I think we see enough that not being radicalised is our fault at this point. We have been watching three years of a live-streamed genocide and been made aware that every one of these oligarchs is a pedophile, and yet, people in the imperial core are still complacent and apathetic.
Imo, many (most?) USians don't feel responsible for what their government does in their name. This is why they don't hold their government accountable for all the empiring.
If only it were that simple, Jos. The indoctrination is deep and long term. It practically starts at birth with a host of jabs into the tiny infant followed by circumcision of the tiny baby boy's most vulnerable part of his body.
Then it's pledge allegiance to the flag every single day of the school year.
Then it's those patriotic anthems and flag flying days of the "old glory".
Then it's the hype of American exceptionalism and the false platitudes of America being the freest country in the world.
Then it's the inflated notion that the President of the United States is the leader of the so-called Free world.
Then it's the rest of the world licking the boots of USA's imperialism.
Then it's the ill-informed, uninformed voters who've swallowed all these distortions to the point that they believe keeping this archaic rotting system is worth saving.
And then it's the "Founding Fathers" trope who made a constitution that really only applied to the rich, white land and slave owner masons.. but that's just a small detail, so it gets ignored.
Then it's the war crimes and war criminals who are hero-worshipped with the stars and stripes and medals of honor.
So, yeah, they keep on voting because they have been brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing that it changes things. They've giving folks the illusion of inclusion so they rush to the poles to do their honorable right and duty to vote in another charlatan that will steal their money.
Someone said... "If voting really changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
It was Emma Goldman, a Russian-born US political activist and anarchist who said that or so it is said....
People are so entangled in the system as is the world as a whole that to untangle will require enduring some pain. Some real hardship. Of course this is known by the ones who tied us all into knots with one another. Knowing it's a basic biological imperative to avoid pain and so avoid disentangling.
I'm not sure the indoctrination is so very clever or it's that people love indoctrination. It "feels" good. Like the ivy that loves the brick wall it clings to. The ivy fearing if it loses it's sturdy bricks it will surely perish on the ground.
Of course what people fail to see is that they aren't dependent entities and don't need the brick wall. But try convincing them it's all a lie and good luck with it. That they can, indeed, stand upright on their own two legs and be just fine.
I don't know how we can hope to open enough hearts and minds in numbers large enough to change anything in this world. It seems the exact opposite is happening.
I saw it firsthand at my place of work when the covid mandates and then the injections became mandatory and though I proved to everyone around me the folly of it all with hard concrete facts, not one person stood with me by the end when they said they would. Though the proof I offered was irrefutable. Yet they refuted it to maintain the status quo. A silly and meaningless status quo, yet they would not give it up. I lost my job, learned some deeply disturbing information about my fellow man and have moved into my own independence. Though, of course, I still cautiously interact with others.
Pirate Studebaker, I think your comment speaks to that scary word called sovereignty. That's a great example of the ivy using the brick wall as if there were no brick wall it would perish. It takes a lot of courage to stand on your own two feet while everyone else around you is following the herd.
In one news report during the CV1984 plandemic, the guest made a Freudian slip by saying, "we are trying to reach herd mentality, I mean herd immunity."
I remember as a teenager, when I wanted to do what everyone else was doing... there was this event called "Omega by the Sea" that my mother refused to allow me to go to. As a teenager, I was mortified that she wouldn't let me go when "everyone" else was going. And she'd say, "If everyone jumped out the window, would you jump out the window too?" Of course that didn't make any sense, why would I do that? But as an adult, I came to realize that 700 Frenchmen doing it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
So going back to comfort.. it's easier to follow the herd. It's easier to be a part of the crowd. And I guess that is where the "love" for indoctrination may come in. We are socialized into believing that being like everyone else is acceptable, however, standing out in the crowd may cause one to be rejected. It's also easier for it to be someone else's fault should things go wrong. "I was just following orders" comes to mind.
Sovereign beings take responsibility for their actions and are not afraid of being accountable. Each time a person lays accountability at the foot of a political figure or leader, they divest themselves of their own sovereignty and/or personal power. When the leaders do not do good on their promises, mishandle their tax dollars, vote for senseless wars, etc., the voter wants to blame the politician or leader, instead of accepting the fact that they are in power over them because they put them into that position. Switching allegiance from one "fearless" leader to another does not fix the inherent problem, it simply keeps the same destructive system in place. But it's like a bad habit, folks just keep doing it. Creating an alternate reality of sovereign beings seems to be too overwhelming a thought, much less something that could be done.
I often feel the same way... "I don't know how we can hope to open enough hearts and minds in numbers large enough to change anything in this world. It seems the exact opposite is happening."
How does one prevent a majority from capture by propaganda? Does there exist a race, or culture, or intelligence level, or gender, that is immune to it, and embraces only the pure and the good? If not, what can be done to make a majority see "the truth"?
Anti-Hip, it's called social engineering. It happens everywhere in every culture. The outliers tend to be few and far between. Social engineering creates a cohesive accepting masses. It begins at birth and continues throughout life, from the village to the urban dwellings. It's considered a necessary tool for keeping the society/culture protected thus giving it longevity. It is the challenge of the ages among all human groupings. How do you filter out the noise and get to the "truth?" That question has been bantered about by philosophers for eons.
Americans refuse to even attempt to build a viable third electoral party, they turn up to vote. I'd respect Americans a lot more if they actively refused to vote and get turnout as low as possible.
It's beyond parties now, even beyond government. It's like we've grown up, and don't need mommy and daddy anymore. The next step is finding those of like mind and getting together to work on a new society.
It is impossible to work within the system because that is the purpose of the system . Accept the FACTS! the greatest enemy to Americans is the central cartel. Until it is wiped away NOTHING WILL CHANGE! By voting you give the appearance of legitimacy to the criminals.. Lysander Spooner -"No Treason, The Constitution of No authority" is a excellent 10 minute primer!
For a third party to work to overthrow the establishment in America in a single election cycle, they'd need to have exactly *two* of them, ostensibly Left and Right. Otherwise, the vote is split only in the Left or Right portion that most closely aligns with that one party.
If both Trump and Bernie were each actually serious about a real change within the existing political framework, they would have agreed to do this in 2016, create two new parties simultaneously under the banner of destroying corruption (regardless of their own corruption), and let the people decide between those.
But I suppose we can't leave it to the hoi polloi to actually influence anything on their own without the proper guidance, can we, vanguards?
FPTP is one of the worst voting systems around, and yet nobody ever talks about how it is a part of why the US has become so dysfunctional and what to do about it.
Vote splitting is a policy choice that establishment parties have maintained (In Canada and the USA). There has been a solution to that manufactured problem with Ranked Choice Voting since the 1850s.
This isn't a problem that can be solved in a single election cycle, or with the current system. This really requires systemic solutions, and these are links to active groups working on those systemic changes.
(For Canadians: Fair Vote Canada is part of the establishment, fixating on the interests of political parties, and not at all interested in reforming away from the status-quo problems.)
