Loren Bliss: Dispatches from Dystopia

Trump/Pence Republicans Just Voted to Murder Millions of USians, Me Included. But Don't Ever Forget It Was Clinton's Democratic (sic) Party Put These Genocidal Killers in Office.

 

I SHOULD NOT be blogging tonight, boiling as I am in fury and wrenched as I am by fear.

Yes of course I knew our Capitalist overlords and their political vassals in the Trump/Pence Regime and Congress would eventually succeed  in imposing the most murderously ambitious, most malevolently devious Final Solution in our species' history. The Senate vote to debate the issue is merely a prelude to its enactment; there would have been no procedural vote were not the Senate's smirking majority leader,  the mouse-faced Mitch McConnell, absolutely certain some form of the genocidal measure would be enacted.

Given the degree of our subjugation, there is no possibility such legislation can be defeated. The Republican Party merely cloaks it with euphemisms, the better to befuddle the few who still retain vestiges of humanitarian conscience. Meanwhile the Democratic (sic) Party's ostentatious effort to stop enactment of what should properly be called the DEATH Act – Destroying the Economically Afflicted by Terminating Healthcare – is nothing more than a loudly whined Big Lie  to distance its politicians from the measure's unspeakable consequences.

Never forget, it was the Democratic (sic) Party's malicious abandonment of Working Families and lower-income people in general – those of us to be slain by denial of healthcare – that enabled the forthcoming genocide.

As for me, I knew DEATH would be enacted because I know the United States of America has become as much a realm of moral imbecility as Nazi Germany was. And now at least 20 million of us – soon to be damned by our lack of health insurance and thus condemned to death because the poverty inflicted on us by Capitalism proves to our Capitalist overlords we are no longer exploitable for their obscene profit – are to be exterminated by denial of health care, I among them.

Therefore my fury. Firstly I rage because I myself am amongst the condemned. Secondly – because unlike most USians (who would be protesting in the streets were they not so cravenly self-centered) – I have somehow retained the ability to empathize with my fellow humans. I rage at the magnitude by which We the People have once more been betrayed by the Capitalists – this time terminally and forever. Say it again: terminally and forever. Terminally for at least 20 million women, children and men, self included. Forever because that's low long USian healthcare will now remain a privilege of wealth rather than the human right it is everywhere in the civilized world.

 Face it: here in the USian Homeland, despite the falsely reassuring claims of the PseudoLeft (and the idiotic hopes of some even on the true Left), there is no possibility of restoring the minimal healthcare that is now being taken away from us, much less of forcing the enactment of socialized medicine. Now neither alternative – not even restoration of the over-priced inadequacies that were begrudgingly made available by Obama Regime's deceptively named Affordable Care Act – can be ever achieved by any means short of full-fledged revolution. But as we all (should) know, revolution requires a courageousness that was long ago been beaten out of nearly all USian whites and lingers only amongst the Empire's (eventually doomed) minorities – people still mindful enough to recognize they have nothing to lose but their own self-respect and bravely choose to act accordingly.

Thus the political becomes personal, and vice-versa, as in the context of healthcare it most assuredly does for me. Beyond my anger is bottomless fear. What I fear is not death; when one reaches age 77, death is one's constant companion. What I fear is the unimaginable agony and the infinite terror that will thus become the totality of my consciousness as I am ever-so-slowly suffocated by untreated congestive heart failure – the fate to which the USian Empire's Capitalist tyrants and their whoring vassals have now condemned me – unless by some very good fortune I die before 31 December 2017, the date beyond which the total loss of federal subsidies will make my health insurance unaffordable and therefore murder me by cutting off the care and medication that now sustains my life.

 

 

BEFORE TODAY'S SENATE VOTE, I SOOTHED MY ANXIETY BY WONDERING if the entire healthcare fight were an elaborate scam to save Obama's Affordable Care Act, the name of which is almost as big a Big Lie as his 2008 campaign slogan, “change we can believe in.” Such a scheme to save Obamacare – the Capitalist purpose of which is perpetuating the USian policy of health insurance as a privilege of wealth – is typical of what might be scripted by the psychological warfare experts employed by the Empire in the sewers of the Deep State. I admit I was momentarily conned: the burgeoning support for the ACA – its lesser-evilism now the defining characteristic of the ever-more-limited choices allowed us by our masters – briefly kindled my now-obviously moronic hope the overtly genocidal Trumpcare program might be more ploy than policy, rather like claiming to “make the world safe for democracy” while doing exactly the opposite.

 

 

APROPOS THE PSEUDOLEFT'S BOURGEOIS CONTEMPT FOR REAL PEOPLE, one of its propagandists at Mother Jones just expressed his “reflexive disgust”  at those he sneeringly labels “the homeless” – no “homeless people” for him – his choice of nouns further objectifying these victims of Capitalism as a less-than-human subspecies. Though this example of PseudoLeft bigotry was mostly ignored – and thereby tacitly approved – by USia's Mainstream Media, it was duly denounced by major media in the civilized world.  But that report's “under fire” is grossly misleading, as the only USian protest has come from a very few sources on the Left.

 

 

CHRIS HEDGES CONFIRMS THE MAGNITUDE OF THE JESUNAZI ONSLAUGHT: Just as he said in American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press: 2006); just as Kevin Phillips said in American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (Viking: 2006); just as Jeff Sharlet said in The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper: 2008); and just as I have been saying ever since, the JesuNazis are in fact the gravest internai threat this nation has ever faced. And they are winning. Quoth Hedges: “Trump’s moves to restrict abortion, defund Planned Parenthood, permit discrimination against LGBT people in the name of 'religious liberty' and allow churches to become active in politics by gutting the Johnson Amendment, along with his nominations of judges championed by the Federalist Society and his call for a ban on Muslim immigrants, have endeared him to the Christian right. He has rolled back civil rights legislation and business and environmental regulations. He has elevated several stalwarts of the Christian right into power—Mike Pence to the vice presidency, Jeff Sessions to the Justice Department, Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Betsy DeVos to the Department of Education, Tom Price to Health and Human Services and Ben Carson to Housing and Urban Development. He embraces the white supremacy, bigotry, American chauvinism, greed, religious intolerance, anger and racism that define the Christian right...If the alliance between these zealots and the government succeeds, it will snuff out the last vestiges of American democracy.” In which context note how Trump has “signed a global death warrant for women.”

 

 

TRUMP SEEKS TO MAKE THE BOY SCOUTS HIS OWN HITLER-YOUTH CLONE. Not that I – after finally yielding to the bottomless personal horror and infinite hopelessness of the Trump/Pence Regime's genocidal Medicaid and healthcare repeal – can ever again be surprised by any evil these foul tyrants perpetrate or spawn. But I was a Scout once, and though (thanks to a Marxian father), I was always aware of the incipient fascism in the organization's uncritical patriotism and its credo of unquestioning obedience,  scouting for me was mostly an opportunity for camping, hiking the Appalachian Trail and enjoying some of the very fine back-country trout fishing that still existed in the Appalachia of the 1950s. Now though, Trump is turning the organization into something truly ominous, its JesuNazi potential intensified to infinity by the fact 70 percent of all USian Boy Scout organizations are sponsored by Christian churches. Which clearly explains why the scouts themselves gleefully followed Trump's lead in booing Obama and chanting “USA! USA! USA!,” the USian equivalent of “Zieg Heil.” In other words, though Trump is damn well blameworthy for giving the speech, it is the scouts' response that should scare us shitless.

 

 

PROCTOR AND GAMBLE PROPAGANDA THAT IS NEVERTHELESS WORTH VIEWING: Some of the Capitalists – recognizing what their greedy malevolence has wrought – are trying to soften their image, intending to convince us that our species' survival does not mandate the termination of capitalism. The result is indeed compelling – in this instance an impressive example of the sentiments advertising should have been encouraging at least a century ago. But do not be taken in. Capitalism is what is killing us. However it may cloak itself in pseudo-humanitarian gestures, its venom remains as deadly as that of any cobra.

 

 

LEST WE FORGET, TODAY IS THE 64TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: hence the relevance of a short history of the 26 de Julio Movement and how it liberated the Cuban people from the USian Empire's fascist stranglehold. (This summary of the revolution's history was published in 2014, hence its reference to the 61st anniversary.) There is also a much more detailed history here. And then there is this, as if to remind us that even in the depths of despair – indeed especially in such depths – we should never abandon our revolutionary principles..

LB/26 July 2017

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If We Are to Kill Capitalism Before It Kills Us, We Must Unite in Revolutionary Solidarity. But How Do We Transcend the Fragmentation by Which the Capitalists Keep Us Divided?

 

GENOCIDE IS GENOCIDE however it is inflicted. Dead is dead whether we are killed in wars of extermination, as were the First Nations peoples; or slain in death camps, as were the peoples targeted by the German Nazis and their allies; or murdered by the infinitely more devious methods the Capitalists and their professional and managerial vassals have devised since World War II.

