Loren Bliss: Dispatches from Dystopia

Is It Class Struggle? Or Is It Two Subspecies in Mortal Combat?

Our Fight for Survival Goes Beyond Proletarians Versus Plutocrats; It
Is Now a Doomsday War between Humanitarians and Moral Imbeciles

THE MARXIAN CONCEPT of class struggle was for many decades our most powerful tool of consciousness-raising and liberation.

It was understandable enough -- and therefore compelling enough -- to encourage widespread rebellion in the 19th Century and to fuel successful revolutions in the 20th Century. It also terrified the Capitalists into allowing a number of social-democratic reform movements as well -- the New Deal most assuredly included. 

But now in the 21st Century -- ironically just as We the People are awakening to the fact our Mother Earth is challenging our entire species to either abandon its ecocidal misogyny or become extinct -- we may need to re-think what class struggle is telling us.

That's because the enlightenment, solidarity and urgent call to action with which Marxism inspired the vast revolutionary and reformist majorities of yesteryear seem beyond the comprehension of all but a tiny minority today. 

An obvious and undeniably major part of our problem is the One Percenters' absolute mastery of propaganda and psychological warfare. Schooled by Josef Goebbels and his huckstering kindred, they have warped our minds with their profoundly seductive but ruinously divisive toxins of imposed ignorance, linguistic distortion and identity politics.

Now, brain-warped as we are by Capitalism's monstrous Big Lie of equal opportunity,  too many of us can scarcely fit class -- caste, actually -- into our notions of individual selfhood, much less into our collective expectations and demands.

In the past I have denounced these examples of our species' suicidal malfeasance as byproducts of how the Capitalists have dumbed down the formerly activist population of the United States into a hopelessly submissive Moron Nation -- the most apocalyptically ignorant realm of all the mentally enfeebled dunce-domains that rape our Mother Earth for fun and profit.

Yet now I think maybe we should look beyond what the One Percenters are doing to us and our planetary Motherland. Maybe we should instead be asking why the patriarchy's 6,000-year campaign of genocide¹ -- the product of a tiny fraction² of our species' lifespan --  has evolved into a campaign of undeniably terminal ecocide.

Marx, Engels and Lenin tell us the Capitalist Ruling Class behaves as it does because that is the present-day expression of the age-old self-protective momentum of tyrants -- an assessment with which it is surely difficult to disagree.

Meanwhile our own history reveals the notion of a "moral universe" that "bends toward justice" is naught but another variant of "change we can believe in": yet another Big Lie. It is this deception that sustains the self-betraying emotion we call "hope." It suborns our impulse to confront those alleged humans who prey upon us; it numbs us to the fact their boiled-frog ecocide is ultimately as deadly as an attack by rabid grizzly bears -- and it must therefore be battled accordingly.        

But why -- seemingly for the first time in our species' 200-thousand to 250-thousand-year experience -- have its tyrants become bipedal doomsday machines?

Might today's strife also be symptomatic of some hitherto unrecognized evolutionary division of our species into two warring subspecies -- humanitarians versus moral imbeciles? Homo sapiens humanitariensis versus Homo sapiens mala in sē.³ 

The latter -- subspecies or not (and I am convinced they are a subspecies if not also a mutation) -- are now undeniably killing us all.

They have tabooed and suppressed the empathy and cooperative instincts that enabled our species to survive four ice ages and no one knows how many other long-term disasters. And now they are methodically replacing those instincts with exactly the same murderously acquisitive moral imbecility that characterizes trophy-hunting serial killers. Think Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer -- slayers no less possessed of  legal personhood than Monsanto and IBM -- or so rules the United States Supreme Court.

In other words, the moral imbecility that defines Homo sapiens mala in sē repudiates everything that defines the rest of us as fully human. Which argues for their existence as a subspecies if not also as a mutation.   

Moreover they have bred seemingly limitless mobs of humanoid puppets who are as gleefully predatory as the dictators, serial killers and mass murderers themselves, the latter three categories obviously the new subspecies' apex archetypes.

Meanwhile for all the rest of us it is as if one of the Pentagon's CBR⁴ warfare labs has -- after years of clandestine effort that no doubt began in some secret cellar on the outskirts of Berlin in 1936 or 1937 -- finally collected enough fossil DNA to bring the tyrannosaurs back to life as auxiliary infantrymen. 

But like the poison gas at Bhopal, the tyrannosaurs escaped from confinement.

And now these dread creatures are feeding on us in obedience to their breeders and their breeders' sadistic deity's scriptural mandate to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it" -- and as with that ill-fated city in Vietnam -- destroy the planet to save it for their god.

All this said, I hope it remains clear I am not disputing the reality of class war. Indeed I have it lived it in one form or another nearly all my life.

But I am suggesting what we define as class warfare has grown far broader (and often more complex) than its 19th Century name implies -- and that if it is to remain usefully compelling in the 21st Century, it must needs  be clarified,  expanded and given a more up-to-date, more descriptive label.  

I am also suggesting that Marx, Engels, Lenin et al -- none of whom could have recognized the scriptural Final Days as a blueprint for real-world apocalypse -- were seduced into a now-obviously excessive optimism by the very religions they repudiated.