I have neighbors with that attitude--what good does it do? The lower the turnout, the easier it is to put the worst people in power. What we need to do is wake people up to the fact that the electoral game is rigged, and we need to organize outside it.
If the French prisoners just kept their heads down and waited for someone else to do the hard work, France would still be monarchy. It's the only so-called civilised country that still takes to the streets and make their anger known.
Because they live off the the crumbs of the Empire and can feign ignorance of what their exported violence does elsewhere. Historically common amongst those comfortable in the Heart of the Empire....until they are not.
May they be born into the countries they have raped.
We vote for those on the ballot; the Ds and Rs work together to ensure they are the only options in the overwhelming majority of cases. This is worth doing. The fault is in thinking this takes care of our responsibilities as citizens. I think Americans should NOT feel responsible for what the government does in our name, because it's without our consent; public opinion is irrelevant in the US (and probably most places). I've been campaigning to get people to stop saying "our army" or "we invaded" because if you take responsibility, you kindof endorse the action. We need to understand, collectively, that these hideously immoral actions are done by a THEY, which does not represent us, does not have our best interests in mind, is in fact our actual enemy, and we have a responsibility to put a stop to it.
i think voting is largely a distraction, a way the Establishment can drain energy and money every four years--or every two years--away from actual organizing. I have to admit, I can't explain why half the voters actually voted for the ridiculous, destructive, corrupt man-baby Trump...for a second time. Right now my hopes are invested in the mad push tp build a zillion data centers, and the power plants and high-voltage lines to power them. They're very dangerous in many ways, but it's so obvious that this hurts most people and does nothing for us, and they're being pushed through so undemocratically, that people are getting active, across party lines.
A MAJORITY of Americans do NOT vote because they see no point.
Most of the Working Poor and Destitute do NOT vote.
Young people TALK a good game, but They do NOT show up to vote.
Of course, the Z10 PEDOE Billionaires running the USA make it Incredibly difficult to vote... long lines, voting machines with NO paper trail, etc.
Who votes? BOOMERS IN NURSING HOMES. Now watch the string of whining Boomers & Old GenX ( I'm 1965) who will cry about how I am misjudging, and too harsh, and how Boomers are... SPECIAL, Goddammit!!!! FO, Totally, for sure.
Just accept it and try TALK to the other Boomers and change their minds if you can. But STOP making excuses for the Nursing Home Crowd and other propagandized peasants. If your eyes are open, it is your, mine and OUR Responsibility to awaken others.
All we have is Our Voice and - so far, the internet to spread the Word, before the Technofascists' 2030 Lockdown.
Greater Israel Project hasn't happened... YET.
We know where the Rothschilds-Epstein Class hides... in luxury and Our Collective Passive obedience to them. What if we Stopped treating them like Royalty?
What if the Watched became tge Watchers?
What if every single one of us was a FLOCK/AXON Camera poited at the PEDOES and kept asking them - Full Frontal, "WHY do you Rape & Worse Children, Sir?"
Ask Them while the Pedoes are eating at a fine restaurant, walking to their yacht or car, while attending church, mosque or synagogue. Ask Their wives and servants. Ask the Police Peasants who guard the Billionaires.
NEVER LET THE PEDOE Z10s REST.
NEVER.
Did you know in the USA it is now considered "Antisemitic" to call a pol or Special Authority Figure a PEDOE or PEDOE PROTECTOR?
Your final line is a non sequitur. Or is it? No--the data centers are NOT needed for consumer use, and are not helping businesses get rid of their employees. What they are really for is 1) the race between tech CEOs to get AGI, their imaginary machine god that will replace humanity, the hope that THEIR company will be the one that survives the bubble bursting; 2) the desperate search of the investor class for The Next Big Thing as they must have perpetual growth until it destroys the substrate we depend on, Planet Earth, and 3) the need to build a massive Panopticon, a prison lockdown planet, so the surviving masses can be controlled, and the Masters can continue to live in luxury, reserving the last resources for themselves. Achieving this dystopian nightmare/dream requires eliminating the leaders of the resistance they know is coming. They have collected, and are collecting, massive amounts of information on literally everybody--the thing AI can do is go through this enormous amount of data and identify the potential leaders. For elimination. Caitlin says we're in a race between those seeking liberation and justice (and preservation of ecosystems) and the would-be absolute rulers of a techno-dystopian world, and she is absolutely correct. And data centers are at the crux of it. And guess what, even Israel is key to this because that's the other country neck deep in research on war tech, surveillance tech, anonymous assassination tech.
All Data Center Cheerleaders are Zionists. Israeli Surveillance Companies cannot wait to Officially merge with the USA's Intelliganece! How much fun that will be?!? Jeebus.
The Data Centers are the CAGE that the Rothschilds-Epstein Class are building to control the Unruly Peasant Class. It is Minority Report Pre-Crime abuse of the Public. They decide what is the Crime (anything that is Not Govt Approved) and then pick out the trouble-makers form every person's personal data trail... EVERYTHING.
I sign off almost every rant with Block All Data Centers because it is quite literally, the most important message in the USA RIGHT NOW. Once they have Our Data, next comes Cashless Banks, and then Total TechnoFASCISM.
"people in the imperial core are still complacent and apathetic"
Imperialism eventually occurs in every dominant power, and oppression in every regime of any size, no matter what its system nor what they call that system. It matters not a whit what the people independently want, as the people can always be smothered with propaganda and "education" to steer them in the right direction to get said complacency and apathy, from Soviets to Nazis to modern Deep States.
Among other things, this is a consequence of the iron law of oligarchy, our cluelessness about and thus lack of remediation efforts to concentrated psychopathy, and the continually increasing sophistication of technologies (especially the psychological sciences). Due to technology, pretty soon it will not even be possible to have a revolution.
Marxist vanguards are either in full-blown hilarious denial about this, because their supposedly righteous and unimpeachable ends too often justify deceptive and illegal means (at root, anti-democratic); other vanguards are simply fully-aware psychopaths collaborating with each other for this anti-democratic control. I just can't keep up with their sophistry and pretension, which has reached mind-blowing 1984-Newspeak levels under wokeness.
Capitalists just shrug their shoulders, as they already sold long ago, to their half of the masses, the supposed value of allowing unlimited inequality under the banner of preserving old cultural habits.
We need to radically up our game -- and yesterday.
It's easier to stick your head in the sand than admit that mostly everything you were told from birth about your country ("the US is the good guy", "bringer of freedom and democracy", "shining city on the hill", etc.) is a lie.
Do not attempt to convert the liar but always expose him. Do not let a lie pass without exposing it. ONly the truth can defeat the darkness Confront lies, myths, narratives that distort with facts. Never give up. I am 85 and finding my second wind. Study, read, reflect, and live with compassion and clarity. Do your best: no one can ask for more. Thank you, Caitlin for your never giving up, even when darkness seems to be shading out the light. We do not alway agree but we always share the goal of justice and an end to the bloodshed.
You are so right! Do not let a lie pass without exposing it. And I might add, if something doesn't make sense, question it. Don't just shrug it off, because it makes the person feel comfortable in their nonsense. And then the nonsense just grows and grows.
