CJ HOPKINS—These are just a few examples of how the global capitalist ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media have been generating an atmosphere of mindless hysteria and paranoia in the service of drawing “a line in the sand” between neoliberalism (i.e., global capitalism) and any and all forms of dissent therefrom.
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CJ HOPKINS—”You might naturally assume that these Good Americans would give us the benefit of the doubt this time, i.e., those of us who are challenging the narrative the corporate media has been ramming down our throats since Hillary Clinton lost the election. But, no … nothing of the sort. No, this time, we’re not “terrorist sympathizers.” We’re “Putin sympathizers,” “Russian operatives,” or at the very least we’re “useful idiots” who are helping Russia destroy democracy by “sowing discord,” “disunity,” “division,” and other forms of dissent throughout the West…”
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CJ HOPKINS—At that point, the media had been hammering hard on the Trump-is-Hitler narrative for months, so they had to stick with that for a while. It had only been a few weeks, after all, since The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and numerous other establishment publications, had explained how Trump was using special fascist code words like “global elites,” “international banks,” and “lobbyists” to signal his virulent hatred of the Jews to the millions of Americans who, according to the media, were secretly Hitler-loving fascists.
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CJ HOPKINS—These are just the latest salvos in the corporate establishment’s War on Dissent, an expanded version of the War on Terror, which they’ve been relentlessly waging for over a year now. As you may have noticed, the ruling classes have been using virtually every propaganda organ at their disposal to whip up mass hysteria over a host of extremely dubious threats to “the future of democracy” and “democratic values,” Russia being foremost among them.
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KIM PETERSEN—An essay asked this question: “Are there ‘good’ cops? Of course there are, but the system is against them, and even they are inculcated in the culture of their work, taught the ‘facts of life’ and discouraged from ‘rocking the boat’.”
Imagine that you are a police officer, and you do your job enforcing the law without favor or prejudice. You have no racist bone in your body, and you sympathize with the plight of the poor. However, many of your colleagues are not serving the public good. In fact, they are breaking the law and are criminals themselves. You are aware that your colleagues are committing grave crimes, even murder. You oppose their racism and illegal actions, but you remain silent for whatever reasons. Maybe it is because you believe in the musketeerian one-for-all-and-all-for-one. Or maybe because you are told that it is a union matter, therefore, as a union member you are obligated to let the union handle the matter. Or maybe it is because you fear becoming a black sheep among your colleagues.