The sociopaths who run things are unimpressed by our cleverness, our word games, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts, unmoved by facts, logic, evidence or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the cops and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
It's like trying to reason with a schoolyard bully. Truly, this never grows old:
"A WOLF, meeting with a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the lamb himself, his right to eat him.
He then addressed him: Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.
Indeed, bleated the lamb in a mournful tone of voice: I was not then born.
Then said the wolf: You feed in my pasture.
No, good sir, replied the lamb: I have not yet tasted grass.
Again said the wolf: You drink of my well.
No, exclaimed the lamb: I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me.
Upon which the wolf seized him and ate him up, saying: Well! I won't remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations.
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
I wish every word you wrote was an exaggeration, but it is anything but. It is a reminder for me that not everyone has their eyes open. I have to get out of my bubble because I shouldn’t be shocked that so many are still kneeling on the throne of the Empire, the MIC, supporting Endless wars,& “strikes”(let’s be real, it’s bomb dropping)against those standing with The Resistance. Here as protesters we get police brutality(hello “cop city”), smeared, targeted or just completely ignored. I have to do a better job talking to people, & encouraging BDS. I often say “If you don’t care about the massacre/ethnic cleansing, do you care that we send billions to them every year, while they enjoy free healthcare & college & we have neither in the U. S.?” There’s more than one reason to protest this war(?), no it’s not war, it’s GENOCIDE.
Thanks. I read it. Glad to see people actively protesting. Now you need those in charge of things to listen. Maybe if there is enough of us things can change. Hope so, because what is happening now may wind up the end of things.
I refuse to live with the idea things are hopeless. That's no way to live. I know that I was as active as I could be during the US's many middle eastern wars as were so many and you do feel hopeless, and you realize you didn't stop anything. However that doesn't mean you give up because if you do you sell your own soul, and become one with them. I will never do that. Screw them.
"How can the 'civilized nations' repeatedly rationalize the invasions of another's land and culture by bringing their own unacknowledged heart of darkness to them? The simple truth is: It is easy. All one has to do is find a 'reason'."
"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny." In Japan after WWI, there was a schoolyard ditty to that effect, that the great powers of the world preached about law and justice, but they ignore them whenever they saw fit at the moment, because the only real law is force and fraud.
So, as an individual what do you do? Nothing,since you realize your input often means nothing, or do you continue to try because that is only way you don't lose your soul as well.
As long as you always remember to sign and date the tax checks..they can steal your labor and energy through your blood sweat and tears right out of your body and build bombs to rip others apart with and channel the profits to the top of the control pyramid that enslaves you.. Hurry run get that pen and checkbook it's your civic duty now to be taxed without representation,,,, sheep.
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.
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.
Note how western politicians and their policies are all incredibly unpopular, but they claim to be acting on a popular mandate.
Robert Moses has a huge "mountain" of river sediment unofficially named after him on the south shore of St. Lawrence "Seaway." During the construction of the "Seaway," many people lost their homes and farms, including some historic landmarks. Those that tried to stop the destruction were put down by Mr. Moses as 1950s-era "deplorables."
Another interesting aside: the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline occurred on Robert Kagan's birthday in 2022.
Perhaps not that raiiroad, in exactly that way, or at that moment. We don't have to reject something even as we reject how it was accomplished. If it is truly good and needed, there may be a better way.
To the best of my knowledge, the 19th-century canals around the rapids in the St. Lawrence River could have been enlarged to allow ocean-going ships; and perhaps several smaller power dams could have been built. I have heard that the gross destruction of the communities along the river was due to the United States wanting to build a bigger dam than one that had recently been built on the Nile River (as I recall), perhaps by Russia (as I recall).
The people who lost their homes and farms through eminent domain received a pittance (so I have been told). Many were given a short time to pack up and leave - one newspaper report tells of a family that just got in their car and left - never looking back.
