Brecht was and remains spot on, but now there is another dictinct species of imbecile: those who think they understand the world quite well, and who are passionate about politics in the name of decency, democracy, human rights, anti-racism, etc., while arrogantly and actively supporting the forces—like the CIA—that make achieving any of that impossible. They are called liberals. Obama, Clinton and Bernie Sanders are their heroes.
Below: Same thought for our Spanish world comrades.
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The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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Spot on! It is stunning to talk to intelligent, educated people who consider themselves “progressive” and “liberal” and find they know almost nothing about U.S. history or about the current global realities other than the absolute nonsense peddled by MSM. Frightening.
Absolutely. The brainwash—much of it facilitated by their upper middle class temperament and almost blind trust in their opinion leaders—is pretty much total.
I would not put Bernie Sanders in the same category as the others. He, at least, hasn’t been bought by established forces for the most part.