Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): In just a few years Democrats flipped from freaking out about Nazis, shrieking that Trump was going to start a nuclear war, and denying US election results to cheering for Nazis, demanding more nuclear brinkmanship, and accusing anyone who denies election results of treason.
I wish that "liberal" hadn't been redefined to mean "whatever the Ds do," but admit that it's a lost cause. If Big Media decides to redefine a word, they can.
So I don't use this or any other Orwellized words. It's better to discuss specific issues and actions.
It's diabolical -- get someone to identify as "liberal", then as the decades pass gradually redefine it as endless war, censorship, lawfare, and giving big business all it wants, all within the confines of a corrupt police state. And it worked. Most impressive. If I hadn't seen it done I wouldn't have believed it.
Gloria Steinem the famous “female liberation icon” will not talk about her time as a CIA asset. The ‘women’s liberation movement” was gutted and disinfo’d from the inside. Not the first time the CIA has used this standard operation and tactic which has snare drug rings or weapons dealers or activists.
So for the last 8 years the DNC have been slowly captured by the CIA and their assets. They want both parties fighting [divide - conquer] but delivering the identical program and message. The “Left” is no longer the left it’s been captured by the ‘deep state’ and turned into a right wing puppet. All media is now owned by 5 corporations. They all purvey the “same old” just using different phrasing. FWIW there is no left in the USA whatsoever.
As Caitlin says, even were both sides equally bad it doesn't justify standing on the sidelines and letting it go where it will. But my view is that "both sides bad" is neither the case nor a tenable position. It isn't the case because of the power/wealth imbalance, and differences in history and outlook. Who/what has Russia invaded juxtaposed against who has the West - England and the US invaded, stolen from, lied about, exploited, etc.. ? Seems pretty clear: Russia is fighting for its life - as Russia, over against the deliberate marginalization and existential threat posed by NATO and the West. The recent and recent past history clearly supports this take. And we must support it because not only is it right and just - its rightness and justness is intimately related to our survival: Russia will never give in. That is the whole point of nuclear weapons. Russia is clearly on the moral high ground. If justice will not be done because of the intransigence and ignorance and greed of players and observers, the ensuing injustice and suffering will be shared by all players and observers.
Liberals are now tyrants because the Democrat Party, formerly the home base of old school liberals, was repurposed by the Clintons and Tony Coelho to be a mirror for the Republican Party. The latter was the proud defender of corporate privilege, while the DP was defending labor unions and focused on economic fairness and protection of the vulnerable.
Now, the DP is the war party and the champion of identity issues, which costs its billionaire patrons nothing. Inclusiveness is a great platform for a party that has nothing substantial to offer 90% of its members. The DP stands for racial equality, gender equality, access to abortion, and freedom of expression, provided what s being expressed is in line with the narratives of its benefactors. Substack is probably soon going to be targeted as a criminal platform that gives voice to crazies, and the charges will, no doubt, be leveled by liberals.
"So now we’re in this bizarre situation where being “liberal” effectively means supporting censorship to silence your political enemies for the benefit of the most murderous and tyrannical people on this planet." No one can state the obvious like you can, Caitlin. And that, of course, is the hardest thing to see.
Analagous to how the term 'woke' was politicised and redefined in a polar opposite way, 'Liberal' now seems to have lost any of its original meaning in an age when send you to sleep cell agents like Biden and Starmer have completely captured the mainstream 'Liberal' agenda. Political homogenisation of the masses (Operation Dumbing Down) is now largely complete.
Well said. I think the term 'liberal' needs to be used correctly. The people who call themselves 'liberals' are anti-liberals and are, ironically, often right wing.
The paragon of free speech and speaking truth to power is rotting in prison and being tortured, while the malignant liars are free to spew their filth, including to run for POTUS. What is wrong with this picture?
Free Julian Assange.
The propaganda machine of the government and the powerful have distorted the concept of spreading democracy as an excuse to fight foreign wars and exercise sanctions. What is the truth of democracy in Ukraine? Just like the truth of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan and a dozen other wars by USA Empire. Ukraine did have a democratically elected leader pro Russia until in 2014 it was overthrown in a mini coup assisted by the US Government. If it wasn’t for the fact that the USA was pushing to include Ukraine into NATO I speculate that there would not have been a Russian invasion. Russia’s survival would be mortally and constantly threatened by first strike NATO nuclear weapons placed 500 miles from Moscow, by a country who already used two nuclear bombs on another (get inside the mind of a Russian). Think Cuban missile crisis for comparison. The war is horrendous and Ukraine is being destroyed by the USA proxy war against Russia. Simply stating that Putin is another Hitler and he wants to reestablish an Empire is too simplistic. Russia’s actions in the past 30 years was to form a better relationship with Europe, especially with energy trade. This was a direct threat to USA’s influence in Europe.