Which leaves it up to us, Homo sapiens Humanitarienses, to transform our pessimism into the fuel we need for taking the next step -- lest Homo sapiens mala in sē complete their six-millennium effort to exterminate us all.

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¹Not the least because I see its predatory dynamics demonstrated in terminal form by the apocalyptic politics of present-day local, state, national and global governance, I accept the Gimbutas hypothesis -- of genocidal global conquest beginning about 6000 years ago by Indo-European nomads whose (unnatural) patriarchal doctrines mandated extermination of all (naturally) matrifocal humans -- as proven both by Ms. Gimbutas' relics and the historical logic of seemingly endless, ever-escalating patriarchal violence. 

²Assuming a 250, 000 year lifespan, 6000 years is a mere 1/42nd of it, 0.02 percent. 

³Most assuredly no Latin scholar, I followed the model of Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis to construct Homo sapiens humanitariensis. Naming our rival subspecies  Homo sapiens mala in sē -- "humans evil in themselves" -- required consulting the two Latin phrase books stashed amongst the 26 reference volumes I keep handy at my desk.

⁴CBR is a U.S. military acronym meaning Chemical, Biological and Radiological.

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Exemplary News: First the Ugly, Next the Bad, Finally the Good

Fascist Death Squad Murders Columbian Women's Rights Activist
"Women's rights activist Maria Caicedo Muñoz was found dead in Rio Macay, Cauca department Friday. She was... kidnapped from her home in the municipality of Argelia, Cauca, (Columbia) by armed men, while her two daughters were tied." (This report was previously published on the Facebook page of the Communist Labor Party's Tacoma Chapter. It is included here for readers who do not normally peruse the CLP website.)

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"Being Trans In America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying."
"A new federal order wouldn’t just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified. Already, on any given afternoon, I’m regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust..."

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Technology Access Gap Leaves Millions of Students Struggling to Keep Up
"...lack of in-home internet access is an enormous problem for students in all 50 states. This has been corroborated by researchers at Pew Research who discovered that 17.5 percent of school children in grades 6 to 12 have ongoing difficulties completing school work due to a lack of internet access."

Comment: it's poverty -- the ever-worsening impoverishment deliberately inflicted on us by the H. s. mala subspecies -- that shoves Internet access out of reach for an ever-increasing number of households.  

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Trump’s NLRB Just Quietly Ruled to Make Union Pickets Illegal
"An all-Republican panel of President Trump’s National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) recently ruled that janitors in San Francisco violated the law when they picketed in front of their workplace to win higher wages, better working conditions and freedom from sexual harassment in their workplace. The ruling could result in far-reaching restrictions on picketing that limit the ability of labor unions to put public pressure on management."

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"Disaster Waiting to Happen": Trump OKs Oil Drilling in Alaskan Seas
"Ignoring once more the existential necessity of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and transitioning to a global energy system powered by renewable sources, the Trump administration on Wednesday delivered another major victory for Big Oil by quietly approving a Texas company's plan to drill in federal Arctic waters six miles off the coast of Alaska."

Comment: such is H. s. mala in action, its relentlessly destructive behavior proof it is no longer fully human. 

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The Sinister Reason the U.S. Persists in Waging Losing Wars
"If you ask — and few Americans do these days — why this country’s losing wars persist, the answer should be, at least in part: because there’s no accountability. The losers in those wars have seized control of our national narrative. They now define how the military is seen (as an investment, a boon, a good and great thing); they now shape how we view our wars abroad (as regrettable perhaps, but necessary and also a sign of national toughness); they now assign all serious criticism of the Pentagon to what they might term the defeatist fringe."

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Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders 
"...all Native American societies acknowledged three to five gender roles: Female, male, Two Spirit female, Two Spirit male and transgendered...(but) Europeans and eventually Euro-Americans demanded all people conform to their prescribed two gender roles...(however) The Native American cultural pride revivals that began in the 1960s...brought about a new awareness of the Two Spirit tradition and has since inspired a gradual increase of acceptance and respect for gender variance within tribal communities."

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Call 1-844-WYT-FEAR: You're Scared! You're White! You're Probably A Racist!
"Because we've all likewise had (more than enough), The New York Times and Niecy Nash, actress and 'advocate for not calling 911 on black people for no goddamn reason,' took it one step further, partnering on a new infomercial and hotline, 1-844-WYT-FEAR, for white people 'feeling scared about a black or brown person in your proximity'- i.e., 'when it's not an emergency, just harassment.'"

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Muslim Groups Raising Substantial Funds for Synagogue Shooting Victims
"A crowdfunding campaign started by two Muslim groups has raised more than $55,000 for the victims of the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday...'The Muslim-American community extends its hands to help the shooting victims, whether it is the injured victims or the Jewish families who have lost loved ones,' the fundraising page reads. 'We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action.'" 

Comment: Kudos to the Muslim groups. But I nevertheless must ask: what does it tell us about ourselves there is never such a massively diverse national outpouring of sympathy, empathy and helpfulness when the victims are people of color or LGBTQ people?  (Thanks to JP for alerting me to this story.)

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Dog Scams McDonald’s Customers Out of Burgers by Pretending to Be a Stray
"A woman in Oklahoma City has resorted to dog-shaming after she caught her pet sneaking out at night to beg for hamburgers at a nearby McDonald’s." (Thanks to TigerLille1 for sending me this feel-good link.)

