18-11-2016, 09:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-11-2016, 12:43 PM by David Guyatt.)
Cliff Varnell Wrote:I've said this before -- John Pilger knows fuck-all about America -- our people, our politics, our society.
In the midst of this victim-shaming, a touch of realpolitik:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/core...ce7aa97d7c
Corey Lewandowski Credits FBI Director James Comey With Helping Donald Trump Win
"With 11 days to go in this election cycle, something amazing happened."
We knew what we were getting with Clinton.
We knew what we were getting with Trump.
We knew that Trump would be infinitely worse, no matter how bad Clinton was.
What do you call it when, in a two party system, one party relentlessly investigates the other party's leaders over trivialities?
Fascism.
What do you call it when the top law enforcement officer in the country announces a bogus investigation into a candidate 11 days from an election?
Fascism.
We need to get this right.
I'm with Magda on this. 100%. You're posting your usual uninformed and emotional tosh.
Not only does Pilger know more than most Americans (who for me walk around in a willingly induced daze of ignorance) about US political life -- he knows more about US foreign affairs than you ever will. And whereas you don't regard foreign affairs with much interest, the fact is that it remains the absolute bedrock of US power and is the one thing the elite understand is the key to their continuation.
And stop fooling yourself. America has not had a functioning two-party political system in the US for decades. The Demo-publican political system has been completely dominated by the wealthy elite who run America for their own benefit.
Fascism has been a long time coming and repeatedly discussed on this forum for a very long time too. Did you think the Patriot Act, Homeland Security (de facto state security), institutional torture of the very worst kind, state sanctioned kidnapping (rendition), drone assassinations, para-militarization of the police, medical experiments on prisoners, the increasing cases of outright murder of citizens by the police, massive surveillance of the population etc., were ACTS of democracy for Christ's sake? All these were "fascist" in their design and implementation and your slept-walked through them.
The Nazi's would've wet themselves living in America since 9/11.
You've been dreaming through the last several decades and finally, finally, you've woken up to smell the coffee. But still you're not seeing the whole picture.
It beggars belief. It really does.
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