Then there are those who believe in The Rapture. They really believe that when the the Jews return to the promised land (promised by who?----oh yeah, God) then they (the true believers) will rise naked (can you just imagine) to the right hand side of God. It would almost be worth it just to see those fat asses floating upwards. If any party anywhere that had a chance of being elected stood for peace, justice and equality, we would be living in a different world. AIPAC has systematically bought every politician in the US and in other western countries as well. This has been able to happen because people are swayed by money; we are brainwashed to think that having exorbitant amounts of money is what makes us successful people.
I find it hard to believe money is the sole motivation. A lot of them might just be as brainwashed as their voters. Or it’s, ‘serve our agenda or we’ll destroy you, your family, friends, kill your dog, then burn your house down. Oh and if you comply, we’ll donate a few bucks to your campaign…
Well of course money is not the sole motivation. They want to be able to have power over others too. Money buys power. And of course, they want to sit at the right hand side of God. As if any God with a mind would want them anywhere near.
I've always held the opinion that if any religion can in any way justify the murder and starvation of women and children, then the religion isn't worth the paper it was printed on.
The thing is, God really doesn't manage what happens on earth. People do. And that's exactly why everything is so fucked up. But in spirit life, a change gonna come. Now it's God's laws, for everyone. We're not playing here for a single mortal lifetime. We're playing for eternity and immortality. We can choose to throw those things away and suffer. Or to abide in God and prosper. Any action taken here on earth, no matter how vile, even genocide, is ultimately forgivable. But why dig yourself a hole that could take a thousand years of spirit life to climb out of? Knowing this while still mortal is a tremendous inspiration and guideline.
They will find it impossible to go to God until they completely repent, atone, suffer, renounce their evil ways and pray for and receive God's holy essence. Same is true for everyone. Why create a delay just for a little pleasure here on earth? (James Padgett Messages).
There is no god🤣 Ffs. The human species is the stupidest species on the planet. Still believing in a mythical sky daddy that's being promoted by pedophile clergy🤮 Grow up.
There is a God. Human culture knows nothing about him. All these Christians are following people chosen by something. Whatever that something is, it is the antithesis of God. Which is the whole point. They failed the test of temptation. They failed to see. They let their appetites drive their theology. And for that they will pay. All things balance in the end. What goes up must come down. The scorecard reads par at the end.
God gave humans free will. Humans fucked life in this world up real bad. We could fix it back to Eden but nobody wants to. God's laws God God into force once we die. Totally different life then.
It's not God - The Jesuit Order is Satanic. Sounds conspiracy theory nut case. The Entire History on 'The Jesuit Order" movado242 full documentary on YTube.
This is new information for me. I’ve been searching for any reference to the word blackmail being associated specifically with imperialism and can’t find one. Can you provide one? I’m curious now. The word has definitely been used exactly as I mean it, however, as translated in Lenin, e.g.
I CANNOT believe millions more will potentially die for some dumb prophecy that reads like something cooked-up by satan himself to destroy the human race!
The word "rapture" makes me laugh ever since I read about it. The image of a bunch of fat bums floating in the sky just seems funny to me. I am sorry it is making you sick, but, as you say, it is better than having them down here with us.
Neo-Atheism is just another religion. It is the religion of the death cult of Wallstreet "greed is good" and yet to be scientifically proven: Democritus's reductive materialism.
This is how international capitalism works. It controls everything of importance from back stage while it sets up two political parties who if the win government will control all of the important elements and party a will hand over power to party b everytime the electors instructed it do so. It also allows elements such as the Greens and Labour Left (but never a communists party). to be part of the structure. And this works fine for the system. If Leftist elements do gain government the system it waits a little and then collapses or bring near to collapse the economy . This causes an election and a friendly party get back to do what it is ordered to do. When the capitalist system goes into semi collapses mode (which it does circa every 30 years) it 'mows the grass' and gets ride of the unwanted elements which have become part of the power control system. Capitalist Imperialism also need war in about the same intervals. We need to peacefully but forefully stop supporting it.
I wonder if the time frame is considerably speeding up though? It feels like it - the number of hot wars have certainly speeded up - like a bunch of greed drunken drivers playing nuclear chicken on the road to... where? Also this analysis assumes the electors are in control of even the appearance of party a, b, c and not the Corporate Military Industrial Banking Donor Complex, not to mention the brilliant invention of the "electoral college." I wonder if we're also giving the Capitalist Imperial Entities more intelligence, planning and coordination than they are capable of. Things feel increasingly out of control to me.
The controlling capitalist system is not out of control. What is out of control is the eco system and the system refuses to get it back on a level base since this entails the very rapid phasing out of fossil fuels but they are very golden nuggets that the system was founded on. That greed will eventually destroy the system and us with it.
Yes I very much agree - That the capitalist system is throwing the eco system out of control, esp re fossil fuels. The Earth requires that much of that oil, that hydrocarbon, which she circulates underground for the use and sake of all life forms, remain underground. Indigenous cultures understand this. As you say, that greed could eventually destroy the system and us with it if not stopped. That willfully ignorant accelerating greed sounds pretty out of control to me. And that is the reason why every single effort to spread awareness, growing solidarity and actions are so critically important at this time on and for our entire Earth and especially in this very moment for our brothers and sisters suffering so much in Palestine/Gaza!
Don't forget about entropy. We're on a freight train speeding downhill and the breaks are broken😞 All "systems" are subject to entropy's force. Hierarchies are bad. All of them.