Today genocide is accomplished not as it was at Wounded Knee by the United States Government or at Auschwitz by the German Third Reich. Such brazen tactics cannot easily be disguised by euphemisms and are therefore no longer fashionable. Instead, Capitalism's engineers of mass murder now kill us by methods they have cleverly designed to absolve themselves by shifting all blame onto the dead and onto those of us who will soon be similarly slain. This is the obvious rationale behind the deadly denial of healthcare, which already murders at least 50,000  USian women, children and men every year and will murder millions more in the near future. It is obviously the motive for the deadly militarization of local police, who have killed 681 women, children and men thus far this year. And it unquestionably explains the deadly environmental poisoning of local, typically lower-income and/or minority neighborhoods, the death toll from which is one of Capitalism's most closely held secrets. But its magnitude of slaughter is exemplified by the 25,000 women, children and men murdered by USian corporate moral imbecility  at Bhopal in 1984.

In all such circumstances, the Capitalists respond by blaming the victims: “you should have bought better health insurance”; “you should have submitted to the police”; “you should have moved to a better neighborhood.” And in the USian Homeland – where the Trump-Pence victory demonstrates the long-term consequences of methodical conditioning in a toxic ethos that combines Ayn Rand selfishness with Prosperity Gospel hatefulness – Capitalism's malicious retorts are accepted as absolute truth. The result is a climate in which genocide is perfectly acceptable, much as it was in Germany after the Nazis and their fascist allies (including Henry Ford himself) embraced the pre-Holocaust slanders propagated by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

With these facts as preface – bearing in mind genocide is genocide however it is accomplished; that dead is dead whether we are slain by cop bullets or murdered by denial of healthcare or killed by environmental poisoning; and that the Capitalists and their managerial and professional vassals are now openly targeting any of us they deem no longer exploitable for profit – let us look at the relevant news:

 

EUROPEAN LEFT STRUGGLES TO FIND ISSUES BY WHICH TO BUILD SOLIDARITY, a quest as vital over here  as it is over there.

 

RELATED AND VERY RELEVANT ESSAYS TO HELP US REFINE OUR OWN IDEOLOGY AND ANALYSIS are here, here, here, here.  and here. The underlying theme in each of these texts is the struggle to build revolutionary solidarity. Their underlying lesson was first verbalized by the IWW: any analysis not founded on the premise that an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us is just another Big Lie.

 

AMONG THE MOST DAMNING EXAMPLES YET OF “CAPITALIST” AND “PREDATOR” as synonyms – and how Capitalism of necessity operates from the core principle of the Big Lie – is exposed by this blistering report on the deliberate deceptions foisted on us to peddle Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

 

AS IF TO CORROBORATE MY CONTENTION the militarization of local police departments has deliberately converted the cops to a Capitalist army of occupation that regards every one of us an enemy to be slain at will, here and here are two more relevant essays. In this context, reflect on the message conveyed by the security measures that now fortify every government office building, whether federal, state or local, as if it were an outpost of some despised invader. What does this tell us about how “we the people” are regarded by those who rule us? What does it say about “our democracy”? Wake up, folks; Capitalism is subjugating us to such an extent we will soon be as powerless as any conquered people in our species' history.

 

THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY STILL TRIES TO HIDE ITS FUNCTION as Capitalism's primary weapon of USian Homeland oppression. We socialists all know the Democrats are closet fascists, but this report opens the closet door. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/21/inclusive-capitalism-nancy-pelosi-and-the-dying-planet/ Either we rid ourselves of Capitalism, “or its game over for humanity along with the countless other species homo sapiens is wiping out under the soulless command of capital.”

 

MOREOVER THE PARTY'S FAKE “PROGRESSIVES” ARE AGAIN JOINING HANDS with the overtly fascist Republicans, the better to (further) subjugate us all. 

 

AND THE MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE YET “DEMOCRAT” IS SYNONYMOUS WITH “FASCIST” is in the party's effort to felonize any participation in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that's protesting Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians. (Heads up to Washington state residents: the comment thread that follows this report contains an accurate list of the felonization measures' supporters that includes Senator Cantwell and Representatives Kilmer, Smith and Larsen, Democrats all.) Though the legislation is bipartisan – and is exactly the sort of thing the politically uninformed would expect from the Republicans only – the Democrats are clearly the most enthusiastic advocates of this newest effort to nullify the First Amendment.

 

BUT CAN THE GREENS PROVIDE A VIABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE? Their embrace of tokenism proves they were neutralized by the racial disease of reflexive whiteness long before they were torn apart internally by the still-perplexing Jill Stein/David Cobb collaboration with the Democratic (sic) Party's post-election scheming to whitewash (no pun intended) how Hillary's warmongering arrogance doomed us all to Trump/Pence malevolence. Thus the relevance of Jeffrey St. Clair's “Red State, Blue State; Green State, Deep State,” an unnecessarily rambling essay that takes 30-odd paragraphs – accurately counting such things (easy on an old-time galley proof), is utterly impossible on a computer monitor – to get to its point: that Stein and Cobb destroyed the party from within, whether as a result of foolhardiness “or something more sinister.”

 

MEANWHILE, THEOCRACY TIGHTENS ITS STRANGLEHOLD ON OUR FUTURE. The new Republican hostility to higher education, an expression of the JesuNazi hatred of science and non-blblical learning in general, intensifies USian anti-intellectualism to an unprecedented (and unprecedentedly savage) malevolence. Anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” continue their Big Lie efforts to perpetuate patriarchy, this time via high school graduation tickets. And the Trump/Pence theocrats have yet another busy week of stroking the egos (and probably the hypocritical cocks) of their JesuNazi supporters.

 

THE FEDS HAVE PUT A DE FACTO BOUNTY ON UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, and some Texas police departments are working overtime to collect it. (Note: the head on the full text of this report is misleading, as it suggests anti-immigrant profiteering by the Capitalists rather than by their Praetorians.)

 

HOW DID THE BOLSHEVIKS COPE WITH SUCH DESPAIR AS IS NOW OURS? Their successful resilience was born of ideological discipline, a quality we must consciously make our own, and yet another example of how an updated Marxism is the only possible cure for the malignancy that is Capitalism.

 

INTERESTING READING: “What Does Russiagate Look Like to Russians,” here.

 

GREAT IDEA FOR SERVE-THE-PEOPLE ACTIVISTS: converting used buses to mobile washrooms for those who are homeless.

 

LASTLY, SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT: here's how a writer joins with her children to (literally) grow antidotes to despair.

LB/23 July 2017

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The Murderous Brutality of the Militarized Police and the Genocidal Deadliness of Healthcare Denial Are Each Expressions of Capitalism's Gleefully Sadistic Moral Imbecility

 

(Note: The following commentary is addressed to those readers who have not yet realized that Marxism provides our only means of liberation from our present socioeconomic and political subjugation.)

 

THE OUTRAGES PERPETRATED by the Trump-Pence Regime provide us an ongoing series of wake-up calls that are undoubtedly the best opportunities for life-changing consciousness-raising our nation's sordid history has provided since the Great Depression. That's because the Trump-Pence Regime is, albeit in a decidedly perverse sense, the most honest regime to rule the Empire in my 77-year lifetime and quite possibly in the Empire's entire post-1776 history. Unlike its predecessors, it makes no attempt to hide its brutality or even cloak its viciousness with euphemisms. It brazenly revels in its murderously greedy Capitalist despotism much the same way Adolf Hitler reveled in his genocidal savagery. Nor does the regime conceal its malevolent intent to perpetuate that despotism by imposing the zero-tolerance tyranny that defines JesuNazi theocracy – that brazenness itself a radical departure from the regimen of secrecy that formerly cloaked the theocrats' schemes.

But the revolutionary significance of these developments is usually ignored or deliberately concealed by Mainstream Media, which means the lessons implicit in these teachable moments typically go unlearned. Mainstream Media, let us not forget, is owned by the some of the same Capitalists who own all USian governments at every level. Therefore in terms of function, Mainstream Media is the privately-owned, for-(obscene)-profit variant of Josef Goebbels' infamous Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Thus the USian shibboleth of “our democracy” – which given the Empire's apocalyptic power and intent is undoubtedly the most self-destructive Big Lie in our species' history – is perpetuated by the same sorts of ignorance, disinformation and outright falsehood that sustained the Nazi Party in Germany.

Thus too we are so often deprived of any analysis that forthrightly names what is being done to us (subjugation, enslavement and extermination as Capitalism inevitably metamorphoses into fascism); why it is being done (no-limit, get-it-before-the-apocalypse-kills-us-all profiteering by the Capitalists); and how we might resist and perhaps even prevail despite the apparent omnipotence granted the Capitalists by their ownership of USian government at every level.

As a result we-all-too frequently feel as if we are drowning in a miasma of hopelessness. And too many of us are yet suffering from the Marxophobia in which we were forcefully conditioned during the so-called “cold war” against the Soviet Union and its allies, especially China, Vietnam and Cuba. Thus despite our growing individual and collective anger, we remain a subjugated people, never mind the fact Marxism provides us not only the one analysis that explains our circumstances as an extreme manifestation of class warfare, but offers us the one proven path to liberation from fascism (the ultimate example of which is how the Red Army liberated all of Eastern Europe from the Nazis in World War II), and also outlines for us the ideological discipline necessary to make it happen.

Meanwhile – despite the regimen of censorship that increasingly limits what we are allowed to read, hear or view from Mainstream Media – the ugly truth occasionally seeps out, ironically in the ongoing propaganda campaign to convince us the Trump-Pence regime is the exception rather than the rule. 