A few years ago an author in Canada interviewed people who had lived in the "Lost Villages" destroyed by the Seaway. She found many who had never spoken about it in over fifty years, similar to those who were displaced by a war.
Can you agre that the form of government is irrelevant ? Democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, republic it is all irrelevant camouflage to the tyrant. The bureaucrats are the same regardless of the formally declared government style.
A communist bureaucrat is indistinguishable from a democratic one.
Another favorite trick is for a functionary to wear two hats and switch them as convenient.
The classic example is how Sheriff Buford could proclaim himself to be the law in dis heah county when it came to arresting civil rights protesters on any pretext, but just a private citizen exercising his constitutional rights when it came time to address the local Klan meeting.
Thank You for mentioning Robert Moses! -- I agree, his story is an excellent example of how real power works behind the dressy curtain of "democracy"; I urge everyone to read Robert Caro's masterful study "The Power Broker" (and as with ANY book, make sure you get a copy published before 2010, if possible).
I saw a documentary called "The Opera Hoise," by Susan Froemke. It made very clear what a destructive, and tyrannical force Moses was, as well as bringing Lincoln Center into existence. We really do need to find better, more human, community-centered ways to make stuff happen, just like the railroads, the airports, the Chavez Ravines, et.c.
Your point applies to corporations, churches & a family with more than one child or pet equally. We in a society must hold ourselves, institutions, and individuals there accountable and support each other when we can’t trust those with power over us.
All of it goes back to the dynasty family banking oligarchs and they probably grew out of every royal family and rich fuck that colonized the planet.. these Euro Anglos have been stomping on the face of indigenous peoples for centuries.. add the whole middle eastern roman christian Jewish supremacist and there you have this whole world of opulent sociopath cunts living off all our backs and blood!
Thank you for this essential essay. I do what I can as an elder. Teetering on the edge of nihilism, your work is one of few things that keeps me going.
See the current Billboard for Peace in Times Square, styled after John Lennon's WAR IS OVER Billboard of 1970. The Pentagon has admitted that the Peace campaigns of the early 1970s did bring an earlier end to the Vietnam War than intended. Now see the work for the CEASEFIRE and prevention of ALL wars of ALL kinds: www.JohnLennonReturns.com . Actions appear on the site.
I have never seen any protest actual dissuaded any government obsession with war. They just say that shit now to pretend that they had been wrong then so they wont look like cunts now ..this is all bull shit to make people think they have a say today...yeah go protest and get it out of your little systems.. unless you hit them in the money belt they will never stop tricking you into the big protection racket pyramid scheme..
Having the talent and written voice and growing popularity Caitlin has does come with that unavoidable sense what one says can effect people profoundly (good or bad). Reminds me of something Robert Redford once said about his own growing stardom:
“I never trusted success... Early on, when movies like ‘Butch Cassidy’ put a huge spotlight on me, I ran from it. I never fell into the traps of having an entourage and being surrounded by yes-people. It never interested me to do Leno or go to parties, and I think that served me.” ~Robert Redford
YES. The Democrats actually don't like it when they have all three Houses, because then they have to awkwardly explain why they can't deliver on any of their promises to their base, instead of simply point to the Republicans. The PTB don't like Trump because he's such a loose cannon, but they managed him for four years once. And YES, we can change things once we have the people--or a hefty percentage of us--united, but they requires a lot of education, a lot of deconstruction.
Bingo! And it’s why when democrats do hold all branches of government they also always have a rotating villain. During Clinton’s tenure it was Ben Nelson. Obama had Joe Lieberman and Biden has Joe Manchin. And if they fail there are many house democrats that will fail in life to derail the agenda. Biden even used the parliamentarians who has no power.
Managed and manipulated ...Netty and Kushner had him wrapped around their fingers and all these Trumpeters still can come to grips with that because of their blind hero worship..
Also, a few years ago, there was a "leak", supposedly from a Capitol Hill area pharmacist, to the effect that multiple Congressional leaders, Team D and Team R, were taking Alzheimer medications.