I am a youngster learning and growing up at 71. An elder is right now doing the Appalacian Trail from Alabama to Maine who is 90! Keep on Dale... Wage Peace and Justice.
"Do not attempt to convert the liar but always expose him."
Who's a liar? Someone who disagrees with you?
There is no discoverable and final truth for humans, and there can never be, because humans are necessarily and eternally limited and imperfect.
Once we give up the pretension to possessing "the truth" -- especially for the normative, but even for the positive -- can we get back to the humility we once had. You know, the humility that led, over thousands of years, to the visibility of the oppressed. Yes, it was both Christianity (and I am a white atheist) and the Enlightenment that led to the visibility of the oppressed, in spite of, not because of, their worst actors. The visibility that we talk about right here. The visibility that we are now on the verge of unwittingly burying over.
The problem is not getting people to accept your version of the truth, it's finding out how to live and work with people who do *not* accept your truth. In the U.S. of the mid-late 20th century, this was working tolerably well between the Left and Right; but today, we seem to have what can only be described as "holy wars" between incompatible "truths".
The problem is not getting truth to power, it's our finally getting intelligent psychopathy out of power. They're the eternal ringleaders creating the holy wars, hogging the bullhorns and whipping up grievances rather than exercising the political diplomacy necessary in a democracy.
A liar is someone who is trying to fool you. When Trump tells you he will start no new wars and then starts a new war, do not ask what is a lie. If you claim you do not know you are the liar. We are either not starting a war or we are? Without a shared concept of truth, we are already slaves to the lie.
"In her seminal 1967 essay "Truth and Politics," political philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that a shared foundation of factual truth is the absolute prerequisite for meaningful democratic debate, freedom, and orientation in the human world."
Exactly as you are reading: By my focusing on the fundamental problems in society, specifically here, our pretensions to truth claims. You can't fix problems without getting at their roots.
Few people seem to realize, much less give a damn, that *all* claims to truth, everywhere and at all times, in the West must be open to interrogation for societal health. Period. For one thing, this openness brought the Enlightenment eventually to value the oppressed in the ways we understand today, regardless of the upside-down ways certain parts of the West's history has in recent decades been presented. Therefore, *nothing* in the West should continue to escape skeptical interrogation, whether, say, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, capitalist, Marxist, or woke.
Once people understand that, then defenders of genocide can open their eyes to what is happening.
There is anger in your question: ask why. At 85 and disabled, I follow the reports on the war and write for hours on it to expose lies, to present facts, and to inspire both a fierce desire for justice and an urgent bottom line of compassion for the victims. I write to promote uniting behind the campaign to elect more anti-war members of Congress to ban arms to Israel. I am a small but deeply committed voice in the growing chorus of voices seeking to change US support for Israel to condemnation and to rally support for Palestinian liberation. Marx said, from each according to his ability: at this stage of life,my most effective ability is to digest what is happening and inform and perhaps inspire others to join the anti-war movement.
Never underestimate the number of USians that are on board with US empiring.
One disgusting part for me is that people don't get angry when their government double-taps schoolchildren abroad, but only when domestic gas prices rise.
Yep, that part, Jos. They only talk about that, over and over again, the cost of everything is going up. That's when we got a peep out of the mainstream media about the US-Israeli war on Iran. Creature comforts are so important.. the irony is, had folks the courage to give up some of those creature comforts, closed their pocketbooks and stopped feeding the Imperial beast, a lot would change. The Empire knows that about its plebs. It knows that they will go out into the street protesting any number of things, but after the protest is over, they will go right back home and continue to consume, consume, consume.. for surely their creature comforts are more important. It doesn't even come to mind how others suffer to keep their "standard of life," the status quo. So there's that part.
The politicians are expert snake oil salesmen, Jos. They know how to convince the voter that they will make their lives better. The indoctrination that the voter receives in the USA makes them believe it. So they keep doing it over and over seeking a different result, and we all know what that means.
Ultimately the US is where it's at, not because of evil politicians or oligarchs, but because of citizens coming up with endless excuses, playing victim etc., just to avoid taking responsibility for their government.
Example: 90 million people sat out the last presidential election. Imagine if even only half had voted for the GP. THAT, and NOTHING ELSE would have gotten the attention of the Democrat Party. But people just can't be bothered.
Here in the U.S., the establishment is trying their damndest to whip up a fear of ‘democratic socialists’ going into the midterms. Of course the intent is to eventually criminalize anyone that dares to challenge the status quo in any meaningful way. The fruits of capitalism have lead us to the brink of an apocalyptic hellscape, and punishment awaits those who oppose the project. It’s just jaw dropping.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans evolved in small hunter-gatherer communities. We were highly aware of our natural environment, and had a varied diet. We cooperated to survive. There was no such thing as “work” or “school” or “religion”, and hierarchies were very flat. Communities only had from a few dozen to 150 members. We moved seasonally. For the last 10,000 years a large chunk of humanity has become sedentary. Living in close quarters with domesticated animals on a very unbalanced diet gave us disease and short life spans. The “nasty, brutish and short” thing. Slavery. Drudgery in the fields. And here we are now, completely un-evolved to cope with what the psychopaths who control resources and information throw at us. As hunter-gatherers we could perceive almost everything within our known universe. As smartphone addled wage slaves we can barely perceive that we’re locked up in giant hierarchical death camp, let alone that we’re brainwashed to the nth degree. End of rant. We need to re-learn to truly cooperate again to throw off our sick overlords.
The most effective propaganda does not have to lie. It only has to decide what you are allowed to see. Show the poor mother, but not the system producing poverty. Show the tragedy, but remove its machinery. Suffering becomes an emotional spectacle rather than a political question. The deception is not necessarily inventing the story—it is making the story appear to have no cause beyond the individual.
I am in the camp that says we need to make a collective intention to ditch the rich and engage as citizens in making society egalitarian; we need to take the stance that John Brown took against slavery, but obviously, do so in a non-violent way and build a grass roots democracy movement. You are right, it is too crushing to conceive of all the evil being done at once. We need to conceive of a society not dominated by the powerful plutocratic elite, a society run democratically. We need to talk about this possibility.
Ditch the rich is exactly what is needed. An extremely wealthy person from a extremely wealthy family has absolutely no bloody idea of what it's like to struggle day to day.
So, yes, definitely do not put a greedy moneyed person anywhere near government because as soon as they get in they work kn ways to make the job pay them even more for their time than what they actually produce, in government, warrants. And second to that keep the pay, not salary, within what other like jobs pay. Government jobs means the so- called officers, are mostly clerks - they should have their wages at the same rate as Joe Blow would get as a Clark, thst would keep the wealthy from infiltrating jobs they cannot know a damn thing about.
How many times have people said, 'He has run businesses, so he should do a great job in government.' And when has that actually been the case - look who America put into their highest job and what has that achieved? Damn all for everyday Americans but heaps for Drumpf and his criminal, extended, family and wealthy friends. If he doesn't make you grow a backbone I don't think anything will, you'll just keep drinking tge poisoning thinking it's cream soda.