Entropy is a very slow acting factor.. Of course CO2 caused catastrophic climate change is a human caused function of entropy.
And personally I don't think all hierarchies are necessarily bad - the hierarchy of human tender loving kindness is clearly not bad. We Should just attempt to imitate the leaders and attempt to peacefully climb up to try to join them.
i don't think the system requires a lot of intelligence, planning and coordination. a fanatical adherence to dogma's and 'first principles' and early foundational indoctrination into submission is pretty effective. domination of the few over the many is old, but probably only needs a few crucial controls.
Welll Martin it does have more than a few 'critical controls. I have long had fears that it may not be possible to dislodge it from its controlling position and now it is open about its fallback position the nuclear option. If it were sane well balanced people making this threat I would consider it an empty one. But if powerful psychopaths make threats I feel we should take them seriously and not try to call their bluff. We need time for an intelligent moral response to mature. Their control of AI is he biggest worry.
i agree that there seems no off ramp for nuclear annihilation. i think ai was indeed a worry for them, and they are continuing that now. it will make oppression of the masses easier, but there is still a risk it will elude them, imo.
Very nicely said Caitlin. I have had to avoid listening to or reading anything coming out of the DNC to stay sane, except for Michelle's speech (in order to respond to someone's enthusiasm). Once you understand what vacuous gibberish looks like, it's hard to believe anyone could be taken in by such nonsense and lies.
What was well worth watching was the Arab American Institute Progressives for Palestine put on its own "convention" just down the street with three days of heartfelt/heart wrenching and very informative panels about the reality on the ground, the legal ramifications, the history, etc. building solidarity. I don't know if this will come through without having signed up:
CJ>>"If it was two openly evil factions, good people would immediately recognize that their goals are not being represented by either party, and a real revolutionary movement would emerge. What makes the Democratic Party such an effective psyop is that it stops good people from recognizing that everyone with power and influence in their country is their enemy. And it stops them from responding accordingly."
Well illuminated Caitlin! I've spent a few frustrating years trying to tell my Democrat friends/acquaintances THIS EXACT THING (but to no avail unfortunately).
"...spreading awareness of the reality that the Democrats are not good people and are not doing good things helps take away that weapon."
Exactly! I think after this week more people will be questioning why so-called "good people" are still enthusiastically supporting a genocide. Don't let them forget what the Dems are doing to the people of Gaza. Tie it all together for them--AIPAC and the MIC own the Dems and the Repugs and they don't represent working people. Perhaps we can get the majority to see the light and shut down the genocide for good.
You and 13 idiots like stupid The dream of the imaginary in communism will not happen You and 13 like racists say that a party is run by black people not good people
Groups of three to five officers equipped with batons seemed to cover the city streets including otherwise vibrant and leisurely spaces like the Navy Pier.
The foreboding police presence persisted through the weekend and into the start of the week when the first of two major demonstrations was scheduled to launch from Chicago’s Union Park. At the park, on Monday, August 19, thousands gathered to demand an end to U.S. aid for Israel’s decimation of Gaza. The protest took place just four days after the Gaza death toll surpassed 40,000 and six days after the U.S. government authorized $20 billion in military sales to Israel.
You came to Chicago early? Really? Well, police gangs are a pretty regular thing here in Chicago, too bad you find a black friend to go to the South side with; you'd think that maybe you were a Palestinian in Gaza. 😳
I couldn't agree more. I *wanted* to applaud so many of the speeches but line after line I was like, these are essentially lies. "all people are created equal and deserve equal opportunities", so you don't think of people where our bombs drop as people? etc. etc.
How genocide isn't a red line for people eludes me.
Fully 1/3 of people all over the world are boycotting Israel, which shows how upset ordinary people are about the ongoing genocide. And they don't even allow a Palestinian or a doctor who worked in Gaza speak at the DNC and continues to send money to Israel?
Why people aren't leaving the Democrats and deciding to vote for Jill Stein instead is beyond my comprehension.
Corporations will fire you these days even if you've made a huge profit for them. It's corporations and Wallstreet who run our lives now. They also run the US government.
Corporations use to have more responsibilities to their employees then they do now. That is, the idea the Corporations should be the new Gods of all our lives, and do whatever the fuck they want - is immoral and obscene.
Most American corporations these days treat American workers like replaceable animals, and treat the environment like a rape victim. The idea that corporations are some kind of golden grail of goodness is the bullshit Libertarians assume we all must believe in.
Corporations left to themselves with no regulations and no humane controls - is a recipe for human slavery. Which is pretty much the direction the US has been going toward now for decades: human WAGE SLAVERY.
Perhaps I've spent a little too much time reading Sartre and am, therefore, overly influenced by the idea that we are who we are in the world, but no one who does nothing in the face of genocide qualifies as a good person.
I do agree on the take on Democrats. Most of them have no idea what their party really stands for and just are there because they think the Republican party is evil, ignorant, and backwards. Which I see you also believe. As someone who knows many Republicans, I completely disagree with your take that we are evil and desire the war in Gaza, regular people don't want that at all. I'm even surprised you would expect Dems to stand with Gaza for real, they are a party of death in all cases and just care about identity politics. At least Republicans care about things that really affect our everyday life.
Apparently you don't know enough Republicans. Republicans are much, much more supportive of Israel's atrocities in Gaza than Democrats. Like it's not even close.
Because of how the media portrays Isreal as the only ally in the middle east and the middle east is the boogie man. I also doubt most really know what's going on. I don't think you understand the chokehold the media has on the people here. Most Democrats pay lip service but they don't care or know what's going on either. Humans are selfish and if it's not happening in their backyard they don't care.