Said disclosure appears to have been memory-holed, and I have no idea whether or not the leak itself was genuine, but I do believe that a lot of the political leadership are senile.
I recall working on projects in D.C years ago, how walking into the Capital building there was a big Cadillac parked on the sidewalk, my companion for the day said oh don't worry thats M. Waters car, she always parks on the sidewalk because she doesn't know where she is.
Lexus and Vovan did a hilarious prank on Waters, getting her to call for the invasion of a non-existent country to prevent Russian influence from spreading there.
For that matter, it was an open secret that Dianna Feinstein had severe dementia in the the years before her death. Hell, her daughter wanted a guardianship over her because she was that incompetent, but she was still nominally in the Senate.
A propos this post, I'm halfway thru Ep2 of 4 of the docuseries, "American Conspiracy" on Netflix. Spooks galore. Check it out, all four episodes. Handle with care. It isn't a journalist-safe zone.
Totally agree and already in my community in the UK we are refusing to
vote for the two main party candidates and have vetted and selected our own
I am actively encouraging via social media others to do the same. Our Labour opposition party under Starmer in also under the thumb of the USA and Israel
I find George Galloway from the new Worker's Party becoming an MP a bit of ray of sunshine. I know he's controversial for some, but he is unequivocal about the Gazan genocide.
Tony Blair booted him from Labor because of Galloway's opposition to the Iraq war. I still remember watching Galloway in action during a US congressional hearing - where he told US representatives to their face - that the entire WMD's farce was a pack of lies. Galloway was so impressive back then that it remains etched in my memory even now.
It will be interesting on how they will work hard to smear him and whether it will succeed or not. The corrupt parties (the effete Elite and Corrupt Establishment) have control of UK's mainstream media outlets and have a loud megaphone, and if they can find something to smear Galloway on - which they were successful with Corbyn, they will most certainly exploit it to the hilt. Sunak is finished as PM (he and his party just don't know it yet) - his circus like appearance the other day in front of 10 Downing street finished him. But that won't stop the Established powers from marginalizing Galloway as much as they possibly can in the coming months ahead. The first way which is now obvious - they will come at him labeling him "divisive" like he and the public support he has are children who are not behaving. And that as soon as you complain about any of these despicable immoral people who now inhabit two cheeks of the same backside in parliament - you will be labeled as a supporter of Putin, a divisive figure or an anti-semitic by these same miscreants. But I think the gig is coming to a close to the rampant corruption - given just how much Galloway won his seat, quite a mandate - and how fed up the UK populace has become - especially with this ongoing genocide in GAZA. One can hope it is. We shall see.
The great thing about Galloway is his incredible oratory. No one has a better or cheekier way with words. He’s unparalled and highly entertaining. Years with a talk radio show probably honed that skill. He’ll say what needs to be said in the HoC.
George really is next level. You just don't see people with his quick wit, keen intelligence, and oratory skills every day - they are once in a generation type individuals. It will be sad if they figure out a way to get the best of him - and they will pull out all stops (methinks) to do so in the coming months. Galloway will need as much support as he can get from the general public, and those who are in the political class - who have enough sense that the GAZA genocide must be a red line for us all, and that Sunak's clownish speech the other day - is quite ominous to the general human rights of all people within the UK. No one should stand for it - and hopefully Galloway will bring that point home with the majority of the British people on his side.
Focusing on oratory is what got Obama elected (similar to Bill Clinton). Public personas is one thing. Policies, ability to make deals and compromises, and navigate constant conflict scenarios and environments is quite another.
There is a long and storied history of media personalities winning elections due to popularity. Examples: Reagan, Trump, Zelensky (Ukraine), Imran Khan (Pakistan), Schwarzenegger, the list is endless.
Having said that, almost anyone is better than Sunak, and I do like George Galloway's stances on foreign policy and geo-politics, but do find him conservative in many areas.
