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There is a very good reason the Establishment hated Donald Trump and all who supported him. It’s none of the garbage they screamed at him, non-stop, for five years: all the “isms” and “phobias”. Those were demonstrable lies. (Not that demonstrable lies have ever been a hurdle to either the media or politicians.)
No, what really enraged the Establishment — let’s not pretend there’s a “left” and “right”, because Tweedledee Left and Tweedledum Right are practically indistinguishable — was that Trump was the figurehead of the proletarian revolution against “politics as usual”.
Well, “politics as usual” is back — the elite made sure of that — and the people are finding out that “politics as usual” means what it always has: their children being marched off to war, to make the elite rich(er).
How does any rational or caring human being watch us lose a 20-year war against cave-dwelling barbarians, and not just lose that war, but lose it in the most humiliating fashion imaginable, and less than a year later already have a war-boner for Ukraine?
I’m convinced the unholy alliance between Neocons, the corporate media, and the Democrat party is the Seventh Seal.
Welcome back to “politics as usual”, folks. Now, give us your children.
It’s not just the Democrats banging the War Drum: the Establishment Republicans are proving just how dedicated they are to “politics as usual”. Lindsay Graham is openly calling for Putin’s assassination. Adam Kinziger is demanding the US establish a no-fly zone over the Ukraine.
In other words, both are demanding a war with Russia.
Leaving aside the staggering stupidity of jumping headlong into what the West spent nearly a century trying to avoid, from a purely craven, domestic-politics standpoint, the Republicans are apparently intent on cutting their own throats.
The GOP is on the cusp of not just a red wave, but a generational political realignment, and this is when we start flirting with the 100 percent failure rate of neoconism?
The Republicans need to shed themselves of the delusion that anyone voted Red in 2016, let alone 2020, because they loved the Republicans. Conservatives only voted Republican because of Trump. The more Establishment the Republicans, the more hated they are by the conservative base: whether the odious John McCain or his execrable offspring, Liz, or the reptilian Mitch McConnell.
Champing at the bit to send middle Americans’ kids off to another bloody foreign war, with the horrific, 20-year humiliation of Afghanistan a fresh, searing memory, is hardly the way to win their hearts and minds.
We can all see it… The most dangerous thing imaginable is already here… A moral panic where everyone tries to prove their anti-Putin purity through more and more extremism until America is once again killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in a war we’re eventually going to lose anyway. And it’s all being ginned up by a D.C. War Machine that can never get rich enough and a corporate media that put ratings above human life.
We cannot fall for this […]
So let me say this to the GOP… It’s a trap, dummies! It’s a neocon/MSM/Democrat trap built by people who could not care less about Ukraine. To them, this war is just a convenient way to move their hate/blacklisting/virtue-signaling supremacism to another cause now that the COVID moral panic has run its course.
It’s often forgotten — or rather, deliberately obscured — that opposition to the Vietnam War was lead, not by left-wing student protesters, but by moms and dads in states like Wisconsin. After all, it was their sons who were coming home scarred inside and out, if at all.
For most of the 60s, polls showed that college students tended to overall support the War, or just not care. After all, they were exempt from the draft. Even radicals like the Weathermen are clear that their attempts to gin up violent revolution were never about the War.
Gas prices, inflation, Biden’s oatmeal brain, Critical Race Theory, teaching gay porn in schools, the invasion over our southern border, and all the rest are vitally important, but not as important as staying out of another stupid goddamned war we cannot win.
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Clausewitz was wrong: war is not politics by other means, it’s politics-as-usual.
Meanwhile, conservatism is not just the new Punk Rock, it’s the new Anti-War Movement. Strange times, indeed.
