I was recently telling a friend that I'm so frustrated, angry, and psychotically murderous towards Zionists. I want them all either dead or sent back to Poland/ Ukraine. Fnck every one of them to he'll. I hate beyond hate Israel.
And I'm really hating America for co- committing this holocaust.
I am hearing from sources who have deep knowledge, israel has put in place the plan for a Sept. attack on dear Iran. The anger Caitlin so beautifully wrote about allows me to cheer Iran destroying israel. I have also heard Iran finally understands allowing israel to continue without being destroyed this will never end. Once started israel will not exist as a functioning state. Then, the Palestinian communities in Jordan and Egypt must overthrow their genocidal kings/generals. Sorry my hate is not for all the people of israel just the genocidal maniacs which is sadly most : (
We are neutered thanks to Russia. Our war on Russia has emptied nato, u.s. weapons. Iran would destroy all of the oil pumping terminals shutting down our military as well as blocking the Straits of Hormuz so, don't fear for Iran fear for our stupidity. What worries me, Genocide Don begging Putin to Alaska to force him to a ceasefire with a stupid statement, bad things will happen if he doesn't accept. What does that mean? Hopefully nothing nuclear but then it is Genocide Don : (
yes, we would be better off without them. But WE, our children, our grandchildren, our friends etc would go through some really terrible stuff to get rid of them.
It gets both from me…tears and anger. The tears come first. Tears for the suffering and death. Anger for knowing who and what is doing it…their lies…and for what agendas.
Most have no clue. I have anger for them too. — for the level of pathetic ignorance, carelessness, apathy, distraction, etc., that most Americans exhibit. People largely don’t want the truth nor to awaken from their illusions.
It all really saddens me AND pisses me off.
Perhaps when people start to actually see and feel the underlying agenda themselves, will they wake up.
Thank you for this - It's both. And there's an exception to Caitlin's one response though that response is totally understandable in the context she's speaking. I have come to know a number of families going through the terror, horror. starvation, fear and anguish for their children and for their husbands and sons in Israeli dungeons, via GoFundMe over these two years and that is not a place to vent one's anger - they need to be seen and witnessed,they need love and compassion and physical support. Like you, my anger, rage and public actions goes towards the sadistic monsters causing such unspeakable suffering.
I live in the midst of people who have had someone taken hostage. I feel sad for them, but that sadness is diminished somewhat when they start talking about Israel's right to defend itself and other such crap.
The right to defend itself is the joke of the century. Defend themselves from what, or who?
Children with slingshots
Mothers holding babies
Old men with walking sticks
And all of them starving.
The snipers, rapists, starvers and genocidal mercenary killlers from the USA all with the blessing of Trump and before him, Biden, the Catholic killer, with a scorecard of over 100,000.
Zionists, the greatest liars since time began and using the western media as their bugle boys. Now there is the greatest shame, keeping the truth from the world and being paid well for it, no doubt.
You might check the actual statistics on the percentage of people against Israel's genocide--https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/new-poll-shows-plunging-us-public-support-for-israels-war-on-gaza I believe 60% overall oppose it. And as someone "not complying" for a very long time, and as an anti-zio for a very long time, I know that thi is an extraordinary change. If the US were a "democracy", their disgusting support for i would end right now. The gap between the govt and what the majority of the people in t the US want, is immense. And, again, I say that as someone treated like sh*t for years for opposing the occupation and genocide. Things have and continue to change as people educate themselves, as we all need to. But "most have no clue" is simply not true. Do remember we have a Fash^issst government in power. Thanks.
I agree wholeheartedly. The more we feel helpless and accept, even with heartbreak, that our world allows genocide and ethnic cleansing of an “unpopular” group of people, the more it plays into the hands of the powers behind it.
They are not trying to hide this- they are trying to flagrantly advertise what they are doing. They are predictively programming the masses to accept a new reality, a new future where governments brazenly commit war crimes without consequences. Where human rights become the privilege of the “popular” groups and countries who are backed by the elites and who lick their boots and regurgitate their excuses.
People need to get a lot more angry- Luigi Mangione angry.
People throughout history fought back and revolted and that was the ONLY reason things changed.
