in the trenches make decisions. But that’s the problem, it’s the elites making the decisions. Think of all the bad decisions that have been made on globalism by this kind of scientific engineering-managerial-financial elite. Look at where the country is. Look at where working class people are. Look where the middle class is, particularly from the financial crisis. People have been getting fucked. We have a consolidation of power. We have a consolidation of wealth. You have to tell the establishment, ‘Go fuck yourself.’ You just have to. What the little guy wants is to fuck you to the establishment. I’m on a mission to try to remake the Republican Party into more of a workers’ party.
You may be better fed, better clothed, in better shape than 18th century Russian serfs, but you’re nothing but serfs. You’re not gonna own anything. They’ve got you in this consumer environment where you’re always paying off your credit cards. They’ve destroyed thrifts, so you can’t save anything. Saving doesn’t make any difference. And then digitally they’ve taken all your rights, they’ve taken all your personhood, and they’ve written these algorithms that treat you like — like a hamster.
You’re totally controlled, absolutely totally controlled. You can’t fulfill your destiny. You can’t fulfill your dharma. You can’t do it. You’re nothing but a serf. You voted for that (i.e.Hillary)…There’s going to be a revolution in this country. It’s coming. We can’t kick the can down the road like this. We can’t. We’re gonna have another financial crisis, that everybody that’s smart sees is coming.
A complete rejection of the system. It is coming.
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