They put a pussyhat on
Big Brother. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/fascism-came-to-america-wrapped-in-a-rainbow-flag-and-wearing-a-pussyhat-902118e62668
The spark has gone out
from the eyes of the starry-eyed artists. The sincere impulse to apprehend the
soul of the universe which drove them to create beauty has been snuffed out and
replaced with stock portfolios and vapid award ceremonies. In the places where
we used to look for truth and light we now find a bunch of stuffy millionaires
cheerleading for the CIA and the new cold war. They are McCarthyists and
conformists. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/anti-trumpism-has-turned-liberals-into-cia-cheerleading-finger-wagging-nerds-999da68fcf17
The left (the real left, not the “I support drone bombing
children but it’s okay because I call Caitlyn Jenner by the correct pronouns”
faux-left that Americans are permitted to support) is under constant assault by
America’s unelected power establishment due to its opposition to war and oligarchy,
both of which the US power establishment is entirely dependent upon. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/msm-uses-russiagate-to-punch-left-8ebda8fabb75
The fact that hatred of the sitting president has Democrats
so desperate they’re not only forgiving the crimes of vestigial Bush neocons
but also helping them in their agenda to sabotage any movements toward detente
with Russia shows just how brutally efficient the psychological manipulations
of the establishment propaganda machine have become. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2017/12/28/iraq-raping-neocons-are-suddenly-posing-as-woke-progressives-to-gain-support/
It’s not okay to be a neoconservative. In a healthy world,
being a neocon would carry as much social weight as being a child molester or a
serial killer. IBID
If you publicly support an ideological direction that
suggests maybe allowing plutocrats to live as totalitarian emperors and kill
anyone who stands in their way isn’t the
best possible direction to lead the country, you get a bunch of Democrats and
Republicans coming at you babbling about ponies and unicorns. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/01/14/get-a-room/
This is going to be another one of those times where I focus
on attacking Democrats for something the Republicans do at least as much, and I
make no apologies for that. When you come home to find the babysitter and
the baby passed out drunk, you don’t get equally mad at both of
them. Democrats present themselves as the party on the American left,
which means they’re supposed to be the grownups in the room when it comes to
things like peace and social justice, but they’ve been anything but. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/democrats-are-feigning-outrage-at-islamophobia-they-helped-create-5a39af4a6ff6
The US always uses sanctions as a prelude to overt war, in
the same way a siege was used before storming the castle of an enemy in
medieval times. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/beware-the-smiling-face-of-establishment-politics-bd31a40a8fa8
Questioned in 1996 about reports that half a million Iraqi
children were killed by UN sanctions, another US Secretary of State, Madeleine
Albright, said that “the price was worth it”. Like she was paying. (Ibid)
You can even get away with nonsensical accusations against a
noncompliant leader of “starving his own people” by refusing to bow to the
demands of US-led power, which makes as much sense as if US and coalition
forces were launching Tomahawk missiles into that nation’s villages and then
saying their leader was “exploding his own people.” (IBID)
A lot of Berners still maintain the belief that the
Democratic establishment sabotaged Sanders’ campaign because they were afraid
of him, but that’s simply not true. Bernie is just one man; the establishment
was never afraid of Bernie. They were afraid of you. They were afraid of the
populist insurgency throwing an unapproved candidate in the path of the
Anointed Queen Hillary despite being instructed by the mass media propaganda
machine over and over again that they were not permitted to choose him. They
were afraid of the people. And they should be. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/stop-looking-for-saviors-6009aa7528df
At its core, establishment media is revolution poison. That
is its primary function. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/01/25/some-thoughts-on-spirituality-and-revolution/
Even a small child can see that ecocidal capitalism and
endless war are stupid, and that letting people starve and suffer just because
they don’t have enough money is nonsense, but it continues anyway because
believed narratives make our society function in an unwholesome way in the same
way that believed mental narratives make an individual function in an
unwholesome way. (IBID)
There is a common delusion among elitists and intellectuals
that the ability to emotionally detach and analyze things without letting the
suffering of the world bring you to your knees is some sort of virtue. They'll
ridicule you for caring and mock your outrage. I say the hell with that; that
apathy is precisely what is killing us, and your similarity to a sociopath is
never something to brag about. https://steemit.com/journalism/@caitlinjohnstone/this-deeply-held-commitment-a-meditation-on-the-death-of-robert-parry
Look at the worldview of the average person who identifies
as a liberal and you’ll find adoration of psychopathic authoritarian
intelligence agencies like the CIA and the FBI, a significantly
warmed opinion of George W Bush and the neocons he ushered into
power, a total apathy toward the US war machine and Orwellian surveillance
network, a seething hatred of all things Russia and a hysterical McCarthyite
beef with anyone who fails to fall in line with approved establishment
narratives. They have become the very flag-waving, authority-cheerleading,
art-killing oppressive zealots that the counterculture of the 1960s burst free
from like a drowning man finally getting his head above water and clawing his
way onto the shore. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/02/07/modern-liberals-are-1950s-authoritarians/
They will scream at conservatives over this til they’re blue
in the face… but you’ll never see them screaming at the US war machine that is
ultimately responsible for Islamophobia in the first place. (IBID)
People are driven to embrace progressive value systems out
of that sacred spark which lives in all of us which knows that it is natural
for us all to get along and help each other out, but people in power figured
out how to manipulate that impulse in a way that has turned its once
bright-eyed idealists into a bunch of stuffy, artless church ladies who’d be
right at home in J Edgar Hoover’s America. (IBID)
The progressive drive toward real change has been warped and
twisted into a drive toward good manners. The push toward solving problems by
equitable distribution of money and power has been neutered by the fairy tale
that you can solve problems with a “Resist” hashtag and a rainbow flag. Rob
Reiner has become a weird mutant Archie Bunker, an Archie Bunker who still has
all his old, obsolete, establishment-friendly ideologies in place but knows
never to assume someone’s gender. (IBID)
We're already answerable to the same corporatist powers
which control the US, so we trot right along into every US war, every US trade
deal, and operate as a US intelligence asset just the same as we would if
they'd planted the stars and stripes on our capitol buildings and called us
Wisconsota. Through military alliance, intelligence alliance, corporatist
agreements, and a good old-fashioned coup
staged by the CIA and MI6, we transitioned smoothly from subservience under
the old form of imperialism to subservience under the new. A whole continent
full of McDonald's-eating sheep. https://steemit.com/syria/@caitlinjohnstone/on-the-syrian-occupation-and-the-new-face-of-imperialism
The notion of meaningfully separate, sovereign governments
is at this time a fairy tale told to the masses to keep us from realizing that
we're all being thrown into the gears of an exploitative threshing machine that
only exists to feed the avaricious agendas of a few ruling elites. (IBID)
I write about US politics because that's where I reckon the
head of the beast is. Australia is essentially an intelligence/military asset
of the US-centralized
international empire, so there's no point writing about Aussie politics if
I'm interested in helping our species avoid extinction. And that's really the
only reason I write. https://steemit.com/caitlinjohnstone/@caitlinjohnstone/a-little-about-me
I have faith that ordinary people as a collective are much
better governors of the world than a few depraved elites, and I have faith that
humanity can wake up enough to reclaim its power. (IBID)
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