This is an incredibly important point, Caitlin. Thanks for making it.
We need full on rage for this genocide being committed by Israel and supported by all western governments and many others. With our tax dollars, and without our consent.
The response that pisses me off more than blatant support for Zionism is the ‘it’s complicated’ retort. This stance signifies an aggressively willful and deliberate ignorance.
"It’s not a tragedy, it’s a crime. A crime that is still currently being perpetrated and urgently needs to be stopped, by any means necessary."
That's the appropriate (and only) way to look at the genocide in Gaza--as a crime, a WAR crime. The celebrities who are wringing their hands now about what's happened are hypocrites. They're possibly on the take to zy0nists and/or have been charged to cause confusion among the public with their crocodile tears. We need to see past these tricks and focus our energy on ending this genocide and getting food and medical aid immediately to the people of Gaza. Don't let anyone or anything get in your way of focusing on the actual needs of the Palestinian people!
I think that one reason this crime continues is that the U.S. has normalized criminal behavior throughout its depraved existence. If Gaza becomes the straw that breaks the camel’s back, it will stand as an historic symbol of human endurance that sealed the fate of the merchants of hate. This empire has to fall, and the alternative media has made more inroads toward that end in a decade, than the commercial media ever did in a century. The great American news bubble has been penetrated, and the reign of propaganda is under attack from ordinary people.
The powerlessness of humanity to end the crime in West Asia is tragic, but the inability of the empire to distract the people from the truth of its government’s nihilistic crimes is inspiring.
I think it's because they realize we paid for it so when the guillotines at the Hague start chopping they can pretend they didn't know. Who will be the first after the israeli's?
Thank you for that. I'm not a big fan burning someone's work however, I might buy something used and burn it : ) I burned Bernie's autographed book on a big bonfire : )
When I see another child killed or maimed, I do she'd tears for the parents of the dead child but anger for the killer and the one that mains.
But there is often such fury at the silence and soft stepping of politicians, and, of course, the Israelis, especially Satanyahu and his politician genocides, plus their use of scriptures that they change to suit their murdering agenda. Also for being a haven for paedophilia, which really tells us all we need to know about Israel.
I have to tamp down my anger when typing or, even I won't know what I meant.
I’ve been through so much politico-emotional-psychobabble or newspeak that I do try to stay detached on purpose. But the celebrities themselves have never been to a protest. They’ve never seen a war zone. Nothing about them is real.
I have heard this from others.....that they choose to stay detached. I don't really understand how anyone can feel detached. I just hear Nutty yahoos voice and I feel rage. the only way I can avoid the feeling of rage is to go sleep. But even my dreams are getting populated by this stuff. They are murdering starving people, they are destroying the environment, they are threatening nuclear war. If we stay detached, it just means we are in for a really big shock down the road when the shit hits the fan for ALL of us, not only the Palestinians. When I don't feel rage I feel overwhelming sadness.
With the utmost respect, I actually am just as angry and sad as you are. I’d love to find a creative solution for this chaotic undeveloped emotional energy.
I’m not a hardliner about logic and reason, however it has helped as an organizer to survive the wave of crazed hideous wokeism. There’s no facts, nothing makes sense, everyone is crying and violating each other’s rights. This isn’t great. It’s very ugly.
How to use that anger productively might require activists to spiritually and emotionally develop a bit more.
I get it. I wish I could detach, but it doesn't work for me. I don't see rage and anger in this situation as a lack of spiritual or emotional development. I don't see detaching as a lack of anything either. Different people handle this situation in different ways. I can't stand it when I try to express how I feel and someone tells me not to listen to the news. That only increases my frustration and anger.
Just watched a documentary on the West Bank, where these "settlers", essentially armed invaders, murderers and thieves, are systemically continuing the theft of Palestinian property.
They turn up on the doorstep of farms, give the occupants a few minutes to leave, then burn and destroy, chasing away the livestock.
Or the Israeli army builds a huge fence around an entire village, blocks the roads with huge iron gates, sets up surveillance cameras and essentially turns the whole village into a prison camp.
The US is funding this, the US is the source of many of these dual nationality armed criminals, the US government is utterly complicit.
