Tag: Johnstone

In de VS
hebben figuren als Bill Maher hun progressieve masker afgeworpen en
hun pijlen gericht op burgers die weigeren te stemmen op het
tweekoppige monster bestaande uit de Republikeinse en Democratische Partij…. Maher c.s hebben het gore lef te stellen dat deze stemmers de meest
giftige wereldburgers zijn……. Echter deze stemmers hebben groot
gelijk, immers of je nu door de hond of de kat wordt gebeten, het
blijft bijten en het gevoerde beleid wijkt in de praktijk amper
af…….

De
Democraten zetten zich af tegen de ongelijke behandeling van de grote
onderlaag in de VS echter de praktijk laat zien dat ook de Democraten
zich amper inzetten voor deze grote groep……

Wat
betreft de grootschalige VS terreur over de wereld voeren deze 2
partijen hetzelfde agressieve beleid, waar velen denken dat de
Democraten meer vredelievend zijn, heeft Obama laten zien dat het
geen bliksem uitmaakt: hij was de volledige 2 termijnen in oorlog
verwikkeld en dat als de eerste president sinds de VS onafhankelijk
is….. (terwijl Obama Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar is…..)

Caitlin Johnstone* heeft een artikel geschreven over deze zaak en ze noemt
daarbij 21 punten die aangeven dat de stemmers die op een derde
partij stemmen, groot gelijk hebben. Zo voert ze bijvoorbeeld aan dat
de Republikeinse partij als het aan de macht is, een zo rechts
mogelijk beleid voert, echter als de Democraten daarna aan de macht
komen, wordt er niets teruggedraaid, hoe onrechtvaardig bepaalde
zaken ook zijn…..

Zoals je
begrijpt richt Johnstone vooral haar kritiek op de Democraten, daar
deze het van de daken schreeuwen dat zaken niet eerlijk verlopen,
maar eenmaal aan de macht hetzelfde doen. Neem de persvrijheid: de
Democraten vinden dat de persvrijheid heilig is, echter als het om
Julian Assange gaat willen ze deze, zoals Trump dat wenst, uitgeleverd hebben aan
de VS, terwijl Assange niets anders heeft gedaan dan z’n werk (en dat uitstekend!!) en
gebruik maken van de persvrijheid, terwijl de leugen dat hij mensen
in gevaar heeft gebracht al lang en breed is doorgeprikt…… 

Voorts beschuldigen de Democraten de alternatieve media van het brengen van fake news (nepnieuws), terwijl de reguliere (massa-) media zich daar keer op keer schuldig aan maken, neem alleen al de aanloop naar- en het verloop van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voerde en voert…..

Kortom
de Democraten willen in feite dat de echte media (de alternatieve media) aan banden worden
gelegd en dat ten gunste van de reguliere media die over het algemeen het beleid steunen (m.n. het bloedige buitenlandbeleid) van: -de zittende administratie, -het militair-industrieel complex, -de financiële sector en -het andere grote bedrijfsleven…… (de eerste twee, of eigenlijk drie overlappen elkaar gedeeltelijk)

Lees het
artikel van Johnstone (van 29 september jl.) en denk daaraan als je bijvoorbeeld het volgende debat tussen Trump en Biden kijkt of beluistert (Joe Binden wil dat alleen als Trump virusvrij is….. ha! ha! ha! Kortom hij is bang voor Trump), Trump en Biden, 2 oorlogsmisdadigers en lobbyisten voor de wapenfabrikanten, het verdere grote bedrijfsleven en de financiële
sector……..

On
Vote Shaming: 21 Ways Supporting The US Establishment Is Worse Than
Voting Third Party

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
vote-shaming engines have predictably kicked into high gear in
America as the presidential election approaches, with shitlib
pundits like Bill Maher
doing their part to paint third-party voters as the most toxic people
in the world.

Which
is of course ridiculous. I have no strong opinions about how
Americans should vote in November, but it’s obvious that in terms of
toxicity third-party voters are not on the list of people who are
worthy of criticism. The dire situation humanity now finds itself in
under the leadership of the US hegemon is not the fault of a small
fringe faction which doesn’t want to support oligarch-coddling
ecocidal warmongers, it’s the fault of those who help preserve
America’s oligarchic ecocidal warmongering status quo.

Contrary
to the stock template lines that establishment spinmeisters are
regurgitating to bully the left into submission, here are 21 things
which are in fact a lot more crazy, selfish, stupid and privileged
than voting third party:

1.
Supporting a two-headed one-party system in the most powerful
government on earth which has plagued our planet with endless war and
ecocide and marched humanity to the brink of extinction.

