Mr. Obama is an exemplary human being: smart, inspiring, everything you would want in a parent, neighbor, friend, and statesman.
His message, though, that your burden will be eased in the by and by, is cold comfort to the hundreds of millions of people on this planet suffering the abuses of unbridled predatory capitalism, racism, greed, war, and environmental destruction.
Please don't take this as a rejection of the truly admirable personal qualities of a wonderful man anyone would be honored to know personally. It is the difference between MLK and Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton (domestically; internationally she is a menace) and Bernie Sanders. While you wait for pie in the sky, tears flow, blood flows, and champagne flows.
Job number one for the American people is to keep Trump out of the White House. Job number two will be to keep Hillary Clinton's feet to the fire. Whether anyone can get anything humane and reasonable out of a Republican House and Senate is questionable. And two thirds of U.S. state governments are in Republican hands.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Putin.
The American ruling class, for whom the NY Times is a propaganda instrument, does not care how much money autocrats steal from their citizenry or how brutally they treat individuals who challenge their authority: the Shah, Mubarak, Marcos, Pinochet don't even scratch the surface of the litany of truly terrible people the USA has installed, supported politically, and sold weapons to. So please, stop with the sanctimony with respect to Vladimir Putin. There are equally as criminal elements in the American political, military, financial, and industrial sectors of American society as he: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, and many, many more.
What distinguishes candidates for military aid from candidates for regime change among the owners of the USA is who makes plunder easy for American corporations and who makes it hard. As usual, the NY Times is willing to risk war with Russia because the USA simply must rule every square inch of planet Earth and will not rest until it does. Every country the USA invades, every titular head it deposes, is demonized day after day, year after year by the NY Times until the deed is finally done. Then we live with the results. This is the logic of their support for Hillary Clinton to be neocon in chief. One can only hope that American aggression on Russia's borders does not result in nuclear Armageddon.
What distinguishes candidates for military aid from candidates for regime change among the owners of the USA is who makes plunder easy for American corporations and who makes it hard. As usual, the NY Times is willing to risk war with Russia because the USA simply must rule every square inch of planet Earth and will not rest until it does. Every country the USA invades, every titular head it deposes, is demonized day after day, year after year by the NY Times until the deed is finally done. Then we live with the results. This is the logic of their support for Hillary Clinton to be neocon in chief. One can only hope that American aggression on Russia's borders does not result in nuclear Armageddon.
Monday, July 18, 2016
Purpose.
With the exception of committed peace activists who have been trying for generations to raise Americans' awareness of the existence and the consequences of its violent impulses, the USA has barely begun to be willing to know the truth about itself.
Defensiveness among people who do not feel privileged but are is on a hair trigger when their position in society is questioned; and when it comes to questions about policing, guns, militarism, and war, a reflexive, visceral fear that has been cultivated in the American cognitive process for centuries kicks in: "If you take away cops' guns, all hell will break loose."
Americans take it for granted that the world is a violent place full of terrible people, and policies to protect themselves from this imaginary menace have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The roots of American violence are in the way its ruling class does business: as little as possible for you, everything else for me, and you have no choice but to live your life within the parameters defined by a global corporate machine that assumes the world and everybody in it belongs to it. Humanity and life have long since dropped away from the American vision of its national purpose.
Defensiveness among people who do not feel privileged but are is on a hair trigger when their position in society is questioned; and when it comes to questions about policing, guns, militarism, and war, a reflexive, visceral fear that has been cultivated in the American cognitive process for centuries kicks in: "If you take away cops' guns, all hell will break loose."
Americans take it for granted that the world is a violent place full of terrible people, and policies to protect themselves from this imaginary menace have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The roots of American violence are in the way its ruling class does business: as little as possible for you, everything else for me, and you have no choice but to live your life within the parameters defined by a global corporate machine that assumes the world and everybody in it belongs to it. Humanity and life have long since dropped away from the American vision of its national purpose.
Dallas, Baton Rouge.
Violence. The core organizing principle of the USA -- after money. I would like to say the USA has lost its way, but the fact is that the United States was created as a nation of white male property owners. Black people were brutally enslaved; Native Americans' land was stolen and they were almost all killed. Women were second-class citizens, and in many ways they still are.
Does any of this justify murdering police officers? Of course not. But pitched rhetorical battles that minimize the anguish of African-Americans terrified of the police -- dismissing police killings of black people as inconsequential compared to "black-on-black" killings, or characterizing Black Lives Matter, which is a desperate plea by African-American citizens to be treated like human beings, as a terrorist organization or worse -- are a recipe for ever more deterioration of American society.
