Black Lives Matter And The Christian Message Whites Have Spread But Have Not Yet Learned

 There are tens of millions of whites who are afraid to face blacks in a non-confrontational way. Without the threat of violence, which is what law essentially is. They have no idea of how to relate to a black person except by expecting that person to behave according to their own expectations, which is to say, in a way that makes the white person feel entirely comfortable and in control. They say they are more than willing to get along with black people who act the way they expect them to act, but they never once consider if the person on the other side also has certain expectations that are worthy of being considered. 

They have no idea how to react to black people in the way blacks have always been forced to face whites. In the way all races have been forced to face whites. In the United States, indigenous people and African Americans have always had an extremely unequal relationship with white people, and the threat of violence has always been implicit. Overseas it has been no different. Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America have all been colonized by Europeans and when the people were not exterminated they were subjugated. Always with the threat of violence, backed by laws written by and intended for white people.

 But something sublime and miraculous has come of this. It has given birth to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Hell, Jesus was a Middle Easterner who was living in a country occupied by Europeans. And since then, Europeans have spread His message of non-violence and loving one’s enemies all over the world, and many who saw the futility in violence saw the wisdom of Christ’s message. Those who could not match violence with violence learned that the battle for justice could be taken to a higher plane, one in which the use of violence demonstrated not superiority but the truth that violence is a tool of oppression. But while the Europeans spread the message of Christ throughout the world, few of them took the time to learn it themselves. They haven’t had to. It is a lesson not willingly learned. But it is a profound one, and it must be learned. 

It falls upon the European race to learn the lesson by choice and not of necessity. If white people wish to prove their race is in any way special, they can do so by being the first to freely come to grips with a message they’ve been sharing with others for thousands of years now. They can be the first group of people to find alternatives to violence and dominance without being first subjugated. It will not be easy, but they can learn from the examples of countless people of color whose people have been decimated and enslaved and have still found room for love and forgiveness in their hearts. It would perhaps be humbling, but it would be an astonishing accomplishment. This would not be an act of weakness, it would be an act of incredible bravery. 

A first step would be to just say the words so many are longing to hear: Black Lives Matter. Go ahead, do it. It will cost you nothing. You won't have to subscribe to some philosophy or join some group that might use the three words to promote ideas that you don't get behind. It's just three words and you know they are absolutely true. It won't just be comforting to others, it will untie that knot of fear and hate that has been clogging your heart for way too long. It will feel good. And just so you know, your life matters too

Putin's Making Me Not Vote For Biden

 I want to share my story with you as a warning of how easily you can be led astray. Stick to the straight and truth path and never once deviate from it, because this could happen to you.

Like most of you, I was once very excited by the prospect of having Joe Biden as our next president. Sure, I really wanted Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg, but I was more than comfortable with good ol' Uncle Joe. More than anything, I JUST WANTED TO GET TRUMP OUT OF OFFICE. IN ALL MY SWEET JESUS LIFE I'VE NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE THAN TO GET TRUMP OUT OF OFFICE. I WOULD LITERALLY VOTE FOR A FLAMING BUCKET OF TURDS AS OUR PRESIDENT JUST SO LONG AS THE BUCKET WAS A DEMOCRAT.

So like I said, I was once pretty normal, just like you.

And God knows, I tried to be good. I did what the media and the intelligence agencies told me to do. I stopped listening to some of my favorite journalists, people like Chris Hedges and Greg Palast, because they appeared on RT. I stopped following my favorite comedians, people like Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp, for the same reason. I turned my back on Coleen Rowley, Time Magazine's 2002 person of the year, because she was a regular on Sputnik Radio (God, was she working for the Ruskies back then, too?)

I pretty much stopped listening to or following everyone I respected and trusted because my party and anonymous intelligence agents told me I should. And I did it, I did it gladly, because the last thing I wanted to ever be was a stooge for a foreign government.

I started referring to Borscht as liberty soup. I got rid of all offensively named salad dressings  from my refrigerator. I'm even in the process of changing my last name to Rozoski in order to accent my Polish heritage.

You'd think that would make me safe, wouldn't you? Ah, but the Ruskies are cunning. Hell, anybody that can flip a multi-billion dollar election with $46,000 in Facebook ads must be pretty damn sly.

But I kept the faith from the moment Hillary lost through the time when my preferred candidates (Kamala and Pete) were forced to drop out as well. During the Russiagate scandal when bombshells fell day after day, I strove to keep my mind ideologically pure, saying three Hail Muellers a day that Donald Trump would be removed from office (A Hail Mueller is like a Hail Mary, except they always drop the ball).

Ironically, I think I was done in by the very intelligence agencies and media sources I had trusted to keep me safe. 

You see, I saw some of the pictures the devious Russians had placed in Facebook. Two in particular stand out in my mind. 

The first was an image of Bernie Sander in a speedo. But he did not look like the elderly man he was, saggy and lacking muscles. No, he had large muscles as though he had been working out his entire life. His body was yellow and his red nipples seem to stare at me as though they were the eyes of the devil himself. Those nipple/eyes just stared at me as though they were hypnotizing me. And I could not look away.

