Both Trumpism And Anti-Trumpism Are Fake, Decoy Revolutions by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-08-27 at 22:50:43 )

Both Trumpism And Anti-Trumpism Are Fake, Decoy Revolutions by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Donald Trump has been made the central figure in United States politics around whom everything revolves, and whether the election is won by those who support him or those who oppose him, the imperial status quo is guaranteed to remain unchanged.

There is a fuzzbrained narrative going around "MAGA" circles right now that if re-elected, Donald Trump is going to appoint Robert F Kennedy Jr to the position of Central Intelligence Agency director. This narrative has been extrapolated from some very vague comments made by Donald Trump Jr on a conservative podcast last week.

It is hilarious that anyone thinks this will happen, and it says so much about how perpetually gullible and confused Donald Trump supporters are.

Donald Trumps CIA directors have been Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo and torture fetishist "Bloody Gina" Haspel, and these dopes think he is going to suddenly give the job to RFK Jr? Come on. Donald Trump is not going to drain the swamp. Donald Trump is the swamp.

To this day, even after watching four years of evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump supporters still believe he is going to end the wars, drain the swamp, and take the fight to the Deep State.

They believe he will be fighting the Deep State even after he imprisoned Julian Assange.

They believe he will be ending the wars even after he ramped up cold war aggressions against Russia, killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions, vetoed attempts to save Yemen from United States-backed genocide, worked to foment civil war in Iran using starvation sanctions and CIA ops with the stated goal of effecting regime change, came inches from starting a full-scale war with Iran with by assassinating General Qassem Soleimani, occupied Syrian oil fields with the goal of preventing Syrias reconstruction, greatly increased the number of troops in the Middle East and elsewhere, greatly increased the number of bombs dropped per day from the previous administration killing record numbers of civilians, and reduced military accountability for those airstrikes.

They believe he will drain the swamp after he packed his cabinet full of neocon swamp monsters like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams.

Donald Trump supporters are the most gullible people on earth.

They will stare right at you as you look them in the eye and prove you lied to them in broad daylight, and then they will sign right up to let you do it again.

In case you needed another reason to vote for democracy; RFK Jr., could be Donald Trumps CIA director: "please see here:" - Frank Figliuzzi (FrankFigliuzzi1) August 23, 2024

Rightists who are discontented with the United States of American political status quo have been herded into supporting a politician who embodies that status quo as much as any other president, wrongly thinking they are waging a battle against the establishment by doing so.

And this is mirrored on the other side of the imaginary partisan divide in United States politics, with people making entire identities out of despising Donald Trump and acting like this makes them brave revolutionaries.

When Donald Trump was first elected I had hope that the Democrats who had fallen asleep at the wheel under Barack Obama would become politically engaged again and start criticizing the evils of the United States empire like they did during the Bush years.

But what actually happened was that while Democrats did start paying attention to politics again, they were corralled like livestock by the mass media into opposing things that had no relation to the actual realities of the United States empire and how it functions in the world.

Instead of focusing on Donald Trumps many depravities listed above, Democrats wound up spending years shrieking about a completely fake conspiracy theory that the executive branch of the United States government had been taken over by the Kremlin, only to lose interest and pretend nothing happened after the Mueller investigation failed to indict a single American over any involvement with Russia.

They spent all their political energy freaking out about Donald Trumps mean tweets and how rude he was to members of the press, while ignoring or even praising his administrations reckless warmongering and tyranny around the world.

So Donald Trump has been made the central figure in United States politics around whom everything revolves, and whether the election is won by those who support him or those who oppose him, the imperial status quo is guaranteed to remain unchanged.

As United States of Americans become more and more discontented with the abusive nature of their nations government, a man has shown up who leads both Democrats and Republicans to believe that the best way to stick it to the man is to take a highly emotional position either for him or against him. When really whether he wins or loses could not matter less to those with real power.

Trump sucks all the oxygen out of the room for real discourse about real things. Under Biden at least we have been seeing some real opposition to real things like the United States-backed atrocities in Gaza, but under Donald Trump it was four years of both mainstream political factions screaming about made-up nonsense under the delusion that they were fighting the power.