It's why I've said for years, Don't vote! Don't participate in a rigged system in which you can never win or benefit in any way. Both wings of the Uniparty don't want you to ever understand this. Stop being bamboozled.
If you vote for alternative candidates, you mess with the heads of the oligarchy. Keeps them confused and off-balanced. Once they're in a state of confusion, then we attack and bring out the guillotines...
The collapse of the dollar, now only a matter of time, will do the job of waking people up. That will not be a happy time and the unhappiness will be visited on the powers that be.
The sociopaths who run things are unimpressed by our cleverness, our word games, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts, unmoved by facts, logic, evidence or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the cops and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
It's like trying to reason with a schoolyard bully. Truly, this never grows old:
"A WOLF, meeting with a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the lamb himself, his right to eat him.
He then addressed him: Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.
Indeed, bleated the lamb in a mournful tone of voice: I was not then born.
Then said the wolf: You feed in my pasture.
No, good sir, replied the lamb: I have not yet tasted grass.
Again said the wolf: You drink of my well.
No, exclaimed the lamb: I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me.
Upon which the wolf seized him and ate him up, saying: Well! I won't remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations.
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
I wish every word you wrote was an exaggeration, but it is anything but. It is a reminder for me that not everyone has their eyes open. I have to get out of my bubble because I shouldn’t be shocked that so many are still kneeling on the throne of the Empire, the MIC, supporting Endless wars,& “strikes”(let’s be real, it’s bomb dropping)against those standing with The Resistance. Here as protesters we get police brutality(hello “cop city”), smeared, targeted or just completely ignored. I have to do a better job talking to people, & encouraging BDS. I often say “If you don’t care about the massacre/ethnic cleansing, do you care that we send billions to them every year, while they enjoy free healthcare & college & we have neither in the U. S.?” There’s more than one reason to protest this war(?), no it’s not war, it’s GENOCIDE.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/4/pro-palestinian-jewish-group-wants-to-see-end-of-us-funding-for-israel
I think you might find this interesting. hope so.
Thanks. I read it. Glad to see people actively protesting. Now you need those in charge of things to listen. Maybe if there is enough of us things can change. Hope so, because what is happening now may wind up the end of things.
I refuse to live with the idea things are hopeless. That's no way to live. I know that I was as active as I could be during the US's many middle eastern wars as were so many and you do feel hopeless, and you realize you didn't stop anything. However that doesn't mean you give up because if you do you sell your own soul, and become one with them. I will never do that. Screw them.
I don't see how hope has anything to do with it.
It just is.
Doesn't mean it always has to be that way, and it changes only if you have hope that it can be different. .
One brick in a wall
Even when it comes to Gaza. No a lot more has to be done sooner then later, otherwise he will implement his genocide.
Have a listen to Judy Small sing "You don't speak for .me".
Our hope isn't what makes things different. Life is just a series of temporary expedients, regardless of anything we may wish for.
Not hope alone but without it nothing changes. No one is saying wishing for something will bring change, but trying for it can.
"Act without regard to results." L.N. Tolstoi
"How can the 'civilized nations' repeatedly rationalize the invasions of another's land and culture by bringing their own unacknowledged heart of darkness to them? The simple truth is: It is easy. All one has to do is find a 'reason'."
~James Hollis, #GPBT #p135 #Jung
"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny." In Japan after WWI, there was a schoolyard ditty to that effect, that the great powers of the world preached about law and justice, but they ignore them whenever they saw fit at the moment, because the only real law is force and fraud.
So, as an individual what do you do? Nothing,since you realize your input often means nothing, or do you continue to try because that is only way you don't lose your soul as well.
L.N. Tolstoy said that you act, regardless of outcomes.
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As long as you always remember to sign and date the tax checks..they can steal your labor and energy through your blood sweat and tears right out of your body and build bombs to rip others apart with and channel the profits to the top of the control pyramid that enslaves you.. Hurry run get that pen and checkbook it's your civic duty now to be taxed without representation,,,, sheep.