Here in the USian homeland, what is evolving into triumphant dominance is a unique hybrid of fascism and Christian theocracy that should properly be labeled JesuNazism. Such is Capitalism as it seeks to ensure its survival by maturing into fascism, chiefly to embrace fascism's definitive brutality to silence and eventually exterminate those of us whose well-being the Capitalists gravely threaten or have already destroyed. The Capitalists believe this will facilitate an USian version of the German Nazis' “final solution,” aimed, exactly as in Nazi Germany, at racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and at anyone who would dare challenge the allegedly divine right of limitless tyranny granted the Capitalists and their vassals by Biblical Capitalism and its Prosperity Gospel. Thus the great relevance of the Moyers and Company report entitled “The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America,” which is intended to subtly assure us the Trump-Pence Regime is an anomaly, but instead shows us it is in fact the hideous fulfillment of the Capitalists' malevolent, “final solution” intent.

Nevertheless, to put “Deep History” in its proper perspective, we need to remember that Bill Moyers was the mouthpiece for President Lyndon Banes Johnson. In a just world, LBJ would have been convicted as a war criminal for the genocidal atrocities committed by the USian imperial military during the Vietnam War. Moyers – whose tactical and strategic brilliance should never be under-estimated – is thus a classic example of how the Capitalists, and particularly their Democratic (sic) Party vassals, protect their despotism by manifestations of pseudo-democracy: in this instance reportage that seems to prove the continued existence of a “free” USian press but which in fact merely reinforces the Big Lie of “our democracy.”

Therefore as an antidote to the subtle submissiveness of“Deep History,” I emphatically suggest also reading “Eugene Debs and the Kingdom of Evil,” Chris Hedges' eloquent elegy for the radical USian socialism of the first half of the 20th Century – the revolutionary ideology the Capitalists formerly believed they had slain forever. But now that socialism is (again) resurrecting itself, our overlords have imposed the Trump-Pence Regime to terrorize us back into abject acceptance of serfdom and slavery.

 

 

THE LOCAL POLICE HAVE BECOME CAPITALISM'S ARMY OF OCCUPATION:Killings by federally militarized cops illustrate the murderous depth of our subjugation. And why are the cops as they are? To protect our ever-more sadistic Capitalist overlords, of course. This is truly a Martin Niemoller   moment: first they came for the African-Americans...now they are coming for us all. Maybe this senseless murder of a white woman by the sadistic Gestapo-minded thugs who now “police” our communities will at long last awaken us to how Capitalist governance has methodically converted the local police into the Capitalists' army of occupation – a band of thugs who, like their Nazi German predecessors in conquered Europe, can now victimize us to whatever extent they choose. (Aside to those who read the second of these linked reports: yes Marc Ash and I have resolved our differences and I am again occasionally commenting on Reader Supported News threads.)

 

 

ANOTHER EXEMPLAR OF OUR SUBJUGATION IS THE HEALTHCARE FIGHT. The intentionally deadly circumstances of USian healthcare – the Capitalists' fight to maintain it as a privilege of their wealth despite an increasingly angry 99 Percent who demand healthcare as a human right – goes hand-in-hand with the skyrocketing incidence of police brutality. The Capitalists, ever more frightened by the anger provoked by their obscene greed, believe if their wealth is to be adequately protected, they need (their) cops to be trained to function as a modern reincarnation of the Waffen SS. Hence not only the ever-expanding death toll of unjustified murders by the militarized police, but – precisely as the Ruling Class intends – how the resultant reign of terror intimidates the population to unquestioning submission. In which context the utterly malicious purpose of reassurance by Mainstream Media the Trump-Pence/Republican effort to abolish healthcare is dead should be obvious.

It is indeed a variant on the most basic strategy and tactic of child abuse: first the abuser savages the child, then just as the child is about to appeal to the authorities for protection, the abuser assures the victim the abuse is ended – when in fact it is merely delayed until the the victim has relaxed into renewed vulnerability.

Fortunately some of us recognize what obtains. Therefore don't be taken in by the reports the JesuNazis are defeated. Yet such Big Lies intended to soothe our rage by convincing us our protests nevertheless succeed when in fact the opposite is true. Though most of already recognize the Capitalists as morally imbecilic pigs, far too many of us are paradoxically too willing to attribute to our enemies a humanity that is notable only by its absence. We are in a war, and until we acknowledge that fact and behave accordingly, we will continue losing.

 

AGAIN THE HYPOCRISY OF THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY IS OBVIOUS in the 180-degree difference between its public fury at Bush Regime atrocities and its silent acquiescence (and therefore tacit approval) of atrocities committed by the Obama Regime.

 

READYING THE HOMELAND FOR GENOCIDE: Mainstream Media now openly characterizes disabled people and drug addicts  as unnecessarily burdensome creatures who should be exterminated or at the very least abandoned to die – precisely as the anti-healthcare policies of the Trump/Pence Regime intend.

 

ALWAYS WORTH READING: once again, too many relevant reports to link individually, hence the URL of the entire site.

 

MORE EVIDENCE ON THE CRIMINAL MAGNITUDE OF THE CLINTONS, this time in their ties to a Ukrainian oligarch.

 

APOLOGY: yes this post is three days late. It was delayed by the production problems that afflicted the monthly newsletter I edit, write, photograph, design and produce for the 90-person low-income senior housing community in which I dwell. The problems came about because one of my volunteer contributors shot a must-run photograph framed vertically rather than horizontally. The fault was mine because I did not think to explain to her that publishing vertically framed pictures requires the truly wrenching ordeal of employing wrap-around type on the page that includes the image, which invariably destabilizes the entire newsletter into hopelessly scrambled typographic chaos. Such destabilization always forces me to beg the help of a Nurd to put it right again – a helplessness that (no doubt because it is a manifestation of the same mental disability for which I was savagely punished as a child), invariably triggers anxiety attacks of genuinely indescribable intensity that of course raise my blood pressure to potentially deadly heights and inflame my arthritis to truly excruciating pain. In the July production cycle this happened not once but five times, adding a total of four working days to the process, which thus ended not on Saturday 15 July but rather on Wednesday 19 July, delaying this edition of Dispatches accordingly. Because the true source of the problem is the fact that as a dyslexic I do indeed lack the intellectual capacity for the rote learning required to master even the most rudimentary techniques of computer graphics – never mind I joyfully embraced (and was notably skillful at) the now-obsolete graphic design techniques that preceded computerization – I therefore apologize for this post's tardiness. Presumably by Sunday 23 July Dispatches will be back on schedule.

LB/21 July 2017

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Capitalist Carnivorousness Countered by Corvid Consolations

 

IS INVASION AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO NEXT ON THE USIAN IMPERIAL AGENDA? The extreme and continuing militarization of the Mexican border  has only one rational explanation: that in its relentless, ever-more-Hitleresque quest to rule the world, and in the equally relentless quest of its Biblical Capitalist overlords for additional slaves and extractive profiteering, the Imperial United States intends to invade and conquer Mexico and undoubtedly the rest of Latin America as well. No doubt too this murderous, ultimately genocidal intent is intensified by white Capitalist fears the Zapatistas might win the Mexican presidency. 

 

TODAY'S CRISIS-TORN VENEZUELA IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF USIAN IMPERIALISM, both in terms of what the Empire is doing to the Venezuelan Working Class and in the USian Pseudo-Left's arrogant, anti-intellectual, incipiently racist disdain for the Venezuelan people. Meanwhile, encouraged by USian advisers, Venezuelan plutocrats continue scheming to re-subjugate the nation's peasants and proletarians.

 

EXPOSING THE USIAN PSEUDO-LEFT FOR ITS TREACHERY AND DECEPTION: Three informative reports here, here and here.

 

MEANWHILE, HILLARY THE HATEFUL escalates her campaign of vengeance against Bernie Sanders even as...

 

NAOMI KLEIN ARGUES THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY can somehow be purged of its Capitalist owners, a report worth reading, if only for its laughable absurdity.

 

HEALTHCARE SITREP*: socialists fight for healthcare as a universal human right while Biblical Capitalists  and their allies fight to keep it a murderously profitable privilege of their “god-given” wealth. Meanwhile the nurses union continues its courageous struggle against the Democratic (sic) Party's tacit support for Biblical Capitalism.

 

SEXUAL SITREP*: the battle for reproductive rights and sexual freedom in general is the epicenter of the struggle against Biblical Capitalism – a fight we are losing and will continue to lose until we find a truly effective antidote to the fanatical Christian misogyny/ that seeks to reduce all USian females to the abject powerlessness of their sisters in El Salvador and radically intensify the discrimination against transsexuals that continues even amongst the most allegedly enlightened supporters of universal health care.

 

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WAY THINGS ARE, useful for focusing our minds and reassuring us our perceptions of drowning in deepening darkness are indeed the ultimate proofs of our sanity, here and here.

 

ANOTHER REASON THE JESUNAZIS HATE LEGAL MARIJUANA is it helps fund the public schools they intend to destroy.

 

AN ARMED AND MILITANT LEFT ARISES IN RURAL USIA: a report we'll never see in Mainstream Media, complete with a comment thread that itself is well worth reading.

 

MORE WORTHWHILE MATERIAL,  way too much to post as individual URLs, is always to be found here.