I have enough rage for them all.
Naturally the fucking apologists crawl of the cesspit. Two arguments that really put fire to the rage.
"If October 7 hadn't happened, none of this would have happened".
"Israel, and its choir, take great pride in extolling and preaching its democratic ideals and opportunity to the rest of the world… no matter how plainly desperate its overreach and fraudulent its claim. Seldom does a day pass without a Zionist apologia for its crimes against humanity, its war crimes, its genocide … skillfully relying upon the cheap talisman that, as the only democracy in the Middle East, it is entitled to do whatever it must to protect its noble call for all its citizens. For the poor, for the oppressed, for the dissenter, for those of a different skin, faith or gender there is nothing unusual or unique about this, by now, timeless pretext. Israel is not alone in its shout to democratic equality that, historically, has meant little more to many than the tyranny of the majority."
Democracy has never really existed except as an ideology. Policies and actions have always been decided by the sword and wealth.
It's the tyranny of the few over the gullible and ignorant majority. Take the republic of the US.
Every four years there's a huge performative circus show to choose between one aging old git and another.
But little changes fundamentally with whose butt farts in the White House.
But the population has been given the massive show, providing entertainment for the population. Then comes disappointment, then ramping up hope that next time the arseholes will do more for "me".
Democracy or not it does not justify committing genocides. The most idiotic excuse I have ever heard that just because there is a choice between 2 a$$holed or candidates that somehow entitles them to go kill and steal. Fuck the "west".
Democratic at the local level to elect local representatives, then a process of rising through the ranks of the governing party based on competence and delivering results.
With multidecade policies to improve the lives of the Chinese, these policies are considered from the local, regional and national aspects before being signed off. They are also constantly reviewed and revised.
China is roughly 50% state and 50% private capitalism. This allows the dynamics of competition in the private sector, but retains essential assets such as infrastructure to be managed by the government.
Through this there is an underlying stable base on which people can prosper and grow.
No liberal democracy has this stability, neoliberalism sells off state assets to put $$$ in the hands of private capitalists, and there is no guarantee of stability.
Look at Trump.
Nobody will invest in the US now. One dictator can turn on a dime, there's no consistency nor long term government strategy.
Just look at all the liberal democracies. They have been around for less than one hundred years, all are failing to deliver prosperity and stability.
Europe decided to create an unelected administration, further removing democracy from the people.
A stable socialist government is the only way to go into the future. With AI and aging populations we need socialism more than ever to redistribute the profits of capitalism to the elderly, poor, schooling and healthcare.
The US is an example of where neiliberal democracies are heading. A few wealthy people and a load of poor indebted humans struggling to get by, infrastructure crumbling because there's no profit in it, and financialisation of everything, which effectively removes democracy from the people and puts it in the hands of the wealthy.
Exactly Richard Parker. Something of which I have studied and observed and been acutely aware of for a while. China is the best role model we have. Humanity is at a juncture where we can truely say it is socialism or death.
Incidentally August 13th was the 99th anniversary of Fidel Castro's birth. He famously said " .... they talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism?"
In 5,000 or so years of recorded human history, there are examples of all sorts of successful systems and all eventually fail. The Iron Law Of Oligarchy always wins, if the system survives long enough.
Epstein escaped to Israel until his team arranged the settlement with our corrupt government. There was a slim chance that justice would be done. Who thinks he died in prison? Odd how that went down and a body was burned. This entire episode is repugnant example of endless corruption.
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. Everyone in power claims to answer to and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so. The technical term for this is a "beard".
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here.
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind.
I agree.Rage is needed here.Pure,fucking rage at our leaders for allowing this horror to continue.Until they listen to us and send in armed resistance to Israel.We have a United Nations which should ignore any veto by the USA and move immediately to protect the people of Gaza.Shame on our governments but we the people DEMAND action and we are fucking angry.
The hard part is knowing how to effectively channel the anger. I’ve almost decided that untargeted protests, unless their really big, are not among the most effective means to: a) stop all the killing; b) get food and other aid (e.g., medical) to a starving population, and c) rebuild Gaza and the West Bank for Palestinians without any control over them by Israel or its surrogates. And that’s just for starters.