-- LB/28 October 2018

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Open Secret: I-1639 Would Kill Preemption, Letting Seattle and Like-Minded Jurisdictions Ban Civilian Gun Ownership

But -- Probably Due to Political Considerations (See Below) -- Not Even NRA Dares Fight This Super-Sneaky Forcible-Disarmament Ploy

THE BAD NEWS is buried in the official Initiative 1639 text, Page 8, first paragraph:

"The purchaser shall be given a copy of the department of fish and wildlife pamphlet on the legal limits of the use of firearms and firearms safety and the fact that local laws and ordinances on firearms are preempted by state law and must be consistent with state law."

Washington state uses such strike-throughs to show which parts of present-day laws legislators or voters are targeting for repeal. That's also how the Voters' Pamphlet...General Election November 6 (Page 92; seventh paragraph) reveals that enactment of I-1639 would repeal preemption and terminates all the protections it provided.

Though the voters' pamphlets are mailed to every household in the state, the initiative's impact becomes clear only when its discouragingly turgid, irritatingly repetitive prose is carefully studied. That means most voters -- obviously as intended -- will never know preemption is on the ballot.

But what is preemption? It originated as a legal doctrine to protect citizens from prosecution for accidental violations of contradictory local variations in what's lawful and what's not. It prohibits cities, counties and other local government agencies from imposing laws that are more restrictive than state law.

As it applies to firearms and ammunition in Washington, preemption requires that all relevant laws be consistent throughout the state. Enacted in the 1980s, it decrees that only the legislature can enact such measures. This avoids a confusing patchwork of rules and regulations that would make it difficult (if not impossible) for gun owners to ensure they are obeying the law when traveling from one part of the state to another. 

In Washington,  preemption has thus traditionally protected legal firearms owners from the fiercely anti-gunowner majorities who increasingly dominate the politics of the larger coastal cities -- not just Seattle, but also Bellingham, Olympia and Tacoma.

Once preemption is gone -- and I-1639's language of revocation is unequivocal  -- any local jurisdiction could enact any anti-gun restriction it pleases. Indeed, Seattle's continuing defiance of preemption underscores how its revocation might -- as many gunowners fear -- encourage the state's largest city to completely outlaw all civilian firearms ownership within its city limits.    

Preemption has also prohibited the state's local and regional transit agencies from denying persons with concealed-pistol permits the right to carry aboard buses, streetcars and commuter trains -- vital protection for women and men traveling late at night. But I-1639 will allow all these agencies to impose whatever firearms bans they choose, thereby ending that protection too.       

Based on Seattle's recent anti-gunowner history, once it is freed of preemption's restraints, it is not at all unthinkable it would try to prohibit all civilian firearms ownership. A number of its politicians have long expressed their hopes -- though only in private -- of making Seattle the nation's first “truly gun-free city.” Thus it would become the first U.S. realm in which the entire 99 Percent is forcibly disarmed and thereby officially reduced not just to abject defenselessness but to compulsory pacifism and therefore mandatory victimhood -- even as the One Percenters are allowed to retain and expand their own private armies.

At the very least, the end of preemption would force firearms-owning travelers in Washington to navigate a regulatory maze in which possession of a gun that is legal in Spokane or Everett is a felony in Seattle or Bellingham.

In other words, Washington would suddenly become like Illinois or New York State in that inadvertently bringing a legally owned firearm into a no-gun jurisdiction  will not only subject you to the predatory horrors of a penitentiary sentence but forever destroy your life by branding you an armed felon.  Given the ongoing prison AIDS epidemic and how it is vectored by anal rapists, even short-term imprisonment becomes a death sentence for any male who is not either a special forces veteran or a kill-hardened, Godzilla-muscled  criminal. 

As to why both sides in this most pivotal of all U.S. Second Amendment fights each refuse to address the preemption issue,  the evidence is circumstantial but nevertheless compelling:

The pro-1639 people aren't telling us their measure would end preemption because they fear any such open admission will bring about their defeat. The anti-1639 people are silent because their Republican allies have perverted preemption's purpose and are using it to outlaw local minimum wage increases. (See also the Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act.)

All of which -- let us never forget -- is taking place as We the People are under ever-intensifying assault by the Evangelical Nazis. And as the One Percenters themselves are increasingly desperate to disarm the 99 Percent before Capitalist greed provokes actual rebellion. While the One Percenters were similarly frightened during the late 1960s, they have never -- at least since the era of the Bankers' Plot to overthrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- been  as outspokenly panicked as they are now.

Since NRA is as much a One Percent organization as the Western States Petroleum Association (which has committed $26.2 million to defeat anti-pollution Initiative 1631), here's no doubt the other reason  neither NRA (nor any other pro-Second Amendment organization) has yet acknowledged the preemption issue.

Meanwhile the pro-1639 campaign, lavishly funded by the plutocrats themselves, has nearly nine times the money of the anti-1639 campaign. Given the Mainstream-Media-induced ignorance of the average Washington state voter, it seems there is no possible way I-1639 can be defeated.

Barring a miracle,  I-1639 will thus turn Washington state into an impossible-to-navigate labyrinth of local firearms laws that – just as they do in Illinois and New York (and again exactly as intended) – thereby make all gun ownership so legally complicated, it is effectively outlawed for all save those rich enough to hire lawyers to manipulate the system.