 

SUPPRESSED HISTORY: how Russia saved the United States from the British and French invasions that would have enabled the Confederacy to win the Civil War, never mind the Confederates' ideological descendants have since conquered the U.S. by treachery and subversion. (Could this – revenge for how Tsar Alexander II saved the federal union and thus Abraham Lincoln's presidency –  be the real motive behind Russiagate? Before you dismiss the possibility as absurd, remember Hillary is not only a "Better-Dead-Than-Red"  Goldwater Girl, but also a staunch ally of the JesuNazis, whose ideology of theocratic despotism and white supremacy is directly derived from the Confederate ethos.) 

 

CORVID CONSOLATIONS: Corvids – ravens and crows – are way smarter than we think, which no doubt explains why our always-phenomenological pre-Abrahamic ancestors saw them as exemplars and personifications of divine power as described here and here. In fact my favorite male god has always been Bran the Blessed, whose manifestations include ravens and alders, and whose Mabinogion epic is beautifully retold by Evangeline Walton in The Children of Llyr (Ballantine Books: 1970).

 

*EXPLANATORY FOOTNOTE: for those of us who are not veterans, “sitrep” is the military acronym for “situation report.”

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18 Subversive Stories Sandwiched between 2 Rebellious Rants, Each Sentence Cobbled Together in Horrifically Harried Haste

 

EXPLANATORY RANT (AKA PREFATORY WHINING): because I am more jammed up than ever – not only the time normally consumed by the monthly newsletter I edit and produce as an unpaid volunteer for the low-income senior housing complex in which I live, but as never before has happened during the newsletter's production week, the time stolen by the excruciatingly painful labor of preparing for the federally mandated quarterly premises inspection by which our overlords ensure we impoverished tenants are spit-in-our-faces reminded of our place as subhuman, god-cursed garbage near the very bottom of Biblical Capitalism's malicious caste system – the text accompanying the following links will be unusually abbreviated, for which I apologize in advance.

My alternative is to post no Dispatches at all until Sunday, a surrender to circumstance I am not willing to make, never mind the necessarily thorough pre-inspection housecleaning damns me to give it approximately 18 of the hours I would normally devote to volunteer journalism. Thus instead of sitting comfortably at my desk reading and thinking and writing as I would be doing either in relaxed mode for the newsletter or at peak intensity for Dispatches, I am forced by the looming inspection to suffer the truly agonizing bending and twisting the cleaning chores inflict on my officially disabled 77-year-old flesh, my disability the legacy of long-ago back, shoulder and knee injuries that were formerly dormant but which about a decade ago became hopelessly arthritis-inflamed and will therefore remain inescapably painful until my sufferings are at last relieved by the total anesthesia that is the one great blessing of death. Plus there's the oppressive sense of exhaustion that is the consequence of both the intensified pain and the breathlessness – the chief symptom of my slowly but steadily worsening congestive heart failure – that like some monstrous leaden straitjacket crushes my chest whenever I engage in unaccustomed exertion, as is required by scrubbing a dirty linoleum floor or cleaning rugs the thickly woven material of which makes vacuuming nearly as difficult as mowing tall grass with a very dull version of an old-fashioned hand-powered mower.

As they really do say in the theater whether on Broadway or off – this from the actresses I dated during my Manhattan prime – “the show must go on.” Hence, without further ado, here's the news:

 

CAPITALIST POLITICIANS AGAIN SHOW THEIR PLUTOCRATIC HATEFULNESS, this time by reducing the minimum wage and imposing statewide legislation that prohibits minimum wage hikes by any of the given states' cities or counties. An additional report is here.

 

NAOMI KLEIN'S AWAKENING, LIKE THAT OF THE USIAN LEFT IN GENERAL, amounts to re-inventing the wheel that was first invented by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nevertheless it makes for encouraging reading.

 

THEOCRAT PENCE MEETS WITH FELLOW MISOGYNISTS BUT refuses to disclose what was discussed or which JesuNazis participated in the discussions.

 

TRUMP'S CIVIL RIGHTS HONCHO BUILT HIS CAREER ON MISOGYNY AND HATRED OF LGBTQ PEOPLE, a no-surprise appointment by the ever-more-brazenly theocratic regime that has already resurrected the traditionally Christian claims of divine-right sadism and hatefulness.

 

IN YET ANOTHER ATROCITY OF THE JESUNAZI WAR AGAINST WOMEN, the USian Supreme Court has revived a Wisconsin law that effectively criminalizes pregnancy by anyone who is adjudged to be alcoholic or drug addicted.

 

WORTHWHILE READING (I): Consortiumnews.com, vital reports on the Empire's interaction with the civilized world, linked to the website rather than any specific report because all its contents are relevant.

 

WORTHWHILE READING (II): Global Research News, more vital national and international news reports, linked to the website as above.

 

WORTHWHILE READING (III): CounterPunch.org, still more vital national and international news reports, linked to the website as above.

 

WORTHWHILE READING (IV): The Stand, the Washington State Labor Council's online daily, linked to this edition of the publication rather than any specific report because most of its contents are relevant no matter where we live.

 

WORTHWHILE LISTENING: Black Agenda Radio, linked to this week's programming because all of its broadcasts are as relevant to politically conscious Working Class whites as they are to African-Americans.

 

MORE ON SILICON VALLEY'S MISOGYNY, with additional details of how the male Nurds and their Capitalist financiers exemplify Trump's “grab-em-by-the-pussy” malevolence.

 

HOW THE INVASION OF IRAQ CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF LGBTQ IRAQUIS, another example of “the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power” in action – in this instance, how it resurrected hitherto-outlawed Abrahamic murderousness against sexual minorities.

 

HERE IS THE SPEECH THAT WAS CENSORED BY JESUNAZI TERRORISTS IN SEATTLE. It was resurrected by its author, Princeton University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, at the Socialist 2017 conference last week in Chicago.

 

THE ASSAULT AGAINST MEDICAID MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS REFUSING TO COVER, this by regulatory restrictions that proclaim an ever-increasing number of people ineligible for the care it provides.

 

TWO VITAL REPORTS ON NORTH KOREA, firstly that its most recent launch was not an ICBM, secondly that the real threat to world peace is – you guessed it – not North Korea but rather the USian Empire and its Hitler-on-steroids schemes for global conquest.

 

THE COP WHO MURDERED CASTILE GETS A $48,500 PAYOFF, an outrage in which most of the story is told by the headline.

 

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ENACTS A DEFIANT LOCAL INCOME TAX, a long-overdue “fuck you” to the Democrats and Republicans who maintain North America's most savagely regressive state tax code and are already filing suit against the city.

 

READER SUPPORTED NEWS DESPERATELY NEEDS DONATIONS LEST IT DROP DEAD. As Dispatches readers know, RSN provoked my editorial disdain when it became so rabidly Hillaryite, it was almost indistinguishable from the Democratic (sic) National Committee's own propaganda organ. Indeed I suspect that's the reason for the apparent donation-boycott that has now reached the point it is jeopardizing RSN's survival. But RSN is unquestionably recovering from its Hillaryite dementia, which is why these days nearly every edition of Dispatches contains at least one link to RSN reports. And this – perhaps the most poignantly eye-opening essay RSN has published this year – exemplifies why the site is worth preserving. Please, if you can afford to do so, help sustain it.

 

RESPONSIVE RANT ABOUT LAST SUNDAY'S MUSIC: a local reader asked me how it is I know about Paul Robeson's long-censored performances. The answer is, the songs to which I linked – now resurrected by the Internet (and yet another reason to defend Net Neutrality with the greatest and most relentless nonviolent ferocity possible)  –  were part of the music of my earliest childhood. This included the 78-rpm original of Robeson's Songs of Free Men and the imported 78-rpm, five-record album by the Red Army Chorus.  (The latter required a change of Victrola needles for best listening because the grooves of European records were V-shaped while the grooves of USian records were U-shaped.) My father had been a Communist during the 1930s – though he never talked about it, I assume he parted company with the party over the Hitler-Stalin Pact,  as so many other USian Marxians did – but his commitment to the ideology and his love of Russian music remained unchanged.

There was eeriness here too: somehow, though the only words of English on the Red Army Chorus album said “Stimson Trading Company, New York, N.Y.,” my toddler self correctly understood the songs, not as words but as mental pictures – a perplexing truth I discovered in 1979 after I bought a modern, 33.3 rpm version of the album that included a booklet translating the songs and explaining their historical backgrounds.

As I have said before, though my father was a terrible parent – so emotionally remote one of his daughters actively despises him even now, 46 years after his sudden death from a simultaneous stroke and heart attack – he was the best, most knowledgeable, most thought-provoking teacher I have ever known, particularly in the fields of history and politics. As alienated as I was by his parenting, I could not but love him for his eloquence, his intellectual prowess and his socioeconomic and political bravery. Our relationship flourished after my arrest in 1963,  and I will forever miss the long, face-to-face conversations with him that characterized my summer as a civil rights activist (1963) and my final years as a working journalist in East Tennessee, 1963-1964, before I returned to New York City the first week of 1965. Interacting more as two adult comrades than as father and son, we chatted comfortably and thoughtfully, often over dinners at Knoxville's now-deservedly legendary S&W Cafeteria, which was just around the corner from his office as owner and general manager of Park Mortgage Company. In those days he was the only mortgage banker in the state of Tennessee (and probably in the entire South) with balls enough to lend money to credit-worthy African-American families for purchasing houses in hitherto all-white neighborhoods.