Totally with you on egalitarianism. And now we have all the tools we could possibly need. Our thinking has to change. We have to look at how we got here so we don't get here again.
Egalitarianism means everyone has equal voice. To make the terrain so that we do, what is needed is for censorship to be condemned absolutely. For what are words, just mouth sounds or text. They can hurt, sure but nowhere near the kind of hurt that censorship unleashes. With censorship information can be kept from us and that means our evolution is stymied. We created the information, we the people originate and develop everything but scumlords reap the fruits. They dictate everything. Why? Because they hold the largest sums of money, money - a system their kind designed in order to do exactly what it does. I hope humans get to the stage soon where they start to look for alternative money systems in order to use less of the banker's money, giving them lest clout. But money has to be done right and we need that conversation first.
The system survives not because its violence is invisible, but because it is fragmented. One person sees poverty, another sees war, another sees exploitation, but rarely does anyone see the machinery connecting them. Power thrives in this separation: suffering becomes an isolated tragedy instead of a systemic consequence. The real struggle is therefore not simply left versus right—it is between seeing the system and remaining unable to see it.
Manifestos have to be dynamic and not static. As we can see constitutions and manifestos didn't work and that's because they don't have any provision to be changed without effort and years of struggle. That's old fashioned now, because information moves at light speed. If you are interested I have an article that shows how we can do it. It is called the Egalitarian Proposal System: https://deniseward.substack.com/p/the-egalitarian-proposal-system
the machinrry connecting all of its, provably, its the most vissible thing, maybe cuz yo big and so obvious has that extensipn thst peoples stsnding withing do not apreciate arevin the middle.
How do you find meaning in temporal existence? Are you ok on sacrificing yourself for the greater good? The maw of the grinding machine, churning even as your blood dries on the pavement.
Human history! All the human wars, all the wretched slavery - the butchery, torture, poverty - disease - so many deaths by agonizing cancers. A million men dead in Ukraine. 165 Iranian girls burned alive by USA Tomahawk missiles - girls just seven to twelve years old - expelled from life.
If we could see everything, what would it be? Would it be worth seeing?
I think what we ought to see is look at who causes all the wars, who fight in them and who does the incalculable damage in the world. I'm not talking about Jews, I'm talking about men. This really does need to be noticed because it isn't women and children it's almost always, to an overwhelming degree, men that cause the most distress in the world and it's been going on for eons. And the women approve. Of course that has to happen for men to have it their way.
"The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception."
That, and possibly this overwhelming sense of "fair play". The workers have been brainwashed to think the oligarchs deserve justice and even a "second chance." This is why we can't let up with sharing what's actually happening in the world. Keep sharing the posts, pics, and articles!
They've already won. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how many of the sleazy bastards I can take with me when I go.
"I just know it makes sense for every well-intentioned person to spend as much the time and energy as they can muster trying help make the abuses of the empire as visible as possible for everybody."
A babe in the woods am I. I keep having this notion that we - as a society, as a civilization, as a species - are supposed to be a lot further along than we are, applying our energies toward moving forward, kinda like toward Churchill's "broad, sunlit uplands." Isn't (wasn't?) that the rather innate trajectory of humanity? Instead it's all we can do to slow - though not stop - the slide - again, Churchill - "into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
Now paraphrasing, "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if our effort lasts maybe five or six more years before the whole thing goes to hell, some historian in the future - if there will still be a future, and historians in it - this one will say, “This was their finest hour - literally.”
We’ve been groomed from childhood. Oh what a great country! In grade school we sang songs: America the Beautiful, God Bless America, sweet land of liberty. Civil War was not about slavery but rather states rights. Star Spangled Banner: quick what line comes to mind first?
“Bombs bursting in air”. You get the picture. It took decades before my eyes were opened especially about US and Israel.
It’s the media gaslighting (gentle brainwashing) that gets my goat. It’s like a subliminal cut viewing a film.
An example- I can’t let it go!
I was watching Morning Joe recently, a detailed report on the dramatic Trump Container Escape fiasco. The concluding statement of the co- host…
“ We are glad that the president is safe”.
Really?! I see someone I view as a sadistic madman destroying our institutions, the killings etc. etc., and there is no effective resistance. So are we supposed to be glad this lunatic is safe?
These little gems go unnoticed. He should have been called out. A subliminal cut. America the beautiful.
good note, but about ..."The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception."...
humbly I believe only in a little part, for the most, it's only lack of Economic power, this reduce the possibilities, cuz many even without that comprehensive
"perception", if where that some ones have good money(power) sure at least some one woulds start if not to destroy all of the aberrant oligarchs and empire managers elite, at least would beginning to reduce the numbers of them for sure. Simply cleaning the World, steep sfter steep. And this without even needed start with blooded wars. Thats for what empire managers care so well poor's never engage more than minimal wages.
I think we see enough that not being radicalised is our fault at this point. We have been watching three years of a live-streamed genocide and been made aware that every one of these oligarchs is a pedophile, and yet, people in the imperial core are still complacent and apathetic.
Imo, many (most?) USians don't feel responsible for what their government does in their name. This is why they don't hold their government accountable for all the empiring.
Yeah then they turn up every four years to vote for them.
Stockholm Syndrome, which they are in massive denial about.
They keep voting for the people that keep making their lives worse. It's like they have no self-respect.
If only it were that simple, Jos. The indoctrination is deep and long term. It practically starts at birth with a host of jabs into the tiny infant followed by circumcision of the tiny baby boy's most vulnerable part of his body.
Then it's pledge allegiance to the flag every single day of the school year.
Then it's those patriotic anthems and flag flying days of the "old glory".
Then it's the hype of American exceptionalism and the false platitudes of America being the freest country in the world.
Then it's the inflated notion that the President of the United States is the leader of the so-called Free world.
Then it's the rest of the world licking the boots of USA's imperialism.
Then it's the ill-informed, uninformed voters who've swallowed all these distortions to the point that they believe keeping this archaic rotting system is worth saving.
And then it's the "Founding Fathers" trope who made a constitution that really only applied to the rich, white land and slave owner masons.. but that's just a small detail, so it gets ignored.
Then it's the war crimes and war criminals who are hero-worshipped with the stars and stripes and medals of honor.
So, yeah, they keep on voting because they have been brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing that it changes things. They've giving folks the illusion of inclusion so they rush to the poles to do their honorable right and duty to vote in another charlatan that will steal their money.
Someone said... "If voting really changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Vote Aaron Bushnell 2026. RIP
It was Emma Goldman, a Russian-born US political activist and anarchist who said that or so it is said....
People are so entangled in the system as is the world as a whole that to untangle will require enduring some pain. Some real hardship. Of course this is known by the ones who tied us all into knots with one another. Knowing it's a basic biological imperative to avoid pain and so avoid disentangling.
I'm not sure the indoctrination is so very clever or it's that people love indoctrination. It "feels" good. Like the ivy that loves the brick wall it clings to. The ivy fearing if it loses it's sturdy bricks it will surely perish on the ground.