The second was a picture of Jesus, our lord God and Caucasian Savior, arm wrestling with Satan. Even though I'm not a religious man, this image burned itself into my soul. I cannot explain it. But then, only those within our intelligence communities know the true power of Russian Juju. 

And slowly doubt crept into my mind. I had been exposed to a Russian disease and did not know it, in the same way you can carry Chinese Covid and be unaware. From then on I began to question about whether Jeffrey Epstein really hung himself while the cameras malfunctioned and the guards were not doing their jobs. From there I started to wonder if President Obama really had the Libyans' best interest in mind when he destroyed their country. I started watching videos where U.S. officials converse about who they should pick to lead another country's government. I even started to wonder if the Democratic Primaries were on the up and up. God help me...I started to doubt.

I'm not proud of myself. But though the shame weighs heavily upon me, I felt that if I shared my story with you it might prevent some other poor soul from falling into the same trap. And I am not alone. According to Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick would not have taken a knee if it were not for Russia. Assuredly Kamala would not have attacked Joe Biden on his racist policies if it were not for subliminal messaging from Russian GRUs. And let us not forget those who were subjected to the insidious Pokemon Go Aps.

It's too late for me. I've lost my innocence and nothing will bring it back. But it's not too late for you. Keep your eyes closed. Stay on the straight and narrow path the Atlantic Council has prepared for you. Do what you are told, and a glorious new day awaits for you.

Biden/Harris 2020

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A Letter From A Progressive To Democrats

 Dear Democrats:

 This conversation is long overdue. I’ve been trying to engage over the last four years but you had no time for it. But now you’re panicking because it’s getting near to the election and you expect everyone must conform to the worldview you have built up in your minds since the last election. And while I’ve long known this day would come and have prepared for it, that doesn’t make it any easier for me.

 I and many others like me are not voting for Joe Biden. To anyone who has been listening for the last four years, this should be abundantly clear. Sadly, Democrats have not been listening to progressives  for the last four years. For four years, mainstream Democrats have managed to ignore those who are to the left of them. They’ve ignored them, berated them, blamed them, bullied them, and called them Russian bots and Putin puppets. But not once have they listened to them.

 Instead of listening to us, they have been listening to unnamed sources within intelligence agencies. They have believed them uncritically, never once requiring a scrap of evidence before giving them their unthinking credence.

 Instead of listening to us, they have been making homophobic and body shaming memes of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

 Instead of listening to us, they have been busy telling the Democratic establishment they were fully willing to vote for a flaming bag of dogshit if it meant getting rid of Donald Trump.

 And now they’re stuck with a flaming bag of dog shit. With dementia. And now they’re trying to sell it to us, the people who warned them four years ago that we were sick of Democratic rigging of primaries, sick of corporate politicians, sick of voting for the evil of two lessers. WE TOLD YOU we had standards. If we could not get a commitment to genuine change, we were going to walk. In fact, most of us had already decided the Democratic Party was beyond redemption.

 Boy, did we call that right.

 And now you come and knock on our front door, place your flaming bag of dog shit on it, and demand fealty to the flaming bag. You insist all that matters is we replace the flaming bag that now resides in the White House with your demented flaming bag. And you have no idea how you look to us.

 So perhaps you will allow me to ask a question: What has the Democratic Party done in the last four years to earn my vote?

 Perhaps you might have an answer I have overlooked. But I assure if you do come up with one, I will give you four or five examples of how the Democratic Party has become a greater enemy of all I hold dear in the last four years than I could have imagined.

 Let me ask you another question: What have you done personally to hold the Democratic Party to any kind of standards? I will answer for you: nothing. You have groveled at the party’s feet, never once insisting they reflect upon their unthinkable defeat to a 5^th grade bully. Your one standard, if it can be called such, is that you will vote for anybody who is not Donald Trump. That is a standard even many Republicans can hold to, and I am not a Republican.

 I demand better. I get it that you do not. Your depth of allegiance to the Democratic Party is bottomless. It’s your choice and it’s not my place to criticize, But if you were really serious about beating Trump in 2020, you should have got your head in the game four years ago and started devising a realistic strategy on how to accomplish that. It’s really not hard. He’s the most beatable candidate in U.S. history. Except for Hillary Clinton. And, likely, Joe Biden.

 You’ve failed at strategizing and failed hard. You have been completely deranged for the last four years, demanding that the entire world share in your derangement. Perhaps in your deranged fantasies you truly believed the entire world did share your ideas.

 You were wrong.

 Now I know your immediate reaction is to yell at me and tell me that I’m stupid for taking a principled stand. But you might want to try a different approach. Because in the last four years that hasn’t worked on me or anyone working from reason rather than emotion. I really don’t know where we go for here, but hell if I’m going to take the blame for the situation we find ourselves in.

There. I've had my say. Let's keep the lines of communication open and perhaps we can yet work something out. But please, be respectful. And next time, let's not wait so long.

P.S. Here is a meme I made a couple of years back, just to show you I've been trying to have this conversation for a while, now.