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.
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.
Note how western politicians and their policies are all incredibly unpopular, but they claim to be acting on a popular mandate.
Robert Moses has a huge "mountain" of river sediment unofficially named after him on the south shore of St. Lawrence "Seaway." During the construction of the "Seaway," many people lost their homes and farms, including some historic landmarks. Those that tried to stop the destruction were put down by Mr. Moses as 1950s-era "deplorables."
Another interesting aside: the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline occurred on Robert Kagan's birthday in 2022.
Consider how the Pacific Railroad precisely enabled the final nail-in-coffin Native American genocide.
Perhaps not that raiiroad, in exactly that way, or at that moment. We don't have to reject something even as we reject how it was accomplished. If it is truly good and needed, there may be a better way.
To whom ought your questions be addressed, JohnZ? Me? Or the People who'd lived on the land for time immemorial?
#3 - those with power over significant projects & ego motivated have little regard for how their actions impact anyone or anything else.
Prejudice/Bias/Exceptionalism makes those neg consequences exponentially worse because the powerful sees neg consequences as a feature not a bug
Hi John,,
To the best of my knowledge, the 19th-century canals around the rapids in the St. Lawrence River could have been enlarged to allow ocean-going ships; and perhaps several smaller power dams could have been built. I have heard that the gross destruction of the communities along the river was due to the United States wanting to build a bigger dam than one that had recently been built on the Nile River (as I recall), perhaps by Russia (as I recall).
The people who lost their homes and farms through eminent domain received a pittance (so I have been told). Many were given a short time to pack up and leave - one newspaper report tells of a family that just got in their car and left - never looking back.
A few years ago an author in Canada interviewed people who had lived in the "Lost Villages" destroyed by the Seaway. She found many who had never spoken about it in over fifty years, similar to those who were displaced by a war.
Katrina? The levies? Hmmm
Can you agre that the form of government is irrelevant ? Democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, republic it is all irrelevant camouflage to the tyrant. The bureaucrats are the same regardless of the formally declared government style.
A communist bureaucrat is indistinguishable from a democratic one.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and its corollary, The Iron Law Of Institutions.
No Thanks. I have acquired a distaste for quisling half measures and trivial statements, they seem to be the fall back for statists.
Another favorite trick is for a functionary to wear two hats and switch them as convenient.
The classic example is how Sheriff Buford could proclaim himself to be the law in dis heah county when it came to arresting civil rights protesters on any pretext, but just a private citizen exercising his constitutional rights when it came time to address the local Klan meeting.
Thank You for mentioning Robert Moses! -- I agree, his story is an excellent example of how real power works behind the dressy curtain of "democracy"; I urge everyone to read Robert Caro's masterful study "The Power Broker" (and as with ANY book, make sure you get a copy published before 2010, if possible).
I saw a documentary called "The Opera Hoise," by Susan Froemke. It made very clear what a destructive, and tyrannical force Moses was, as well as bringing Lincoln Center into existence. We really do need to find better, more human, community-centered ways to make stuff happen, just like the railroads, the airports, the Chavez Ravines, et.c.
Your point applies to corporations, churches & a family with more than one child or pet equally. We in a society must hold ourselves, institutions, and individuals there accountable and support each other when we can’t trust those with power over us.
All of it goes back to the dynasty family banking oligarchs and they probably grew out of every royal family and rich fuck that colonized the planet.. these Euro Anglos have been stomping on the face of indigenous peoples for centuries.. add the whole middle eastern roman christian Jewish supremacist and there you have this whole world of opulent sociopath cunts living off all our backs and blood!
Far as I can tell, it goes back more to power than money. The Kagans of this world don't exactly live in sybaritic luxury.
Thank you for this essential essay. I do what I can as an elder. Teetering on the edge of nihilism, your work is one of few things that keeps me going.