Of course what people fail to see is that they aren't dependent entities and don't need the brick wall. But try convincing them it's all a lie and good luck with it. That they can, indeed, stand upright on their own two legs and be just fine.
I don't know how we can hope to open enough hearts and minds in numbers large enough to change anything in this world. It seems the exact opposite is happening.
I saw it firsthand at my place of work when the covid mandates and then the injections became mandatory and though I proved to everyone around me the folly of it all with hard concrete facts, not one person stood with me by the end when they said they would. Though the proof I offered was irrefutable. Yet they refuted it to maintain the status quo. A silly and meaningless status quo, yet they would not give it up. I lost my job, learned some deeply disturbing information about my fellow man and have moved into my own independence. Though, of course, I still cautiously interact with others.
Thanks for your comment. Just great.
Pirate Studebaker, I think your comment speaks to that scary word called sovereignty. That's a great example of the ivy using the brick wall as if there were no brick wall it would perish. It takes a lot of courage to stand on your own two feet while everyone else around you is following the herd.
In one news report during the CV1984 plandemic, the guest made a Freudian slip by saying, "we are trying to reach herd mentality, I mean herd immunity."
I remember as a teenager, when I wanted to do what everyone else was doing... there was this event called "Omega by the Sea" that my mother refused to allow me to go to. As a teenager, I was mortified that she wouldn't let me go when "everyone" else was going. And she'd say, "If everyone jumped out the window, would you jump out the window too?" Of course that didn't make any sense, why would I do that? But as an adult, I came to realize that 700 Frenchmen doing it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
So going back to comfort.. it's easier to follow the herd. It's easier to be a part of the crowd. And I guess that is where the "love" for indoctrination may come in. We are socialized into believing that being like everyone else is acceptable, however, standing out in the crowd may cause one to be rejected. It's also easier for it to be someone else's fault should things go wrong. "I was just following orders" comes to mind.
Sovereign beings take responsibility for their actions and are not afraid of being accountable. Each time a person lays accountability at the foot of a political figure or leader, they divest themselves of their own sovereignty and/or personal power. When the leaders do not do good on their promises, mishandle their tax dollars, vote for senseless wars, etc., the voter wants to blame the politician or leader, instead of accepting the fact that they are in power over them because they put them into that position. Switching allegiance from one "fearless" leader to another does not fix the inherent problem, it simply keeps the same destructive system in place. But it's like a bad habit, folks just keep doing it. Creating an alternate reality of sovereign beings seems to be too overwhelming a thought, much less something that could be done.
I often feel the same way... "I don't know how we can hope to open enough hearts and minds in numbers large enough to change anything in this world. It seems the exact opposite is happening."
How does one prevent a majority from capture by propaganda? Does there exist a race, or culture, or intelligence level, or gender, that is immune to it, and embraces only the pure and the good? If not, what can be done to make a majority see "the truth"?
Anti-Hip, it's called social engineering. It happens everywhere in every culture. The outliers tend to be few and far between. Social engineering creates a cohesive accepting masses. It begins at birth and continues throughout life, from the village to the urban dwellings. It's considered a necessary tool for keeping the society/culture protected thus giving it longevity. It is the challenge of the ages among all human groupings. How do you filter out the noise and get to the "truth?" That question has been bantered about by philosophers for eons.
Americans refuse to even attempt to build a viable third electoral party, they turn up to vote. I'd respect Americans a lot more if they actively refused to vote and get turnout as low as possible.
About that "viable" part. The PSL, SEP and GP would be plenty viable if people voted for them. They don't.
To quote Ian Welsh:
“The reason third parties aren’t “viable” is that people won’t vote for them because they aren’t viable. You see the issue.”
https://www.ianwelsh.net/america-is-ruled-by-reddit-trolls/#comment-164936
But yes, they aren't even capable of not voting against their own economic interests.
Too lazy to put in the effort to bring about change that would be good for them, and thousands/millions of others.
It's beyond parties now, even beyond government. It's like we've grown up, and don't need mommy and daddy anymore. The next step is finding those of like mind and getting together to work on a new society.
Not beyond government - it's beyond corrupt government. Ayn Rand was a crackpot.
Check out the Rainbow Gathering. A week of Peace.
The Nation of Caitlin : )
It is impossible to work within the system because that is the purpose of the system . Accept the FACTS! the greatest enemy to Americans is the central cartel. Until it is wiped away NOTHING WILL CHANGE! By voting you give the appearance of legitimacy to the criminals.. Lysander Spooner -"No Treason, The Constitution of No authority" is a excellent 10 minute primer!
For a third party to work to overthrow the establishment in America in a single election cycle, they'd need to have exactly *two* of them, ostensibly Left and Right. Otherwise, the vote is split only in the Left or Right portion that most closely aligns with that one party.
If both Trump and Bernie were each actually serious about a real change within the existing political framework, they would have agreed to do this in 2016, create two new parties simultaneously under the banner of destroying corruption (regardless of their own corruption), and let the people decide between those.
But I suppose we can't leave it to the hoi polloi to actually influence anything on their own without the proper guidance, can we, vanguards?
First Past The Post voting is part of the problem. Here's a short, entertaining video that explains the core issue:
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
FPTP is one of the worst voting systems around, and yet nobody ever talks about how it is a part of why the US has become so dysfunctional and what to do about it.
Vote splitting is a policy choice that establishment parties have maintained (In Canada and the USA). There has been a solution to that manufactured problem with Ranked Choice Voting since the 1850s.
https://fairvote.org/
https://www.rcvresources.org/history-of-rcv/
This isn't a problem that can be solved in a single election cycle, or with the current system. This really requires systemic solutions, and these are links to active groups working on those systemic changes.
(For Canadians: Fair Vote Canada is part of the establishment, fixating on the interests of political parties, and not at all interested in reforming away from the status-quo problems.)
I have neighbors with that attitude--what good does it do? The lower the turnout, the easier it is to put the worst people in power. What we need to do is wake people up to the fact that the electoral game is rigged, and we need to organize outside it.
If the French prisoners just kept their heads down and waited for someone else to do the hard work, France would still be monarchy. It's the only so-called civilised country that still takes to the streets and make their anger known.
Fat lot of good it does. They protest, go home. It's a safety valve.
Big protests in the USA are done on Saturdays. Shut it down during the week !
1. Protests are ineffective, as long as the police and army will shoot when ordered.
2. Most humans have jobs that they cannot afford to lose.
But that requires self-respect.
And after the Reign of Terror ended, the Illuminati was born. Nothing changed for the better. The ruling classes just got further down the road.
Though shouting in the streets and chopping off heads can feel good for a minute or two. I guess....
This is why education is so important and why it's so underfunded in the US.
Yes, they are strong and willing to put their lives on the line.
Because they live off the the crumbs of the Empire and can feign ignorance of what their exported violence does elsewhere. Historically common amongst those comfortable in the Heart of the Empire....until they are not.
May they be born into the countries they have raped.
The country with the most guns per capita also has the most politically passive, ignorant and apathetic citizenry.
Qui tacet consentire videtur.
By design. The true rulers use the Amurdicans as their military arm while staying silent, and safe, far away, in their square mile, behind the scenes.