LB/12 July 2017

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First Lots of Bad News, but Then – As If to Bolster the Opiate of Hope – a Little Good News (Though Only from Two Locales)

 

REVOLUTION OF 1776 SPAWNED BY SLAVE-OWNERS' FEARS OF ABOLITION: New scholarship confirms beyond argument something my Marxian father taught me 67 years ago – that the hidden motive  behind the so-called “American revolution” was the preservation of slavery. In other words, what the “patriots” intended was nothing more than the 18th Century equivalent of a Nazi coup – an intent repeatedly underscored by its subsequent history,  for which see also here, here, here,  and here. (Disclosure: my paternal ancestors include Margaret Blisse and Mary Blisse, mother and daughter who were independent women farmers in Connecticut during the mid 1640s and were imprisoned on charges of witchcraft but somehow managed to beat the rap. By the time of the revolution, the family had moved to Boston, where they were lawyers and merchants, one a graduate of Harvard, another of Yale. All were Loyalists; thus their lands were confiscated, and they were driven – at bayonet-point and with only such possessions as they could carry on their backs – into permanent exile. The men then served as officers in the British Army, while their wives and children fled to Canada. My immediate paternal ancestors did not return to the United States until the early 1900s.)

CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (I): The real significance of Trumpcare is it formalizes the final destruction of the social contract, thereby completing the descent into officially sanctioned Ayn Rand moral imbecility the Capitalists have sought long before the matriarch of monetary murderousness exhaled her first malignant breath.

CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (II): A true-to-life portrait of plutocracy shows us Trump is the Capitalist rule rather than the exception and likewise proves both his morally imbecilic twinship with the Clintons and the ideological twinhood of the Democratic (sic) and Republican parties.

CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (III): The defining clash of our time is the fight between the plutocrats who believe healthcare should forever remain a privilege of wealth versus those of us who believe healthcare is a human right that should be available to all regardless of religion, race, gender, socioeconomic status or sexuality. That's why – at least for the foreseeable future – single-payer healthcare is doomed. We won't get it – we can't possibly get it – until we first get rid of Capitalism. Meanwhile the Trump/Pence Regime, obviously in furtherance of its privilege-of-wealth agenda, has blocked release  of promised Medicare data, the real story of which is told in the comment thread.

 

EL SALVADOR SENTENCES RAPE VICTIM TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON: In a terrifying preview of the anti-abortion policy sought by the Trump/Pence Regime on behalf its JesuNazi constituents, an El Salvador court has condemned a 19-year-old rape victim  to the living death of 30 years in one of that nation's unspeakably inhumane prisons merely because the resultant pregnancy ended in stillbirth. She was convicted of aggravated homicide under a zero-tolerance law the JesuNazi theocrats cheer and applaud  as “a miracle.”

PATRIARCHAL MALEVOLENCE ALSO CLAIMS A VICTIM IN NEPAL: Illegally banished to isolation in a menstruation hut, a Nepal teen died after she was twice bitten by a venomous snake and her parents refused to get her medical treatment. (Similarity between “malevolence” and “male violence” duly noted.)

HERE IN THE U.S., 'PRESS FREEDOM' IS AS BIG A BIG LIE AS 'OUR DEMOCRACY': An insider gently endorses my repeated assertions USian Mainstream Media is nothing but a for-profit Josef Goebbels operation. Meanwhile another journalists is persecuted to the fullest extent of the law merely for doing his job. 

ON MATTERS OF EMPIRE, TOO MANY AFRO-AMERICAN POLITICIANS MIMIC OBAMA: Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford reports on another of the bitter truths of USian politics – that “more than half of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to continue the bombing of Libya” and “the closer one gets to the Democratic Party, the less peace-oriented Black organizations become.” Meanwhile Ford's colleague Margaret Kimberley notes that Trump's behavior differs from that of his predecessors only to the extent the predecessors' behavior was covered up.

 

VIRGINIA COPS OPENLY SIDE WITH JESUNAZIS IN CRUSHING PROTESTS: A scoop-the-world report on (more) atrocities  perpetrated by fascist goons and facilitated by Mainstream Media censorship.

US CAPITALISTS CHECKMATED BY THEIR OWN GREED: The Russia-China alliance formed in response to USian economically motivated military aggression will prove disastrous to the Empire's scheme for global conquest. The big question is whether the enraged Capitalists will then start World War III in an ultimately selfish, better-death-than-defeat spasm of apocalyptic moral imbecility.

Now For the Good News...

OREGON MOVES TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM THE PUSSY-GRABBER-IN-THIEF and his JesuNazi Vice President by enacting a new state law   that not only protects abortion rights but universal access to all forms of reproductive care.

WASHINGTON FINALLY FUNDS WHAT IS CALLED THE NATION'S BEST PARENTAL LEAVE LAW. Enacted a decade ago, the measure was denied funding until Gov. Jay Insley signed the biennial budget thrashed out behind closed doors in a bitterly contested last-minute compromise measure many of the contents of which remain undisclosed.

And Some Good Listening Too...

'O MAIDENS FAIR RAISE YOUR EYES, MAIDENS WIPE AWAY THE TEARDROPS': The inimitable Paul Robeson sings “The Song of the Plains,” Полюшко-поле (Polyushka Polye), a traditional song of the Red Cavalry. Sung in English and Russian,  its changes in rhythm correctly reflect the horse-cavalry routine, common to every army in the world, of an hour afoot (to rest the horses) for every hour in the saddle. Though Robeson's singing of it has long been suppressed in the USian Imperial Homeland, this song became the unofficial anthem of the U.S. Communist Party during the New Deal and World War II eras. Give it a listen, along with these other now-forgotten Robeson classics of revolutionary consciousness here,  here and here.  And why should “maidens wipe away the teardrops”? Because the Soviet Union was the first country in the modern world to officially acknowledge female equality in every realm.

LB/9 July 2017

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Trumpcare Confirms We Are a Conquered People, Reduced to Serfs and Slaves, but Will It Ignite Long-Overdue Revolution?

DESPITE DELAYS, TRUMPCARE WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BECOME LAW, with its tyrannies compelled and excused by white USians' religiously fostered genocidal hatreds of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asiatics, First Nations peoples, LGBTQ folks and anti-patriarchal women of all races. Meanwhile the total corruption of the Democratic (sic) Party  ensures the USian policy of healthcare as a privilege of wealth will endure as long as the Empire itself endures. Thus USian single-payer universal healthcare is effectively doomed for all eternity, never mind the magnitude of the public's desperate yearning for such healthcare-as-a-human-right protection is again confirmed, this time  accidentally by a Republican survey.

 

FORMER REAGAN OFFICIAL NOW CALLS FOR (SOCIALIST) REVOLUTION: the headline on Paul Craig Roberts' newest essay tells most of the story, “Once Only Blacks Were Enslaved, Now We All Are,” and his concluding quote tells the rest of it: “Chris Hedges says that your only alternatives are to overthrow the criminal class in Washington or to accept your slavery.” Roberts' publisher Global Research also offers five other provocative essays  on the always-relevant topic of USian imperialist savagery. 

 

MAINSTREAM MEDIA ACTS TO SUPPRESS REVOLUTIONARY ANGER: As I have noted way too many times to count, so-called “Mainstream Media” is owned by members of the same class of plutocratic tyrants – i.e., the One Percenters – who own or control USian government at all levels whether federal, state or local. This means Mainstream Media is the privately owned, for-profit clone of Josef Goebbels' deservedly infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. And now, just as if Goebbels had risen from the grave to command his USian Capitalist legacy, Mainstream Media is (predictably) upping the volume and intensity of its ChristoFascist effluent both nationally  and locally.

 

AND THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DOES LIKEWISE: JesuNazi Reichsführer Betsy DeVos and her newly appointed Kochroach metastasize their theocratic toxins throughout public education,  thereby ensuring the expansion and perpetuation of Moron Nation as exemplified by the rabid hostility with which USians greeted the Declaration of Independence on its day of celebration, an ironically comical footnote to the disastrous consequences engendered by our national epidemic of deliberately inflicted ignorance.

 

FEDERAL MILITARIZATION OF COPS LEADS TO BIGGER BODY COUNT: The propensity of federally militarized police for domestic atrocities – entirely predictable given the long and bloody history of war crimes tacitly encouraged by the USian military – is now confirmed even by Mainstream Media in a surprise truth-telling that will most likely cost its researchers, reporters and editors their jobs, or at the very least earn them severe reprimands from the chief censor aka publisher.    

 

YES, VIRGINIA, HIGH TECH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH MAXIMUM SEXISM. As consumers we have all been enraged by the contemptuous, unforgivably obnoxious arrogance of too many male Nurds, who seem to take an obviously special delight in sadistically marginalizing those of us who are female. But that's only a hint of the misogynistic viciousness that obtains inside the high tech firms, where locker-room-minded patriarchs rule an innately fascist realm  in which – despite allegedly zero-tolerance anti-sexual-harasment policies – males defiantly remain the strutting übermenschen who damn all females as üntermenschen. Hence new outrages  continue to surface with infuriating regularity. (Note: each of the few female Nurds with whom I have been acquainted has told essentially the same story – that her male counterparts are, with few exceptions, the most connivingly malevolent woman-haters she has ever encountered.  Hence I must ask: could this extreme form of male supremacy be the karmic legacy of high-tech's Nazi origins?)