The fact that people support wars and other depravity because they are propagandized by the media is, like, the main thing I write about. I was just addressing your claim that Republicans don't support the destruction of Gaza. They do, but (just like Democrats), the first and foremost reason they support it is because of mass-scale psychological manipulation.
It's really bad too. Blue MAGA is completely down the rabbit hole. I "attacked" Biden by telling another Substack writer that Biden was partly responsible for the student loan debt crisis because of the bill he signed on to in 2005 and he was now trying to dig himself out of that mess. This guy argued with me over it🥴 I actually had to explain cause and effect to him🤦♀️ I then told him that I loathe Biden🤣 He blocked me🤣 Mediocre, white men are such ❄❄❄
It's called "selective distrust". Republicans distrust what goes against their confirmation bias, as do Democrats.
>>"Republicans generally distrust the MSM on Trump and most everything else"
No, they don't - as can be seen from the popularity and ratings of FOX news. They only distrust any MSM that does NOT favor them (this is also borne out by the kind of independent media that Republicans follow).
Obviously normal members of the public are not comparable in their evil to the empire managers driving the machine. I'm talking about how the empire uses political parties to accomplish its goals, not the individual members of the public.
Members of the public are not comparable in their evil, but they are complicit, just as the German public were during the Third Reich.
We look back in history and wonder how those non evil members of the public allowed the Third Reich to succeed. They did so by failing to oppose the right wing, being passive, just like how the Democrats passively oppose Republicans, scared of offering anything too radical because of what the opposition might say.
There are real parallels in current US politics to the politics of 1930's Germany.
For months, as I have watched what is happening in Gaza, and the response of the west (and especially how ordinary people in the west have just gone along with their political leaders), I have felt that it is uncannily like what happened in 1930s Germany.
And the definition of right wing is wrong there is a right wing
You are not a German, shut up and separate those sites like you are a liar
The doctorate is the right wing and democracy is the left wing and that is known you are an ignorant American in history and stop the American centralism and the definition of left wing is wrong and the constitution is a religious thing and that means a religious government and the republic is democracy
The constitution is not a republic you ignorant Yankee
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" you liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship you idiot
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum
Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" You liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship You idiot
That's not Short explanation That's the sites Lies and Yankee ignorant in political science like you
American centralism ignorant like youHOW That would be left wing
Fascists are not left wing they are right wing
And the definition of right wing is wrong there is a right wing
You are not a German, shut up and separate those sites like you are a liar
The doctorate is the right wing and democracy is the left wing and that is known you are an ignorant American in history and stop the American centralism and the definition of left wing is wrong and the constitution is a religious thing and that means a religious government and the republic is democracy
The constitution is not a republic you ignorant Yankee
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" you liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship you idiot
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum
Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" You liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship You idiot
That's not Short explanation That's the sites Lies and Yankee ignorant in political science like you
>>"It's also very dehumanizing to call a whole group of people evil and dismiss us."
Are you even remotely self-aware of what you are saying?
The Israelis, Zionists, and supporters of these 2 groups have been "DEHUMANIZING" Palestinians and Arabs for 75+ years now. And you're crying about what Caitlin is saying about Republicans ???
The truth hurts. Republicans and Democrats don't have solutions. They maintain the status quo hoping that over time the problems will go away all by themselves. Neither has have the intellect nor the courage to propose anything different because of the pressure from Big Money and Lobbying.
republicans own the brand name. if one doesn't support the genocide, one should stop calling oneself a republican, imo. one should invent one's own brand of conservatism.
The things you vote for or support determine how evil you are. If you're voting for people who don't offer a way of stopping evil other than using evil to fight evil, you're voting for evil.
One can be naive, ill-informed, mis-informed, and many other things and NOT be evil. Such a person can vote for EVIL candidates while not being aware of the 'evilness' of such candidates. In fact, that is more often the case than not. Most ordinary people are NOT evil, yet they often end up voting for people in positions of power and authority that ARE evil.
Lots of very good people on the right. To the extent there is any critical thought or challenge to power remaining in this world, it is almost entirely on the right. The left as a legitimate political force died under the neoliberal consensus. But just when things were getting interesting, just as the deep state and its satanic science were being exposed, the puppeteers started this “brown man bad” show back up and the right, suffering from millennia of brainwashing masquerading as religion, fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It’s very upsetting, but it fits the pattern. What the right will never understand is that there is no peace without embracing the other. They define themselves by enmity to the other, and because of that they are easily led astray. All the puppeteers have to do is fabricate or exaggerate a controversy about feminine men, masculine women, brown murderers, black petty crime, etc, and off the right goes chasing the rabbit and reconfirming for the rest of us why we hated them in the first place.
And yet the Democrats are “a political party whose SOLE PURPOSE is to ensure the triumph of evil?” What then is the GOP? The evil incarnate which the Dem’s sole purpose is to ensure triumphs?
I think you misinterpreted my comment. Let me rephrase it.
If Republicans (or Democrats) care about things that really affect our everyday life -> then they would be supporting Jill Stein or Cornell West or Claudia De la Cruz and NOT a Republican party or Democratic party candidate.
I myself am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but I know quite a few (personally) on both sides of the aisle, and also a few that are NOT on the US Team D/Team R political spectrum.
At this point in time, they’re being judged by their choice of potus and vpotus candidates. It’s so extreme that I think people expect decent Republicans to leave the Party.
