Since the Iraq War I’ve come to truly recognize the use of propaganda within the USA to support incredible abuse, murder, torture, cultural destruction, with an underlying and merciless racism. This was done by my country with complete impunity. Historically these horrors were also done in the 1800’s in the Philippines, Cuba, Mexico. And have continued nonstop up to the present, now in the Middle East. That same propaganda apparatus has been used to define the USA as a fount of fairness and democracy. We are exceptional! Yet We, the People, have an extraordinary Labor History! Of Communists, Socialists, and a few Anarchists, fighting the Pinkertons (and their death squads), and occasionally the National Guard. Labor fought, won, and eventually lost. Cuz capital rules over all. The lesson learned? Half measures don’t work. Labor and the Poor must crush the wealthy. Once and for all. We must break their power. Real democracy has become a survival necessity. The Climate Crisis alone requires, demands, real democracy.
Since the Iraq War I’ve come to truly recognize the use of propaganda within the USA to support incredible abuse, murder, torture, cultural destruction, with an underlying and merciless racism. This was done by my country with complete impunity. Historically these horrors were also done in the 1800’s in the Philippines, Cuba, Mexico. And have continued nonstop up to the present, now in the Middle East. That same propaganda apparatus has been used to define the USA as a fount of fairness and democracy. We are exceptional! Yet We, the People, have an extraordinary Labor History! Of Communists, Socialists, and a few Anarchists, fighting the Pinkertons (and their death squads), and occasionally the National Guard. Labor fought, won, and eventually lost. Cuz capital rules over all. The lesson learned? Half measures don’t work. Labor and the Poor must crush the wealthy. Once and for all. We must break their power. Real democracy has become a survival necessity. The Climate Crisis alone requires, demands, real democracy.