Targeted protests, I think should begin in the U.S. at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) because it has been bought by Israel. One might ask why, either because the Dems are worthless or because they’re not as bad as the Republicans. The reason is that they hold themselves out as the opposition party, which is a lie. And we badly need an opposition party. Some people like to quote Emma Goldman about the uselessness of voting. But whether we like it or not, Congress controls the purse strings. As long as it keeps voting to send weapons to Israel, the genocide will continue. And voting gave us Trump. Voting gave us Biden. Not so useless as lethal. So the second strategy is to confront these Congress members wherever and however we can. Send them letters. Visit them in their offices. Attend town hall meetings (which, by the way, the Democrats don’t hold in their own back yards. I wonder why). Convince them that they will lose if they support the genocide. And mean it by withholding your vote. Don’t give in to the lesser evil blackmail from either the candidates themselves or their uncritical supporters, who are happy with the status quo. They’re not in the majority— we are. The votes in the Senate to cut off funding have already increased by 10 since April, not because most of these members have suddenly developed a conscience, but because they’re afraid for the first time that they may lose.
It's time to stand up and fight against the depraved criminals who rule the world with bloody hands.
Depraved WAR criminals they all are!
DAMN RIGHT, Loan!🇵🇸
It definitely has my anger and my anger!! Every time I see that evil smirky bastard, Bibi, smirk and lie I wish Iran would blow up Israel.
I was recently telling a friend that I'm so frustrated, angry, and psychotically murderous towards Zionists. I want them all either dead or sent back to Poland/ Ukraine. Fnck every one of them to he'll. I hate beyond hate Israel.
And I'm really hating America for co- committing this holocaust.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Come on, Iran!
I am hearing from sources who have deep knowledge, israel has put in place the plan for a Sept. attack on dear Iran. The anger Caitlin so beautifully wrote about allows me to cheer Iran destroying israel. I have also heard Iran finally understands allowing israel to continue without being destroyed this will never end. Once started israel will not exist as a functioning state. Then, the Palestinian communities in Jordan and Egypt must overthrow their genocidal kings/generals. Sorry my hate is not for all the people of israel just the genocidal maniacs which is sadly most : (
I don't have a problem with Israel getting blown up, but the problem is that others like the US would retaliate and then we are in really deep shit.
We are neutered thanks to Russia. Our war on Russia has emptied nato, u.s. weapons. Iran would destroy all of the oil pumping terminals shutting down our military as well as blocking the Straits of Hormuz so, don't fear for Iran fear for our stupidity. What worries me, Genocide Don begging Putin to Alaska to force him to a ceasefire with a stupid statement, bad things will happen if he doesn't accept. What does that mean? Hopefully nothing nuclear but then it is Genocide Don : (
We keep hearing this, but NATO continues to escalate.
Susan, Amerikkka, Not-Great Britain, and many others deserve to be in SERIOUSLY deep shit.
The world’s better off without them.
yes, we would be better off without them. But WE, our children, our grandchildren, our friends etc would go through some really terrible stuff to get rid of them.
You mean like, what we’re putting the Gazans through right now?
that is more or less what I mean, except that I don't consider myself to be part of any "we"
It gets both from me…tears and anger. The tears come first. Tears for the suffering and death. Anger for knowing who and what is doing it…their lies…and for what agendas.
Most have no clue. I have anger for them too. — for the level of pathetic ignorance, carelessness, apathy, distraction, etc., that most Americans exhibit. People largely don’t want the truth nor to awaken from their illusions.
It all really saddens me AND pisses me off.
Perhaps when people start to actually see and feel the underlying agenda themselves, will they wake up.
Perhaps too late…
Thank you for this - It's both. And there's an exception to Caitlin's one response though that response is totally understandable in the context she's speaking. I have come to know a number of families going through the terror, horror. starvation, fear and anguish for their children and for their husbands and sons in Israeli dungeons, via GoFundMe over these two years and that is not a place to vent one's anger - they need to be seen and witnessed,they need love and compassion and physical support. Like you, my anger, rage and public actions goes towards the sadistic monsters causing such unspeakable suffering.