2.
Continuing to support a political system which is wholly owned and
operated by the wealthy, leaving zero effective influence over US
policy in the hands of ordinary Americans and immense influence in
the hands of the very rich.

3.
Continuing to support a system which consistently deceives the
American people into consenting to oppressive neoliberal exploitation
at home and bloodthirsty neoconservative warmongering abroad, both of
which always hurt the most impoverished and disadvantaged groups
worst.

4.
Continuing to support a two-headed one-party system where one head
always pushes as far to the right as possible when in power and the
other head never moves things back leftward even one iota when it is.

5.
Continuing to support a political establishment which rehabilitates
war criminals like George W Bush, Bill Kristol, David Frum and John
Bolton while demonizing anyone who refused to vote for a warmonger.

6.
Supporting a political party which has been consistently attacking
Donald Trump from the right on foreign policy, pushing him to
escalate cold war tensions with Russia further and further and
shrieking hysterically if he makes the slightest move toward
deescalation anywhere.

7.
Supporting a political party which is designed to co-opt all leftward
populism and railroad it into support for an establishment which
promotes war and oligarchy while depriving Americans of the same
social safety nets afforded to everyone in every other major country
on earth.

8.
Supporting a party which claims to support press freedoms while
cheerleading Trump’s extradition of Julian Assange, a move which if
successful will cripple press freedoms around the globe and make it
impossible to hold the world’s most powerful government to account.

9.
Supporting a political party which has spent Trump’s term galvanizing
its base around the psychopathic CIA and J Edgar Hoover’s
minority-oppressing, left-punching FBI while doing everything it can
to stamp out any leftist zeitgeist within its ranks.

10.
Continuing to support a mass media structure which works every day to
deceive Americans into supporting their own impoverishment while
weapons of war are spread across the planet at massive expense.

11.
Supporting a political establishment which promises slow, incremental
change and actually delivers no change whatsoever while our species
slides off the cliff of extinction, taking out the most impoverished
and marginalized first.

12.
Pretending foreign policy just doesn’t exist, or if it does exist
pretending Joe Biden isn’t a lifelong warmonger who has spent his
entire campaign attacking Trump for being insufficiently hawkish in
most spheres of international conflict.

13.
Ignoring the fact that both parties are working in support of
world-threatening cold war escalations against both Russia and China,
a multifront campaign whose complexity increases the probability of
something going cataclysmically wrong even more than the last cold
war.

14.
Pretending a party that’s done exactly nothing for America’s
disempowered communities isn’t directly responsible for the poverty,
police brutality, mass incarceration, exploitation and oppression
those communities face today.

15.
Pretending a return to how things were before Trump’s presidency
wouldn’t just be a return to the conditions which created Trump’s
presidency.

16.
Pretending Obama, who destroyed Libya, devastated Syria, facilitated
the rape of Yemen, intervened in Ukraine, maintained and expanded all
of Bush’s most depraved policies and did nothing for the people who
elected him, was a good president.

17.
Continuing to support a political system where everything keeps
getting worse no matter which oligarchic puppet Americans elect.

18.
Putting your head in the sand and pretending everything will be fine
once a Democrat is in charge, again.

19.
Supporting a novelty joke party with fake primaries which are always
rigged to ensure victory for the safest oligarchic puppet instead of
pushing for something resembling actual democracy.

20.
Promoting the lie that if you just keep doing something that has
never, ever worked, this time it might produce different results.

21.
Lulling people back to sleep when the only thing that can help
ordinary people is for them to start waking up and using the power
of their numbers to force drastic, revolutionary change.

It’s
easy to advocate incrementalism when you’re not living hand to
mouth. It’s selfish to think that acting on climate change can be
rolled out over many decades so as not to upset the corporate donors
of your favorite politicians. It’s the height of entitlement to
close the door to progressives inside the Democratic Party and then
throw a shit fit when they vote for another party. It’s
hypocritical to hyperventilate about election-rigging Russians while
secretly, and then openly, rigging primaries against progressives.

Supporting
the continued existence of a fake two-party system which advances
exploitative agendas hurts the most vulnerable populations in America
and in the entire world. Acting self-righteous because you actively
support that system while spitting on the people who are trying to
change it is selfish, is stupid, is hypocritical, and is a mark of
extreme privilege.

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