 

MEANWHILE THE REAL LEFT TRIES TO STOP THE JESUNAZI OFFENSIVE, both with education  and calls for ideological discipline, neither of which is likely to provide the necessary antidotes to the white supremacist JesuNazi fanaticism the Trump/Pence victory has elevated to the ruling ethos of the USian homeland,  where “racism will win yet again,” and again, and again, and again.

 

LEST WE FORGET: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S GENUINELY FOND FRIENDSHIP WITH LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO, as described by Smithsonian's Gilbert King in a recovery of suppressed history  from an infinitely more promising era. The ending of King's text, testimony to the intensity of the bond the two women shared, moved me to momentary tears.

 

TODAY'S SUBVERSIVE LIMERICK applauds Beyoncé for her stunningly choreographed defiance of white-supremacist Christian theocracy's rabid misogyny and fanatical war against human sexuality. However, I must admit I stopped following pop music soon after the blessedly pagan Muse-poet Tim Buckley was silenced. Hence like some Washington state legislators,  I just now discovered Beyoncé's breathtaking talent via Wikipedia, YouTube  and You Tube with Lyrics. Ergo:

The Christians damn sexy as evil and nasty
But Beyoncé proves it's exquisite and classy
Now all JesuNazis are having a hissy
Ordained by their god to be hateful and pissy.

 

LB/5 July 2017 (Yes, this is again late. Its posting, which always requires about two hours of odiously meticulous clerical drudgery to live-link all the URLs, was delayed by my desperate need for catch-up sleep after being forced to arise at 5:30 a.m. on the Fourth. This is because Fred Meyer's corporate refusal to separate its monthly Senior Discount Tuesday shoppers from the last-minute holiday shoppers required getting to the store at its 8 a.m. opening – that is, [hopefully] before the Independence Day celebrants stripped it of essential grocery items such as eggs, bread and lean ground beef.  That night I was too wired to get more than three hours of bad-dream sleep, which meant all day Wednesday I was nodding off at my keyboard until finally I said fuck it, went to bed and slept nearly 14 hours. Now here I am again, a still-tired age 77 but nevertheless back in action...) 

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Today's Dispatches Each Reveal Aspects of Theocratic Malice

Every outrage and atrocity inflicted on us by the Trump/Pence Regime is an expression of Biblical Capitalist Christianity's theocratic malignancy.

 

THE LATEST ON THE EVER-ESCALATING WAR AGAINST FEMALE SEXUALITY: How the attack on the Affordable Care Act (i.e. “Obamacare”) is largely motivated by the regime's intent to deny Working Class women any and all means of birth control.

 

END OF CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION ALREADY SPARKING THEOCRATIC ACTION: The Roberts Court – aka the Robber Court or SCROTUS (Supreme Capitalist Regulators of the United States [the judges who have us all by the crotch]) – has already ordered the supreme courts of Colorado and New Mexico to reconsider decisions  prohibiting taxation in support of religious schools. (Not to brag, but this is precisely the sort of outrage I predicted.)

 

DENVER COPS BUST ANTI-TRUMPCARE DISABILITY ACTIVISTS: The Hill reports 10 protesters were arrested after they staged a two-day sit-in at Republican Senator Cory Gardner's office. (The connection between Christian theocracy and the murdrous USian insistence healthcare is a privilege of wealth rather than a human right – an ugly truth routinely suppressed by mainstream media  – is explained here  by intelligently secular reportage and confirmed here  by the theocrats themselves.)

 

TEXAS SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN ANTI-LGBTQ SUIT: These so-called “justices” essentially argue homophobic bigotry is a right of statehood (yes, just as slavery was a right of antebellum statehood). Black-robed tyrants all, they claim, “despite the (U.S.) Supreme Court’s decision that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry...a state may be permitted to give same-sex couples a piece of paper declaring them married while denying them the actual legal benefits of marriage.”

 

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AS “THE SIMPLE JOY OF MCDONALDS”:  A growing number of complaints suggest the burger barony is increasingly less than diligent in its enforcement of a theoretically zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment, as exemplified by the targeting of a transsexual woman.

 

COWARDLY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS JOIN FASCISTS IN ATTACKING PROFESSOR. The headline tells the story of what was done to Dr. Johnny Eric Williams, a tenured African-American who taught at Connecticut's predominantly white Trinity College, which further ensures its Ruling Class exclusivity by charging $69,000 per year  in undergraduate tuition and fees. As noted, Williams' victimization is but another of the ever-more-commonplace incidents of censorship imposed by ChristoFascist and/or JesuNazi threats.

 

APROPOS SUCH THREATS, PORTLAND GOPORKERS VOTE TO MUSTER STORM TROOPERS. These Oregon Republicans (aka ChristoFascists and JesuNazis) have voted to use armed thugs  from Oath Keepers, Oregon Three Percenters and kindred militias to protect pro-Trump, pro-theocracy rallies by Patriots Prayer (sic) and other such organizations.

 

MEANWHILE, TRUMP REFOCUSES A FEDERAL ANTI-EXTREMISM PROGRAM from white supremacists to Muslims, a predictable expression of the regime's unprecedented fosterage of racism and bigotry.

 

KOCK BROTHERS STICK IT TO THEIR REPUBLICAN BENEFICIARIES, threatening to withhold promised funding unless the harshest possible formulation of the Trump/Pence DEATH Act becomes law, thus Denying Every American Tenable Healthcare.

 

NO ANTI-CAPITALIST MASS MOVEMENT MEANS NO HUMAN FUTURE, so Paul Street argues in a provocative essay here that also damns the Democratic (sic) Party for “inauthentic opposition” that deftly perpetuates Capitalism's ecocideal tyranny.

 

RELEVANT RANTS (1): The managing editor of Salon argues the religious war incipient in the clash between coastal secularists and inland theocrats will ruin us all. I respond such a war may be the only way to save ourselves, our species and our planet from JesuNazi Capitalism's policies of genocide and ecocide:

Good reporting, Ms. Keane, save for one point. If indeed the JesuNazi states of the former Confederacy and their ideologcally adjunct realms in the Lower Middle West were to secede, we the (real) people – that is, we true humans who are not the hateful Christian theocrats that in service to their sadistic god would again burn dissenters at the stake and stone to death LGBTQ people and women who dare be sexual – we would all be infinitely better off than we are now. (Anyone who ignorantly supposes these references to public burnings and stonings are hyperbole need only Google Biblical Law, perhaps also Dominionist Christianity and/or Christian Identity.)

Trouble is, the unacknowledged horror of present-day USian reality is the unreconstructed spawn of the Confederates and their neo-Copperhead allies now own and control the federal government, which means we the (fully human) people of both coasts are the ones who – this time – will have to enact and defend the ordinances of secession. The military success of which – particularly given our recognition of the need for reconciliation with Nature versus the Biblical Capitalists' bottomless hatred of Nature (whether as environmental reality or the ultimate metaphor for femaleness) – will unquestionably determine the fate of our species and the planet on which we are dependent.

I have no doubt the war implicit in these facts will happen, just as I have no doubt it will leave the country in ruins. But, alas, victory in such a conflict is the only way we will ever rid ourselves of the violently theocratic cancer that has metastasized from the South and now threatens the entire nation – though given I am 77 years old and terminally ill, I rather doubt I'll live to see it. Nevertheless – because I know the JesuNazis to be creatures with whom negotiation is impossible and from whom compromise is unobtainable – it is most assuredly tragic the U.S. Army did not suppress the Confederacy with the same genocidal severity it suppressed the First Nations. Had it done so, the U.S. might indeed be the apex of social democracy rather than the nadir of ecocidal tyranny it has become.

 

RELEVANT RANTS (2): My comment on an excellent piece of Popular Resistance reporting by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese becomes the preface for a much longer discussion:

Relevant, informative reporting as always from Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, with but one vital omission: the ever-more-apparent likelihood the Trump/Pence victory and its final thrust to inescapable JesuNazi theocracy was planned long ago – perhaps as early as the post-Bankers'-Plot 1930s (for which see the history of Biblical Capitalism).

From this perspective, the Hillaryite-Trumpoid conflict and all the associated hurly-burly including the apparent Deep State coup-effort is nothing more than a distraction. If the Deep State truly wanted Trump gone, he would already be history. Not only could the Deep State remove him as easily as it removed President Kennedy and his brother Robert; there is also the fact that behind the smokescreens of controversy, Trump is giving our Capitalist overlords everything they want, including unlimited theocratic tyranny to ensure -- just as it did from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 until the American and French revolutions in 1776 and 1789 respectively – a disempowerment of the masses so total they will never be able to successfully overthrow their oppressors. (Though there were many peasant rebellions during those 1300 years of bottomless Christian darkness, the uprisings all failed, suppressed with maximum viciousness, the leaders unfortunate enough to survive combat hideously tortured to death in public.)