(Note: discovery of I-1639's preemption repeal and the many additional hours of research it required -- particularly to minimize reliance on Rightist sources -- delayed this week's Dispatches by three days. Normally it would have been posted late Sunday. I hope next week to have it back on schedule.) 

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Falwell Claims His Liberty University Is the Best-Funded School in the U.S.; If
That Is True, We the People Are In Far Deeper Quicksand Than We Dare Admit

"'THE UNIVERSITY HAD “...become the most prosperous university in the US”, (Jerry Falwell Jr.)  said, with $1.7bn in endowments, and gross assets of $3bn...(and as reported earlier in the text), Liberty has become one of the biggest, and certainly the most influential, Christian educational institutions in the US. As well as 15,000 students on campus, an additional 90,000 or so are enrolled in online courses. The university employs almost 7,000 people full-time, with a further 12,000 jobs in the Lynchburg area connected to it.".

Comment: I lack the financial-research skills to refute or confirm Falwell's claim, but if indeed it is true -- and the cleverly edited phrasing of The Guardian's report most assuredly implies it is -- what it tells us is  the Capitalist Ruling Class is putting its maximum ideological investment in the methodical U.S. resurrection of Adolf Hitler's Nazi-sustaining hybrid of Christianity and fascism: "The truth is that German Christians supported the Nazis because they believed that Adolf Hitler was a gift to the German people from God. German Christianity was a divinely sanctioned religious movement which combined Christian doctrine and German character in a unique and desirable manner: True Christianity was German and True German-ness was Christian."

Substitute "USian" for "German" and we see what succeeded so thoroughly in turning Weimar Germany to Nazi Germany is now succeeding here in the United States.

And given the ruinous magnitude of Capitalists' success at imposing the ever-more-rapidly metastasizing malignancy of the Powell Memo, it should have all of us on the Left carefully rethinking our strategy and tactics.

Though I must confess I cannot think of a more aptly named epicenter of  evil: Lynch-burg -- how perfect.

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U.S. Cops Sexually Assault At Least 100 Women Every Year

"...BUT NO ONE TALKS about (these) brutal act(s) of violence committed by law enforcement figures...According to...one of the most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy. That’s only what we know of.”

Comment: I cannot doubt this is by far the most under-reported crime in the U.S., primarily because the real-world vengefulness of two many U.S. police officers -- local, state and federal (female cops included)¹ -- is hidden behind their solidarity of shields and further cloaked by the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine, which means such crimes are almost never prosecuted, are seldom disclosed and therefore literally have no effective limits.

Meanwhile the good cops -- those who yet honorably resist the bipartisan federal efforts to turn uniformed local police into merciless armies of occupation and plainclothes officers into a new zero-tolerance gestapo -- suffer unjustly from the fury so evoked.    

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Trump/Pence Regime to Revoke All Federally Guaranteed Transgender Rights

"...ITS BIGGEST ATTACK on transgender rights yet...would strip federal recognition of the gender identity of some 1.4 million Americans — and require genetic testing in some cases to match a person’s gender with the sex they were assigned at birth."  Important update here.

(What can I say?)

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Ayn Rand Nation Relentlessly Criminalizes Homelessness

"UNFORTUNATELY, LAW ENFORCEMENT is often used as a first response to address homelessness. Instead of connecting people with services and housing, (cops) drag people experiencing homelessness into the criminal justice system, making it more difficult for them to get a job or housing."

Comment: we all know this; what we do not know is the extent to which it has become a nationally defining truth, including in the neighboring Trumpville of Puyallup (which like most U.S. cities has declared itself a relentless enemy of all homeless people). Nor -- thanks again to MMPM censorship -- have most of us here in Tacoma heard of Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards' courageous advocacy on  behalf of local homeless people² (about which, if I can convince a couple of sources to tell me more, we will most assuredly soon learn more).

Meanwhile let us not forget the relentless growth of the criminalization campaign reveals the Ayn Rand hatefulness that is the true core ethos not just of the Evangelical Nazis but of the overwhelming majority of white U.S. voters.  Which -- more than any other single statistic -- should lay to rest forever any notion of an actual "progressive" victory in November.

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Proud Boy/Republican Alliance Follows Its European Fascist Predecessors

".. the success of the Proud Boys in gaining entrée into places like the Metropolitan Republican Club (as well as past public support from Republican figures like Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, and Devin Nunes) is reminiscent of the way fascism gained power in Europe between World Wars I and II." 

(Again, what can I say?)

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And Now the Media Tries to Further Divide Us with (More) Identity Politics 

"The United States, circa 2018, looks like a place run by people who know they’re going to die soon... Our ruling political party is dominated by geriatric billionaires and millenarian Christians; our electoral system gives politicians little incentive to prioritize the nation’s long-term well-being over their constituents’ immediate gratification; and the conservative movement’s decades-long assault on “big government” has constrained the public sector’s capacity to invest in the future. But all these causes of American misrule are informed and exacerbated by this overriding fact: Young people vote much less than those who aren’t long for this Earth."

Comment: I believe this is the first time in many years -- that is, since the 1960s "generation gap" propaganda -- the One Percenters and their Ruling Class manipulators have called upon the contempt (and often outright hatred) U.S. youth are conditioned to feel toward their elders. Which means the plutocrats are once more fearful enough they are again escalating their psychological warfare efforts.

