Donald Trump Sheepdogs Both The Right And The Left Into Supporting Status Quo Politics by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-07-27 at 23:48:36 )

Donald Trump Sheepdogs Both The Right And The Left Into Supporting Status Quo Politics by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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And that is the role that Donald Trump has played ever since: keeping the fight about stopping fascism and preventing the end of American democracy so that the fight will not be about economic justice and ending the abuses of the capitalist class.

The remarkable thing about Donald Trump is that for all the talk about what a extremist wingnut he is, nobody benefits from his existence more than the two mainstream political parties of the United States. He helps sheepdog both the right and the left into the mainstream so-called "center" of United States politics.

It is clear at a glance that Donald Trump helps ensure that right wing United States of Americans who are dissatisfied with their countrys status quo politics will remain plugged into the Republican Party, which never does anything besides promoting the imperial status quo of oligarchy and militarism. But what takes a little more looking to see is that he plays the same role for the left as well.

In 2015 and early 2016, United States of American progressives were buzzing with the possibility of real change in their country. Bernie Sanders was going to help them take back their nation from the millionaires and billionaires and corporations and banks, and get them fair wages and a normal healthcare system so they will not have to work excruciatingly hard for excruciatingly little anymore. Then when Hillary secured the nomination and Sanders endorsed her everyone forgot about all that, and the struggle became about stopping the next Adolph Hitler from taking power in their own country.

And that is the role that Donald Trump has played ever since: keeping the fight about stopping fascism and preventing the end of United States of American democracy so that the fight will not be about economic justice and ending the abuses of the capitalist class.

His political existence ensures that the tug-o-war game begins on the right side of the stage, so that everyone is always pulling toward the Clintonite "center" of war, capitalism and imperialism instead of toward the left.

And if I were an obscenely rich guy who wanted to make sure the rich get to keep their obscene wealth, that is probably what I would do too. I would openly step as far to the right as I could get away with and take up as much political space as I can, thereby dragging the spectrum of debate as far away from the left as possible so that everyone is begging to keep the status quo politics which gave me my obscene wealth in the first place. If I were an American plutocrat or warmongering empire manager, I would be very happy to see Donald Trump doing what he is doing, and I would want him to do it more.

It is only because of Donald Trump that we are now seeing American progressives pretending to be excited and enthused about Kamala Harris like a bunch of bad actresses in a third-rate porno movie. "Ooh, girlboss! I actually kind of like her now because of those funny memes!" Come on sweetheart, who do you think you are fooling? At least learn how to properly fake an orgasm for the camera.

If not for Donald Trump, the United States political spectrum would be drifting further and further to the left instead of to the right as the possibility of a better future begins to ignite the imaginations of Americans nationwide.

Instead you have got a depressingly impotent faction of progressive Democrats who will occasionally stick their head above the parapet to say something innocuous like "tax the rich" before ducking back down to unequivocally endorse whichever murderous empire goon has been elevated to the top of their party that election cycle, because the only thing that matters right now is stopping Donald Trump.

And what is funny is that Donald Trump did not even wind up governing as some kind of freakish aberration; in terms of real concrete policy and actions his administration was a fairly normal sort of evil in the same way other Republican administrations are evil, not even rising to the level of depravity of George W Bush. Hell, more imperial bloodshed and suffering has been unleashed under Biden than there was under Trump. The empire got all the benefits of setting up a far right demagogue and pulling in public support for the imperial status quo, without the cost of even needing to change its behavior.

Because of Donald Trump you have got right wingers who would otherwise be putting their energy into libertarian factions instead throwing their support into the Republican Party, and you have got progressives who would otherwise be pushing toward socialism and communism instead throwing their support into the Democratic Party. All it took was one rich manipulator with some experience in the theatrics of pro wrestling and reality TV.

It is a brilliant scam, and it is working perfectly. So perfectly in fact that we may be sure they are going to keep repeating it with different characters long after Donald Trump is gone, and will keep it going until people begin to see through the act!

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