29-09-2016, 01:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-09-2016, 01:53 PM by David Guyatt.)
Cliff Varnell Wrote:David Guyatt: a simply appalling choice between the two and yet people still get partisan about it.
It's not a traditional choice between a corporate Democrat and a corporate Republican.
Trump is promising a new form of government blatantly racist.
Astonishing really. For me it all seems so tribal that I want to weep.
Do we want to live under a fascist strongman, or not. Trump makes no bones about the role he envisions.
Why would you wish a brutal white supremacist on anyone?
I'm baffled.
However, we all know exactly what Hilary will bring if she wins the vote.
You prefer a bunch of religious nuts who crave "the end of days?"
You think the globalists are the worst?
No, the Christian Right Trump depends on is infinitely worse.
Sorry, but you have no clue how much worse Trump would be.
America has been horribly racist all my life. It still is. But it's good that you wish to change this deeply ingrained inferiority complex from the American psyche. I'm with you on that.
But in pursuing that laudable aim your blithely ignoring something far, far worse.
The simple fact is that projecting wars overseas against Muslims, Russians, Chinese - and whoever else may happen to take the fucked up fancy of the utterly fucked up military intelligence & industrial complex of the US - remains the most blatant form of racism known to mankind.
And as we know, it's practised solely for financial gain and to keep the money monopoly going in order to keep the greedy bastard 1% in the comfort they've grown accustomed to.
What I take from your argument then, is that it's okay to export war-racism overseas so long as it keeps racism at bay at home. I can see how this form of myopia is acceptable. It's doubling down haard on the "I'm alright Jack" attitude.
All it requires to succeed is the ol' magic mind trick of wilfully ignoring the fact that thousands of miles away from US domestic concerns, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of non-people will pay the price in blood and suffering.
And all because America prefers to psychologically project its shadow and growing schizophrenia far away from itself, thus avoiding responsibility for the chaos it rains down.
It's those nassy ol' Muslims, Russians and Chinese to blame. Not you. Not Washington. Not America. Never America.
Have a nice day.
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First they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the Russians, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Russian.
Then they came for the Chinese, and I did not speak out
Because I was not Chinese.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
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It seems evident now that what people are saying: democrats have become the war party - really is true.
Who would've thunk...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14