Silence is consent under our legal system. Keep them too ignorant to reply.
Mission Accomplished.
Sadly accurate, Pippi. Worse, it appears they want to remain ignorant. Who with even an ounce of self-respect acts like that?
The tanks wouldn't be allowed to own guns if they weren't completely passified cattle
They raped the country they were born into. All countries are like this.
We vote for those on the ballot; the Ds and Rs work together to ensure they are the only options in the overwhelming majority of cases. This is worth doing. The fault is in thinking this takes care of our responsibilities as citizens. I think Americans should NOT feel responsible for what the government does in our name, because it's without our consent; public opinion is irrelevant in the US (and probably most places). I've been campaigning to get people to stop saying "our army" or "we invaded" because if you take responsibility, you kindof endorse the action. We need to understand, collectively, that these hideously immoral actions are done by a THEY, which does not represent us, does not have our best interests in mind, is in fact our actual enemy, and we have a responsibility to put a stop to it.
So you agree the US is a dysfunctional country and want to bring about a legitimacy crisis. Fair enough.
But how can that work when massive amounts people keep voting for the Uniparty that keeps making their and our lives worse?
i think voting is largely a distraction, a way the Establishment can drain energy and money every four years--or every two years--away from actual organizing. I have to admit, I can't explain why half the voters actually voted for the ridiculous, destructive, corrupt man-baby Trump...for a second time. Right now my hopes are invested in the mad push tp build a zillion data centers, and the power plants and high-voltage lines to power them. They're very dangerous in many ways, but it's so obvious that this hurts most people and does nothing for us, and they're being pushed through so undemocratically, that people are getting active, across party lines.
And remember: the Democrat Party gave us Trump. TWICE.
Both parties are trash.
A MAJORITY of Americans do NOT vote because they see no point.
Most of the Working Poor and Destitute do NOT vote.
Young people TALK a good game, but They do NOT show up to vote.
Of course, the Z10 PEDOE Billionaires running the USA make it Incredibly difficult to vote... long lines, voting machines with NO paper trail, etc.
Who votes? BOOMERS IN NURSING HOMES. Now watch the string of whining Boomers & Old GenX ( I'm 1965) who will cry about how I am misjudging, and too harsh, and how Boomers are... SPECIAL, Goddammit!!!! FO, Totally, for sure.
Just accept it and try TALK to the other Boomers and change their minds if you can. But STOP making excuses for the Nursing Home Crowd and other propagandized peasants. If your eyes are open, it is your, mine and OUR Responsibility to awaken others.
All we have is Our Voice and - so far, the internet to spread the Word, before the Technofascists' 2030 Lockdown.
Greater Israel Project hasn't happened... YET.
We know where the Rothschilds-Epstein Class hides... in luxury and Our Collective Passive obedience to them. What if we Stopped treating them like Royalty?
What if the Watched became tge Watchers?
What if every single one of us was a FLOCK/AXON Camera poited at the PEDOES and kept asking them - Full Frontal, "WHY do you Rape & Worse Children, Sir?"
Ask Them while the Pedoes are eating at a fine restaurant, walking to their yacht or car, while attending church, mosque or synagogue. Ask Their wives and servants. Ask the Police Peasants who guard the Billionaires.
NEVER LET THE PEDOE Z10s REST.
NEVER.
Did you know in the USA it is now considered "Antisemitic" to call a pol or Special Authority Figure a PEDOE or PEDOE PROTECTOR?
Isn't that just admitting We are right?
Wow.
🚫ALL DATA CENTERS ✌️
RIP Hind Rajab
Your final line is a non sequitur. Or is it? No--the data centers are NOT needed for consumer use, and are not helping businesses get rid of their employees. What they are really for is 1) the race between tech CEOs to get AGI, their imaginary machine god that will replace humanity, the hope that THEIR company will be the one that survives the bubble bursting; 2) the desperate search of the investor class for The Next Big Thing as they must have perpetual growth until it destroys the substrate we depend on, Planet Earth, and 3) the need to build a massive Panopticon, a prison lockdown planet, so the surviving masses can be controlled, and the Masters can continue to live in luxury, reserving the last resources for themselves. Achieving this dystopian nightmare/dream requires eliminating the leaders of the resistance they know is coming. They have collected, and are collecting, massive amounts of information on literally everybody--the thing AI can do is go through this enormous amount of data and identify the potential leaders. For elimination. Caitlin says we're in a race between those seeking liberation and justice (and preservation of ecosystems) and the would-be absolute rulers of a techno-dystopian world, and she is absolutely correct. And data centers are at the crux of it. And guess what, even Israel is key to this because that's the other country neck deep in research on war tech, surveillance tech, anonymous assassination tech.
Agree!
All Data Center Cheerleaders are Zionists. Israeli Surveillance Companies cannot wait to Officially merge with the USA's Intelliganece! How much fun that will be?!? Jeebus.
The Data Centers are the CAGE that the Rothschilds-Epstein Class are building to control the Unruly Peasant Class. It is Minority Report Pre-Crime abuse of the Public. They decide what is the Crime (anything that is Not Govt Approved) and then pick out the trouble-makers form every person's personal data trail... EVERYTHING.
I sign off almost every rant with Block All Data Centers because it is quite literally, the most important message in the USA RIGHT NOW. Once they have Our Data, next comes Cashless Banks, and then Total TechnoFASCISM.
BLOCK ALL DATA CENTERS.
PEACE.
"people in the imperial core are still complacent and apathetic"
Imperialism eventually occurs in every dominant power, and oppression in every regime of any size, no matter what its system nor what they call that system. It matters not a whit what the people independently want, as the people can always be smothered with propaganda and "education" to steer them in the right direction to get said complacency and apathy, from Soviets to Nazis to modern Deep States.
Among other things, this is a consequence of the iron law of oligarchy, our cluelessness about and thus lack of remediation efforts to concentrated psychopathy, and the continually increasing sophistication of technologies (especially the psychological sciences). Due to technology, pretty soon it will not even be possible to have a revolution.
Marxist vanguards are either in full-blown hilarious denial about this, because their supposedly righteous and unimpeachable ends too often justify deceptive and illegal means (at root, anti-democratic); other vanguards are simply fully-aware psychopaths collaborating with each other for this anti-democratic control. I just can't keep up with their sophistry and pretension, which has reached mind-blowing 1984-Newspeak levels under wokeness.
Capitalists just shrug their shoulders, as they already sold long ago, to their half of the masses, the supposed value of allowing unlimited inequality under the banner of preserving old cultural habits.
We need to radically up our game -- and yesterday.
But the TV news tell me that my football team won't make the finals!
Kill your television
Big brother might see that as murder.
And even the bits we see, and that we're told not to see, break our hearts. How we're not all radicalized is hard to understand.
It's easier to stick your head in the sand than admit that mostly everything you were told from birth about your country ("the US is the good guy", "bringer of freedom and democracy", "shining city on the hill", etc.) is a lie.
Easy. Lazy as well.