The footprint of the USA on this planet is a violent footprint: wars followed by wars followed by wars from before its founding to the present. Violence is the way it resolves conflict. The atom bomb is the ultimate peacemaker -- pure insanity.
Understanding root causes degenerates into blaming victims. Whose fault is it that black people are treated like mad-dog criminals in every encounter they have with police? Why are black people shaken down by police again and again?
Owning guns turns everyone into a potential killer. It just becomes a question of whom it is OK to kill.
Does any of this justify murdering police officers? Of course not. But pitched rhetorical battles that minimize the anguish of African-Americans terrified of the police -- dismissing police killings of black people as inconsequential compared to "black-on-black" killings, or characterizing Black Lives Matter, which is a desperate plea by African-American citizens to be treated like human beings, as a terrorist organization or worse -- are a recipe for ever more deterioration of American society.
The footprint of the USA on this planet is a violent footprint: wars followed by wars followed by wars from before its founding to the present. Violence is the way it resolves conflict. The atom bomb is the ultimate peacemaker -- pure insanity.
Understanding root causes degenerates into blaming victims. Whose fault is it that black people are treated like mad-dog criminals in every encounter they have with police? Why are black people shaken down by police again and again?
Owning guns turns everyone into a potential killer. It just becomes a question of whom it is OK to kill.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Drone war.
Americans' preoccupation with "lethal force" obscures questions like: why is the USA trying to dominate the world militarily?
Why do Americans reach immediately for weapons when confronted by people who are not interested in being cogs in their corporate machine? Why are so few Americans aware of the racist underpinnings of the American imperial project?
The attitude of privilege and entitlement -- to do whatever they want to whomever they want wherever they want -- among the American ruling class is screaming to be acknowledged, and year after year, rather than to be willing to perceive the truth about itself, it ruminates interminably about who it should kill.
The narrative always begins with hotheads in a colonized society lashing out violently against American domination -- or fighting back against a dictator the USA installed or the death squads that it trained -- and the question always is what form lethal force should take, never why is the United States manipulating, plundering, and trying to control everybody and everything on this planet.
Meanwhile, a tiny minority in the USA live in opulence and life even for white, formerly middle-class people is deteriorating steadily. What is all this killing protecting?
Why do Americans reach immediately for weapons when confronted by people who are not interested in being cogs in their corporate machine? Why are so few Americans aware of the racist underpinnings of the American imperial project?
The attitude of privilege and entitlement -- to do whatever they want to whomever they want wherever they want -- among the American ruling class is screaming to be acknowledged, and year after year, rather than to be willing to perceive the truth about itself, it ruminates interminably about who it should kill.
The narrative always begins with hotheads in a colonized society lashing out violently against American domination -- or fighting back against a dictator the USA installed or the death squads that it trained -- and the question always is what form lethal force should take, never why is the United States manipulating, plundering, and trying to control everybody and everything on this planet.
Meanwhile, a tiny minority in the USA live in opulence and life even for white, formerly middle-class people is deteriorating steadily. What is all this killing protecting?
Friday, July 08, 2016
After Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Dallas.
White America has to back off, calm down, and be willing finally to extend whatever help, if any, to its fellow human beings it is asked for. There is no need to feel defensive. Americans are blessed with the opportunity to get to know people of every origin and background imaginable. Are we all enemies? We don't even know each other, which with a little humility and a willingness to reach out can be corrected.
We live in a world of delusions that revolve around money, power, and war. Electronic images generated by the corporate economy create an illusion that feels 100% like it is reality, but it is entirely divorced from the actual world from which we emerged. What are we killing each other for? Why all the wars? Why all the poverty? Why all the hate and rage?
It is time for Americans to ask themselves what they think they are doing on this planet and start conceiving of themselves -- and everybody else -- as living human beings.
We live in a world of delusions that revolve around money, power, and war. Electronic images generated by the corporate economy create an illusion that feels 100% like it is reality, but it is entirely divorced from the actual world from which we emerged. What are we killing each other for? Why all the wars? Why all the poverty? Why all the hate and rage?
It is time for Americans to ask themselves what they think they are doing on this planet and start conceiving of themselves -- and everybody else -- as living human beings.
Thursday, July 07, 2016
American police.
American police escalate encounters with citizens at almost the instant they occur. They shout incomprehensible orders, attack, and apply holds that cause their victim to instinctively try to protect himself. Then they start screaming to stop resisting while continuing to apply painful physical force on fingers, throat, and neck. They are experts at violently torturing victims. They are criminal monsters who kill for sport.
