We started 2016 by ending 2015 with a holiday shopping
frenzy falling short of what the private profiteers needed but the public
losers really didn’t, foreign policy moves to more war that the military
industrial profiteers need but we don’t, and the end of the first phase of a
presidential campaign that like shopping and war profits the few at cost to the
many, which is hardly what we need. So what else is new?
The already long and mostly irrelevant campaign, which is
likely to get worse, has at least presented two extraordinary major party
contenders for the CEO position of our floundering corpora-nation. A truly
decent social democrat who calls himself a socialist and excites socialists who
should know better while repelling others who might not understand even when
it’s explained, and an outspoken billionaire populist who thrills many and
frightens others with rhetoric ranging from the extreme right to the slight
left of his opponents, furthering evidence that we are a very confused and
divided people. Repeat: So what else is new?
We are moving to more military confrontations not only with
supposedly easy to defeat nations that we cannot defeat, but great powers like China
and Russia, with none of our corporate warlords really wanting a war they
cannot win - and we all might lose - while the daycare center mentalities
passing for political leaders rattle swords and threaten more lives in total
denial of material reality. To mention only a few more situations which most of
our grand mothers could handle with more intellectual and humanitarian decency
– especially if foreign born and not formally educated in America:
North Korea conducted an atomic bomb test, which caused the
blood lust bigotry among some political-media vampires to go completely berserk.
Calls for regime change, invasion, bombing and other democratically inspired
practices were far more deafening than the explosion itself. North Korea suffers
from more innocent American ignorance and ugly American hatred than any other
nation we almost destroyed in the past. During the Korean war - the most brutal
direct confrontation with communism until Viet Nam - the USA destroyed most of North
Korea and dropped more bombs on that tiny country than had been used on the
total pacific area during the second world war. And that prior war involved a
murderous fire bombing of Japanese cities that made Nazis look humane; No
ethnic cleansing and shipping people to camps or murders followed by cremation
but American one-stop-shopping that burned them to death as they sat down to
dinner. We killed more people in Tokyo than we did with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. And we exceeded that holocaust, in tonnage of explosives and
brutality, with our savaging of the North Korean countryside, cities and
population.
That nearly destroyed nation is now deemed “fanatic” for
seeing the USA as not only its past enemy but an ongoing military threat, with ships
patrolling its waters and U.S. military maneuvers conducted on its borders. Any
weaponry it has clearly exists as a defense against constant menacing from South
Korea, a relative colony of western capital run by saber rattling
anti-communists under the control of the USA. But we are taught the North Koreans
are a fanatic danger, a threat to humanity and that their system is failing
while our exceptional nation, a master race of self chosen people teaches the
world how to spend billions on weapons, cosmetics and pets while reducing tens
of thousands of it citizens to homelessness. SWEIN?
A tiny group of religious fundamentalist ranchers take
control of a small nature preserve in Oregon unknown to 99% of the public and
are transformed into an armed menace to security, peace, freedom and other
cherished american values like gun ownership and identity politics. A simple
and alienated band of possibly misguided people whose estrangement from power
and a government dedicated to everything but their interest are dangerously
being set up for scapegoating and possible horror as every justifiably
aggrieved sector of the population is manipulated into thinking they are at the
root of what is wrong with america.
Even Native americans have been pushed forward to accuse
them of occupying Indian land, as though the entire nation wasn’t once an
Indian homeland and hundreds of thousands of Indians hadn’t been slaughtered
and ethnically cleansed by our ancestors. Why if these crazy armed militia
types get together with skinheads, racists and North Korea, will Americans be
safe in their beds? Don’t ask one of the presidential candidates because the
answer you get might make ISIS, talk radio and 911 Truthers sound thoughtfully
logical.
But wait. Some real Semites of the Middle East – unlike their
pretender euro-brethren - from what might be called Saudi Israelia’s ruling family
murdered a group of political prisoners, including a Shiite leader. In their
usual fashion they chopped off heads and though this has never seemed to bother
consciousness control or mind management in the USA unless done by ISIS (
SWEIN?), Iran reacted in anger, as might be expected. This led to threats of
war and smiles from those who profit most from it; military industrial
corporadoes from the USA. But no more than small murmurs from American
leadership with no criticism beyond urging talks and not nuclear war.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-Israelis unite in not only exercising
incredible control over american politics with their wealth, but causing many
to wonder how the real Semite Saudis do it, without a lobby like the Israeli-Zionist
mob that buys, rents and leases much of the government. Bulletin: Weapons
purchases from, and petro sales to, our warfare-fossil cabal guarantee a degree
of power to the tyrannical fundamentalists who taught ISIS/Daesh everything
they know.
If nine Israelis had been among the twin tower bombers, can
anyone imagine that we would still have the same married-at-the-wallet relationship
that disgraces our supposed democracy? Yet nine Saudis among the terrorist crew
meant nothing, with even many Truthers still seeking a Zionist behind the
scenes rather than noting who actually played the leading roles. And created
arch-villain Bin Laden? A Saudi too. Mossad may be taking lessons from them in
how to save money, though Israel would have to buy even more weapons than it
already does and somehow steal more Middle Eastern oil to sell.
In the midst of this and more, the demublican-republicrat
charade plays out, with possibly more meaning than usual now that two of the candidates
- deemed extremist and given no chance by established politics and its media
handmaidens - are participants in
the multi billion dollar marketing fiasco that passes for “our” democracy.
Bernie Sanders
is written off by a liberal banking establishment and Donald Trump ridiculed by
a conservative financial cabal, even though neither is critical of American
policy towards Israel. Their mutual transgression, however different their
messages may seem, is to contradict much of the party line politics that a
majority of Americans find intolerable. This in itself is a healthy sign of
change, even if the initial steps can seem frightening. After all, america was
and continues to be the destroyer of nations and lives in the middle east, a problem
existing long before their candidacies and one that creates the terrorist
threat no one, least of all mainstream liberals and conservatives, has done anything
to change in any substance beyond rhetoric, while continuing to vote for the
very people responsible for the policies that do the killing and create the
terrorists.
So maybe there will at last be something new come election
day 2016. Especially if it helps people who slumber through the multi billion dollar marketing-branding
campaign wake up to the need for a new politics and a new party. Jill Stein and
the Greens do not have the money of the sincere but fake anti-establishment
major party neo-lib-con job candidates, but she, the Greens, and we need staying
power that will create more than simply electoral change now and well beyond 2016.
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