Do not attempt to convert the liar but always expose him. Do not let a lie pass without exposing it. ONly the truth can defeat the darkness Confront lies, myths, narratives that distort with facts. Never give up. I am 85 and finding my second wind. Study, read, reflect, and live with compassion and clarity. Do your best: no one can ask for more. Thank you, Caitlin for your never giving up, even when darkness seems to be shading out the light. We do not alway agree but we always share the goal of justice and an end to the bloodshed.
You are so right! Do not let a lie pass without exposing it. And I might add, if something doesn't make sense, question it. Don't just shrug it off, because it makes the person feel comfortable in their nonsense. And then the nonsense just grows and grows.
I am a youngster learning and growing up at 71. An elder is right now doing the Appalacian Trail from Alabama to Maine who is 90! Keep on Dale... Wage Peace and Justice.
"Do not attempt to convert the liar but always expose him."
Who's a liar? Someone who disagrees with you?
There is no discoverable and final truth for humans, and there can never be, because humans are necessarily and eternally limited and imperfect.
Once we give up the pretension to possessing "the truth" -- especially for the normative, but even for the positive -- can we get back to the humility we once had. You know, the humility that led, over thousands of years, to the visibility of the oppressed. Yes, it was both Christianity (and I am a white atheist) and the Enlightenment that led to the visibility of the oppressed, in spite of, not because of, their worst actors. The visibility that we talk about right here. The visibility that we are now on the verge of unwittingly burying over.
The problem is not getting people to accept your version of the truth, it's finding out how to live and work with people who do *not* accept your truth. In the U.S. of the mid-late 20th century, this was working tolerably well between the Left and Right; but today, we seem to have what can only be described as "holy wars" between incompatible "truths".
The problem is not getting truth to power, it's our finally getting intelligent psychopathy out of power. They're the eternal ringleaders creating the holy wars, hogging the bullhorns and whipping up grievances rather than exercising the political diplomacy necessary in a democracy.
A liar is someone who is trying to fool you. When Trump tells you he will start no new wars and then starts a new war, do not ask what is a lie. If you claim you do not know you are the liar. We are either not starting a war or we are? Without a shared concept of truth, we are already slaves to the lie.
"In her seminal 1967 essay "Truth and Politics," political philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that a shared foundation of factual truth is the absolute prerequisite for meaningful democratic debate, freedom, and orientation in the human world."
"A liar is someone who is trying to fool you."
It would be far more helpful if, at this late stage, we focused on politicians that most people *don't* know are lying to us.
So, what are you doing to stop the izrael'i Genocide?
Exactly as you are reading: By my focusing on the fundamental problems in society, specifically here, our pretensions to truth claims. You can't fix problems without getting at their roots.
Few people seem to realize, much less give a damn, that *all* claims to truth, everywhere and at all times, in the West must be open to interrogation for societal health. Period. For one thing, this openness brought the Enlightenment eventually to value the oppressed in the ways we understand today, regardless of the upside-down ways certain parts of the West's history has in recent decades been presented. Therefore, *nothing* in the West should continue to escape skeptical interrogation, whether, say, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, capitalist, Marxist, or woke.
Once people understand that, then defenders of genocide can open their eyes to what is happening.
There is anger in your question: ask why. At 85 and disabled, I follow the reports on the war and write for hours on it to expose lies, to present facts, and to inspire both a fierce desire for justice and an urgent bottom line of compassion for the victims. I write to promote uniting behind the campaign to elect more anti-war members of Congress to ban arms to Israel. I am a small but deeply committed voice in the growing chorus of voices seeking to change US support for Israel to condemnation and to rally support for Palestinian liberation. Marx said, from each according to his ability: at this stage of life,my most effective ability is to digest what is happening and inform and perhaps inspire others to join the anti-war movement.
Never underestimate the number of USians that are on board with US empiring.
One disgusting part for me is that people don't get angry when their government double-taps schoolchildren abroad, but only when domestic gas prices rise.
Yep, that part, Jos. They only talk about that, over and over again, the cost of everything is going up. That's when we got a peep out of the mainstream media about the US-Israeli war on Iran. Creature comforts are so important.. the irony is, had folks the courage to give up some of those creature comforts, closed their pocketbooks and stopped feeding the Imperial beast, a lot would change. The Empire knows that about its plebs. It knows that they will go out into the street protesting any number of things, but after the protest is over, they will go right back home and continue to consume, consume, consume.. for surely their creature comforts are more important. It doesn't even come to mind how others suffer to keep their "standard of life," the status quo. So there's that part.
They can't even be bothered to not vote for the people that make their lives worse.
The politicians are expert snake oil salesmen, Jos. They know how to convince the voter that they will make their lives better. The indoctrination that the voter receives in the USA makes them believe it. So they keep doing it over and over seeking a different result, and we all know what that means.
Ultimately the US is where it's at, not because of evil politicians or oligarchs, but because of citizens coming up with endless excuses, playing victim etc., just to avoid taking responsibility for their government.
Example: 90 million people sat out the last presidential election. Imagine if even only half had voted for the GP. THAT, and NOTHING ELSE would have gotten the attention of the Democrat Party. But people just can't be bothered.
Lawrence O'Donnell explains:
https://youtu.be/Rpx8pqGF498
Here in the U.S., the establishment is trying their damndest to whip up a fear of ‘democratic socialists’ going into the midterms. Of course the intent is to eventually criminalize anyone that dares to challenge the status quo in any meaningful way. The fruits of capitalism have lead us to the brink of an apocalyptic hellscape, and punishment awaits those who oppose the project. It’s just jaw dropping.
1984, Orwell could not have written it better.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans evolved in small hunter-gatherer communities. We were highly aware of our natural environment, and had a varied diet. We cooperated to survive. There was no such thing as “work” or “school” or “religion”, and hierarchies were very flat. Communities only had from a few dozen to 150 members. We moved seasonally. For the last 10,000 years a large chunk of humanity has become sedentary. Living in close quarters with domesticated animals on a very unbalanced diet gave us disease and short life spans. The “nasty, brutish and short” thing. Slavery. Drudgery in the fields. And here we are now, completely un-evolved to cope with what the psychopaths who control resources and information throw at us. As hunter-gatherers we could perceive almost everything within our known universe. As smartphone addled wage slaves we can barely perceive that we’re locked up in giant hierarchical death camp, let alone that we’re brainwashed to the nth degree. End of rant. We need to re-learn to truly cooperate again to throw off our sick overlords.
The most effective propaganda does not have to lie. It only has to decide what you are allowed to see. Show the poor mother, but not the system producing poverty. Show the tragedy, but remove its machinery. Suffering becomes an emotional spectacle rather than a political question. The deception is not necessarily inventing the story—it is making the story appear to have no cause beyond the individual.