American police do not protect and they do not keep the peace. They prowl for prey and brutalize and kill it when they find it. American police do not use words. They do not listen and they do not discuss. They do not coax individuals suspected of a crime to come along peacefully. They scream, yell, threaten, force, coerce, beat -- and when they are sufficiently excited by their own violence, they kill.
People who want to kill join American police departments, hunt blacks, and kill black people with impunity. No way will I ever set foot in the USA again. A horrible, violent, racist, criminal country.
American police do not protect and they do not keep the peace. They prowl for prey and brutalize and kill it when they find it. American police do not use words. They do not listen and they do not discuss. They do not coax individuals suspected of a crime to come along peacefully. They scream, yell, threaten, force, coerce, beat -- and when they are sufficiently excited by their own violence, they kill.
People who want to kill join American police departments, hunt blacks, and kill black people with impunity. No way will I ever set foot in the USA again. A horrible, violent, racist, criminal country.
Monday, June 27, 2016
More on Brexit.
NY Times coverage of the Brexit is spun from the neoliberal perspective: how to put Humpty Dumpty together again so that transnational plunder by banks and corporations can continue business as usual. The stress in this reporting is on how racist, crazed, and xenophobic the rationale for leaving the EU was.
But the truth is that neoliberal institutions from the Democratic Party to the EU are feeling push back from hundreds of millions of people all over the world who have had it with a predatory ruling class that tells itself the theories it concocts to excuse enslaving the human race to an economic system that creates opulence in the extreme for a tiny minority and treats the rest of humanity -- and the Earth -- like dirt make perfect sense.
Brexit is a symptom of a larger revolt, the Western Summer, when Western populations that prospered on the backs of people exploited mercilessly in previously colonized countries in the global south woke up to the fact they were soon going to be adrift in the same boat with corporate globalization's "losers."
The EU's brutal treatment of Greece will in the end be the furthest extent that neoliberal hubris was able to achieve. The right way to think about this moment is how to structure global trade so it benefits humanity as a whole not how to keep the game of toxic commerce going.
But the truth is that neoliberal institutions from the Democratic Party to the EU are feeling push back from hundreds of millions of people all over the world who have had it with a predatory ruling class that tells itself the theories it concocts to excuse enslaving the human race to an economic system that creates opulence in the extreme for a tiny minority and treats the rest of humanity -- and the Earth -- like dirt make perfect sense.
Brexit is a symptom of a larger revolt, the Western Summer, when Western populations that prospered on the backs of people exploited mercilessly in previously colonized countries in the global south woke up to the fact they were soon going to be adrift in the same boat with corporate globalization's "losers."
The EU's brutal treatment of Greece will in the end be the furthest extent that neoliberal hubris was able to achieve. The right way to think about this moment is how to structure global trade so it benefits humanity as a whole not how to keep the game of toxic commerce going.
Friday, June 24, 2016
More on the Brexit.
There is a distinction between global trade, which people have engaged in at least since the 15th century, and corporate globalization, which is a rigged system in which banks and corporations make the rules that every person on this planet must obey.
The rules the banks and corporations pay their lackeys in government to enact put every human being on this planet entirely at the mercy of financial behemoths whose business plan is theft and whose only purpose is to own everything.
"Trade" is a good thing, as is global trade. But so-called "free-trade" isn't even trade. It is a set of arrangements according to which transnational investors can do anything they want to whomever and whatever they want, always walk away with all of the spoils, and can never lose because you and I are obligated to cover their bets when they guess wrong or need an unlimited line of credit to commit their crimes.
Global neoliberalism is a doomed arrangement. Today is the first blow it has earned by its utter contempt for the human race, and many more will follow.
The rules the banks and corporations pay their lackeys in government to enact put every human being on this planet entirely at the mercy of financial behemoths whose business plan is theft and whose only purpose is to own everything.
"Trade" is a good thing, as is global trade. But so-called "free-trade" isn't even trade. It is a set of arrangements according to which transnational investors can do anything they want to whomever and whatever they want, always walk away with all of the spoils, and can never lose because you and I are obligated to cover their bets when they guess wrong or need an unlimited line of credit to commit their crimes.
Global neoliberalism is a doomed arrangement. Today is the first blow it has earned by its utter contempt for the human race, and many more will follow.
