Finally, Mass Media Begins Waking Up to the JesuNazi Threat

 A Mainstream Magazine Warns of "Much Harder" Tyranny Ahead;  New Threats of War Give the Regime an Excuse to Abolish Our Rights 

(Note: much of the following was written before Trump's John-Bolton-inspired Thursday afternoon cancellation of the Korea talks, for which see "Trump Kills Korean Talks; World War III Threat Intensifies," below. I didn't make this dreadfully ominous development tonight's lead story for two reasons: one, because Mainstream Media has already covered it (albeit no doubt omitting the fact Pence threatened Kim Jong-Un with ending "like the Libyan model ended," i.e., with an agonizing death like Gaddafi's, by anal impalement; and two, because it is the ever-more-apparent malevolence of the Empire that reveals the magnitude of this crisis -- which means the sum of the proofs of malevolence are somewhat more telling than its latest exemplary incident./LB) 

  

AGAIN AS LAST WEEKEND I am compelled by circumstance to preface a newly released report with commentary rather than follow my usual practice of posting in the traditional reversed-pyramid form, new material first, old guy's remarks last. 

Even so, today's comment requires scarcely more than a single sentence expressing my profound thanks to The American Prospect  for finally daring to reveal, in mass-circulation form, how terrifyingly close the Trump/Pence Regime has already brought us to complete subjugation by white Christian  tyranny.

 

Though the near-daily manifestations of Trump/Pence Fascism are now regularly exposed even by the Mainstream Media propaganda apparatus, until American Prospect writer Adele M. Stan assembled these phenomena as parts of a jigsaw and discovered the horrific whole evidenced by the result, there was no widely circulated portrait of the breadth and depth of the regime's greater malignancy. Nor was there a widespread sense of these events as the potential birth-cells of something far more malignant -- so malignant most of us who did not personally experience our species' capacity for Pure Evil as in Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile cannot imagine what the regime might become or envision the death and suffering it could thereby inflict, whether in grotesque triumph or triumphant defeat.  But those results are now, with the near certainty of world war imposed on us by Trump's cancellation of the Korean talks, our species most probable future -- that is, should Earth somehow survive as anything more than a bug planet. Moreover it is all occurring precisely as Marx reasoned it would, which underscores as never before how Marxism is the only logic that explains our present circumstances, including why ours is the darkest most hopeless epoch in all our species' experience.

But Let Ms. Stan Tell the Story from This Point On...

"In every issue where America has made progress...the Trump administration is rolling back those gains with alarming speed. While it’s tempting to think of this regression as a return to an earlier time—a dirtier, more racist, more sexist, less compassionate America—it’s far worse than that. This is what authoritarianism looks like...In the course of the last two weeks, President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration made a series of announcements that the news media necessarily address individually: the separation of parents seeking asylum from their children in detention centers, the order to cut federal funding from reproductive health clinics that even dare to utter the word 'abortion,' the president’s demand that the Justice Department investigate the FBI for allegedly 'infiltrating' his presidential campaign for ostensibly political reasons...Taken together, however, these assaults and many others—including the apparent end of discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and the virtual abandonment of Justice Department consent decrees on police departments that have records of violating the civil rights of African American people—add up to groundwork laid for the imposition of a much harder form of authoritarianism likely planned for the near future."

 

Comment: No doubt because Prospect is a publication of the Left-leaning bourgeois rather than the True Left, Ms. Stan deftly avoids noting how, even before 22 November 1963, the Democratic (sic) Party was the main clandestine collaborator in the boiled-frog imposition of fascism on the United States. Indeed its very unobtrusiveness is what makes the Democrats' strategy for "rolling back" so much more effective than its far-more-brazen Republican counterpart. No doubt Ms. Stan's omissions  also explain why the editors of Common Dreams chose to reprint her text; CD is, after all,  a key voice of the Bernie Sanders movement, the primary goal of which is restoration of the New Deal -- i.e., once more positioning ourselves so the Capitalists can fuck us again.

It is here on the pseudo-Left, specifically in its undying support for Hillary Clinton, that we also glimpse what is undoubtedly the real reason for the Democratic (sic) Party's anti-Trump frenzy -- especially its new, always-kiss-the-secret-policeman's-ass adoration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Even so, it may take us a moment to identify the Trump/Pence Regime's one most unforgivable sin. It is surely not Trump's  boorishness; I know of nothing in the cesspool of our modern  political effluent quite so boorish as Hillary's expression of sadistic glee over Gadaffi's agonizing death by anal impalement. 

Might it be, instead, that Trump and his henchmen have prematurely revealed the magnitude of manifest Evil that is Capitalism?  That their revelation is therefore as responsible for the mouth-frothing fury of the frog-boiling Democrats as it is for the ejaculatory joy of the pussy-grabbing Republicans? That in their loud and boastful relentlessness, the Republicans have revealed enough of the One Percent's ultimate agenda to rekindle thoughts of revolution? That they have re-ignited the relevance of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao Ze Dong, Ho Chi Minh  and Che Guevara? 

From the perspective of Hillary and her factional cronies, there could be no greater defeat; if my analysis is accurate, the Trump/Pence Regime's revelations flush at least 55 years of archly Machiavellian planning down the historical commode. These disclosures also ensure the transition from Big Lie "democracy" to unabashed tyranny will almost certainly be accompanied by exactly the sort of mass murder Hillary hoped her boiled-frog gradualism would avoid -- not because of any humanitarian impulse, but because death on that scale looks bad on the international Internet and suggests the realm in which occurs might be a "shithole" nation.

Especially after her Gaddafi cackle, I cannot doubt Hillary had also hoped there would be a sufficient number of school shootings and other such atrocities to compel the forcible disarmament of the entire U.S. civilian population. Obviously she knows that mandatory...

(To read the rest, go here.)