Trumpland

The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.

The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us from “antisemites.” They are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law and the transparency and accountability that is only possible with a free press, the right to dissent, a vibrant culture and a separation of powers, including an independent judiciary.

All of these pillars of an open society, as I detail in my book “Death of the Liberal Class,” were degraded long before Trump. The press, including public broadcasting, academia, the Democratic Party, a corporatized and banal culture, a judiciary that serves the billionaire class and a Congress bought by lobbyists, have been disemboweled. They are easily picked off. Few want to rise up to defend them. They sold us out. Let them die.

“The loss of the liberal class creates a power vacuum filled by speculators, war profiteers, gangsters, and killers, often led by charismatic demagogues,” I wrote in “Death of the Liberal Class” in 2010. “It opens the door to totalitarian movements that rise to prominence by ridiculing and taunting the liberal class and the values it claims to champion. The promises of these totalitarian movements are fantastic and unrealistic, but their critiques of the liberal class are grounded in truth.”

Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy. It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses of the ruling class and the empire by instituting incremental and piecemeal reforms. It scolds and moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed.

Media outlets prioritize access to the powerful more than truth. They amplified lies and propaganda to propel us into a war on Iraq. They lionized Wall Street and assured us it was prudent to entrust our life savings to a financial system run by speculators and thieves. Life savings were gutted. They fed us the lies of Russiagate. They slavishly cater to the Israel lobby, distorting coverage of the genocide and university protests to demonize Palestinians, Muslims and student protestors. They dance to the tune of their corporate advertisers and sponsors. They render whole sections of the population, whose misery, poverty, and grievances should be the principal focus of journalism, invisible.

[chrishedges.substack.com]

I'll stop there before I let you go on to read the rest yourselves. That is unless you read before you observe my remarks of course. If you even have the respect for me, the other members, or yourself, to read at all before applying statements within ignorance of narratives and contextual delivery. It's likely I'll forget some of what clutters my mind as I comment on the above. But it's all something I've brought up here many times before.

But first allow me to add a couple points before I address the above. As Hedges points out, again, addressing some of what brought us to this point in time? Have you played a part in it? I know I surely have myself. My true full awakening didn't come until 2016. And if you correlate awake with woke, you haven't been paying close attention. Yea, like many of you I've known for decades something wasn't right. It began for me with Ross Perot. Then I was virtually hit upside my head by a 2X4 by Bernie Sanders. Maybe a steel pipe is more accurate. As I wondered through the Internet finding material to combat his opponent during his fake run for presidency, I found myself in a small world of unbiased news sources that ended up helping me deal with the delusional reality I'd been fighting to support before hand for years that brought me this new pain in my life. Ultimately it gave me a new cause. To support history, truth, and facts, that have been twisted and deceptive for me for my entire life. Every aspect of my life. You have no clue how deeply entwined into my life I've been effected by betrayals. That's a long story though. But I'm as close to mastering the recognition of betrayal as one can be. To the point where I now know we can largely betray only ourselves with poor judgments and decisions. And within the political arena, we have the ability to significantly decrease betrayal. But it takes work like the process I went through in 2016. Genuine, self intellectual, fortitude, towards discovery. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to do it either. You simply have to find the right types of people who lead with the information that correlates history with current information which provide the linking of facts and or sensible conjecture.

*For reference Frayed Bear: For me the following 2 quotes from Caitlin Johnstone's report are far more telling than commenting on the pissant performances of Genocidal Joe & Treacherous Trump -

"This is the dystopia we were warned about. It’s not some ominous threat looming on the horizon. It’s here. We are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into consenting to the most nightmarish atrocities imaginable. Children’s bodies are being shredded to bits right in front of us. And when you turn on the TV you see famous people laughing and making jokes with fake plastic grins, babbling about vapid nonsense. This is the dystopia. It isn’t on its way. It’s here."

And

"To see it with eyes that are free from the cataracts of propaganda conditioning, with hearts that are free from the calluses of desensitization. Waking the public up is less about whistleblowers, FOIA requests and investigative journalism at this point than it is about finding creative and artistic ways to get people noticing the information that’s already public."

Me: Right. I get it. But I first have to get the attention of people who over several years of my posting that refuse to come to terms with the fact that this isn't a party issue. Suggesting as much as I can that it's a systematic issue within western governments. We have to break down that barrier within a significant amount of people yet who are trapped in that managed existence. And hope that as I extend this leading agenda that they'll actually read the articles provided that outline the message I'm attempting to project that detail the evidence of what I speak. Which another problem is getting them to actually read the articles to apply a sense of intellectual thought to all our issues. To many still don't get that yet either.

From a previous Johnstone post: [agnostic.com]

And this video of Hedges that I've posted in the past a number of times that apparently needs to be addressed again.

I'll address the video now though before I go back to the other aspects on the initial beginning. Just recently as yesterday Trump apparently is cutting off funding for public radio {NPR and PBS} Hedges addresses this in the article and this video. I've addressed it on a number of times. You can add the BBC to this also. These are radio entities that are firstly, widely, advertised as publicly funded stations. That's their first deceptive attribute. They are also widely funded by corporations, governments, billionaires, and other MSCMs. That basically makes it impossible for them to claim they are independent media sources. This funding doesn't come with any sense of independence. It comes with a large degree of expectancy of agenda driven delivery. You can correlate this with the funding ending of USAID and NED, and a few other areas. Where we are delivered a controlled narrative of their positive workings while the crimes they commit are hidden in which you'll only discover those through genuine independent sources. Trump and his administration hasn't themselves fully exposed the crimes of these entities. Just the biasness as reasoning. The crimes within these agencies will not be addressed, no one held accountable. They're simply distractions. In regards to these radio stations, their crime is the amount of dis/misinformation they deliver towards support of the capitalist agendas. Which Hedges also addresses in the article. They're collaborate in betraying us every bit as much as our representation does. And they have no party reference as Trump suggest it does. Or does/did the USAID or NED. They each work/ed well for those they were intended to work for. It isn't and wasn't us! The same program of agendas will continue with or without them.

In regards to the Johnstone article, and a couple of others I've posted more recently. I'm seeing more people who I've butted heads with before who seem to apparently be more acceptable of my post. I've witnessed movements in the past where I was hoping to see more people turning tides that went backwards shortly after. Hope falling wayside. I hope the past 4 years have provided an wakening in regards to the correlated policies related to the Biden administration compared to the incoming Trump administration which should be exposing much higher senses of concern. That these aren't any longer party issues. That we can now sensible go back over the past 5 decades or so and correlate the parties and politicians to each other as Hedges projects in the article. It really goes back much further though. Small steps are good for now!

Of course I forgot to comment on the other stuff. It's getting late for me on a day off, so, in short. All the other aspects in all that are areas we were to believe that Trump is at war with. When in fact, they're all working quite well in delivering much of everything he needs to pull off his chaotic adventures. Intelligence agencies, judicial system, the democratic party, military. There's no genuine attempt to end the lawlessness, pressure to apply the constitution or bill of rights, hold people accountable for crimes and unethical practices.