As the innate brutality of Capitalism inevitably metamorphoses into the sadistic viciousness of white-supremacist fascism, the sort of total, zero-tolerance control implicit in Abrahamic theocracy is the only way the Capitalist Ruling Class can ensure its continued reign of (necessarily) ever-intensifying savagery. The so-called Deep State, armed with its weapons of total surveillance and re-purposed as a New Inquisition, would in fact be theocracy's greatest bureaucratic beneficiary. Indeed, that Trump is the intentional fulfillment of a long, detailed and infinitely deceptive scheme for domestic regime change is the only hypothesis that, per Occam's Razor, explains all the variables – especially how Obama's executive orders gave Trump the powers he is now employing to nullify the very few remnants of USian democratic process and, as never before, to elevate the fanatical Christian theocrats to hitherto unimaginable heights of dominance..

Resist we must – for the survival of our species and indeed our entire planet is at stake in this struggle. But if we are to resist successfully, we must first know our enemy.

LB/2 July 2017

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"Our Democracy": Viciously Misogynistic Christian Theocracy, Jury-Approved Genocide by Cops, Total Surveillance Just as Reichsführer-SS Heydrich Proposed and Obama Made Real

THIS POST IS TARDY FOR TWO REASONS. One, on Tuesday I joyfully seized a depressingly rare opportunity for an afternoon of outdoor recreation which so painfully inflamed my arthritis I spent most of Wednesday in bed (though if I have another such opportunity, I will seize it with equal joyfulness, the afflictions of old age be damned). Two, looking at the defining characteristics of USian (i.e. Biblical Capitalist, i.e. JesuNazi, i.e. murderously white Christian) governance, I was paralyzed with several hours of indecision. I couldn't decide which is worse: the ever more brazen imposition of theocracy; the ever increasing (and ever more obviously genocidal) murders of minority people, especially African-Americans, by federally militarized police; or the newest disclosure of Obama's fuck-us-all vindictiveness, in this instance his malicious evasion of the Constitution to impose total-surveillance precisely as conceived by Adolph Hitler and his henchmen and now applauded by the white Christian theocrats as a means of enforcing their unspeakable malevolence. But since it's this “secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power”  that knowingly enables these and all other USian atrocities, that's where we'll start today's Dispatches.

 

SCOTUS OPENS DOOR FOR FORCIBLE TAXATION TO FUND THEOCRACY. The Capitalist-mandated imposition of USian theocracy went public in 1954 with the still-controversial and often vindictively enforced addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance – the capital “G” making it undeniably obvious the deity so referenced is the Divine Sadist worshiped by white-supremacist Christians. And now the theocracy campaign has been handed its greatest and most decisive leap forward by the USian Supreme Court in a pivotal 7-2 decision that potentially makes every USian taxpayer a slave of national Christendom. Or as Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, the court has ruled, “for the first time...the Constitution requires the government to provide public funds directly to a church.” In other words, the Roberts Court has reduced the Establishment Clause  to another of the innumerable Big Lies implicit in the biggest Big Lie of all time, “our democracy.”  Meanwhile, JesuNazi Justice Neil Gorsuch took advantage of another Supreme Court decision to declare total and unending war on LGBTQ people.

 

THEOCRACY IS LIKE A VENOMOUS SERPENT: WE IGNORE IT AT OUR OWN PERIL Most USians – 63 percent –  are already at theocracy's gateway-belief in the Bible as the literally true (and therefore indisputable) word of their infamously sadistic god. They thus countenance – whether by their support or unconcern – the ever-escalating imposition of Christian tyranny. Yet too many of us who oppose it are effectively self-silenced, whether by the smug and arrogant belief religion has become irrelevant or by misguided “political correctness” that demands tolerance of anything labeled “religion” – including the JesuNazism of the theocrats. Moreover, all these theocratically contributory viewpoints are fostered and sustained by the extent to which mainstream media methodically downplays and often censors the terrifying facts about the murderous intentions of the Christian fanatics.  (Mainstream media, let us not forget, is owned by some of the same One Percenters who not only own or control USian government at all levels but whose fathers and grandfathers were the theocrats' primary financiers.) Now, with the advent of the Trump/Pence regime, these Capitalist-financed theocrats control all three branches – legislative, executive, judicial – of the federal government, which has thus become history's most vindictively powerful pusher of this particularly paralytic opiate of the masses.

 

GENOCIDAL RACISM IS A SUBSET OF WHITE CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY, an ugly truth of USian history  conveniently suppressed even in doctoral-level studies at most (implicitly white) USian colleges and universities. Thus there's no doubt one of the reasons Trump/Pence Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions intends to fully re-criminalize marijuana is it gives the USian (i.e., white supremacist) criminal injustice system yet another rationale  for acquitting – often the judicial equivalent of applauding – the growing number of white cops who murder African-Americans.

 

TOTAL SURVIELLANCE – OBAMA'S FULFILLMENT OF A NAZI DREAM – IS NOW OUR TOTAL REALITY. Thanks to a hitherto-unreported Obama Regime atrocity – just one of the many atrocities facilitated by our moronic acceptance of Obama the Orator as the messiah of “change we can believe in” and our subsequent victimization by his (utterly predictable) shape-shift into Barack the Betrayer – every one of “those internet-connected gadgets we just have to have...are setting us up for a brave new world where there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.” Perfected in the post-Syriza rat-lab the global Capitalists have made of Greece, such a world was originally proposed by Reinhard Heydrich,  who intended to bring every individual within the Third Reich under “continuous supervision.”  Nor does USian total surveillance stop with electronic spying. Soon even the books, magazines and other reading material carried by USian air passengers will be subject to physical scrutiny – and therefore to ideological evaluation – by the Transportation Security Administration's goons, an obvious Trump Regime precursor to the sorts of hands-on intrusiveness mandated by JesuNazi theocracy. Again we see the ideological and historical connections between Capitalism, the USian government and its German Nazi prototype. Which, by the way, included a special branch of the Gestapo, the Reich Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion,  dedicated to the suppression of LGBTQ people and the female sexuality that had flourished during the Weimar Republic's doomed experiment in social democracy.

 

MORE EXAMPLES OF OUR FORCIBLE CONVERSION FROM CITIZENS TO SERFS AND SLAVES: Firstly, there's the “vast net of stress, fear and insecurity” inflicted on an entire generation by student loan debt  which – exactly as intended – is suppressing resistance to USian socioeconomic savagery. Then there's the unprecedented effort to criminalize dissent,  especially when the dissent seeks to block fossil-fuel pipelines. Note that even the most egregious of these laws are sure to be upheld by the Roberts Court. Lastly there's New Jersey's mandate to teach k-12 students how to display proper submissiveness and thereby – for sure if you're white, and at least theoretically if you're African-American, Hispanic or First Nations – avoid being murdered or brutalized by the police.

 

DON'T IMAGINE EVEN FOR A MINUTE TRUMPCARE IS DEAD. While the Democratic (sic) Party's PseudoLeftists foolishly celebrate the delay in the imposition of Trumpcare, those of us who are more politically honest realize our reprieve is only temporary. That's why disabled activists say they'll continue risking arrest – and Trump Regime encouraged brutalization by Washington D.C. cops – to protest the genocidal contents of what should be called the DEATH Act – Denying Every American Tenable Healthcare – another key element in the Christian Theocrat agenda (see “murderous intentions of Christian fanatics,” above).

 

WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON A FRENCH AGENT? Historian Paul LeBlanc rebuts the revisionist notion Lenin was a German agent by noting the exact parallels between Lenin's relationship with Imperial Germany and Washington's relationship with Royalist France.

 

CONTRARY TO THE BIG LIES TAUGHT AS HISTORY, USIAN CLASS REBELLION WAS COMMONPLACE. That's why the Ruling Class – the true founders of the Deep State – decided they needed a constitution to protect their greed-begotten gold from “Levelers,” the Communists of the late 18th Century.

 

DOOR-TO-DOOR ENCYCLOPEDIA SALES AS THE CURE FOR POVERTY: A cautionary introduction to the newest Capitalist propaganda, a 21st Century version of the (alleged) “power of positive thinking.”

 

BOOKS: AN ESOTERIC ESSAY ON WHY JAMES BALDWIN IS AGAIN RELEVANT. An excerpt from William J. Maxwell's James Baldwin: the FBI Files (Arcade Publishing: 2017).

 

YET ANOTHER OBITUARY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY: “It’s not that the Democratic Party can’t 'wake up' to Americans’ surging support for a bold challenge to the corporate stranglehold over our economy and politics. It’s that it won’t.” Italics as in original, which underscores our desperate need for a new political party.

 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:  Anyone who questions the 21st Century relevance of Marxism should be reminded that it's the only proven antidote for Capitalism, especially Capitalism metamorphosed into fascism, witness how the triumph of the Red Army saved us from a world ruled by Hitler and his Wall Street financiers.  

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California Democrat Kills Single-Payer Healthcare, Proving Again the Big Lie of "Our Democracy" and the Folly of Trying to Halt USian Capitalism's Metamorphosis into JesuNazism

DEATH OF CALIFORNIA SINGLE PAYER BILL DEMONSTRATES THE UTTER FUTILITY OF ALL USIAN REFORM EFFORTS. By any manner of reckoning, it appeared for a time California would triumph  in its valiant effort to at long last topple the definitive and calculatedly genocidal USian principle of health care as a privilege of wealth. But thanks to the last minute betrayal by a Democratic (sic) legislator, that defiant attempt to proclaim health care a universal human right – never mind it was supported by 65 percent of California's citizenry  – was slain by a single despotic dagger of procedural sleight-of-hand. And despite the bold talk of single-payer's proponents, such reform – whether in California or anywhere else in the USian homeland – is undoubtedly dead forever.