Weighing The Lesser Of Two Evils In A Broken System

 

I keep going around and around about who is the greater evil and I keep landing on the Democrats. I know, it’s not an obvious choice, but anyone willing to look at things honestly has to at least consider the idea.

 Consider for example, Trump’s willingness to attack the U.S. Postal System. It seems utterly evil and stupid. And it is, though the extent of it or the veracity of it I admit I have yet to determine. That made me swing towards considering him the greater threat. But as I was considering this I was doing a YouTube search and was becoming frustrated with my inability to find the exact clip I wanted. Search engines used to be so much easier to use.

 Then it occurred to me how manipulated search engines have become as a result of the cries to enforce censorship coming from the Democrats under the guise of Russian interference. I was typing in “Russian bounty Nikko House” and all I was coming up with were videos from major corporate news outlets covering the Russian bounty story. It was not until I rearranged the words that I was able to find the Nikko House clip I wanted.

The point is, if you weren’t specifically looking for the clip, you never would have stumbled upon it. All you would ever see is what major corporate media permits you to see, and their take is vastly different from non-sanctioned perspectives. If you do not simply accept one of the two accepted positions on any given issue (Republican or Democrat), you will find it difficult to find alternative voices. And if you have a different take on any given issue, you will find it extremely difficult for your voice to be heard. If you speak out against war or imperialism, it will be harder still. And if you are critical of Israel in any way, expect to be marginalized more than if you were promoting violence and hate.

Censorship at this moment is very real and it is getting worse. And the blame for that can be placed clearly in the lap of the Democrats. I hear no one on the Right calling for clamping down on non-sanctioned voices.

“But,” Democrats say, “the right to vote is being impeded by Trump’s attacks on the Post Office, which is one of the most sacred foundations of our Democracy.” To which I agree, both in regards to the wrongness and the degree of harm inflicted by Trump’s behavior. Trump is very bad, Trump is very wrong.

But of the two, the attack against our first amendment rights is at least on par with what Trump is doing. And nobody in the liberal left is saying anything about it, and if they do they are actively encouraging it. Russian interference is the pretext. Silencing dissent against U.S. foreign policy is the reality.

Which would make it a toss-up, each side being approximately as harmful to our country, Trump threatening our democratic elections, Democrats threatening free speech.

Except the Democratic Party has been making a travesty of our elections as well. Well before the first primary votes were cast, there was a full court press to delegitimize the progressive wing of the party. Vacuous candidates like Beto O’Rourke were given nothing but positive press while Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders were smeared when they were not simply ignored. When Gabbard’s debate performance prompted voters to make her the most Googled candidate, Google suppressed her ads.

And then there was the cancellation of the Iowa polls before the Iowa Caucus. Followed by an even more bewildering inability to actually determine a winner. Followed by further problems actually tabulating votes in other states. Followed by changing the rules determining who would be in the debate after Tulsi qualified for the debate. Followed by more shenanigans than I can now remember, but culminating in an orchestrated maneuver to have all remaining centrists suspend their campaigns while Elizabeth Warren stayed in to syphon off progressive votes from Sanders. Oh, and let us not forget the ridiculously long lines voters had to wait in while polling stations were being closed in the midst of a pandemic.

So the Democrats are at least complicit in voter suppression and keeping any meaningful change from taking place. They are more actively involved in internet censorship. In four years, they have done nothing to oppose Trump in what I most care about. They’ve applauded Trump when he’s been most militarily aggressive and gone to his right to attack him when he’s failed to warmonger sufficiently. In most issues that matter to me, Democrats have either mirrored Trump, supported Trump, or else been to the Right of Trump.

There is one last matter to consider. Trump is an individual, whereas the Democratic Party is an establishment. The Trump movement is a cult of personality doomed to disintegrate the moment the man either becomes too old or falls from favor due to his own incompetency. The Democratic Party has the potential to remain a problem indefinitely. Not tied to one individual, it is capable of shedding its failures with a given candidate and using another empty vessel to promote the agenda of a powerful elite. So even if Trump were Hitler, I don’t view him as being as dangerous as an undemocratic power that uses secrecy and censorship to push the agenda of the military industrial complex. If comparisons of Trump to Hitler can be made, then comparing the Democratic Party and the forces it protects to The Gestapo, or at least Joseph Goebbels, is not beyond the pale.

So if forced to choose, there is a very real case to be made that Trump is the lesser of two evils, though granted he is the more odious of two presidential candidates.

But this is of course a foolish discussion to have. When given two absolutely unacceptable options, the only logical response is to insist upon a third one. When a system gives you no way to change the system, it’s time to stop playing by the rules the system has laid down. And the system will not bring about the kind of change we require. It will never give you the tools you need to change things. The system will not give you the option of changing the system.

You ask me what the alternatives are. It doesn’t matter what suggestions I give you, you will not accept them until you are willing to admit the two options you are given are insufficient. For now, I can only tell you that I am not buying either one of them. I’m sorry this does not fit into the paradigm you’ve been led to accept. But smashing that paradigm is going to be necessary if we are ever to achieve the meaningful change we need.

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