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by Caitlin Johnstone
October 7,
2020
from
CaitlinJohnstone Website
When you look at
U.S. politics, it appears as though
there are two mainstream political factions that very strongly
disagree with one another.
"Divided" is a word
that comes up a lot.
"Polarized" is
another...
It is of course true that
a whole lot of emotion flows between these two factions, and most of
it is indeed negative.
The hot topics of any
given news cycle in America will typically involve more than one
story pertaining to the vitriolic enmity between them.
But beneath all the hurled insults and heated debates, these two
factions are actually furiously agreeing with one another.
They're agreeing the
entire time.
They agree that the U.S. government should remain the center of
a globe-spanning empire.
They just angrily
quibble over a few of the details of how that empire should be
run, like whether or not the Saudi crown prince should have
received some small consequence for dismembering a Washington
Post reporter with a bone saw.
They agree that the U.S. should remain the earth's unipolar
hegemon at all cost.
They just loudly
bicker over some of the specifics in how it should look, like
whether there should be the names of Confederate generals on its
military bases.
They agree that there should be a massive U.S. military presence
around the world.
They just furiously
dispute small particulars like whether a few thousand of those
troops should remain in Germany or be moved to Poland.
They agree that there must be endless mass military violence to
uphold the U.S.-centralized empire.
They just make a big
show of debating whether that military violence should be more
focused on Syria or Iran.
They agree that it is necessary to menace the entire planet with
nuclear weapons while ramping up aggressions against other
nuclear powers.
They just rage back
and forth about whose finger should be on the button.
They agree that it is necessary to control the world economy
with an iron fist.
They just squabble
about its features, like how and when to roll out a trade war
with China.
They agree that the environment should continue to be destroyed.
They just fight about
the minutia, like whether or not there should be some
accommodations made for the profit margins of green energy
corporations.
They agree that income and wealth inequality should persist in
the U.S.
They just
passionately disagree about how it should persist, like whether
or not Americans should receive another paltry $1200 stimulus
payment this year.
They agree that
plutocracy should continue to rule America.
They just spar over
the minor features, like whether or not those plutocrats should
pay a tiny bit more in taxes.
They agree that Americans should remain aggressively
propagandized; they just argue about whether it should be by Fox
News or MSNBC.
They agree Americans
should be closely surveilled and their
speech tightly controlled.
They just debate the
details, like whether or not right-wing pundits are being
disproportionately censored on social media.
On all issues that most
severely affect real people on mass scale, these two political
factions are in emphatic agreement...
They just pour a whole
lot of sound and fury into the tiny one percent of the spectrum
wherein they have some disagreement.
They do not allow for any mainstream discussion of if the oligarchic
empire should continue to exist:
all their issues,
arguments and histrionics revolve around how it should exist.
This is what they are
designed to do...
They are designed to keep
the American populace from clearly seeing what the real debate is,
which is why anyone who relies on a worldview which favors either of
these mainstream factions will inevitably suffer confusion and
misperception.
They are perceptual
filters designed to hide the only real debate in U.S. politics.
The real debate in U.S. politics,
is not between the
two mainstream factions which agree with one another on
virtually everything that matters to every extent
that matters.
The real debate is
those two factions together against those who understand that
the entire American status quo needs to be flushed
down the toilet...
The real political debate
in America is between,
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(A) those who
understand that the U.S. empire is the single most
destructive force on this planet and is corrupt from
root to flower
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and (B) those who
subscribe to
mainstream partisan narratives
which by design support the U.S. empire
If politics were real in
America, this would be the debate everyone sees.
Not between two
murderous septuagenarians yelling over each other about who
hates socialism more, but between the side which opposes the
oligarchic empire and the side which promotes and protects it.
But politics isn't real
in America. It's a show.
A two-handed sock puppet
show to distract the audience while pickpockets rob them blind.
If you want to see things clearly, ignore the fake drama of the sock
puppet show altogether and focus on advancing the real debate:
that the
U.S.-centralized oligarchic empire is corrupt beyond redemption
and should be completely dismantled.
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