The Belief That Everything Will Be Fine Once Donald Trumps Gone Is More Dangerous Than Trump by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-02-12 at 23:56:35 )

The Belief That Everything Will Be Fine Once Donald Trumps Gone Is More Dangerous Than Trump by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The New Hampshire primary election, much like the Iowa caucuses, saw Bernie Sanders doing worse than polls anticipated and establishment favorite Pete Buttigieg doing much better than polls anticipated.

Mr. Buttigieg closed at a tight second place behind Mr. Sanders and both were awarded the same number of delegates, which with the bizarre Iowa shenanigans means the former South Bend mayor is now leading the pack in total delegates despite receiving fewer votes than Mr. Sanders in both states.

So of course "Buttigieg leads" is the information that the mainstream media is placing special emphasis on today.

It is entirely possible that we will continue seeing strange electoral results combined with mass media manipulation result in Mr. Buttigieg riding a contested convention into a superdelegate-boosted nomination, even if Mr. Sanders has more votes overall.

We have at this point in time seen no reason to believe that Mr. Sanders will be able to secure the number of delegates needed to prevent such an occurrence.

Then you have got racist Republican oligarch Mike Bloomberg jumping on the ballot come Super Tuesday, with his $300 million+ ad campaign throwing more chaos into the mix.

Billionaire Bloombergs unprecedented campaign spending power has enabled him to push up just shy of second place in a recent Quinnipiac national poll despite having no redeeming characteristics and no real goal agenda apart from stopping Bernie Sanders, which is as clear an illustration as you will ever see of the power of money in United States politics.

Whether it winds up being Mr. Buttigieg, Mr. Bloomberg, or one of their ideological alt-centrist clones like Amy Klobuchar or the floundering Joe Biden, the mainstream narrative will soon converge around one candidate in a very positive way, with the only important qualification being that they are not Bernie Sanders.

Many powerful people will do everything they can to prevent a Bernie Sanders nomination, whose presidency they oppose more than Donald Trumps.

As journalist Matt Taibbi recently pointed out, the Democratic establishment has "every incentive to play every conceivable card. Trillions at stake."

The primary argument used will be that defeating Donald Trump is all that matters, even if it is with another racist Republican plutocrat.

If they succeed in sabotaging Berie Sanders candidacy, he will help advance the same argument, as will a majority of his supporters.

This argument will click perfectly in to a foundational assumption that establishment narrative managers have spent the last three plus years reinforcing, namely that once Donald Trump is out of office, everything will be okay.

The premise that everything will be fine once Donald Trump is gone is not one people generally say out loud.

They do not even usually think it.

But the fact that so many Democrats who were fine with the way their nation was being run on January 19 2017 suddenly became furiously critical of it on January 20th tells you that this assumption is at play. And the relentlessly Trump-centric liberal news media has only reinforced this unexamined assumption.

Things are not going to be okay once Donald Trump is out of office.

Do you know how I know this?

Because things were not okay before Donald Trump got into office.

The United States of America was a murderous imperialist force whose citizenry were suffering under crushing austerity and steadily mounting authoritarianism on January 19 2017, and it remains so today.

Certainly the current administration has added its own levels of nefariousness to this dynamic, but the same is true of its predecessors.

By this stage in his administration President Bush had launched two full-scale ground invasions and implemented unprecedented levels of global militarism and Orwellian surveillance, while at the same stage President Obama had already overtly destroyed Libya and was working on covertly doing the same to Syria.

President Trump has continued and expanded all of the most evil agendas of those two administrations and added immensely depraved warmongering elements of his own, but you can not even rightly argue that he has done anything quite so evil as what Bush did to Iraq or what Obama did to Libya and Syria.

Donald Trump is not the unprecedented presidential horror that the Democratic Party-aligned media spin him as.

Imperialist elites dislike Donald Trump not because he is a uniquely dangerous president, but because he puts an ugly face on the things they were already doing before he took office and plan to continue doing once he leaves.

The reason many rank-and-file Democrats dislike him is similar: he forces them to think about the evil things their nation does.

They do not actually want to fix any of these problems, they just want to stop thinking about them.

They are not interested in waking up, they just want to get an uncomfortable wrinkle out of their bedsheets so that they can go back to sleep.

John Mulaney does an under-appreciated bit at the end of his famous "There is a horse in the hospital" routine comparing Donald Trump to a horse running rampant in a medical facility, where he admits he just was not paying attention to what was going on during the previous administration:

Or sometimes they go, "If you are so mad at the horse, how come you were not mad when the last guy did this three and a half years ago?

You are beating up on the horse when the last guy essentially did the same thing five years ago."

First off, get out of here with your facts.

You are like the kid at the sleepover who, after midnight, is like, "It is tomorrow now!" Get the f-ck out of here with your technicalities. Just because you are accurate does not mean you are interesting..

But when people say, "How come you were never mad at the last guy?" I say, "Because I was not paying attention."

I used to pay less attention before it was a horse. Also, I thought the last guy was pretty smart, and he seemed good at his job, and I am lazy by nature.

I am lazy by nature too.

So I do not check up on people when they seem okay at their job.

You may think that is an ignorant answer but it is not, it is a great answer.

If you left your baby with your mother tonight, you are not going to race home and check the nanny cam. But if you leave your baby with Gary Busey..

I think this is how most mainstream liberals feel, if they are honest with themselves.

They felt like they did not have to pay attention to the things Barack Obama was doing, and they want to go back to that.

Even though the distance between a truly healthy society and what the United States of America was like under President Obama is many orders of magnitude greater than the distance between what America was like under Barack Obama and what America is like under Donald Trump.

Wanting things to go back to how they were before Donald Trump is wanting things to go back to the conditions which gave rise to Donald Trump.

The belief that everything will be peachy keen once Donald Trump is out of office is therefore more dangerous than Donald Trump himself, because it guarantees more Donald Trumps, and it guarantees that the underlying disease of which Donald Trump is a symptom will remain uncured.

Treating a symptom does not cure the disease.

Believing that getting rid of Donald Trump will fix the United States of Americas problems is like believing cough syrup cures tuberculosis.

The disease is the oligarchic imperialist dystopia which is tormenting millions and controlling billions all around the world.

A movement toward health does not look like not having to pay attention anymore, it looks like the exact opposite: becoming fully conscious of all the ugliest and most unpleasant to look at aspects of the thing that the United States of America has become.

It looks like turning and facing all the bloodshed, genocide, white supremacy, oppression, exploitation, corruption and degradation which form the fibers from which that nation has been woven, deeply ingesting and grokking into their reality, and then healing them completely.

If the narrative managers succeed in installing Pete Buttigieg or one of his ideological clones, the temptation for millions of United States of Americans will be to go back to sleep.

But America will not be any healthier.

The coughing will have stopped, but the tuberculosis will remain.

The sociopathic imperialist oligarchy will continue along the exact same trajectory, but the symptom of an oafish, incompetent and ham-fisted president will have been eliminated.

And that is all any narrative manager ever wants.

Their job is to normalize the empires depravity and keep its highly profitable murder and exploitation from awakening the masses.

That is why propaganda is so toxic.

I am not interested in telling United States of Americans whether they should have Donald Trump or some centrist Democrat in office; the odds of four more years of Donald Trump being more disastrous than under President Pete are a toss-up as far as I can tell.

But I do wish the malignant belief that eliminating Donald Trump will solve the United States of Americas main problems could be expunged from human consciousness forever.

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