Apparently We The People Are The Real Problem

“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

German President Joachim Gauck

In other words, in Germany (as in the USA) democracy is dead. The elites call the shots, and the people's money can be stolen for any purpose the elites see fit.

You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-13/german-president-booed-attacked-after-claiming-people-are-problem-not-elites

For a good discussion of what the elites think of We The People, please read Peggy Noonan's essay. It is the best explanation of who is destroying the US and why that I have yet found:

The larger point is that this is something we are seeing all over, the top detaching itself from the bottom, feeling little loyalty to it or affiliation with it. It is a theme I see working its way throughout the West’s power centers. At its heart it is not only a detachment from, but a lack of interest in, the lives of your countrymen, of those who are not at the table, and who understand that they’ve been abandoned by their leaders' selfishness and mad virtuesignalling.

On Wall Street, where they used to make statesmen, they now barely make citizens. CEOs are consumed with shortterm thinking, stock prices, quarterly profits. They don’t really believe that they have to be involved with “America” now; they see their job as thinking globally and meeting shareholder expectations.

In Silicon Valley the idea of “the national interest” is not much discussed. They adhere to higher, more abstract, more global values. They’re not about America, they’re about … well, I suppose they’d say the future.

In Hollywood the wealthy protect their own children from cultural decay, from the sick images they create for all the screens, but they don’t mind if poor, unparented children from brokenup families get those messages and, in the way of things, act on them down the road.

From what I’ve seen of those in power throughout business and politics now, the people of your country are not your countrymen, they’re aliens whose bizarre emotions you must attempt occasionally to anticipate and manage.

In Manhattan, my little island off the continent, I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often identify with, or see a connection to or an obligation toward, the rough, struggling people who live at the bottom in their countries. In fact, they fear them, and often devise ways, when home, of not having their wealth and worldly success fully noticed.

You can and should read the rest @
https://patriotpost.us/articles/44273

If you still think "globalism" is a good thing, you must be one of the elites. But then you wouldn't be reading this trash, would you?