By Paul Edwards
"Because that’s what Imperial government is all about: the remorseless extraction of wealth, substance, and self-respect from a whole people mesmerized by relentless, mind-blitzing bullshit..."
The "Red Brand of BS" in action. The Trumpian variant.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Blue Wave crested the reef but the Red Tide still pollutes the foetid lagoon behind it. Democrats got the House back while Republicans outdid themselves, electing and retaining some of the most astoundingly repulsive Crackers ever to walk on two legs out of Yoknapatawpha County, with the wizened hillbilly, Ma Kettle of Alabama, being perhaps most egregious.
That said, all over the nation the vacuous, credulous naifs who exerted themselves in the putative cause of truth and virtue are now waiting with bated intellects for the Certain Overthrow of Trumpian Diabolism and the dawning era of Grand Regeneration of the democracy they never had.
It is profoundly grim that the great mass of Americans is leash-trained to embrace creeds as hollow, cruel, and false as those of the parties. It’s the Charlie Brown Syndrome raised to the nth power in scope and cynicism. This Bait and Switch is run on both camps--the hostile, alienated, stupidly phobic, untermenschen Trumpetariat, and the credulous, myopic, witlessly hopeful, myth-addled, exceptionalist Democratic cadre--so effectively that both death grip their manky dogmas as they are herded into the abattoir, butchered, and fed to our ravenous Minotaur, the Capitalist War Machine.
Nothing will change this because nothing can; nothing planned, that is, nothing organized. Shades of Viet Nam: it’s become necessary to destroy the country in order to save it. The Empire is too rotten to salvage. As Tom Paine observed, it’s useless giving medicine to the dead. Our national demise will not be sudden, though. Dying, like most processes, takes time. Meanwhile, the same greased pig chases and tent-show monkey fucks will continue to distract us from our collective death rattle.
The Blue Brand of BS: Pelosi and fellow hypocrites. Constant deception and lesser evilism keep the masses in the Dems corral.
The country will obsess on two chimeras: Grand Comeuppance for Trump via Mueller Magic, and the WWE Congressional Clown Brawl. The Sturm und Drang will titillate herkijerk attention spans for much of the next two years until both dogpoop piñatas pop, and Americans find themselves flat on their asses, having, yet again, had the promised football yanked away.
Because that’s what Imperial government is all about: the remorseless extraction of wealth, substance, and self-respect from a whole people mesmerized by relentless, mind-blitzing bullshit. The truly infernal capacity of the owners and operators of Big Bro’s Bullhorn, the MSM--from those sanctified pornographers, the NYT and WaPo, (pornographein in ancient Greek means “whore writing”) to Facebog and the rest of complicit “social media”, to the Vast Human Waste Dump of tv of all sorts--to render a whole nation drooling dim and braindead, is the surpassing wonder of our era.
Item: A united phalanx of red and blue yokels, parochials, and throwbacks ok’d a $700 billion military budget just as the Pentagon admitted it had mislaid $21 trillion it couldn’t account for. A bookkeeping error, no doubt.
Item: The Crone and Geezer Dem Honchos, along with certifiable Snopes-in-a-Suit Lindsay Graham pitched a fit over Jamal Khashoggi’s killing but remained untroubled by the psychotic murder of hundreds of thousands of kids in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, and Palestine they’ve blithely done to death.
Item: Neither party permits consideration of an honest Medicare For All proposal but both enthusiastically gave their owners, the Royals of Corporate Capitalism, the greatest stealth tax break payola in our history.
Item: Neither party considers action on the irrefutable existential threat of human-caused global warming, though its scientific and military elites say that, absent total commitment to check it, human life on earth may cease.
These horrors... these bald-faced, inexcusable crimes against the American people are implemented in the name of the people, with the consent of the people, as marshaled and manipulated by that most evil, twisted gang of liars and villains: the poisonous propaganda system, our MSM “free press”.
It functions as a hermetically sealed entity, as our sick political parties do, so that anyone who dares tell truth about anything is exiled to the far reaches of the internet universe where only star trekkers can find them.
The latest sick joke is the MSM valiantly defending “press freedom” while the whole shameless pack colludes to betray the one man who had the balls and ethical courage to reveal the truth of The Empire: Assange.
Paul Edwards is a genuine Renaissance man, gifted with many talents and participant in many events and struggles of our tormented times. Our colleague Jeff Brown, who did a fine interview with him, sums it up thusly: "Paul’s life story is worthy of a biography: a rebel youth growing up, traveling and working around the world and then a long career as a Hollywood writer. Through it all, he has never lost his lifelong wrath against US imperialism and global capitalism, while seeking social and economic justice for humanity’s 99%..."
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Revolutionary wisdom
Words from an Irish patriot—
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–Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian Archbishop and liberation theologian
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As Zeusse’s article points out, war against Russia with nukes is actively contemplated. And both Russia and China are both fully capable of understanding and preparing for it. Maybe why the US holds the biggest 5G company’s daughter hostage. Rather than going out slowly, the Nibelunglied scenario is all too possible, the German epic tale of mass war of all against all, where all die in the end in one glorious bloodbath. The rulers apparently are living in an unconscious Universal Death Wish…perhaps they see themselves as the Goddess Kali, ready to destroy the world and themselves. And the Christian… Read more »
Indeed. And —we must always remember this— when evaluating the threats to this world presented by this deranged global ruling class spawned by feudo/capitalism…all roads lead to the abject mass media as the chief obstacle to salvation. That’s why I often say we are in a critical, terminal and total battle of communications with the engines of sheer evil. Every ounce of energy we can spare must be dedicated to demolishing this infamous corporate media power that holds the world hostage.
Some very interesting parallels there. Caesar’s efforts on behalf of the lower orders must, however, be qualified – his concern (if such it was) was confined to his fellow Romans while Gauls were there to be slaughtered and their land confiscated, all for the glory of Caesar and Rome. Which also has echoes in the US empire, as with all empires.