Thanks to a fellow elder. I’m in the same boat my friend!!
See the current Billboard for Peace in Times Square, styled after John Lennon's WAR IS OVER Billboard of 1970. The Pentagon has admitted that the Peace campaigns of the early 1970s did bring an earlier end to the Vietnam War than intended. Now see the work for the CEASEFIRE and prevention of ALL wars of ALL kinds: www.JohnLennonReturns.com . Actions appear on the site.
I have never seen any protest actual dissuaded any government obsession with war. They just say that shit now to pretend that they had been wrong then so they wont look like cunts now ..this is all bull shit to make people think they have a say today...yeah go protest and get it out of your little systems.. unless you hit them in the money belt they will never stop tricking you into the big protection racket pyramid scheme..
Tax revolt or remain slaves..
Having the talent and written voice and growing popularity Caitlin has does come with that unavoidable sense what one says can effect people profoundly (good or bad). Reminds me of something Robert Redford once said about his own growing stardom:
“I never trusted success... Early on, when movies like ‘Butch Cassidy’ put a huge spotlight on me, I ran from it. I never fell into the traps of having an entourage and being surrounded by yes-people. It never interested me to do Leno or go to parties, and I think that served me.” ~Robert Redford
YES. The Democrats actually don't like it when they have all three Houses, because then they have to awkwardly explain why they can't deliver on any of their promises to their base, instead of simply point to the Republicans. The PTB don't like Trump because he's such a loose cannon, but they managed him for four years once. And YES, we can change things once we have the people--or a hefty percentage of us--united, but they requires a lot of education, a lot of deconstruction.
Bingo! And it’s why when democrats do hold all branches of government they also always have a rotating villain. During Clinton’s tenure it was Ben Nelson. Obama had Joe Lieberman and Biden has Joe Manchin. And if they fail there are many house democrats that will fail in life to derail the agenda. Biden even used the parliamentarians who has no power.
Managed and manipulated ...Netty and Kushner had him wrapped around their fingers and all these Trumpeters still can come to grips with that because of their blind hero worship..
still shouldn't vote for him
The FIX is in and has been for decades!! Both parties stink!!
Also, a few years ago, there was a "leak", supposedly from a Capitol Hill area pharmacist, to the effect that multiple Congressional leaders, Team D and Team R, were taking Alzheimer medications.
Said disclosure appears to have been memory-holed, and I have no idea whether or not the leak itself was genuine, but I do believe that a lot of the political leadership are senile.
n.b. stupid autocorrect.
Feinstein, Pelosi, Mitch the Glitch, ect.. Grassley is 90!
I recall working on projects in D.C years ago, how walking into the Capital building there was a big Cadillac parked on the sidewalk, my companion for the day said oh don't worry thats M. Waters car, she always parks on the sidewalk because she doesn't know where she is.
Lexus and Vovan did a hilarious prank on Waters, getting her to call for the invasion of a non-existent country to prevent Russian influence from spreading there.
For that matter, it was an open secret that Dianna Feinstein had severe dementia in the the years before her death. Hell, her daughter wanted a guardianship over her because she was that incompetent, but she was still nominally in the Senate.
Demonstrating their manifest senility mere underscores this.
The U.S. is not a democracy. That’s why it doesn’t matter which of the two big party you vote for.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Vote for anyone except the corrupt two parties. Or don’t vote b
A propos this post, I'm halfway thru Ep2 of 4 of the docuseries, "American Conspiracy" on Netflix. Spooks galore. Check it out, all four episodes. Handle with care. It isn't a journalist-safe zone.
Vote for Caitlin
lol Well she's Australian. Lives in the land down under, where women glow.
Perfect
You, Caitlin Johnstone, and George Galloway give me real hope. Thank you!
Thank you Caitlin🙏
And every time someone tells you that you need to save democracy, what they're really saying is you need to save their asses.
For Democracy cannot be lost if you never had it.