Never forget that identity politics, which are designed for maximum emotional seductiveness, are but another of the weapons by which the One Percenters (try to) ensure we the (99 Percent) people remain hopelessly divided against ourselves.

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¹ "Dallas cop who killed her black neighbor shared posts likening Colin Kaepernick to cancer and memes saying people were 'ungrateful she didn't kill them' as victim's lawyer says he believes 'short-tempered' officer is racist." Comment: Damn shame I had to go to the British press to get these details, but every google-able U.S. source has thus far suppressed them. 

² Mayor Woodard's politically courageous activism on behalf homeless people is repeatedly (and credibly) rumored on local streets, including by those cops who are said to be infuriated by her administration's restrictions on their ability to arrest, beat and otherwise torment anyone on the bottom tier of the Capitalists' ever-lengthening roster of victims. Nevertheless, though I googled the topic for nearly four  hours, I could find no accessibly useful focus on Woodard's humanitarianism published later than 2017;  more recent reports credit the city manager and mention the mayor only in passing -- which in all likelihood suggests growing MMPM/Chamber of Commerce hostility toward her and her administration.  Meanwhile  the various federal court rulings that benefited homeless persons are now reduced to meaninglessness -- and any further judicial efforts rendered pointless -- because any such ruling in favor of poor or homeless persons  will inevitably be voided by the Prosperity-Gospel fanatics to whom the Trump/Pence Regime has given lifetime control of the Supreme Court (and thereby of the entire nation). Thus their theocratic hatefulness is now effectively forever -- that is, until the United States is no more.    

³  Despite an additional four hours of googling, I could find not a single poll documenting U.S. attitudes toward homeless people. Obviously, given the magnitude of the homelessness crisis, the absence of any such efforts demonstrates the scope and intensity of the censorship that conceals the nation's Ayn Rand coda of (often deadly) hatred for any of us whom Capitalism has reduced to obvious poverty -- especially those of us who are homeless.  Even the management at the 90-unit low-income senior housing complex in which I dwell asserts that people are homeless only because that's the lifestyle they choose, thereby reinforcing the induced (and therefore curable) hatefulness that fragments the U.S. 99 Percent into self-inflicted powerlessness even as more of us are slain every day by the Trump/Pence Regime's policies of slow-motion genocide. 

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But We Do Get the Late-Breaking Surprise of a Superb Diagnostic Essay:

"It is essential to understand the pathologies of the uber-rich. They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration. The uber-rich cannot see the world from anyone’s perspective but their own. People around them, including the women whom entitled men prey upon, are objects designed to gratify momentary lusts or be manipulated. The uber-rich are almost always amoral. Right. Wrong. Truth. Lies. Justice. Injustice. These concepts are beyond them. Whatever benefits or pleases them is good. What does not must be destroyed." 

LB/21-24 October 2018

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As Intended, Capitalism Makes Government Our Deadliest Foe

U.S. Freedom Dies Forever as Republicans and Democrats Weaponize Reagan's Biggest Big Lie into Our One "Self-Evident" National Truth

 Meanwhile Reality Compels Another Dispatches Format Change

NO, GOOD PEOPLE, ELECTIONS cannot restore humanitarian governance to the United States. 

Not now. Not ever -- not as long as our candidates are all chosen by our Capitalist overlords.

Yes, our most recent betrayal by the Democratic (sic) Party is obviously intended to help the Republicans by minimizing voter turnout next month. It's other purpose is tightening the already deadly ChristoNazi stranglehold on the national judiciary.

Now the only truly motivated voters will be the zealots themselves, the ChristoNazis and their secret Democratic [sic] allies, especially the forcible disarmament fanatics who want to render us defenseless in the face of the wildly escalating ChristoNazi threat.

In hideous truth, they're birds of a (proverbial) feather. The two groups are bound together by their hatreds.

The forcible disarmament cult is as much a hate group as any KuKluxKlavern -- and I have witnessed this firsthand. They despise all legal firearms owners with the same hurl-a-brick-through-your-window intensity the ChristoNazis aim at women and people of color.

But we real Leftists are the only ones they're reducing to compulsory pacifism and mandatory victimhood. As it is already, no one in the state of Washington can purchase a firearm -- any firearm -- without government approval. 

And now -- with the ChristoNazi takeover already emerging as the  most apocalyptic horror our species has ever contrived -- the forcible disarmament fanatics see their greatest opportunity. Once they win -- and it is obvious they're winning everywhere -- government at every level will be able to thoroughly investigate anyone who so much as inquires about firearms ownership. 

Which means, in the ChristoNazi Fourth Reich as the Original Nazi Third Reich, soon it's only the Nazis who will be allowed guns.    

All of this is predictable -- especially by anyone who knows history well enough to know that if there is any "arc of the moral universe," it most assuredly bends not toward toward justice but to ever-intensifying tyranny.

Obviously our ChristoNazi rulers want all of us except their own storm-troopers disarmed and thereby reduced to utter defenselessness, and just as obviously they are (again) using their Democratic (sic) puppets to make that happen. ` 

Meanwhile most of the rest of the population -- terrified by the fast approach of the which-side-are-you-on reality that defines revolution and civil war -- is in full retreat. They are cravenly flinging away their arms in the desperate hope their pathetic defenselessness will magically move our merciless conquerors to show them mercy. 