I live in the midst of people who have had someone taken hostage. I feel sad for them, but that sadness is diminished somewhat when they start talking about Israel's right to defend itself and other such crap.
The right to defend itself is the joke of the century. Defend themselves from what, or who?
Children with slingshots
Mothers holding babies
Old men with walking sticks
And all of them starving.
The snipers, rapists, starvers and genocidal mercenary killlers from the USA all with the blessing of Trump and before him, Biden, the Catholic killer, with a scorecard of over 100,000.
Zionists, the greatest liars since time began and using the western media as their bugle boys. Now there is the greatest shame, keeping the truth from the world and being paid well for it, no doubt.
Well said, Con! 👏👏👏
You might check the actual statistics on the percentage of people against Israel's genocide--https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/new-poll-shows-plunging-us-public-support-for-israels-war-on-gaza I believe 60% overall oppose it. And as someone "not complying" for a very long time, and as an anti-zio for a very long time, I know that thi is an extraordinary change. If the US were a "democracy", their disgusting support for i would end right now. The gap between the govt and what the majority of the people in t the US want, is immense. And, again, I say that as someone treated like sh*t for years for opposing the occupation and genocide. Things have and continue to change as people educate themselves, as we all need to. But "most have no clue" is simply not true. Do remember we have a Fash^issst government in power. Thanks.
I agree wholeheartedly. The more we feel helpless and accept, even with heartbreak, that our world allows genocide and ethnic cleansing of an “unpopular” group of people, the more it plays into the hands of the powers behind it.
They are not trying to hide this- they are trying to flagrantly advertise what they are doing. They are predictively programming the masses to accept a new reality, a new future where governments brazenly commit war crimes without consequences. Where human rights become the privilege of the “popular” groups and countries who are backed by the elites and who lick their boots and regurgitate their excuses.
People need to get a lot more angry- Luigi Mangione angry.
People throughout history fought back and revolted and that was the ONLY reason things changed.
This is an incredibly important point, Caitlin. Thanks for making it.
We need full on rage for this genocide being committed by Israel and supported by all western governments and many others. With our tax dollars, and without our consent.
I'm fucking furious!
The response that pisses me off more than blatant support for Zionism is the ‘it’s complicated’ retort. This stance signifies an aggressively willful and deliberate ignorance.
To me the “it’s complicated” is cowardice, a refusal to take a clear stand and call evil, evil.
Yes it is cover up for evil and genocides.
"It’s not a tragedy, it’s a crime. A crime that is still currently being perpetrated and urgently needs to be stopped, by any means necessary."
That's the appropriate (and only) way to look at the genocide in Gaza--as a crime, a WAR crime. The celebrities who are wringing their hands now about what's happened are hypocrites. They're possibly on the take to zy0nists and/or have been charged to cause confusion among the public with their crocodile tears. We need to see past these tricks and focus our energy on ending this genocide and getting food and medical aid immediately to the people of Gaza. Don't let anyone or anything get in your way of focusing on the actual needs of the Palestinian people!
I think that one reason this crime continues is that the U.S. has normalized criminal behavior throughout its depraved existence. If Gaza becomes the straw that breaks the camel’s back, it will stand as an historic symbol of human endurance that sealed the fate of the merchants of hate. This empire has to fall, and the alternative media has made more inroads toward that end in a decade, than the commercial media ever did in a century. The great American news bubble has been penetrated, and the reign of propaganda is under attack from ordinary people.
The powerlessness of humanity to end the crime in West Asia is tragic, but the inability of the empire to distract the people from the truth of its government’s nihilistic crimes is inspiring.
I think it's because they realize we paid for it so when the guillotines at the Hague start chopping they can pretend they didn't know. Who will be the first after the israeli's?
Genocide Joe I would think.
Thank you the likes of Bono & Madonna can go get Fkd safe to say I make sure I block their music
Thank you for that. I'm not a big fan burning someone's work however, I might buy something used and burn it : ) I burned Bernie's autographed book on a big bonfire : )
I’ve been mad as hell for years and enraged now.