THE OBVIOUS LESSON TAUGHT BY SINGLE-PAYER'S DEFEAT – the lesson emphatically denied and relentlessly suppressed by those who in their secret, pro-Capitalist terror of an activist public peddle hope as “the dope-iate of the masses”) –  has two parts. One is the irremediable perversion of the entire USian political system, such that all its so-called “representative” bodies – city councils, county councils, state assemblies and legislatures and of course Congress itself – now function only as weapons of oppression, imposing the ever-more-sadistic mandates of Capitalism as it metamorphoses into JesuNazism, the needs of the people be damned.  Because the One Percenters now literally own USian government at every level, so-called “representative” governance is no less a Big Lie than USian “democracy.” Just as the sole purpose of the government in Vichy France was to enforce the murderous will of the Nazis, the sole purpose of USian government today is to enforce the equally murderous will of our Capitalist overlords.   But that's only half the lesson we should learn from the death of single-payer. The second part, implicit in the zero-tolerance despotism revealed by the first part, is that all reform efforts are doomed. Like trying to detoxify a Portuguese Man-O'-War,  reform – dependent as it was on the now-forever-abolished fosterage provided by democratic process – is nothing more than a waste of time and energy. In other words, single-payer healthcare – or any other definitively humanitarian proposal anywhere in the the ever-more-brazenly white-supremacist JesuNazi United States – is undoubtedly dead until the Empire itself dies of its own malignancy, whether by thermonuclear apocalypse or environmental cataclysm.

(ASTUTE READERS WILL NOTE THE ABOVE TEXTS REGARD the House and Senate versions of Trumpcare as coequals in murderousness destined to be combined and thus become law. That is because the Democratic (sic) Party's history of betrayals tells us the Senate Democrats, who exactly like the Republicans are profitably obedient to their Capitalist masters, will not use the procedural power by which they might stop the DEATH Act – Denying Every American Tenable Healthcare – from enactment. And the Death Act it truly is, precisely as we are doomed to learn when it is imposed on us by the JesuNazi-weaponized mechanism of moral imbecility we know as the U.S. Government.)

JESUNAZIS RUNNING AMOK EVERYWHERE ELSE IN USIA TOO. Missouri's JesuNazis have passed a viciously misogynistic expression of Christian Love that – if you're an unmarried woman – encourages your boss to fire you for using birth control and urges your landlord to evict you for the same reason. The measure, which also targets women who have had abortions or who become pregnant out of wedlock, is certain to be signed into law. Meanwhile Vice President Mike Pence, the zero-tolerance theocrat who would replace Trump were the president to be impeached, bared his JesuNazi fangs during Focus on the Family's 40th anniversary celebration,  though mainstream media is now so intimidated by Christian hatefulness, the only genuinely complete report on this gathering of fanatics was by a college newspaper. Obviously the war against women's sexual freedom – a war in which the closet male-supremacist Democrats (including Hillary)  are as complicit as the openly woman-hating Republicans – continues ad nauseam, and just as obviously, the theocrats are winning.

 

USIAN WHITE RACISM APPROVES MURDER OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS. Once again the old news of Caucasian malevolence toward people of color becomes the new news of additional atrocities. In a particularly outrageous example of government-sanctioned hatefulness, a white cop in infamously racist St. Louis  shot an off-duty African-American cop because the shooter read the victim's dark skin as a license to kill. Fortunately the African-American officer survived. But Philando Castile's murderer, implicitly applauded by an all-white jury,  went free, precisely as in every other such case of legalized lynching that – like the savagery of healthcare defined as a privilege of wealth rather than a human right – has become a defining characteristic of the present-day United States. So omnipresent is the racism, local authorities and even federal agents  routinely suppress reports of hate crimes, no doubt lest their documentation (further) substantiate how the USian Empire's racist malevolence is becoming the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany's antisemitism.  Hence, because the hate-mongers are thus protected from prosecution, they believe they are free to inflict whatever torments they choose on their targets. Which, as I have said so many times before, is the best case I know for the Second Amendment.

 

GESTAPO-MINDED MILWAUKEE SHERIFF TURNS DOWN DHS APPOINTMENT. For reasons that are obviously closely guarded secrets, Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, the JesuNazi African-American tagged by Trump to be the Department of Homeland Security's reichsführer for the federalization and militarization of local police, has turned down the appointment. Several journalists and critics, myself among them,  feared Clarke would use his position to organize local police departments, which thanks to federal militarization are are already equipped like armored infantry units, into an USian Gestapo, perhaps even into a Waffen SS clone to violently resist any attempt to remove Trump from office. (Aside to readers: needless to say, this is one time I'm damn well glad my prediction was wrong.)

 

USIAN SECRET POLICE IN THEOCRATIC ACTION. This report on the Briana Waters case shows the breathtaking lengths to which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the federal government in general will go in its campaigns against those who dare defy the hatred of Mother Nature decreed by nationhood “under God.” The same strategy and tactics will of course be employed against anyone who dares defy any other aspect of the Biblical Capitalist USian Empire's ever-more-intolerant patriarchal order.

 

“MANUFACTURED ILLITERACY AND MISEDUCATION” SPAWNED MORON NATION: a courageously outspoken and therefore compelling essay  by the devastatingly perceptive Henry Giroux explains why Trump won – and, by implication, why the JesuNazis are conquering the USian Homeland and why Margaret Atwood's most horrific prophecies are coming true, thereby refuting the foolish optimism – no doubt mandated by marketing considerations – on which The Handmaid's Tale ends. (Disclosure: in my view, Giroux is the best informed and most boldly truthful education critic – and therefore by far the most important such writer – of our hopelessly dystopian age.)

 

THE INFURIATING BIG LIE OF THOSE REFERENCES TO “OUR DEMOCRACY,” a rant I wrote and posted elsewhere, as – typically in moments of extreme vexation – I sometimes do:

Anytime an USian political writer or commentator mentions “our democracy,” whether the source is of the PseudoLeft or the real-as-cancer Right, they identify themselves as a pro-Capitalist, Big Lie propagandist. The truth is we have had no “democracy” since 22 November 1963, though the irremediably tyrannical aftermath of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's murder has been imposed slowly, in accordance with the boiled-frog strategy of conquest and oppression. And now that the Moron Nation frogs are at long last awakening to the fact their proverbial water is indeed aboil, it is entirely too late. “Our democracy” is dead. Unlike the genocidally racist Confederacy (which has not only risen again but has already triumphed), or the sadistic god so beloved of the JesuNazis, USian “democracy” – even as limited as it was – can never be resurrected. That's because its death is the consequence of Capitalism's historically inevitable metamorphosis into fascism, which is as much a force of nature as seasonal change. Consequently we are now ruled by one fascist (i.e., corporatist) party that conceals its dictatorial solidarity behind the deceptiveness of two names, a duopoly of disinformation in which the Democratic (sic) Party is no less corrupt (and no less despotic) than its Republican counterpart. Thus for a writer or commentator to reference “our democracy” is – in the ultimate and most absolute sense – to brazenly lie, thereby reinforcing the total absence of democracy that characterizes the USian present and will remain its defining characteristic until this our species' most evil empire either destroys the planet in a thermonuclear apocalypse or collapses due to the environmental ruination mandated by its own theocratic hatred of Nature.

 

ICONOCLASM FOR THE DAY: The Trump Regime wants to halt undocumented immigration? It should merely acknowledge, publicly and in all relevant languages, the hideously hopeless truth of the USian homeland's socioeconomic reality: that we its workers are no better than serfs or slaves, a condition from which escape is impossible, and that our children will thus suffer inescapable poverty and exploitation even more calculatedly vicious than that which is inflicted on ourselves. Then post appropriate signage along the borders: “ Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here.”

 

WHAT THEN MIGHT WE DO? Given the looming threats of our species' self-obliteration, whether by thermonuclear apocalypse, environmental cataclysm or some combination of both, as Capitalism is already inflicting on us all via Fukushima, continued belief in “the myth of human progress” is not only absurd but unforgivably foolhardy defiance  of the recognition of historical and scientific reality demanded by dialectical materialism. Contrary to the belief of the martyred Martin Luther King Jr., the “moral arc of the universe” does not bend toward justice. In hideous truth, it bends in exactly the opposite direction, toward manifest injustice. But precisely as dialectical materialism tells us  – as indeed I have said more times than I can count – we cannot cope with such nominally unspeakable reality until we acknowledge the fulsomeness of its toxicity and thus enable ourselves to accurately name it. True, when we do so, it seems we are doomed, in which context the oppressively paralytic imbecility of hope – and more to the point, how those shackles of hope serve our overlords –  becomes undeniable. Nevertheless, we cannot know the future; it is precisely because amidst its unknowns there is a (very faint) possibility our species might survive the present age of unmitigated horror that we should prepare ourselves accordingly. And a cogent starting-point for that preparation is Lenin's essay on Dual Power,  which is perhaps even more relevant to us today than it was to Russians a century ago in 1917.

LB/25 June 2017

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