Moron Nation multiplying mindlessness.

But these are mere symptoms of the malignancy that is destroying us.

The real reason our elections are meaningless is that President Reagan's most outrageous Big Lie -- that government is the source of all our problems -- has become the nation's sole defining "self-evident" truth.

Indeed it has suppressed and replaced all those other "self-evident" truths cited by Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence. 

Our final subjugation -- and there were many such episodes beforehand -- began with the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 22 November 1963. It was then locked in place by an additional 11 years of governmemt-enabled murders.

In other words, Lyndon Banes Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Gerald Ford, James Earl Carter, Reagan, George Bush I, William Jefferson Clinton, George Bush II and Barack Obama are every bit as guilty as Donald Trump himself in the ChristoNazification of the United States. 

But given the true though hitherto-concealed purpose of the so-called "American Revolution"  -- a coup by slave-owners and their financiers in fear of British efforts to outlaw slavery -- it is doubtful any other outcome was possible.

As to its presidential perpe-traitors, they were of course "just following orders" -- specifically the commands of the bribemasters who own them.  

Here again we see how badness begets badness, whether one labels its momentum "cause-and-effect," as I do, or calls it by its popular name, "bad karma."  

That's why a global credo literally founded on the notion all femaleness is evil -- i.e., patriarchy -- can only beget the ultimate evil of our  own self-destruction.

Just as a nation founded by slave owners and ever afterward owned by their descendants can only become a nation of slaves.

Or just as the computer -- originally designed by IBM to grant the German Nazis maximum efficiency mass murder -- now fulfills its inherent momentum by granting our masters their first truly omnipotent overseer. Such is the total-surveillance mechanism against which we the people are eternally defenseless. 

In all such examples, the lesson is the same: in the ultimate sense, evil can only beget evil.

Or as Audrey Lorde so aptly put it, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those...who still define the master's house as their only source of support."

But we already know that even if we dare not say it aloud.  We live it every day. We can  no longer deny that what we were falsely conditioned to believe was "our" government has instead reduced us to but another of the world's innumerable Conquered Peoples. 

Obviously, if we are to beat back the horrors of ChristoNazi governance, we must have a government that is truly our own.

Dual power, anyone?  (Hint: had Occupy gone forward, expanding to include more minorities and thereby minimizing its seduction by anarchists, it might have begun providing us the requisite foundation.)

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MY PREVIOUS REVISIONS of Dispatches were intended to make it especially useful to those of us whose lives are sufficiently consumed by the demands of art and survival we keep abreast of current events more by reading weekly summaries rather than daily viewing or reading.

But those efforts fizzled.

And, in retrospect, one of the slap-myself-in-the-forehead reasons for their befizzlement is that those of us who are already living the lives of conquered people surely do not need a long litany of news-item reminders of the ever-more-merciless sadism of our conquerors. 

Hence my apology. Hence too my reversion to what I trust is a more attractive format: still weekly, but with only a handful -- say no more than five -- of the week's defining news reports.  Some accompanying commentary, of course. My photographs as relevant.

But also a far more determined search for a few heartening reports too.

And something new: excerpts from the mental visions that flare from the edges of my mind whenever I contemplate our apocalyptic reality. 

As below.

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ESPECIALLY AS A STUDENT of history, I find the notion of art as prophecy set forth by Carl Jung and underscored by Marshall McLuhan to be profoundly reassuring. 

For just as the horrors of the 20th Century were foretold by Edvard Munch, I think in the music associated with the resurrection of Goddess-centered paganism -- enchanting in its own right -- is also sending us two messages.

One of these messages is that the Goddess is with us despite the 6,000 years of unspeakable misogynistic savagery with which the patriarchs repeatedly try -- as they are again trying now --  to destroy her, usually with maximum malice.  (Think of the misogyny that boiled over so often -- and so sadistically -- during the Kavanaugh hearings.)  

But the patriarchs are (again) learning they cannot murder the Goddess without killing nearly all females and many males as well. Archaeology tells us she has always been with us -- and perhaps with our Neanderthal ancestors as well. I believe she will be with us for as long as our species survives, never more distant than the edges of our minds, especially amongst those of us, female and male alike,  whose consciousness and conscience have not been poisoned by Abrahamic religion or other such patriarchal toxins. 

Indeed she is like an indescribably exquisite flower patiently awaiting the sunlight of our recognition, after which she bursts into bloom, first for the witches and bards who are her natural disciples, then presumably for all the rest of us who have not been so disabled by patriarchy we can at the very least sense her inestimable value as a revolutionary symbol of our Motherland, our Mother Earth, she whom we must either successfully defend lest we be reduced to extinction.         

It strikes me now -- and I have been studying our renaissance of folk music and folklore since 1959 --  this has gone far beyond the Jung/McLuhan parameters of prophecy into overt philosophical and ritual preparation for a post-apocalyptic future. Picture a midnight  ritual outdoors on some wild hilltop with either of the two previously linked songs as two thirds of a rite of invocation, concluded perhaps by this.   