My Letter to the NY Times
Let's get one thing straight, NY Times, regarding the Brexit. We are in a three-way race here. You got away with ignoring and minimizing Bernie Sanders' campaign and running all Trump all the time to give your candidate -- you know, the neoliberal -- a bozo who could never beat her to run against.
Now you are backpedaling with all your might trying to put your Frankenstein back in the bottle as every rabid right-wing racist -- and every low-information voter who knows something is wrong and can't believe it's Walmart -- flocks to back him.
The fight is not between xenophobia on the one hand and the self-evident blessings of predatory capitalism. Democratic socialism is in the mix. It isn't racism versus global trade. It is economic democracy versus financialization and corporate rule.
Keep selling racism and xenophobia as the gnome to be disowned in order to save neoliberalism, and you will create a monster that destroys us all. Acknowledge that neoliberalism is dead. Let it go, and let sanity not madness take its place.
Now you are backpedaling with all your might trying to put your Frankenstein back in the bottle as every rabid right-wing racist -- and every low-information voter who knows something is wrong and can't believe it's Walmart -- flocks to back him.
The fight is not between xenophobia on the one hand and the self-evident blessings of predatory capitalism. Democratic socialism is in the mix. It isn't racism versus global trade. It is economic democracy versus financialization and corporate rule.
Keep selling racism and xenophobia as the gnome to be disowned in order to save neoliberalism, and you will create a monster that destroys us all. Acknowledge that neoliberalism is dead. Let it go, and let sanity not madness take its place.
On the Brexit outcome.
French and German banks torturing Greece marks the beginning of the end of the EU and more to the point the beginning of the end of neoliberalism.
All those excuses why predatory capitalism is exactly what the world needs because piles of money doing whatever they want to whomever they want to make themselves bigger have had their day and no longer have the entire deck stacked in their favor.
The masses not going along with being ripped off is the one card piles of money do not hold, and it is finally being played. The piles assume state violence ensures the field will be forever tilted in their favor, but democracy hasn't been snuffed out entirely and if given a fair vote, piles of money from here on out are going to be kicked out of town.
All those excuses why predatory capitalism is exactly what the world needs because piles of money doing whatever they want to whomever they want to make themselves bigger have had their day and no longer have the entire deck stacked in their favor.
The masses not going along with being ripped off is the one card piles of money do not hold, and it is finally being played. The piles assume state violence ensures the field will be forever tilted in their favor, but democracy hasn't been snuffed out entirely and if given a fair vote, piles of money from here on out are going to be kicked out of town.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
On Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president.
Obama didn't prosecute Bush/Cheney for torture, didn't prosecute Wall Street CEO's for crashing the economy with fraud, didn't bail out Main Street but gave Wall Street a giant present, didn't pass a big enough stimulus even with a Democratic Congress, gave Treasury Secretary to Timothy Geithner, didn't fight for the public option let alone single payer, expanded Bush's drone war, doesn't support whistle blowers trying to save the 4th Amendment. A guy with this record is solidly in the Clinton camp.
"The job."
"The job" of president of the USA is be a feel-good face for the violent, racist, plutocratic machinery of the United States. It is a hard job. Hard to believe in and hard to pull off. One big lie. Ronald Reagan delivered his lines masterfully. Barack Obama has a charming personality and is an unusually gifted speaker. Bill Clinton knows so much he can argue any side and believe what he is saying. Hillary Clinton sees the earth-destroying, people-grinding machinery of the military-corporation-Wall Street juggernaut as a good thing for the human race.
A harder job is to stop the plunder and make the world safe for living things. This takes more than charm, personality, or "experience." It takes understanding of where our history went off the rails and a vision for where it would be better for us to be.
A harder job is to stop the plunder and make the world safe for living things. This takes more than charm, personality, or "experience." It takes understanding of where our history went off the rails and a vision for where it would be better for us to be.
Friday, May 13, 2016
How dare they.
Has Iran ever toppled a democratically elected government in the USA? Installed a brutal, torturing, murdering military dictator in the USA, arming him and supporting him diplomatically and financially for 26 years until Americans finally got rid of him?
No. Iran has never crushed democracy in the USA to further the business interests of its ruling elite. But the USA did do exactly that to Iran.
How dare the Iranians! Kicking out the American-installed dictator, disliking the USA for what the American ruling elite did to them, and strengthening their ability to deter military aggression against Iran by the constantly sabre-rattling USA and expansionist settler-colonialist state of Israel.
It must feel awful to be Ted Cruz, miserable day in and day out about imagined catastrophic threats like Iran. No one ever explained to him how nasty, greedy people like American neocons who want to dominate the world militarily always dream up narratives to transform the countries they want to dominate and subjugate and control into imaginary aggressors.