"The Biden administration has been just as guilty in Israel’s genocidal atrocities as the Netanyahu regime itself, but by paying lip service to humanitarian concerns and pretending to be working toward peace" Caitlyn
"Bystanders, as do members of any crowd, lose themselves in the emotional state of the group and become—in their own minds—less personally accountable for their inaction. As the number of bystanders grows, they may furthermore become increasingly callous, less prompted to sympathy for victims, and more disposed to devalue life. (Sheleff 1978:18, discussing unpublished work by Ted L. Huston) The more bystanders who remain un-swayed, the less chance there is that they will choose to intervene; and the more that bystanders believe there is no point in trying, the more they may “construe the victim as the kind of undesirable person who ‘deserves’ to suffer. The greater the injustice of the victim’s fate the greater the efforts at condemnation and rejection.” (Lerner 1970:207). Apathy, inaction, the number of bystanders, their perception that they are impotent, conformity, lack of empathy and moral awareness, their tendency to turn against the victims, and their enjoyment of the victim’s suffering—all of these are ingredients that foster and perpetuate inaction"
"These, then, are some of the common human emotions that contribute to the by- stander’s willingness to gaze excitedly upon victimization, or dully to avert his gaze, while doing nothing. As time passes, his fear of becoming involved, and the support and gratification he receives as a member of a community of bystanders, make any intervention he might initiate less and less likely. As he bears witness to brutality, so will he avert his eyes as brutality metastasizes into mass murder: In this way during the Holocaust, “bystanders to cruelty became bystanders to genocide.” (Morse 1968:383)"
It's painful to hear what Caitlyn and Dr. Bartlett is telling me and it's quite depressing. I've supported AOC financially ever since she went into office -but not anymore. Thankfully, she was the only politician I support this way because she genuinely cares for the middle and working class. However, lying for Kamala all the while the atrocities continued in Gaza is unforgivable to me. The US pathological zeal to control the world is no different. I wish there was a supernatural God who could intervene by punishing all those in power by placing them in Gaza and let them suffer until they beg for mercy. After WWII, The US had a chance to make this a better world but they squandered it and became a pathological hegemonic, sick, twisted, fucked up superpower worthy of Darth Vader and the Devil himself. I hate living in the US because of this.
Justice is a human concept. If there was a supernatural God they are only watching and shaking their head. Humanity once appeared so promising but it is fast failing to justify its existence.
Thank you for these quotes! The US had no interest in making this a better world, during or after WWII. They wanted to use the situation (a weakened Europe and Japan) to replace them as the one dominant world power. They didn’t care how - they appropriated the Nazi scientists to develop nuclear weapons. And it was not only the MIC/government, it was the people. The “Greatest Generation” danced to hit songs that celebrated the coming US takeover of Europe. They’ve mostly been scrubbed.
Then there are those who believe in The Rapture. They really believe that when the the Jews return to the promised land (promised by who?----oh yeah, God) then they (the true believers) will rise naked (can you just imagine) to the right hand side of God. It would almost be worth it just to see those fat asses floating upwards. If any party anywhere that had a chance of being elected stood for peace, justice and equality, we would be living in a different world. AIPAC has systematically bought every politician in the US and in other western countries as well. This has been able to happen because people are swayed by money; we are brainwashed to think that having exorbitant amounts of money is what makes us successful people.
I find it hard to believe money is the sole motivation. A lot of them might just be as brainwashed as their voters. Or it’s, ‘serve our agenda or we’ll destroy you, your family, friends, kill your dog, then burn your house down. Oh and if you comply, we’ll donate a few bucks to your campaign…
Well of course money is not the sole motivation. They want to be able to have power over others too. Money buys power. And of course, they want to sit at the right hand side of God. As if any God with a mind would want them anywhere near.
I've always held the opinion that if any religion can in any way justify the murder and starvation of women and children, then the religion isn't worth the paper it was printed on.
any ideology that can justify the murder of masses of people anywhere is vile. Nazism and Zionism come to mind.
The thing is, God really doesn't manage what happens on earth. People do. And that's exactly why everything is so fucked up. But in spirit life, a change gonna come. Now it's God's laws, for everyone. We're not playing here for a single mortal lifetime. We're playing for eternity and immortality. We can choose to throw those things away and suffer. Or to abide in God and prosper. Any action taken here on earth, no matter how vile, even genocide, is ultimately forgivable. But why dig yourself a hole that could take a thousand years of spirit life to climb out of? Knowing this while still mortal is a tremendous inspiration and guideline.
Are you fucking nuts?
...................MONEY is Power!
They will find it impossible to go to God until they completely repent, atone, suffer, renounce their evil ways and pray for and receive God's holy essence. Same is true for everyone. Why create a delay just for a little pleasure here on earth? (James Padgett Messages).
There is no god🤣 Ffs. The human species is the stupidest species on the planet. Still believing in a mythical sky daddy that's being promoted by pedophile clergy🤮 Grow up.
There is a God. Human culture knows nothing about him. All these Christians are following people chosen by something. Whatever that something is, it is the antithesis of God. Which is the whole point. They failed the test of temptation. They failed to see. They let their appetites drive their theology. And for that they will pay. All things balance in the end. What goes up must come down. The scorecard reads par at the end.
"There is a God. Human culture knows nothing about him."
Of which non-human culture are you?
And you know this how?
Agree Jasmine. I gave up on “god” many years ago. If he is so just and merciful and loves all “his” children, he sure has a shitty way of showing it.