I’m also sad and heartbroken
But so mad so very very angry
Not just at ‘Israelis’ but at every politician and every human that supports this Holocaust
I’m angry at the citizens that laugh at starvation and genocide
And I’m mad as fuck at the ones that are silent or say they have no opinion.
Thank You Caitlin
& Tim
When I see another child killed or maimed, I do she'd tears for the parents of the dead child but anger for the killer and the one that mains.
But there is often such fury at the silence and soft stepping of politicians, and, of course, the Israelis, especially Satanyahu and his politician genocides, plus their use of scriptures that they change to suit their murdering agenda. Also for being a haven for paedophilia, which really tells us all we need to know about Israel.
I have to tamp down my anger when typing or, even I won't know what I meant.
I’ve been through so much politico-emotional-psychobabble or newspeak that I do try to stay detached on purpose. But the celebrities themselves have never been to a protest. They’ve never seen a war zone. Nothing about them is real.
I have heard this from others.....that they choose to stay detached. I don't really understand how anyone can feel detached. I just hear Nutty yahoos voice and I feel rage. the only way I can avoid the feeling of rage is to go sleep. But even my dreams are getting populated by this stuff. They are murdering starving people, they are destroying the environment, they are threatening nuclear war. If we stay detached, it just means we are in for a really big shock down the road when the shit hits the fan for ALL of us, not only the Palestinians. When I don't feel rage I feel overwhelming sadness.
With the utmost respect, I actually am just as angry and sad as you are. I’d love to find a creative solution for this chaotic undeveloped emotional energy.
I’m not a hardliner about logic and reason, however it has helped as an organizer to survive the wave of crazed hideous wokeism. There’s no facts, nothing makes sense, everyone is crying and violating each other’s rights. This isn’t great. It’s very ugly.
How to use that anger productively might require activists to spiritually and emotionally develop a bit more.
I get it. I wish I could detach, but it doesn't work for me. I don't see rage and anger in this situation as a lack of spiritual or emotional development. I don't see detaching as a lack of anything either. Different people handle this situation in different ways. I can't stand it when I try to express how I feel and someone tells me not to listen to the news. That only increases my frustration and anger.
I have an infinite amount of rage for Israel.
Just watched a documentary on the West Bank, where these "settlers", essentially armed invaders, murderers and thieves, are systemically continuing the theft of Palestinian property.
They turn up on the doorstep of farms, give the occupants a few minutes to leave, then burn and destroy, chasing away the livestock.
Or the Israeli army builds a huge fence around an entire village, blocks the roads with huge iron gates, sets up surveillance cameras and essentially turns the whole village into a prison camp.
The US is funding this, the US is the source of many of these dual nationality armed criminals, the US government is utterly complicit.
I have enough rage for them all.
Naturally the fucking apologists crawl of the cesspit. Two arguments that really put fire to the rage.
"If October 7 hadn't happened, none of this would have happened".
"We have a two thousand year right to this land".
"God gave us this land".
Fuck'em.
"Israel, and its choir, take great pride in extolling and preaching its democratic ideals and opportunity to the rest of the world… no matter how plainly desperate its overreach and fraudulent its claim. Seldom does a day pass without a Zionist apologia for its crimes against humanity, its war crimes, its genocide … skillfully relying upon the cheap talisman that, as the only democracy in the Middle East, it is entitled to do whatever it must to protect its noble call for all its citizens. For the poor, for the oppressed, for the dissenter, for those of a different skin, faith or gender there is nothing unusual or unique about this, by now, timeless pretext. Israel is not alone in its shout to democratic equality that, historically, has meant little more to many than the tyranny of the majority."
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/star-of-david-land-of-myth
Drivel.
Democracy has never really existed except as an ideology. Policies and actions have always been decided by the sword and wealth.
It's the tyranny of the few over the gullible and ignorant majority. Take the republic of the US.
Every four years there's a huge performative circus show to choose between one aging old git and another.
But little changes fundamentally with whose butt farts in the White House.
But the population has been given the massive show, providing entertainment for the population. Then comes disappointment, then ramping up hope that next time the arseholes will do more for "me".