Then the ritual itself, danced in the ecstasy of intensified lunar consciousness amidst the swirling fragrance of the needfire smoke, seasoned alder (the sacred name-tree of the god Bran)  at this Pacific Northwest latitude,  oak or ash or sweetgrass elsewhere. Here is but a glimpse of how that post-apocalyptic world might look and feel in its peaceful and contemplative moments. 

Note too the horse-people cadence of this last piece,  all the more obvious in this sequel to it. 

Perhaps, in a world liberated from fossil-fuel fascism  -- and thus finally and at long last truly beyond the reptilian age -- our descendants will again ride the steppe and the plains of elsewhere. And again, as in Scythian times, perhaps swift bands of horse-archers, most of them women, will protect us from all foes, singing to pass the time as they ride to and from their destinations.  

(Yeah I know; at some point -- except for the reality of the songs -- this last section becomes speculative fiction.)

Nevertheless...So Mote It Be.

LB/14 October 2018

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The Horrors of a ChristoNazi Theocracy Are Now Inescapable

Kavanaugh Finalizes the Boiled-Frog Coup Begun by JFK Murder;  Without the Court's Protection, We the People Are Naught but Slaves 

(The following is not how I had intended to resurrect Dispatches after its post-injury hiatus. But the end of the United States as we knew it is a pivotal story that demanded  immediate response.)

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THE CHRISTONAZI CONQUEST of the United States Supreme Court means a vengefully white-supremacist, vindictively misogynistic  third of the homeland population now rules the Empire for its Capitalist masters. 

Like chain-gang guards or plantation overseers, these lavishly funded fanatics will try to lord it over all the rest of us for the foreseeable future.

And given the lifetime, multi-generational reign of SCOTUS appointees, their tyranny is effectively forever -- unless of course We the (determinedly humanitarian) People rise up and throw them out. 

But for now, we of the presumably non-Nazi two-thirds are naught but another entry on the Empire's long manifest of conquered subjects. The few remaining SCOTUS decisions that granted us minimal protections will soon be overturned. And then we'll be as vulnerable to our fanatically predatory conquerors as the peoples of Europe were to the Original Nazis c. 1938-1945. 

That's because the new makeup of the court frees the Capitalists to do with us as they have always wished -- to (literally) enslave us all and turn our nation into the planet's largest concentration camp.

And it encourages the Capitalists' Christian storm-troopers --  those raging white male evangelical zealots whose sadistic god demands misogyny, homophobia and genocide --  to persecute us with whatever tortures their Bible-twisted brains conceive.

Quoth Gary North, one of the ChristoNazis' most influential prophets:

“Why stoning? “There are many reasons. First, the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost. Second, no one blow can be traced to any person. Third, public stoning makes it clear to everyone that the whole community is responsible for the prevention of criminal behavior. Fourth, executions are to be personal, not impersonal. The condemned man has the right to confront his executioners face to face. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder. The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer’s head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan.”

Such are the horrors with which we must reckon in what is now -- barring genuine revolution -- our only possible future.

Meanwhile far too many of us -- politically crippled by the brainwash of disinformation and ignorance with which the Capitalists try to blind us to the bloodstains and human ash on Capitalism's serpentine underbelly -- still refuse to acknowledge the venomous intensity of the hatreds by which we are now openly assailed and oppressed.

But I have lived amongst our conquerors' parents and grandparents; indeed I survived 15 involuntary boyhood and young adult years amongst these Southrons, and I will attest to their perverse malignancy. White Christian male cocks harden at the mere thought of raping and otherwise torturing and finally murdering women and people of color and LGBTQ people and humanitarian men and non-Christians and even disobedient children.

Which now our conquerors believe they can do with presidential-pardon impunity -- or perhaps even official prior approval.

And if North has his way, these good white Christian men will soon be allowed to kill us by hurling stones to rend our flesh and break our bones until we die moaning and convulsing  in pools of our own blood and vomit and urine and feces. Such deaths, it is authoritatively reported, take as long as two hours.

Indeed it is as if the entire Confederacy has risen from its grave and -- 153 years after Appomattox -- won the Civil War.

Picture the white Christian choreography of every lynching you ever read about or viewed in photographs. Try to imagine the infinite horror of facing such a death. Try to imagine Jeanne d'Arc's thoughts -- or those of any other woman so accused -- as she was led toward the stake at which  she would be burned alive.

Such atrocities are -- I say again -- now our only possible future. Egged on by the Trump/Pence Regime, USian hate-criminals are more brazen than ever.  

But won't the forthcoming elections give us a chance to change all that?

Don't make me laugh. Now with total ChristoNazi control of the Supreme Court, the Trump/Pence regime can now do literally anything it chooses, including cancel the elections and arrest the four remaining so-called "leftist" Supreme Court justices and machine-gun  any of us who dare protest.

That is why UltraViolet's newest anti-theocracy petition, which I signed (and we should all sign) for its protest value, is probably of no more consequence than the proverbial fart in a windstorm.  

And let us never forget -- nor forgive -- the Democratic (sic) Party's treachery in the prelude to Kavanaugh's appointment and the approval vote itself, more "change-we-can-believe-in" proof the Democrats are nothing more than Republican-enabler puppets dancing as directed by the  Capitalist puppetmasters,  stage-propping the Big Lie of U.S.  democracy.

