Alan: Where once there was room for doubt, Trump's election proves Zappa right.
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
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(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
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Here is my turnaround: http://
I believe Democrats have just enough juice to mount one Supreme Court resistance effort.
If -- miraculously -- they manage to bork Kavanaugh, the likelihood of getting someone worse is overwhelming.
Although the rapid "browning of America" will soon shift politics back to the left, as a people we have always been willing -- eager! -- to perpetrate atrocities, starting with "the extermination" of Native Americans (to use General William Tecumseh Sherman's post-Civil War terminology).
Sherman wrote Grant that "we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."[113] In 1867, he wrote to Grant that "we are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress of [the railroads]."[112] https://en.
George Washington Ordered The "Total Destruction And Devastation" Of Iroquois Settlements
Then there's the Spanish-American war with Uncle Sam's unspeakable atrocities in the Philippines; the Vietnam War; the Iraq War; the use of the atomic bomb - not once but twice - both times on civilian populations, including Nagasaki, the epicenter of Japanese Christianity.
The list is long but I agree with Jimmy Carter's Attorney General Ramsey Clark who said "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy." (Check out this graph: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html)
On top of the wanton, counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive atrocities perped by Uncle Sam, equally wanton Cowboy Capitalism has replaced citizenship - and its focus on The Common Good, The General Welfare and a meaningful Social Contract - with the self-seeking ends of monadic "consumer units" hermetically sealed in their pleasure dome silos.
Sure, there are two sides to every story, but did you watch the footage of Trump's Wednesday rally in Tampa, Florida? http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/08/cnns-jim-acosta-blames-donald-trump-fox.html
It is true that these "good, white, Christian people" -- powerful enough to elect SOBMF -- have been systematically debased.
But it is overarchingly true that America's oligarchic powers -- now confident of their ability to run the show -- put a card-carrying plutocrat in The White House, and "having eliminated the middle man," are diligently undoing everything good that has been built up in the body politic.
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
Amidst the wreckage and horror of The Great Unravelling, George Carlin and Jon Stewart are not only notable for their keen insight but for bolstering flayed spirits in this time of deliberate, diabolical darkness.
"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
NOT SAFE FOR WORK
Jon Stewart's Brilliance: A Meme Review
Zappa's view wasn't always true... but it is now.
Zappa's view wasn't always true... but it is now.
Frank Zappa Profesied A Fascist Theocracy.
Barry Goldwater Agrees.
Frank Zappa Profesied A Fascist Theocracy.
Barry Goldwater Agrees.
Pax tecum
Alan
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