Aye.
God gave humans free will. Humans fucked life in this world up real bad. We could fix it back to Eden but nobody wants to. God's laws God God into force once we die. Totally different life then.
We are angered by what we see in others that is also within us. Peace to you.
It's not God - The Jesuit Order is Satanic. Sounds conspiracy theory nut case. The Entire History on 'The Jesuit Order" movado242 full documentary on YTube.
I'm absolutely certain a whole fuck ton of extortion is going on. And Mossad is just as much of a crime syndicate as the CIA is.
We know they employ blackmail; I’m certain they employ threats as well, as you say.
Gentle reminder, blackmail is an imperialist term. Please refrain from using it. Extortion works better anyway. Thank you 🤗
This is new information for me. I’ve been searching for any reference to the word blackmail being associated specifically with imperialism and can’t find one. Can you provide one? I’m curious now. The word has definitely been used exactly as I mean it, however, as translated in Lenin, e.g.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/06b.htm
It mentions imperialism in the article 🤦♀️
Money is not the motivation - The Plans of World Domination - it's The Jesuit Order
I CANNOT believe millions more will potentially die for some dumb prophecy that reads like something cooked-up by satan himself to destroy the human race!
B I N G O
The Entire History on The Jesuit Order movado242 YTube
Thanks for the image. It’s making me sick, but not as much as having them down here with us.
The word "rapture" makes me laugh ever since I read about it. The image of a bunch of fat bums floating in the sky just seems funny to me. I am sorry it is making you sick, but, as you say, it is better than having them down here with us.
You and 45 are trying to make excuses for AIPAC not to buy anything you idiot
Isn't it the same as the ejection? I found that whole narrative that there was something to it a great lie.
Of course it is a lie. Or at least a made up story to manipulate people.
There is no god. There is no devil🤣 Grow the fuck up🤣
And so, there is no evil?
No🤦♀️ There are horrible people who horrific things.
Neo-Atheism is just another religion. It is the religion of the death cult of Wallstreet "greed is good" and yet to be scientifically proven: Democritus's reductive materialism.
I've been saying this and it's variations for the past 3 decades. Thank you so much for articulating it so well!
This is how international capitalism works. It controls everything of importance from back stage while it sets up two political parties who if the win government will control all of the important elements and party a will hand over power to party b everytime the electors instructed it do so. It also allows elements such as the Greens and Labour Left (but never a communists party). to be part of the structure. And this works fine for the system. If Leftist elements do gain government the system it waits a little and then collapses or bring near to collapse the economy . This causes an election and a friendly party get back to do what it is ordered to do. When the capitalist system goes into semi collapses mode (which it does circa every 30 years) it 'mows the grass' and gets ride of the unwanted elements which have become part of the power control system. Capitalist Imperialism also need war in about the same intervals. We need to peacefully but forefully stop supporting it.
Jack Lomax - well articulated and summarized! Thank you. People all over the world need to really understand this!
I wonder if the time frame is considerably speeding up though? It feels like it - the number of hot wars have certainly speeded up - like a bunch of greed drunken drivers playing nuclear chicken on the road to... where? Also this analysis assumes the electors are in control of even the appearance of party a, b, c and not the Corporate Military Industrial Banking Donor Complex, not to mention the brilliant invention of the "electoral college." I wonder if we're also giving the Capitalist Imperial Entities more intelligence, planning and coordination than they are capable of. Things feel increasingly out of control to me.
The controlling capitalist system is not out of control. What is out of control is the eco system and the system refuses to get it back on a level base since this entails the very rapid phasing out of fossil fuels but they are very golden nuggets that the system was founded on. That greed will eventually destroy the system and us with it.
Yes I very much agree - That the capitalist system is throwing the eco system out of control, esp re fossil fuels. The Earth requires that much of that oil, that hydrocarbon, which she circulates underground for the use and sake of all life forms, remain underground. Indigenous cultures understand this. As you say, that greed could eventually destroy the system and us with it if not stopped. That willfully ignorant accelerating greed sounds pretty out of control to me. And that is the reason why every single effort to spread awareness, growing solidarity and actions are so critically important at this time on and for our entire Earth and especially in this very moment for our brothers and sisters suffering so much in Palestine/Gaza!
Don't forget about entropy. We're on a freight train speeding downhill and the breaks are broken😞 All "systems" are subject to entropy's force. Hierarchies are bad. All of them.
Entropy is a very slow acting factor.. Of course CO2 caused catastrophic climate change is a human caused function of entropy.
And personally I don't think all hierarchies are necessarily bad - the hierarchy of human tender loving kindness is clearly not bad. We Should just attempt to imitate the leaders and attempt to peacefully climb up to try to join them.
Empires only last 250 years. The US is 248. Entropy moves much faster on imaginary "systems".
i don't think the system requires a lot of intelligence, planning and coordination. a fanatical adherence to dogma's and 'first principles' and early foundational indoctrination into submission is pretty effective. domination of the few over the many is old, but probably only needs a few crucial controls.
Welll Martin it does have more than a few 'critical controls. I have long had fears that it may not be possible to dislodge it from its controlling position and now it is open about its fallback position the nuclear option. If it were sane well balanced people making this threat I would consider it an empty one. But if powerful psychopaths make threats I feel we should take them seriously and not try to call their bluff. We need time for an intelligent moral response to mature. Their control of AI is he biggest worry.
i agree that there seems no off ramp for nuclear annihilation. i think ai was indeed a worry for them, and they are continuing that now. it will make oppression of the masses easier, but there is still a risk it will elude them, imo.