Totally agree and already in my community in the UK we are refusing to
vote for the two main party candidates and have vetted and selected our own
I am actively encouraging via social media others to do the same. Our Labour opposition party under Starmer in also under the thumb of the USA and Israel
Gaza is the tipping point of enough is enough
I find George Galloway from the new Worker's Party becoming an MP a bit of ray of sunshine. I know he's controversial for some, but he is unequivocal about the Gazan genocide.
He’s only controversial because he has been standing for Gaza and Palestine for decades, and been smeared accordingly.
Tony Blair booted him from Labor because of Galloway's opposition to the Iraq war. I still remember watching Galloway in action during a US congressional hearing - where he told US representatives to their face - that the entire WMD's farce was a pack of lies. Galloway was so impressive back then that it remains etched in my memory even now.
It will be interesting on how they will work hard to smear him and whether it will succeed or not. The corrupt parties (the effete Elite and Corrupt Establishment) have control of UK's mainstream media outlets and have a loud megaphone, and if they can find something to smear Galloway on - which they were successful with Corbyn, they will most certainly exploit it to the hilt. Sunak is finished as PM (he and his party just don't know it yet) - his circus like appearance the other day in front of 10 Downing street finished him. But that won't stop the Established powers from marginalizing Galloway as much as they possibly can in the coming months ahead. The first way which is now obvious - they will come at him labeling him "divisive" like he and the public support he has are children who are not behaving. And that as soon as you complain about any of these despicable immoral people who now inhabit two cheeks of the same backside in parliament - you will be labeled as a supporter of Putin, a divisive figure or an anti-semitic by these same miscreants. But I think the gig is coming to a close to the rampant corruption - given just how much Galloway won his seat, quite a mandate - and how fed up the UK populace has become - especially with this ongoing genocide in GAZA. One can hope it is. We shall see.
The great thing about Galloway is his incredible oratory. No one has a better or cheekier way with words. He’s unparalled and highly entertaining. Years with a talk radio show probably honed that skill. He’ll say what needs to be said in the HoC.
George really is next level. You just don't see people with his quick wit, keen intelligence, and oratory skills every day - they are once in a generation type individuals. It will be sad if they figure out a way to get the best of him - and they will pull out all stops (methinks) to do so in the coming months. Galloway will need as much support as he can get from the general public, and those who are in the political class - who have enough sense that the GAZA genocide must be a red line for us all, and that Sunak's clownish speech the other day - is quite ominous to the general human rights of all people within the UK. No one should stand for it - and hopefully Galloway will bring that point home with the majority of the British people on his side.
Focusing on oratory is what got Obama elected (similar to Bill Clinton). Public personas is one thing. Policies, ability to make deals and compromises, and navigate constant conflict scenarios and environments is quite another.
There is a long and storied history of media personalities winning elections due to popularity. Examples: Reagan, Trump, Zelensky (Ukraine), Imran Khan (Pakistan), Schwarzenegger, the list is endless.
List of actor-politicians (international):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians
Having said that, almost anyone is better than Sunak, and I do like George Galloway's stances on foreign policy and geo-politics, but do find him conservative in many areas.
Why speak of "enough" genocide? Really.
I took the expression to mean:Enough of this horror. End to war-mongering BS. Stop, already!
It's why I've said for years, Don't vote! Don't participate in a rigged system in which you can never win or benefit in any way. Both wings of the Uniparty don't want you to ever understand this. Stop being bamboozled.
By voting, you give a very corrupt electoral process a legitimacy it no longer deserves. I agree.
If you vote for alternative candidates, you mess with the heads of the oligarchy. Keeps them confused and off-balanced. Once they're in a state of confusion, then we attack and bring out the guillotines...
I think I'm beyond that point and have reached the guillotines part. But I understand what you're saying.
The collapse of the dollar, now only a matter of time, will do the job of waking people up. That will not be a happy time and the unhappiness will be visited on the powers that be.