How dare anyone oppose American imperialism! Such naked aggression must be crushed by any means necessary!
No. Iran has never crushed democracy in the USA to further the business interests of its ruling elite. But the USA did do exactly that to Iran.
How dare the Iranians! Kicking out the American-installed dictator, disliking the USA for what the American ruling elite did to them, and strengthening their ability to deter military aggression against Iran by the constantly sabre-rattling USA and expansionist settler-colonialist state of Israel.
It must feel awful to be Ted Cruz, miserable day in and day out about imagined catastrophic threats like Iran. No one ever explained to him how nasty, greedy people like American neocons who want to dominate the world militarily always dream up narratives to transform the countries they want to dominate and subjugate and control into imaginary aggressors.
How dare anyone oppose American imperialism! Such naked aggression must be crushed by any means necessary!
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Luxury.
Attacking your opponent's record, policies, and promises is what campaigning is all about. After Tuesday's Democratic debate in Brooklyn, I must say that Hillary Clinton in my opinion also is not qualified to be president of the USA. She looked like a Madeleine Albright doppelganger and spoke words members of her camp would say. On minimum wage and the economy the message I got was: "Sure. Sure. So long as me and my friends in the ruling class still control all the money and are running the show." Small business people identify with successful entrepreneurs, but there are ethical ones, like Bernie, whose business is small-bore politics and is ready to step up to lead the charge. And there are the shifty types who talk a loose game and sell by manipulating your allegiance to them, like Trump. Hillary is a realist, meaning she will live a luxurious life fighting for the underdog by parsing semantic phrases with her rich patrons and beneficiaries.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Race.
Bill Clinton's rant the other day is classic blame-the-victim rhetoric of privilege.
Redline black communities, implement racial real estate covenants as a matter of public policy, underfund schools in black neighborhoods, site polluting industries in and around them, segregate them from communities at large with freeways, provide inadequate public transportation and recreational facilities, flood the neighborhood with liquor stores . . . in a word create slums and blame their creation on the people who are stuck living in them; then send in a sadistic, racist police force to brutalize kids with no education, no jobs, no sense of belonging to a society that cares about them, and blame all of this and more (by which I mean flooding black neighborhoods with guns and drugs) on the product of precisely the policies that created such a violent, hopeless, environment.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when you block every avenue to participation in the mainstream economy, an underground economy based on violence and crime takes its place.
It's all about framing, Mr. Bill Clinton. You can argue from the 13-year-old kids shooting people, or you can argue from the blatant racism that created the world they inhabit. One is cynical politics fueled by money. The other is compassion for your fellow human beings. Every person is free to choose between them.
Redline black communities, implement racial real estate covenants as a matter of public policy, underfund schools in black neighborhoods, site polluting industries in and around them, segregate them from communities at large with freeways, provide inadequate public transportation and recreational facilities, flood the neighborhood with liquor stores . . . in a word create slums and blame their creation on the people who are stuck living in them; then send in a sadistic, racist police force to brutalize kids with no education, no jobs, no sense of belonging to a society that cares about them, and blame all of this and more (by which I mean flooding black neighborhoods with guns and drugs) on the product of precisely the policies that created such a violent, hopeless, environment.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when you block every avenue to participation in the mainstream economy, an underground economy based on violence and crime takes its place.
It's all about framing, Mr. Bill Clinton. You can argue from the 13-year-old kids shooting people, or you can argue from the blatant racism that created the world they inhabit. One is cynical politics fueled by money. The other is compassion for your fellow human beings. Every person is free to choose between them.
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Trump.
My blog is just a blog from here on out. No more emails to the editor.
Trump is fronting for the thugs. Hillary is fronting for the corporations. Rationally winding down the global corporatocracy would be better, but rich people panic if they have to part with a nickel.
Trump will take care of them. Hillary will work for them.
Either way the wheeler-dealers or the corporations will continue confiscating everything and enslaving everyone -- while destroying the planet and the economy. Like the fascists did in WWII, bringing the devastation of their own cities on themselves.
Trump is fronting for the thugs. Hillary is fronting for the corporations. Rationally winding down the global corporatocracy would be better, but rich people panic if they have to part with a nickel.
Trump will take care of them. Hillary will work for them.
Either way the wheeler-dealers or the corporations will continue confiscating everything and enslaving everyone -- while destroying the planet and the economy. Like the fascists did in WWII, bringing the devastation of their own cities on themselves.