And that is all mainstream electoral politics ever is in the United States empire: a fake, decoy revolution staged for the public every few years so that they do not have a real one.

A symbolic ceremony where the public pretends to cast the abusive status quo into the sea so they feel like the battle against their oppressors has been won. And then their oppressors just keep right on oppressing them.

Every few years the public gets to choose between two reliable lackeys of the oligarchic empire, and then all of the evils of that empire get pinned upon the winner.

The public then directs their rage at the lackey rather than the actual power structure which has been oppressing them, after which they have another election to rid themselves of the scoundrel once and for all. They hug, they cry, they celebrate, and the oppression machine continues completely uninterrupted.

As Gore Vidal once said:

"It does not actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they have had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. A very small group controls just about everything."

That small group is the plutocratic class whose legalized bribery and propaganda machine has immense influence over United States politics, as well as the imperial war machine and special interest groups with whom the plutocratic class is allied.

It is necessary to form coalitions of support within that power cluster if one wants to become president in the managed democracy that is the United States, and no part of that power cluster is going to support a president who will not reliably advance the interests of the oligarchic empire.

Pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson brags about how Donald Trump let Israel do whatever they want at a "Stop Antisemitism" golf club event "please see here:" - HOT SPOT (HotSpotHotSpot) August 16, 2024

From this point of view, the oligarchic power cluster is essentially running its own employees against each other and having them promise to end the injustices which are inextricably baked in to the oligarchic empire.

United States of Americans live in a totalitarian state whose most important elections are rigged from top to bottom, and they are fed news stories about Evil Dictators in other countries rigging their elections to remain in power.

Politicians cannot change the status quo to one which benefits ordinary people instead of their oligarchic owners, because the oligarchic empire is built upon the need for endless war, poverty, and oppression.

You cannot have a unipolar global empire without using violent force (and the threat of it) to uphold that world order, and you cannot have a plutocracy without ensuring that a few rulers have far more wealth control than the rank-and-file citizenry.

For this reason, even politicians who run on relatively progressive-sounding platforms are themselves a part of the fake decoy revolution unless they demand a complete dismantling of oligarchy and empire.

The politicians who present themselves as progressives in the United States of America today offer only light opposition to some aspects of empire and oligarchy, in effect merely supporting an oligarchic empire that gives Americans healthcare.

Since keeping Americans poor, busy and propagandized is an essential dynamic in the hub of a globe-spanning oligarchic empire, this is a nonsensical position; the oligarchs do not want ordinary United States of Americans to have money to burn on campaign donations and free time to research what is really going on in their world, because then they might meddle in the gears of empire. A power structure built upon economic injustice will never permit economic justice.

The door to meaningful change in United States of America via electoral politics has been closed, locked, bolted, welded shut, and barricaded with a metric ton of solid steel.

The only thing that can cause an end to the oppression and exploitation is an end to the oligarchic empire, and the only thing that can cause the end of the oligarchic empire is direct action by the American people: mass-scale activism, national strikes, and civil disobedience the likes of which the nation has never before seen, in sufficient numbers to bring down the plutocratic institutions which maintain the status quo.

The problem is that this will never happen as long as United States of Americans are being successfully propagandized into being content with their fake decoy revolutions.

There is a zero percent chance of electoral politics leading to an end of the empire, but a concerted effort to spread awareness by those who understand what is going on just might.

All positive changes in human behavior are always preceded by an expansion of awareness, whether you are talking about awareness of the consequences of ones addiction leading to their getting sober or an expansion of awareness of the injustices of racism leading to racial justice laws.

Making people aware that the mass media are lying to us about what is real, aware of the horrors of war, aware of the underlying dynamics of the economic injustice which is grinding United States of Americans into the dirt, that can lead to a chain reaction which sees the collective using the power of its numbers to shrug off the chains of oppression as easily as you remove a heavy coat on a warm day.

What is needed is for the people to awaken to the truth. An entire empire is built upon a pair of closed eyelids!

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