Faremo Una Nuova Nazione Del Popolo!
Today, we introduce a new Blog category: Duce!
You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always 'at the window', because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.
-- Benito Mussolini
Today, we introduce a new Blog category: Duce!
You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always 'at the window', because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.
-- Benito Mussolini
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MEHR, VON DIE ZUKUNFT:
Welkommen ins die neues Welt!
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UND NOCH IMMER MEHR:
... I
actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see
someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to
the point where they become sick; they faint as a result of [the
reaction] to their ambitions. She represents a whole network of people
and a network of relationships with particular states.
The question is,
how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a
centralizing cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from
the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and
Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis. She's
the centralizer that inter-connects all these different cogs. She's
the smooth central representation of all that, and "all that" is more or
less what is in power now in the United States.
It's what we call the
establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta
emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and
how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative
from CitiBank. This is quite amazing....
... [Let's
talk about] Donald Trump. What does he represent in the American mind
and in the European mind? ... Because he so clearly -- through his words and actions and the type of
people that turn up at his rallies -- represents people who are not the
middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming
to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the
class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in
any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton. If you look at how
the middle class gains its economic and social power, that makes
absolute sense.
-- Julian Assange; Interview with John Pilger
(Read some of it here, or watch the entire interview on UTub. Go. Now.)
MEHR, MIT 'WARUM KOMMT TRUMP?'
... nothing shifted. People have been homeless, addicted, without protection or help from government for thirty years now. Hillary wanted, it was rumored, to privatize social security. The US population is drugged, desperate, and angry. But THAT America is invisible in media. People toil for minimum wage, as guest workers in their own country. Unpaid internships are now the norm. College degrees mean shit...
Trump is not the answer, of course. He is the symptom... of the virus of neoliberal Capitalism. I never thought Trump would win because I didn’t think he wanted to win. And maybe, maybe he didn’t. None of that mattered, as it turned out...
[But w]hen you have fifty bucks in the bank, how important is it that Trump makes sexist jokes? The public turned more and more as the campaign process went on. Never have the debates looked so staged and fake. Never have they seemed so removed from daily life for most Americans. The... poor black and latino communities could find little enthusiasm for either candidate. But I sensed a resentment to the smug liberals that come to gentrify neighborhoods, and who ASSUME everyone should think as they do. ... The poor are the object of derision and are patronized and ridiculed.
The one thing I am surprised about... is that the Clinton machine allowed it to happen. But then, in certain corners of the financial elite, trust was eroding in their favored candidate. But the Dems were arrogant, too. And inept. They ran a terrible campaign with one of the worst candidates ever to run for president. So, no, it wasn’t sexism or racism, it was anger at the status quo. An inarticulate anger, but still anger. The big mistake of liberals was to think Trump was bringing fascism, without realizing fascism was already here.
-- John Steppling, "The Big Split" / Counterpunch, November 10, 2016
(Read some of it here, or watch the entire interview on UTub. Go. Now.)
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MEHR, MIT 'WARUM KOMMT TRUMP?'
... nothing shifted. People have been homeless, addicted, without protection or help from government for thirty years now. Hillary wanted, it was rumored, to privatize social security. The US population is drugged, desperate, and angry. But THAT America is invisible in media. People toil for minimum wage, as guest workers in their own country. Unpaid internships are now the norm. College degrees mean shit...
Trump is not the answer, of course. He is the symptom... of the virus of neoliberal Capitalism. I never thought Trump would win because I didn’t think he wanted to win. And maybe, maybe he didn’t. None of that mattered, as it turned out...
[But w]hen you have fifty bucks in the bank, how important is it that Trump makes sexist jokes? The public turned more and more as the campaign process went on. Never have the debates looked so staged and fake. Never have they seemed so removed from daily life for most Americans. The... poor black and latino communities could find little enthusiasm for either candidate. But I sensed a resentment to the smug liberals that come to gentrify neighborhoods, and who ASSUME everyone should think as they do. ... The poor are the object of derision and are patronized and ridiculed.
The one thing I am surprised about... is that the Clinton machine allowed it to happen. But then, in certain corners of the financial elite, trust was eroding in their favored candidate. But the Dems were arrogant, too. And inept. They ran a terrible campaign with one of the worst candidates ever to run for president. So, no, it wasn’t sexism or racism, it was anger at the status quo. An inarticulate anger, but still anger. The big mistake of liberals was to think Trump was bringing fascism, without realizing fascism was already here.
-- John Steppling, "The Big Split" / Counterpunch, November 10, 2016
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