The dominoes fall and the threat of nuclear war increases daily. We need diplomacy, not war.
I've always held the view that in a democracy it was your duty to be politically incorrect. To question what elected officials are doing. I don't even know what the term means but I can see the results. The term seldom is used now so it looks like it achieved it's intended goals, one being to divide the country while both parties work towards the same end goals. If you don't completely agree with either party you are considered politically "incorrect" by the people who still think there are differences in the parties and ostracized.
"So now we’re in this bizarre situation where being “liberal” effectively means supporting censorship to silence your political enemies for the benefit of the most murderous and tyrannical people on this planet."
Liberals love to virtue-signal their being open to other points of view, but then are always outraged when someone actually expresses another point of view.
"They are pitting race against race, gender against gender, rich against poor, and therein inciting the masses to fight amongst each other and in the process overlook the real danger that should unite us – the unceasing growth of centralized State control." -- The Academy of Ideas
That also includes RINOs, Marxists, progressives, communists, leftists and a host of other government imperialists and terrorists. It's no use.
Government has failed the test of time, every time, for all time.
It is no longer viable, in any form, because with government you always have ONE ruler of some type and a hoard of arrogant parasites all trying to obtain power from this congloberation of hierarchy.
Great article. I hope more find the ability to stand on their own two feet rather than be swallowed up by a particular party. Of course more can be achieved when we co-operate but this rule is not strictly too. Parties are controlled by donors who then dictate policy. Ultimately politics is a game of compromise, but how far to you go with party politics until your breaking your own set of beliefs and values? By being independent and standing on your own two feet you can stick to your principles more. We need to find a system that promotes independent thinking not succumbing to the powerful lobbyists with their offers of money and power that feeds the system of narcissism that we have today
I wish that "liberal" hadn't been redefined to mean "whatever the Ds do," but admit that it's a lost cause. If Big Media decides to redefine a word, they can.
So I don't use this or any other Orwellized words. It's better to discuss specific issues and actions.
It's diabolical -- get someone to identify as "liberal", then as the decades pass gradually redefine it as endless war, censorship, lawfare, and giving big business all it wants, all within the confines of a corrupt police state. And it worked. Most impressive. If I hadn't seen it done I wouldn't have believed it.
Gloria Steinem the famous “female liberation icon” will not talk about her time as a CIA asset. The ‘women’s liberation movement” was gutted and disinfo’d from the inside. Not the first time the CIA has used this standard operation and tactic which has snare drug rings or weapons dealers or activists.
So for the last 8 years the DNC have been slowly captured by the CIA and their assets. They want both parties fighting [divide - conquer] but delivering the identical program and message. The “Left” is no longer the left it’s been captured by the ‘deep state’ and turned into a right wing puppet. All media is now owned by 5 corporations. They all purvey the “same old” just using different phrasing. FWIW there is no left in the USA whatsoever.
You’re welcome
As Caitlin says, even were both sides equally bad it doesn't justify standing on the sidelines and letting it go where it will. But my view is that "both sides bad" is neither the case nor a tenable position. It isn't the case because of the power/wealth imbalance, and differences in history and outlook. Who/what has Russia invaded juxtaposed against who has the West - England and the US invaded, stolen from, lied about, exploited, etc.. ? Seems pretty clear: Russia is fighting for its life - as Russia, over against the deliberate marginalization and existential threat posed by NATO and the West. The recent and recent past history clearly supports this take. And we must support it because not only is it right and just - its rightness and justness is intimately related to our survival: Russia will never give in. That is the whole point of nuclear weapons. Russia is clearly on the moral high ground. If justice will not be done because of the intransigence and ignorance and greed of players and observers, the ensuing injustice and suffering will be shared by all players and observers.
Liberals are now tyrants because the Democrat Party, formerly the home base of old school liberals, was repurposed by the Clintons and Tony Coelho to be a mirror for the Republican Party. The latter was the proud defender of corporate privilege, while the DP was defending labor unions and focused on economic fairness and protection of the vulnerable.
