FAR TOO FEW of us realize the Republican victory in Wisconsin heralds a blitzkrieg that will undeniably overwhelm us in November.
Fewer
still understand the Wisconsin debacle portends the ultimate triumph of
fascism the One Percent has sought since Wall Street and Berlin
collaborated in the 1934 Bankers Plot (for which Google) -- a nearly
successful scheme to turn the United States into the fourth member of
the old Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis.
But
once we acknowledge the new paradigm of U.S. governance demonstrated by
the Republicans in Wisconsin – absolute power and unlimited profit for
the One Percent, total subjugation and genocidal poverty for all the
rest of us – we're also able to recognize the unspeakably treacherous
role of the Democrats as the deliberate facilitators of Republican
victory.
That's the only possible strategy underlying Obama the Orator's self-transformation into Barack the Betrayer.
It's also the only possible purpose behind the Democrats' (deliberate) loss of the Wisconsin recall – see "True Wisconsin: How and Why the Democrats (Deliberately) Lost."
Likewise
note the landslide losses the Democrats suffered in the 2010
Congressional election, the direct result of an embittered electorate
awakening to the ugly truth "change we can believe in" was a Big Lie
from the beginning.
And
all this makes perfect sense when we recognize the bitter truth We the
People have been totally disenfranchised – that, exactly as Bill Moyers
says – U.S. "democracy" has become nothing more than a charade.
Meanwhile,
behind the scenes, the two parties collaborate to impose the tyrannical
will of the global One Percent: note the unanimous or nearly unanimous
Congressional votes that have downsized our paychecks and abolished our
constitutional rights: GATT, NAFTA, Patriot Act, NDAA, etc. ad nauseum.
So descends the newest darkness of fascism, guarded and expanded by the
United States and its imperial military machine – complete with
Nazi-style helmets that subtly proclaim the dread reality of a de facto Fourth Reich.
Be
very afraid. The forthcoming fascist victory in the November elections
means those of us who are no longer exploitable for profit – seniors,
disabled people, others who are chronically impoverished – will be
targeted by a "final solution" of deliberate genocide. Not in death
camps – that would be too internationally embarrassing – but by
termination of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps,
unemployment compensation and any other life-sustaining socioeconomic
program.
Exactly
as some Teabaggers already publicly acknowledge, that's the real
purpose – extermination of those of us adjudged to be burdensome –
behind the definitively murderous Paul Ryan Budget: the maliciously
forcible redistribution of wealth President-to-Be Romney has already
enthusiastically endorsed.
(An earlier version of this essay was published in the comment thread generated by “Snap out of it Obama,” in Crosscut, Seattle's excellent on-line daily.)
*****
Weaponized Rape: Another Preview of Post-Wisconsin Realpolitik
NAOMI WOLF'S REVIEW of a documentary film entitled The Invisible War, a daring exposé of the “systemic rape of women in the (U.S.) military
and the retaliations and coverups” by which the victims are then
repeatedly savaged, is more of the superbly informative prose we have
come to expect from this notably courageous Guardian headliner.
But the review nevertheless suffers from Ms. Wolf's obvious unfamiliarity with the military itself.
As
a Regular Army veteran (six-year enlistment 1959-1965, three years
active duty including extended service in Korea, three years reserve,
honorably discharged), I know the military does nothing by accident –
that its collective behavior is always purposefully commanded. I also
know enough history to recognize chain-of-command purposefulness is
especially characteristic of the military of a fascist empire. The
classic example is how the Axis – particularly the Nazi Germans – used
the Spanish Civil War to kill-harden their soldiers in preparation for
the atrocities Hitler would soon unleash against other Europeans,
particularly the citizens of the Soviet Union.
Thus
the U.S. military high command's outrageous tolerance of rape proves
these attacks are not only tacitly encouraged but are in fact purposeful
expressions of some dire agenda of malevolence that, at present,
remains hidden.
In
this context it is useful to contrast the U.S. military's response to
males who rape their fellow service personnel with what was done to the
(very few) such rapists in the Red Army, where women served on the front
lines both during the Russian Civil War (1918-1923) and during the
Great Patriotic War Against Fascism (what we call World War II).
The
U.S. rapists are, as Ms. Wolf notes, outrageously protected, even
pampered. But in the Red Army and other Soviet forces – where women
were among the best most daring combat pilots (Google "Night Witches")
and among the deadliest snipers in military history (Google Lyudmila
Pavlichenko) – such rapists were properly recognized as soldiers who
had turned against their comrades and were summarily shot as traitors.
While
the Soviet response is belittled by misogynists as a “wartime measure,”
the fact remains the pandemic of rape in the U.S. armed forces is
itself occurring in a time of war. Hence the U.S. rapists are as much
enemy combatants as any (other) terrorist.
Why then are these rapists not prosecuted accordingly?
Given
that sexual assault is a hate crime – an expression of the infinite
contempt with which patriarchal males regard anyone they adjudge to be
weaker, given too that such violent hatred for the powerless is the
defining characteristic of a conqueror – it is obvious the high command
by its tolerance of rape is training its male soldiers in the brutal
and sadistic techniques by which conquered populations are traditionally
subdued.
Women
in the military – despised as they are by the males the fanatically
Christian-fundamentalist commanders have methodically proselytized to
maximum misogyny – have thus been made surrogates for more broadly
defined “enemy” populations.
Viewed
in the context of present-day U.S. politics, the eventual intended
target is obviously the U.S. civilian population, especially the Left, a
preponderance of which is not only female but avowedly feminist --
intolerable to the JesuNazi zealotry that is increasingly the Moron
Nation state religion.
(An earlier version of this essay appeared on the comment thread of Wolf's “Rape in the Military a Culture of Coverup,” Guardian via Reader Supported News.)
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