Friday, February 05, 2016
Single payer.
Editor,
The solution, obviously, is to find a way to placate the insurance industry. Give them another cash cow in exchange for relinquishing their claim on health insurance.
Insurance companies care about one thing: their own profits. That is why for-profit health insurance is a disaster for people who have no alternative to it and the USA does not have single payer.
Looking across the full spectrum of insurance "products," certainly there are regulations that can be relaxed in, say, corporate risk management services or collateral insurance premiums that expand insurance companies' profits within the financial sector sufficiently so that they are willing to release their stranglehold on sick people. Finance is an imaginary world of numbers anyway. Just rewrite the rules so insurance companies get a bigger piece of the action.
Once insurance companies agree to give up health insurance because they have been handed easy money elsewhere, the "political problem" will be solved and single payer will become the no-brainer that it is. Heck, given the right incentives, insurance companies will be happy to let health insurance and all of its attendant headaches go.
Re: "Who Hates Obamacare?" (2/5/2016)
The solution, obviously, is to find a way to placate the insurance industry. Give them another cash cow in exchange for relinquishing their claim on health insurance.
Insurance companies care about one thing: their own profits. That is why for-profit health insurance is a disaster for people who have no alternative to it and the USA does not have single payer.
Looking across the full spectrum of insurance "products," certainly there are regulations that can be relaxed in, say, corporate risk management services or collateral insurance premiums that expand insurance companies' profits within the financial sector sufficiently so that they are willing to release their stranglehold on sick people. Finance is an imaginary world of numbers anyway. Just rewrite the rules so insurance companies get a bigger piece of the action.
Once insurance companies agree to give up health insurance because they have been handed easy money elsewhere, the "political problem" will be solved and single payer will become the no-brainer that it is. Heck, given the right incentives, insurance companies will be happy to let health insurance and all of its attendant headaches go.
Re: "Who Hates Obamacare?" (2/5/2016)
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Pharoahs.
Editor,
The Republican establishment strikes back.
Deluded Trump hasn't a prayer of winning the general election, so "the party is over, Donnie. Go back to your golf courses, employees, and wives and boss people around in that little world of yours. We out here are enslaving the world with violence and poverty and creating a scale of wealth for ourselves that the Pharaohs never imagined. So ta-ta, little boy. Back to the playroom with you."
Re: "Donald Trump, in Feud With Fox News, Shuns Debate" (1/27/2016)
The Republican establishment strikes back.
Deluded Trump hasn't a prayer of winning the general election, so "the party is over, Donnie. Go back to your golf courses, employees, and wives and boss people around in that little world of yours. We out here are enslaving the world with violence and poverty and creating a scale of wealth for ourselves that the Pharaohs never imagined. So ta-ta, little boy. Back to the playroom with you."
Re: "Donald Trump, in Feud With Fox News, Shuns Debate" (1/27/2016)
Monday, January 25, 2016
Empty husks.
Editor,
Thinking back on what the emotional landscape must have been like for a politician who defended slavery or instigated stealing Native Americans' land, it seems to me that a total lack of empathy and utterly unconscious greed must have been at the core of those people's experience of themselves.
These were the real Americans, seeing as to how they stole the actual United States from the people who were living here before the physical United States was planted, picked, and built for them by enslaved human beings.
The reality of what Native Americans and slaves looked like to the real Americans is precisely what Palin-Trump Americans perceive when they see immigrants, Muslims, refugees, and other despised categories of people they blame for the inhumane conditions of a world shaped almost entirely by themselves and their rapacious friends. Subhuman empty husks into which one pours justification for whatever crimes one wishes to commit.
Re: "Sarah Palin, Rage Whisperer" (1/26/2016)
Thinking back on what the emotional landscape must have been like for a politician who defended slavery or instigated stealing Native Americans' land, it seems to me that a total lack of empathy and utterly unconscious greed must have been at the core of those people's experience of themselves.
These were the real Americans, seeing as to how they stole the actual United States from the people who were living here before the physical United States was planted, picked, and built for them by enslaved human beings.
The reality of what Native Americans and slaves looked like to the real Americans is precisely what Palin-Trump Americans perceive when they see immigrants, Muslims, refugees, and other despised categories of people they blame for the inhumane conditions of a world shaped almost entirely by themselves and their rapacious friends. Subhuman empty husks into which one pours justification for whatever crimes one wishes to commit.
Re: "Sarah Palin, Rage Whisperer" (1/26/2016)
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