Exactly. The people running this shit show are not only monsters but a bag of rocks is smarter🫠
Not necessarily “peacefully” though, Jack.
Very nicely said Caitlin. I have had to avoid listening to or reading anything coming out of the DNC to stay sane, except for Michelle's speech (in order to respond to someone's enthusiasm). Once you understand what vacuous gibberish looks like, it's hard to believe anyone could be taken in by such nonsense and lies.
What was well worth watching was the Arab American Institute Progressives for Palestine put on its own "convention" just down the street with three days of heartfelt/heart wrenching and very informative panels about the reality on the ground, the legal ramifications, the history, etc. building solidarity. I don't know if this will come through without having signed up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPFXu5OU5m0 or https://progressivesforpalestine.com/
Thank you for the links Liana! Much appreciated.
People’s stupidity is boundless.
Same🫂
CJ>>"If it was two openly evil factions, good people would immediately recognize that their goals are not being represented by either party, and a real revolutionary movement would emerge. What makes the Democratic Party such an effective psyop is that it stops good people from recognizing that everyone with power and influence in their country is their enemy. And it stops them from responding accordingly."
Well illuminated Caitlin! I've spent a few frustrating years trying to tell my Democrat friends/acquaintances THIS EXACT THING (but to no avail unfortunately).
Here's my math equation/computer code ->
Republican_Party = Overt_Fascism + Overt_Evil;
Democratic_Party = Covert_Fascism + (mix_of_Overt_and_Covert_Evil);
(Hope my code compiles and computes - and wreaks havoc on the cognitive IT systems/thinking of human societies) 😃
🤗🤣
You and 17 likes are fascist communists
"...spreading awareness of the reality that the Democrats are not good people and are not doing good things helps take away that weapon."
Exactly! I think after this week more people will be questioning why so-called "good people" are still enthusiastically supporting a genocide. Don't let them forget what the Dems are doing to the people of Gaza. Tie it all together for them--AIPAC and the MIC own the Dems and the Repugs and they don't represent working people. Perhaps we can get the majority to see the light and shut down the genocide for good.
More ideas at https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/baby-killers-make-lousy-leaders
You and 13 idiots like stupid The dream of the imaginary in communism will not happen You and 13 like racists say that a party is run by black people not good people
The dream of the imaginary in communism
Groups of three to five officers equipped with batons seemed to cover the city streets including otherwise vibrant and leisurely spaces like the Navy Pier.
The foreboding police presence persisted through the weekend and into the start of the week when the first of two major demonstrations was scheduled to launch from Chicago’s Union Park. At the park, on Monday, August 19, thousands gathered to demand an end to U.S. aid for Israel’s decimation of Gaza. The protest took place just four days after the Gaza death toll surpassed 40,000 and six days after the U.S. government authorized $20 billion in military sales to Israel.
https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-the-march-on-the
Thank you for being there, and for reporting. 🩷
Oh, it must be PhD math:
2,000,000 - 1,000,000 = 40,000
Original population - the number of people still in the way = a joke of a statistic
You came to Chicago early? Really? Well, police gangs are a pretty regular thing here in Chicago, too bad you find a black friend to go to the South side with; you'd think that maybe you were a Palestinian in Gaza. 😳
You and 12 idiots want to support Hamas
Genocide is OK as long as it's heavily advertised by attractive well-groomed people.
I couldn't agree more. I *wanted* to applaud so many of the speeches but line after line I was like, these are essentially lies. "all people are created equal and deserve equal opportunities", so you don't think of people where our bombs drop as people? etc. etc.
How genocide isn't a red line for people eludes me.
Fully 1/3 of people all over the world are boycotting Israel, which shows how upset ordinary people are about the ongoing genocide. And they don't even allow a Palestinian or a doctor who worked in Gaza speak at the DNC and continues to send money to Israel?
Why people aren't leaving the Democrats and deciding to vote for Jill Stein instead is beyond my comprehension.
Because humans are sheep.
That is somewhat insulting to sheep . . .
Corporations will fire you these days even if you've made a huge profit for them. It's corporations and Wallstreet who run our lives now. They also run the US government.
NO AIPAC runs the USA and yes they have money and corporations.
Corporations use to have more responsibilities to their employees then they do now. That is, the idea the Corporations should be the new Gods of all our lives, and do whatever the fuck they want - is immoral and obscene.
Most American corporations these days treat American workers like replaceable animals, and treat the environment like a rape victim. The idea that corporations are some kind of golden grail of goodness is the bullshit Libertarians assume we all must believe in.
Corporations left to themselves with no regulations and no humane controls - is a recipe for human slavery. Which is pretty much the direction the US has been going toward now for decades: human WAGE SLAVERY.
Perhaps I've spent a little too much time reading Sartre and am, therefore, overly influenced by the idea that we are who we are in the world, but no one who does nothing in the face of genocide qualifies as a good person.
We got inured to murder after Roe.
I do agree on the take on Democrats. Most of them have no idea what their party really stands for and just are there because they think the Republican party is evil, ignorant, and backwards. Which I see you also believe. As someone who knows many Republicans, I completely disagree with your take that we are evil and desire the war in Gaza, regular people don't want that at all. I'm even surprised you would expect Dems to stand with Gaza for real, they are a party of death in all cases and just care about identity politics. At least Republicans care about things that really affect our everyday life.