Now, the DP is the war party and the champion of identity issues, which costs its billionaire patrons nothing. Inclusiveness is a great platform for a party that has nothing substantial to offer 90% of its members. The DP stands for racial equality, gender equality, access to abortion, and freedom of expression, provided what s being expressed is in line with the narratives of its benefactors. Substack is probably soon going to be targeted as a criminal platform that gives voice to crazies, and the charges will, no doubt, be leveled by liberals.
"So now we’re in this bizarre situation where being “liberal” effectively means supporting censorship to silence your political enemies for the benefit of the most murderous and tyrannical people on this planet." No one can state the obvious like you can, Caitlin. And that, of course, is the hardest thing to see.
Thanks Caitlin.
Analagous to how the term 'woke' was politicised and redefined in a polar opposite way, 'Liberal' now seems to have lost any of its original meaning in an age when send you to sleep cell agents like Biden and Starmer have completely captured the mainstream 'Liberal' agenda. Political homogenisation of the masses (Operation Dumbing Down) is now largely complete.
Never underestimate the power of disinformation.
Well said. I think the term 'liberal' needs to be used correctly. The people who call themselves 'liberals' are anti-liberals and are, ironically, often right wing.
The paragon of free speech and speaking truth to power is rotting in prison and being tortured, while the malignant liars are free to spew their filth, including to run for POTUS. What is wrong with this picture?
Free Julian Assange.
The propaganda machine of the government and the powerful have distorted the concept of spreading democracy as an excuse to fight foreign wars and exercise sanctions. What is the truth of democracy in Ukraine? Just like the truth of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan and a dozen other wars by USA Empire. Ukraine did have a democratically elected leader pro Russia until in 2014 it was overthrown in a mini coup assisted by the US Government. If it wasn’t for the fact that the USA was pushing to include Ukraine into NATO I speculate that there would not have been a Russian invasion. Russia’s survival would be mortally and constantly threatened by first strike NATO nuclear weapons placed 500 miles from Moscow, by a country who already used two nuclear bombs on another (get inside the mind of a Russian). Think Cuban missile crisis for comparison. The war is horrendous and Ukraine is being destroyed by the USA proxy war against Russia. Simply stating that Putin is another Hitler and he wants to reestablish an Empire is too simplistic. Russia’s actions in the past 30 years was to form a better relationship with Europe, especially with energy trade. This was a direct threat to USA’s influence in Europe.
The dominoes fall and the threat of nuclear war increases daily. We need diplomacy, not war.
"Politically correct. "
I've always held the view that in a democracy it was your duty to be politically incorrect. To question what elected officials are doing. I don't even know what the term means but I can see the results. The term seldom is used now so it looks like it achieved it's intended goals, one being to divide the country while both parties work towards the same end goals. If you don't completely agree with either party you are considered politically "incorrect" by the people who still think there are differences in the parties and ostracized.
"So now we’re in this bizarre situation where being “liberal” effectively means supporting censorship to silence your political enemies for the benefit of the most murderous and tyrannical people on this planet."
Yes, but pronouns. *Pronouns*, people!
Liberals love to virtue-signal their being open to other points of view, but then are always outraged when someone actually expresses another point of view.
Why is it common to call the current criminal monstrosity of US uniparty and recent Dem administrations -- “leftist” ??
I consider myself a leftist and what all of us jointly criticize has nothing “left” but a lot of fascist...
One of the likely reasons is that US conservatives have been brainwashed over decades that anything bad is / must be -- “evil and godless Communism.”
Hence a general blindness toward recognition that recent Dem administrations have been and are fully fascist.
"They are pitting race against race, gender against gender, rich against poor, and therein inciting the masses to fight amongst each other and in the process overlook the real danger that should unite us – the unceasing growth of centralized State control." -- The Academy of Ideas
A Liberal is the 1st person to leave the room when the fight breaks out. - Big Bill Haywood, IWW
That also includes RINOs, Marxists, progressives, communists, leftists and a host of other government imperialists and terrorists. It's no use.
Government has failed the test of time, every time, for all time.
It is no longer viable, in any form, because with government you always have ONE ruler of some type and a hoard of arrogant parasites all trying to obtain power from this congloberation of hierarchy.
Great article. I hope more find the ability to stand on their own two feet rather than be swallowed up by a particular party. Of course more can be achieved when we co-operate but this rule is not strictly too. Parties are controlled by donors who then dictate policy. Ultimately politics is a game of compromise, but how far to you go with party politics until your breaking your own set of beliefs and values? By being independent and standing on your own two feet you can stick to your principles more. We need to find a system that promotes independent thinking not succumbing to the powerful lobbyists with their offers of money and power that feeds the system of narcissism that we have today