Trump’s “Opposition” Supports All His Evil Agendas While Attacking Fake Nonsense

[caitlinjohnstone.com]

(The US Senate has just passed Trump’s mammoth military spending increase by a landslide 92-8 vote. The eight senators who voted “nay”? Seven Republicans, and Independent Bernie Sanders. Every single Democrat supported the most bloated war budget since the height of the Iraq war.)

If you think it would be any different under Hillieary Clinton, you're dead wrong. She had already played a part in Syria, and, ask Libya how she works. Or how she laughs after turning a country into a slave selling state having weaponized terrorist to overthrow a government that was fighting terrorism. And I'll go out on the limb here. The only reason Sanders voted no was because he's now engaged in managing the illusion of being a progressive again to draw back supporters to the democratic party. This is another one of those issues that tie back to Caitlin Johnstone's 1-2 punch. [caitlinjohnstone.com]
We're not getting a fight from our representatives for us, because they are fighting us. And they keep feeding us with evidence of this time after time. They aren't anymore out to get Trump as the establishment republicans put out a con during the primary cycle of not wanting him. They got exactly what they wanted, the country to move to the right. It's not only moving, it's hopping, quickly. All through the confirmation hearings of his administration. What did we get as people with no experience and or clearly having a conflict of interest in that appointment, no fight! You in no way shape or manor can solely put this leap to the right squarely on the republican establishment. Same as in Europe. Make no bones about it, literally, bones and blood, we and the other side of the pond are fighting for our very lives and those the oligarchy are killing off for resources and profits.

( In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, there are jewelry buyers set up around a fishing community which are all owned by the same plutocrat, but they all pretend to be in competition with one another. When the story’s protagonist discovers an enormous and valuable pearl and goes to sell it, they all gather round and individually bid far less than it is worth in order to trick him into giving it away for almost nothing. US politics is pretty much the same; two mainstream parties owned by the same political class, engaged in a staged bidding war for votes to give the illusion of competition.)

And somewhere around 52% of the US population, 26% each of republican and democrat supporters, are stuck in that very same illusion That the main stream media helps the establishment as they wage a war of managed perception to keep them trapped in it.