Democracy or not it does not justify committing genocides. The most idiotic excuse I have ever heard that just because there is a choice between 2 a$$holed or candidates that somehow entitles them to go kill and steal. Fuck the "west".
Not that I necessarily disagree with your witty sentiments, but, your comment sounds like an Eeyore. Tell me the ideology you prefer.
The role model is China.
Democratic at the local level to elect local representatives, then a process of rising through the ranks of the governing party based on competence and delivering results.
With multidecade policies to improve the lives of the Chinese, these policies are considered from the local, regional and national aspects before being signed off. They are also constantly reviewed and revised.
China is roughly 50% state and 50% private capitalism. This allows the dynamics of competition in the private sector, but retains essential assets such as infrastructure to be managed by the government.
Through this there is an underlying stable base on which people can prosper and grow.
No liberal democracy has this stability, neoliberalism sells off state assets to put $$$ in the hands of private capitalists, and there is no guarantee of stability.
Look at Trump.
Nobody will invest in the US now. One dictator can turn on a dime, there's no consistency nor long term government strategy.
Just look at all the liberal democracies. They have been around for less than one hundred years, all are failing to deliver prosperity and stability.
Europe decided to create an unelected administration, further removing democracy from the people.
A stable socialist government is the only way to go into the future. With AI and aging populations we need socialism more than ever to redistribute the profits of capitalism to the elderly, poor, schooling and healthcare.
The US is an example of where neiliberal democracies are heading. A few wealthy people and a load of poor indebted humans struggling to get by, infrastructure crumbling because there's no profit in it, and financialisation of everything, which effectively removes democracy from the people and puts it in the hands of the wealthy.
Exactly Richard Parker. Something of which I have studied and observed and been acutely aware of for a while. China is the best role model we have. Humanity is at a juncture where we can truely say it is socialism or death.
Incidentally August 13th was the 99th anniversary of Fidel Castro's birth. He famously said " .... they talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism?"
Well said Richard Parker!
In 5,000 or so years of recorded human history, there are examples of all sorts of successful systems and all eventually fail. The Iron Law Of Oligarchy always wins, if the system survives long enough.
Don't forget they are the best haven for paedophiles in the whole wide world.
Epstein escaped to Israel until his team arranged the settlement with our corrupt government. There was a slim chance that justice would be done. Who thinks he died in prison? Odd how that went down and a body was burned. This entire episode is repugnant example of endless corruption.
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. Everyone in power claims to answer to and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so. The technical term for this is a "beard".
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here.
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind.
I agree.Rage is needed here.Pure,fucking rage at our leaders for allowing this horror to continue.Until they listen to us and send in armed resistance to Israel.We have a United Nations which should ignore any veto by the USA and move immediately to protect the people of Gaza.Shame on our governments but we the people DEMAND action and we are fucking angry.
The hard part is knowing how to effectively channel the anger. I’ve almost decided that untargeted protests, unless their really big, are not among the most effective means to: a) stop all the killing; b) get food and other aid (e.g., medical) to a starving population, and c) rebuild Gaza and the West Bank for Palestinians without any control over them by Israel or its surrogates. And that’s just for starters.
Targeted protests, I think should begin in the U.S. at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) because it has been bought by Israel. One might ask why, either because the Dems are worthless or because they’re not as bad as the Republicans. The reason is that they hold themselves out as the opposition party, which is a lie. And we badly need an opposition party. Some people like to quote Emma Goldman about the uselessness of voting. But whether we like it or not, Congress controls the purse strings. As long as it keeps voting to send weapons to Israel, the genocide will continue. And voting gave us Trump. Voting gave us Biden. Not so useless as lethal. So the second strategy is to confront these Congress members wherever and however we can. Send them letters. Visit them in their offices. Attend town hall meetings (which, by the way, the Democrats don’t hold in their own back yards. I wonder why). Convince them that they will lose if they support the genocide. And mean it by withholding your vote. Don’t give in to the lesser evil blackmail from either the candidates themselves or their uncritical supporters, who are happy with the status quo. They’re not in the majority— we are. The votes in the Senate to cut off funding have already increased by 10 since April, not because most of these members have suddenly developed a conscience, but because they’re afraid for the first time that they may lose.
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