27-06-2016, 02:24 PM
d to reenact Groundhogs Day which (I hope) is redundant.
Hello. I want to start a thread on what we mean by "the presidency" and how a lack of mediated public sphere discussion on what presidents can and cannot do (especially after the 1963 Coup) facilitates the use of "left" Democratic Primary candidates who are nothing more than role players for Corporate Rightist who will eventually chosen by Corporate America as the most pragmatic Republican available.
I will start with the observation that Sanders challenge to Clinton was remarkably weak on foreign policy. IMO this is not so much a reflection of Sanders poor judgement as it was a reflection of The National Security State by 2016. In other words, had Sanders dared to break the bipartisan mums the word consensus on Syria et. al., had he chosen to really linger on Libya... it would have been beyond the NSS 2016 pale and .. he would no longer have been airwave-viable in the completely corporate America of 2016.
What has this to do with the Kennedy Assassination? Everything, because it is precisely the growing power of the National Security State, often hidden by the deceptive New York Review of Books ish marketing of "The Imperial Presidency," that prevents younger voters and those saved from history by the french abortion pill of history better known as "magazines" from understanding just how much of today's campaigns are, in fact, role playing for a Democratic Party that has become Republicans without protest.
It is our failure to connect the JFK Assassination to the longer term evolution of the Democrats (or failure rather to make this connection more widely understood) that enables these hamster wheel primaries with so many trillions of dollars in wasted energy. This must be more democratically shown.
While I supported Sanders for reasons of making SOME reality more widely available i.e. MSM airtime that would be gained, I knew there was never a question of Sanders being able to win. A Pax Americana In Planned Decay does not suddenly change directions after 48 years of One Direction. That more people cannot see this one direction is because of the impact of the assassinations have not been widely explained in terms of their effects on the Democrats and today's complete hegemony of the National Security State.
Hello. I want to start a thread on what we mean by "the presidency" and how a lack of mediated public sphere discussion on what presidents can and cannot do (especially after the 1963 Coup) facilitates the use of "left" Democratic Primary candidates who are nothing more than role players for Corporate Rightist who will eventually chosen by Corporate America as the most pragmatic Republican available.
I will start with the observation that Sanders challenge to Clinton was remarkably weak on foreign policy. IMO this is not so much a reflection of Sanders poor judgement as it was a reflection of The National Security State by 2016. In other words, had Sanders dared to break the bipartisan mums the word consensus on Syria et. al., had he chosen to really linger on Libya... it would have been beyond the NSS 2016 pale and .. he would no longer have been airwave-viable in the completely corporate America of 2016.
What has this to do with the Kennedy Assassination? Everything, because it is precisely the growing power of the National Security State, often hidden by the deceptive New York Review of Books ish marketing of "The Imperial Presidency," that prevents younger voters and those saved from history by the french abortion pill of history better known as "magazines" from understanding just how much of today's campaigns are, in fact, role playing for a Democratic Party that has become Republicans without protest.
It is our failure to connect the JFK Assassination to the longer term evolution of the Democrats (or failure rather to make this connection more widely understood) that enables these hamster wheel primaries with so many trillions of dollars in wasted energy. This must be more democratically shown.
While I supported Sanders for reasons of making SOME reality more widely available i.e. MSM airtime that would be gained, I knew there was never a question of Sanders being able to win. A Pax Americana In Planned Decay does not suddenly change directions after 48 years of One Direction. That more people cannot see this one direction is because of the impact of the assassinations have not been widely explained in terms of their effects on the Democrats and today's complete hegemony of the National Security State.