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THE COUP THAT reduced us to a conquered people and left us with scarcely better prospects than antebellum slaves or modern concentration-camp prisoners was a long time coming.

But  despite innumerable warnings, far too few of us paid heed. Sure, the Christian fanatics were scary as rabid rats, but thanks to the Supreme Court, we had the law on our side. Or so we believed. 

And as to the murder by which the coup began, most of us -- cozened as we were by trinket materialism and Capitalist bribery --  remained in denial of what was being done to us.  

Verily, it is now too late. Any (conventional) resistance we might organize will either be ignored or crushed forthwith.

Rulings by SCOTUS  were already destroying our remaining defenses against Capitalism's obscene lust for a workforce ruled by zero-tolerance tyranny. And white Christian misogyny now rules openly; so does white supremacy.  Roe v. Wade will be overturned, as will Brown v. Board of Education and what's left of Miranda.

And then the court's ChristoNazi cabal will start citing biblical law to revoke parts of the constitution, no doubt beginning with the 19th Amendment.  

But the Christians, whom the Capitalists have hired as their Sturmabteilung, are relative latecomers to the war, which  began with the Bankster Plot of 1933-34, the Capitalists' first attempt to impose overt fascism on the United States.  Though the plot failed due to the heroic efforts of Smedley Butler and the U.S. Communist Party, its would-have-been perpetrators were too rich to jail and hence were never prosecuted.

It was in the wake of that episode the Capitalists seized upon the idea of adding Christianity to their arsenal of oppressive weapons  -- in all probability a suggestion (or perhaps an order) from their German Nazi collaborators.

And then the Capitalists -- more likely the sons of the original plotters -- tried a new approach, the slow-motion coup that began with the slaying of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 22 November 1963 and continued through ll more years of murder.  

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISINFORMATION not withstanding, the primary reason Kavanaugh was  appointed to SCOTUS is religion -- specifically the intent of the Capitalist Ruling Class to suppress the rising anger of the Working Class by imposing a Christian version of Nazism on the United States.

And do not doubt even for a second it is a Nazism that will in every possible sense embody the One Percenters' Final Solution to what they perceive as the 99 Percenter problem -- the fact that from their murderous perspective, there are way way way too many of us, a herd that needs apocalyptic thinning,

Anyone who wants to understand what obtains -- to see beyond the charade of USian democracy and evade the thorn-bushes of its innumerable Big Lies -- needs to read three books.  These  are The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Jeff Sharlet, Harper: 2008); American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America (Chris Hedges, Free Press: 2006); and American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (Kevin Phillips, Viking: 2006).

These writers, especially Sharlet,  explain with irrefutable evidence why the Democrats collaborated with the Republicans to ensure Kavanaugh's appointment: white Christian theocratic dictatorship is our Capitalist overlords' first choice for subjugating all the rest of us, whether here or in Mother Russia.

They also tell us why we are now ruled by a cabal of sneering, torturing, murdering sadists who will excuse whatever atrocities they commit as mandatory obedience to the divine will of their genocidal god: the newest variant of "I was just following orders."

Act quickly though. Such texts will soon be banned.  German Nazi-type censorship -- complete with death penalties for violators -- is already in the advanced-planning stage.

Still telling yourself, "no it can't possibly be that bad"?

Read some history, especially of the Original Nazis' occupation of Europe, the European Middle Ages, the Post-Reconstruction South and the Christian conquest of the Americas.

Then you'll see there is no hyperbole in the assertion we stand at the beginning of the darkest Dark Age in our species' 250,000-year experience -- and this time  (if our Evangelical overlords make all their End-Times fantasies  real), neither we nor our planet will survive the infinite malevolence of their drive to extermination and extinction.

What then will become of our Capitalist overlords, the patriarchs of plutocracy whose obscene wealth empowered the ChristoNazis? If they and their families survive at all, it will only be because they have found some means to escape this ruined planet.

Just as the Capitalists' German predecessors did in 1933, they woefully underestimated the apocalyptic momentum of fanatical hatred. Just as the German Capitalists and their USian collaborators financed the original Nazis for their own self-protection (and thereby enabled World War II and its preview of the apocalypse),  so now are the USian Capitalists and their overseas collaborators financing the ChristoNazis for the same caste-protective purposes.

And as in Nazi Germany, the hopelessly factionalized One Percenters are now discovering some of their Ruling Class vassals are out of control -- the real message of the post-2016 political infighting.  A big part of the Plutocracy is furious with the Trump/Pence Regime for its premature disclosure of Capitalism's death-camp/slave-pen agenda. Another part is terrified the regime will kill the planet before the plutocrats acquire the technology to leave it for elsewhere. 

(Might some secret escape-into-space program be yet another reason for the One Percenters' truly unprecedented regime of even more unapologetically savage tax cuts? Already they were robbing us literally to death before  they began their newest effort to relentlessly multiply their own already unfathomable wealth and perpetuate their veritable omnipotence. An escape-velocity Mayflower requires incalculably expensive technology that at present exists only in science fiction -- another form of Capitalist propaganda.)             

So ends the world, its final chapter neither bang nor whimper but the dying shrieks and groans of those of us our Capitalist masters and their ChristoNazi death-squads have condemned as unworthy of life.

Or maybe not...  

LB/6-8 October 2018

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