Apparently you don't know enough Republicans. Republicans are much, much more supportive of Israel's atrocities in Gaza than Democrats. Like it's not even close.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx
Because of how the media portrays Isreal as the only ally in the middle east and the middle east is the boogie man. I also doubt most really know what's going on. I don't think you understand the chokehold the media has on the people here. Most Democrats pay lip service but they don't care or know what's going on either. Humans are selfish and if it's not happening in their backyard they don't care.
The fact that people support wars and other depravity because they are propagandized by the media is, like, the main thing I write about. I was just addressing your claim that Republicans don't support the destruction of Gaza. They do, but (just like Democrats), the first and foremost reason they support it is because of mass-scale psychological manipulation.
It's really bad too. Blue MAGA is completely down the rabbit hole. I "attacked" Biden by telling another Substack writer that Biden was partly responsible for the student loan debt crisis because of the bill he signed on to in 2005 and he was now trying to dig himself out of that mess. This guy argued with me over it🥴 I actually had to explain cause and effect to him🤦♀️ I then told him that I loathe Biden🤣 He blocked me🤣 Mediocre, white men are such ❄❄❄
I do not think all white men are snow flakes.
There is no such thing as MAGA, you and 6 crazy communists. There is no communist revolution.
So wait, Republicans generally distrust the MSM on Trump and most everything else, but are entirely in its thrall when it comes to Gaza?!?
It's called "selective distrust". Republicans distrust what goes against their confirmation bias, as do Democrats.
>>"Republicans generally distrust the MSM on Trump and most everything else"
No, they don't - as can be seen from the popularity and ratings of FOX news. They only distrust any MSM that does NOT favor them (this is also borne out by the kind of independent media that Republicans follow).
They are in the thrall of Fox TV, which I assume loves the Gaza war.
Taking that as given, and Fox News is able to question the MSM party line pretty much across the board, but not when it comes to Gaza?
Fox News IS a part of MSM - maybe that's where the confusion lies.
Have you watched FOX news ?
The Democrats are not a workers' party, you liar, and they didn't expel anyone, they just lost.
It's also very dehumanizing to call a whole group of people evil and dismiss us. We want no part in these wars.
Obviously normal members of the public are not comparable in their evil to the empire managers driving the machine. I'm talking about how the empire uses political parties to accomplish its goals, not the individual members of the public.
Members of the public are not comparable in their evil, but they are complicit, just as the German public were during the Third Reich.
We look back in history and wonder how those non evil members of the public allowed the Third Reich to succeed. They did so by failing to oppose the right wing, being passive, just like how the Democrats passively oppose Republicans, scared of offering anything too radical because of what the opposition might say.
There are real parallels in current US politics to the politics of 1930's Germany.
For months, as I have watched what is happening in Gaza, and the response of the west (and especially how ordinary people in the west have just gone along with their political leaders), I have felt that it is uncannily like what happened in 1930s Germany.
That would be left wing. Socialists, fascists are left wing.
Short explanation:
https://etherzone.com/are-you-right-or-are-you-left/
I don't think you know or understand what "fascism" is. Try looking up some NON far-right and alt-right sources...
HOW That would be left wing
Fascists are not left wing they are right wing
And the definition of right wing is wrong there is a right wing
You are not a German, shut up and separate those sites like you are a liar
The doctorate is the right wing and democracy is the left wing and that is known you are an ignorant American in history and stop the American centralism and the definition of left wing is wrong and the constitution is a religious thing and that means a religious government and the republic is democracy
The constitution is not a republic you ignorant Yankee
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" you liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship you idiot
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum
Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" You liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship You idiot
That's not Short explanation That's the sites Lies and Yankee ignorant in political science like you
American centralism ignorant like youHOW That would be left wing
Fascists are not left wing they are right wing
And the definition of right wing is wrong there is a right wing
You are not a German, shut up and separate those sites like you are a liar
The doctorate is the right wing and democracy is the left wing and that is known you are an ignorant American in history and stop the American centralism and the definition of left wing is wrong and the constitution is a religious thing and that means a religious government and the republic is democracy
The constitution is not a republic you ignorant Yankee
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" you liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship you idiot
HOW I reiterate, then: Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" on the leftwing of our continuum
Your personal opinion is not a fact and Dictatorship is not Fascism is much closer to "Dictatorship" than it is to "US CONSTITUTION Put it near "Dictatorship" You liar The Constitution is an illegitimate Dictatorship You idiot
That's not Short explanation That's the sites Lies and Yankee ignorant in political science like you
American centralism ignorant like you
>>"It's also very dehumanizing to call a whole group of people evil and dismiss us."
Are you even remotely self-aware of what you are saying?
The Israelis, Zionists, and supporters of these 2 groups have been "DEHUMANIZING" Palestinians and Arabs for 75+ years now. And you're crying about what Caitlin is saying about Republicans ???
The truth hurts. Republicans and Democrats don't have solutions. They maintain the status quo hoping that over time the problems will go away all by themselves. Neither has have the intellect nor the courage to propose anything different because of the pressure from Big Money and Lobbying.
Can't both be right?
then you'll have to stop aligning with/voting for republicans or democrats, imo.
republicans own the brand name. if one doesn't support the genocide, one should stop calling oneself a republican, imo. one should invent one's own brand of conservatism.
The things you vote for or support determine how evil you are. If you're voting for people who don't offer a way of stopping evil other than using evil to fight evil, you're voting for evil.
You're simplifying and misrepresenting "EVIL".