I am in the camp that says we need to make a collective intention to ditch the rich and engage as citizens in making society egalitarian; we need to take the stance that John Brown took against slavery, but obviously, do so in a non-violent way and build a grass roots democracy movement. You are right, it is too crushing to conceive of all the evil being done at once. We need to conceive of a society not dominated by the powerful plutocratic elite, a society run democratically. We need to talk about this possibility.
https://greenlibertycaucus.org/ditch-the-rich-campaign/
I agree with you that human kind is at a crossroads. Technocratic fate versus a democratic destiny: https://chuckfall.substack.com/p/lets-consider-our-collective-fate
Ditch the rich is exactly what is needed. An extremely wealthy person from a extremely wealthy family has absolutely no bloody idea of what it's like to struggle day to day.
So, yes, definitely do not put a greedy moneyed person anywhere near government because as soon as they get in they work kn ways to make the job pay them even more for their time than what they actually produce, in government, warrants. And second to that keep the pay, not salary, within what other like jobs pay. Government jobs means the so- called officers, are mostly clerks - they should have their wages at the same rate as Joe Blow would get as a Clark, thst would keep the wealthy from infiltrating jobs they cannot know a damn thing about.
How many times have people said, 'He has run businesses, so he should do a great job in government.' And when has that actually been the case - look who America put into their highest job and what has that achieved? Damn all for everyday Americans but heaps for Drumpf and his criminal, extended, family and wealthy friends. If he doesn't make you grow a backbone I don't think anything will, you'll just keep drinking tge poisoning thinking it's cream soda.
Totally with you on egalitarianism. And now we have all the tools we could possibly need. Our thinking has to change. We have to look at how we got here so we don't get here again.
Egalitarianism means everyone has equal voice. To make the terrain so that we do, what is needed is for censorship to be condemned absolutely. For what are words, just mouth sounds or text. They can hurt, sure but nowhere near the kind of hurt that censorship unleashes. With censorship information can be kept from us and that means our evolution is stymied. We created the information, we the people originate and develop everything but scumlords reap the fruits. They dictate everything. Why? Because they hold the largest sums of money, money - a system their kind designed in order to do exactly what it does. I hope humans get to the stage soon where they start to look for alternative money systems in order to use less of the banker's money, giving them lest clout. But money has to be done right and we need that conversation first.
Also, we need to de-program society with independent media, like Caitlan provides; we need to normalize talking about state crimes against democracy: https://chuckfall.substack.com/p/conspiracy-theory-in-america-a-book
The system survives not because its violence is invisible, but because it is fragmented. One person sees poverty, another sees war, another sees exploitation, but rarely does anyone see the machinery connecting them. Power thrives in this separation: suffering becomes an isolated tragedy instead of a systemic consequence. The real struggle is therefore not simply left versus right—it is between seeing the system and remaining unable to see it.
yes, we need to break out of our silos and find common ground in a popular front / liberation coalition: https://greenlibertycaucus.org/liberation-coalition-manifesto/
Manifestos have to be dynamic and not static. As we can see constitutions and manifestos didn't work and that's because they don't have any provision to be changed without effort and years of struggle. That's old fashioned now, because information moves at light speed. If you are interested I have an article that shows how we can do it. It is called the Egalitarian Proposal System: https://deniseward.substack.com/p/the-egalitarian-proposal-system
Rule by mob can be just as deadly as rule by dictator. Your Egalitarian Proposal is a unicorn pipedream. ps: Ayn Rand was a crackpot.
the machinrry connecting all of its, provably, its the most vissible thing, maybe cuz yo big and so obvious has that extensipn thst peoples stsnding withing do not apreciate arevin the middle.
How do you find meaning in temporal existence? Are you ok on sacrificing yourself for the greater good? The maw of the grinding machine, churning even as your blood dries on the pavement.
Human history! All the human wars, all the wretched slavery - the butchery, torture, poverty - disease - so many deaths by agonizing cancers. A million men dead in Ukraine. 165 Iranian girls burned alive by USA Tomahawk missiles - girls just seven to twelve years old - expelled from life.
If we could see everything, what would it be? Would it be worth seeing?
I think what we ought to see is look at who causes all the wars, who fight in them and who does the incalculable damage in the world. I'm not talking about Jews, I'm talking about men. This really does need to be noticed because it isn't women and children it's almost always, to an overwhelming degree, men that cause the most distress in the world and it's been going on for eons. And the women approve. Of course that has to happen for men to have it their way.
Yes, women are angels, men are evil. If we just got rid of all the men - the world would be a better place. Simple minded - but it works.
"The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception."
That, and possibly this overwhelming sense of "fair play". The workers have been brainwashed to think the oligarchs deserve justice and even a "second chance." This is why we can't let up with sharing what's actually happening in the world. Keep sharing the posts, pics, and articles!
I give Guillotine buttons for free to people. Need one?
Sure! I'd take dozens to pass around at various events.
"I don’t know which side will win in the end."
They've already won. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how many of the sleazy bastards I can take with me when I go.
"I just know it makes sense for every well-intentioned person to spend as much the time and energy as they can muster trying help make the abuses of the empire as visible as possible for everybody."
A babe in the woods am I. I keep having this notion that we - as a society, as a civilization, as a species - are supposed to be a lot further along than we are, applying our energies toward moving forward, kinda like toward Churchill's "broad, sunlit uplands." Isn't (wasn't?) that the rather innate trajectory of humanity? Instead it's all we can do to slow - though not stop - the slide - again, Churchill - "into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
Now paraphrasing, "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if our effort lasts maybe five or six more years before the whole thing goes to hell, some historian in the future - if there will still be a future, and historians in it - this one will say, “This was their finest hour - literally.”
Everyone needs to be a little Paul Revere, and spread hard truths on a regular basis.
The capitalist monsters are coming! The capitalist monsters are coming!
We’ve been groomed from childhood. Oh what a great country! In grade school we sang songs: America the Beautiful, God Bless America, sweet land of liberty. Civil War was not about slavery but rather states rights. Star Spangled Banner: quick what line comes to mind first?
“Bombs bursting in air”. You get the picture. It took decades before my eyes were opened especially about US and Israel.
It’s the media gaslighting (gentle brainwashing) that gets my goat. It’s like a subliminal cut viewing a film.
An example- I can’t let it go!
I was watching Morning Joe recently, a detailed report on the dramatic Trump Container Escape fiasco. The concluding statement of the co- host…
“ We are glad that the president is safe”.
Really?! I see someone I view as a sadistic madman destroying our institutions, the killings etc. etc., and there is no effective resistance. So are we supposed to be glad this lunatic is safe?
These little gems go unnoticed. He should have been called out. A subliminal cut. America the beautiful.
Most USians have absolutely no idea how awash in empire propaganda they are.
And they are in massive denial about what their country really is: the greatest threat to world stability, peace and prosperity.
good note, but about ..."The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception."...
humbly I believe only in a little part, for the most, it's only lack of Economic power, this reduce the possibilities, cuz many even without that comprehensive
"perception", if where that some ones have good money(power) sure at least some one woulds start if not to destroy all of the aberrant oligarchs and empire managers elite, at least would beginning to reduce the numbers of them for sure. Simply cleaning the World, steep sfter steep. And this without even needed start with blooded wars. Thats for what empire managers care so well poor's never engage more than minimal wages.
We the people need to set a collective intention: https://greenlibertycaucus.org/ditch-the-rich-campaign/