Liberal NPCs Hate Russia, Conservative NPCs Hate China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-03-18 at 22:25:12 )

Liberal NPCs Hate Russia, Conservative NPCs Hate China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The hashtag #ChinaLiedPeopleDied was recently sent trending on Twitter by "new right" pundit Michael Courdrey with the amplification of all the usual Donald Trump bootlickers and their sheep-like followers, further feeding into the anti-China cold war hysteria conservatives have been aggressively pushing with increasingly frenetic urgency lately. Which is hilarious, since these are the same people who have spent the last three years making fun of liberals and calling them NPCs for doing the exact same thing with Russia.

And when I say the exact same thing, I mean literally the exact same thing. The frenzied, shrieking hysteria I am witnessing right now among Donald Trumps base regarding China looks and moves in the exact same way the mental zombification of Russia hysteria looked and moved when it began tearing through rank-and-file Democrats in late 2016 and early 2017. The seething, screaming vitriol I get from the MAGA crowd on social media when I talk about this is identical to what I got during that period from Democrats: just as irrational, just as vituperative, and just as emotion-driven.

The 2020 outbreak of China hysteria is so identical to the 2016-2017 outbreak of Russia hysteria that as of this writing if you do a Twitter live search right now for the word "wumao" or "CCP paying you" you will see an endless stream of Donald Trump supporters running around bleating accusations of being a paid troll for the Chinese Communist Party at anyone who disputes their hysterical China narratives.

Anyone who has ever shared anti-establishment ideas on social media will immediately recognize this as identical to accusations which come from the pussyhatted #Resistance crowd of brainwashed MSNBC liberals, who accuse anyone who questions establishment narratives of being a paid troll conducting propaganda for the Russian government. These "How much is the CCP paying you for this?" accusations which have been cluttering up my social media notifications for the last 24 hours are indistinguishable from the "How is the weather in St Petersburg, Ivan?" McCarthyite accusations I have been receiving from rank-and-file Democrats for the last three years.

Just like the froth-mouthed victims of media-induced Russia hysteria, the victims of media-induced China hysteria are always unable to justify their sudden Beijing anxiety in a way that makes any coherent sense. I have spent the last few days debating these poor wretches online, because that is what I do whenever a new sociopathic establishment narrative surfaces to gain an understanding of how it works, and I have yet to encounter a single one which can coherently reconcile the sudden uptick in shrieking China hysteria with the thing that China has always been throughout its historical existence.

They will tell me it is because China lied about the virus and made errors in the early days of the outbreak, but can not lucidly explain how screaming about this helps fix any problem, and can not justify the fact that lying about the virus and making errors is exactly what their president just spent weeks doing. They will tell me it is because China is authoritarian, but can not explain the sudden uptick in outrage over this since China has always had an authoritarian government and that has nothing to do with the virus. They will parrot establishment narratives about Uighurs and organ harvesting, but, again, can not explain how this has any connection to the virus.

When I point out that there are extremely powerful government agencies which stand much to gain from manufacturing consent for new escalations against the United States of Americas primary geostrategic rival I mostly get more outraged, incoherent sputtering, but once in a while a more thoughtful China Derangement Syndrome victim will say they do not want any escalations against China, they just want to end an economic relationship between China and the United States which they perceive as unfair. But, again, this has nothing to do with the virus, and also it is a mighty interesting coincidence that they have formed this opinion about the one nation who just so happens to be the United States of Americas primary geopolitical foe.

In reality these people are rallying behind the campaign to blame China for the health crisis they are now facing because they understand that otherwise the blame will land squarely on the shoulders of their president, who is running for re-election this year.

Deep down they know full well that this is not really about China, but about protecting their president. But what they are actually doing, unwittingly, is manufacturing consent for an agenda which is far bigger and far more consequential than who wins the election in November. And it is no accident that they’ are being shepherded in this direction with the help of right-wing establishment narrative managers.

More than two years ago I wrote an article titled "Russiagate Is Not About Trump, And It Is Not Even Ultimately About Russia", about how all these Russia escalations (and the propaganda used to justify them) are ultimately not really about Russia at all, but China. Here is an excerpt::

This is what Russiagate is ultimately about. Democrats think it is about impeaching Donald Trump and protecting the world from a nigh-omnipotent supervillain in Vladimir Putin, Donald Trumps supporters think it is a "deep state coup" to try and oust their president, but in reality this has nothing to do with Donald Trump, and ultimately not a whole lot to do with Russia either. When all is said and done, Russiagate is about China.

In an essay titled "Russia-China Tandem Changes the World", United States-Russia relations analyst Gilbert Doctorow explains how the surging economic power China depends upon Russias willingness to go head-to-head with the United States of America and its extensive experience with United States attempts to undermine the USSR during the Cold War. Alone both nations are very vulnerable, but together their strengths are complimentary in a way that poses a direct threat to the United States of Americas self-appointed role as world leader.

And now we are seeing one of the United States of Americas two mainstream factions cheerleading for increased hostility toward Americas primary rival, while the other faction cheerleads for increased hostility against that rivals right arm. This two-pronged propaganda campaign has enabled the establishment via the Donald Trump administration to escalate tensions not just with China but with Russia as well.

This tracks with something I have been pointing to for a while now, which I described in an article from last year titled "37 Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation":

Notice how the manipulators like to split the population in two and then get them arguing over how they should serve the establishment. Arguing over whether it is better to vote Democrat or Republican, arguing over whether it is better to increase hostilities with Iran and Venezuela or with Syria and Russia, over whether you should support the United States president or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arguing over how internet censorship should happen and whom should be censored rather than if censorship should happen in the first place. The longer they can keep us arguing over the best way to lick the imperial boot, the longer they keep us from talking about whether we want to lick it at all.

I wrote more about the way the establishment manipulators get the mainstream factions arguing over which nation should be targeted with aggression, rather than if any nations should be targeted at all, in a January 2020 article titled "On The Idiotic Partisan Debate Over Regime Change In Iran Or Syria":

It is truly, deeply and profoundly stupid because the agenda to topple Irans government and the agenda to topple Syrias government are not two separate agendas. They are the same. Supporting one while opposing the other is like wanting to shoot someone in the head but being morally opposed to shooting them in the heart.

Syria and Iran are allies. Eliminating one government necessarily hurts the other. Iran has been helping Syria to win the war against foreign-backed extremist proxy fighters who nearly succeeded in toppling Damascus before its allies stepped in, and should Syria succeed in rebuilding itself ((something the Donald Trump administration is actively preventing it from doing) we can be sure it would return the favor when called upon.

We are now seeing this exact same two-pronged approach used with Russia and China. We have actually been seeing it for years, like in this affectionate debate between former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey and Fox News Laura Ingraham over which of the two nations the United States of America should be more aggressive toward, but it has kicked into high gear now.

The end result being that you have the United States of Americas two mainstream parties arguing over which establishment agenda should be advanced and how establishment interests should be served, and hardly anyone in mainstream circles ever questioning if the establishment should be served at all. Which is just how the establishment likes it.

The United States of America has two war parties.

The Overton window of acceptable mainstream debate has been ripped away from those who simply want peace and a healthy planet altogether, and now the only permitted arguments are about which wars should occur first.

This is gravely disordered, and it cannot continue.

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