By Matthew Cooke.
For democrats: that you arrived at the conclusion that Americans must vote for ethnic cleansing - to save ourselves from fascism - is the epitome of moral cowardice.
We're asked to forget that this U.S. backed campaign of terror is a sick, sociopathic war on children - one any normal, well-adjusted human being would never condone in a million years - not without the most powerful communications systems in the history of humankind, seized and controlled for the purpose of manufacturing consent.
Why is it happening - many people ask? The media doesn't answer, not with anything that makes sense. The answer would hurt shareholders.
War is empire's core business. It's been Biden's since he backed the savage invasion of Iraq as a senator, and helped spread lies about their imaginary WMDs, against the obvious concerns of the sane voices in his party, and mountains of evidence to the contrary. It's been America's core business since our founding.
Reality is staring us in the face: the standard bearer of the democratic party, our current president, and his heir-apparent, are tribal warlords.
And our two-winged aristocracy's unconditional support for an alt-right apartheid state is nothing more than a monstrous religious crusade to expand an outpost for our petro-military empire.
Any idea that once the election season is over it will be easier to mobilize resistance against Dick Cheney's chosen representative of empire is equally absurd. They campaigned with the Cheney's and bragged about our "lethal" military industrial complex. Their bosses.
The honest, obvious truth, that all democrats and republicans are struggling with -- as they're bombarded by propaganda on every channel, is the that neither wing of the billionaire / fortune 100-funded duopoly is remotely set up to help lead us toward a sustainable human future. They're off the rails.
And for republicans:
Trump's tell-it-like-he-is / lack of impulse control may be a welcome respite from a highly coached PR spokesperson for empire - he's everything you hate about democrats, times 1000.
Corrupt. Pandering. Irreligious. Elitist. Insincere. Disloyal. And an agent of chaos, division, and instability. He doesn't represent an opposition party. He's a conman who seized an opportunity given to him by neoliberals.
The only thing Trump is good for is feeding the fortune 100 financed, elitist media you hate -- that broadcasts 99.9% gossip, a sin, according to your holy book -- and keeps the 1984-worthy argument going between the left and right, limiting any outside information that would illuminate the stark truth.
Bush and Dick Cheney's massive unpunished war crimes, Netanyahu's Biden-Harris funded genocide, the vile contorting of "anti-Semitism" and Trump's big con -- are all so extreme, they're cartoon caricatures of evil.
You might laugh in horror, until you confront the latest hourly news from Gaza or Lebanon... Shame on us all.
Regardless of who wins this national election, we have our work cut out for us.
If we have any hope of retaining our humanity (the species and the quality) we're going to have to do everything we can to forge a third way -- a mass movement for:
- the breakup of monopolies
- abolishing billionaires
- a digital bill of rights
- mass DE-militarization from the federal to local level
- mass and rapid divestment from fossil fuels and the war machine that feeds it
- abolishing poverty as a whole which includes universal healthcare, reparations and housing for all
Or --- we can just keep clicking and feeding this weapon of mass distraction -- this infinite unwinnable argument between democrat and republican-- two sides of the same road to doomsday.