One can be naive, ill-informed, mis-informed, and many other things and NOT be evil. Such a person can vote for EVIL candidates while not being aware of the 'evilness' of such candidates. In fact, that is more often the case than not. Most ordinary people are NOT evil, yet they often end up voting for people in positions of power and authority that ARE evil.
You and one like stupid there is one party EVIL
Lots of very good people on the right. To the extent there is any critical thought or challenge to power remaining in this world, it is almost entirely on the right. The left as a legitimate political force died under the neoliberal consensus. But just when things were getting interesting, just as the deep state and its satanic science were being exposed, the puppeteers started this “brown man bad” show back up and the right, suffering from millennia of brainwashing masquerading as religion, fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It’s very upsetting, but it fits the pattern. What the right will never understand is that there is no peace without embracing the other. They define themselves by enmity to the other, and because of that they are easily led astray. All the puppeteers have to do is fabricate or exaggerate a controversy about feminine men, masculine women, brown murderers, black petty crime, etc, and off the right goes chasing the rabbit and reconfirming for the rest of us why we hated them in the first place.
There is no such thing as satanic science. You are religiously ignorant and you call anything satanic. There is no such thing as neoliberal consensus
Precisely!
And yet the Democrats are “a political party whose SOLE PURPOSE is to ensure the triumph of evil?” What then is the GOP? The evil incarnate which the Dem’s sole purpose is to ensure triumphs?
>>"At least Republicans care about things that really affect our everyday life"
HaHaHa - I didn't know you were a Comedian. Good one though.
Do you even know any Republicans? Or do you judge them by what the media say?
I think you misinterpreted my comment. Let me rephrase it.
If Republicans (or Democrats) care about things that really affect our everyday life -> then they would be supporting Jill Stein or Cornell West or Claudia De la Cruz and NOT a Republican party or Democratic party candidate.
I myself am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but I know quite a few (personally) on both sides of the aisle, and also a few that are NOT on the US Team D/Team R political spectrum.
At this point in time, they’re being judged by their choice of potus and vpotus candidates. It’s so extreme that I think people expect decent Republicans to leave the Party.
🤣😂🤣🤡
Rs : Sauron
Ds : Saruman
Hear, Hear! Hear, Hear, Caitlin! Soooo appreciated is your principled perspective....
Vote your conscience, democracy-practicing Americans: Vote GREEN PARTY for GAZA in November!!
Viva Palestine!--Hamas and ALL of Palestine!
Excellent title and absolutely correct Caitlin.
If they do nothing though... are they good? :)
"The Biden administration has been just as guilty in Israel’s genocidal atrocities as the Netanyahu regime itself, but by paying lip service to humanitarian concerns and pretending to be working toward peace" Caitlyn
"Bystanders, as do members of any crowd, lose themselves in the emotional state of the group and become—in their own minds—less personally accountable for their inaction. As the number of bystanders grows, they may furthermore become increasingly callous, less prompted to sympathy for victims, and more disposed to devalue life. (Sheleff 1978:18, discussing unpublished work by Ted L. Huston) The more bystanders who remain un-swayed, the less chance there is that they will choose to intervene; and the more that bystanders believe there is no point in trying, the more they may “construe the victim as the kind of undesirable person who ‘deserves’ to suffer. The greater the injustice of the victim’s fate the greater the efforts at condemnation and rejection.” (Lerner 1970:207). Apathy, inaction, the number of bystanders, their perception that they are impotent, conformity, lack of empathy and moral awareness, their tendency to turn against the victims, and their enjoyment of the victim’s suffering—all of these are ingredients that foster and perpetuate inaction"
"These, then, are some of the common human emotions that contribute to the by- stander’s willingness to gaze excitedly upon victimization, or dully to avert his gaze, while doing nothing. As time passes, his fear of becoming involved, and the support and gratification he receives as a member of a community of bystanders, make any intervention he might initiate less and less likely. As he bears witness to brutality, so will he avert his eyes as brutality metastasizes into mass murder: In this way during the Holocaust, “bystanders to cruelty became bystanders to genocide.” (Morse 1968:383)"
From Steven James Bartlett's book "The Pathology Of Mankind" https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/Bartlett/Bartlett2005.pdf
It's painful to hear what Caitlyn and Dr. Bartlett is telling me and it's quite depressing. I've supported AOC financially ever since she went into office -but not anymore. Thankfully, she was the only politician I support this way because she genuinely cares for the middle and working class. However, lying for Kamala all the while the atrocities continued in Gaza is unforgivable to me. The US pathological zeal to control the world is no different. I wish there was a supernatural God who could intervene by punishing all those in power by placing them in Gaza and let them suffer until they beg for mercy. After WWII, The US had a chance to make this a better world but they squandered it and became a pathological hegemonic, sick, twisted, fucked up superpower worthy of Darth Vader and the Devil himself. I hate living in the US because of this.
I moved out twenty years ago. Many of my nieces and cousins have done the same.
It's much worse now. On the highway to hell.
So where are you at?
Justice is a human concept. If there was a supernatural God they are only watching and shaking their head. Humanity once appeared so promising but it is fast failing to justify its existence.
Thank you for these quotes! The US had no interest in making this a better world, during or after WWII. They wanted to use the situation (a weakened Europe and Japan) to replace them as the one dominant world power. They didn’t care how - they appropriated the Nazi scientists to develop nuclear weapons. And it was not only the MIC/government, it was the people. The “Greatest Generation” danced to hit songs that celebrated the coming US takeover of Europe. They’ve mostly been scrubbed.