I am hardly a consumer of modern TV sitcoms, but ChatGPT tells me that Kamala Harris could be an incarnation of Leslie Knope on the fairly recent sitcom, Parks and Recreation. They omit the fact that she never won a Presidential primary vote. She was arbitrarily inserted as the nominee over an increasingly embarrassing Biden. Her sympathy for Palestinians is more than matched by bombs she proudly sends to Israel to kill them. And her full throated support for the Ukraine war, which Biden initiated with the 2014 coup against the democratically elected President Yanukovych, guarantees the further disintegration of Ukraine, and the probably future disintegration of NATO itself. And that is if nuclear war doesn’t result from the decades long war to break up Russia to steal its resources.
On the Republican side, Trump wins the award for Archie Bunker reborn. See clips below for the opening shots of the Culture Wars.
Meanwhile, in the ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me’ department, Republicans are howling in pain because the US President insinuated that they are “Garbage”. Trump reiterated the point by driving a garbage truck (transporting his supporters??).
He’s driving a Garbage truck on the Highway to Hell, and half the country thinks he’s gonna Make America Great Again (as if it ever was nothing but a hallucination of The City on the Hill.)
Meanwhile, Israel bombed and killed more Palestinians, while outlawing the UN agency that supported Palestine with food, medicine and educational aid. And both Trump and Harris fully support the genocide project.
We Americans cry over being called names, while Palestinians and Ukrainians die by the thousands to satisfy the US military industrial complex and its thirst for profit driven weapon sales.
The US World Hegemony Project is failing abroad, while natural and man made disasters, like Hurricane Helen and Milton, or the East Palestine railroad chemical spill, devastate the country physically, while the Red/Blue Civil war of words threatens to become physical.
Both Trump and Harris and the Komodo Dragon Lady, Hillary Clinton issue active threats against people who speak out against the madness. Clinton delivered a high minded speech about the need to protect the First Amendment, while actively working to trample it.
She cited the indictment of Russians for their purported role in throwing the 2016 election. But when the Russians showed up in court demanding to see the evidence, the Justice Department refused to. The case was thrown out. The company Crowdstrike had to admit under oath that it had no evidence, despite its earlier accusations.
Now she’s doing it again.
Yet, the NYT now repeats the black magic mantra that Russia is interfering in this election again, just like it did before (but in fact didn’t!!)
Point being, the political/media class is mentally ill. Just saying. And the American people go along with it. Anybody with a brain and a computer would do enough research to find Jill Stein’s platform, vote for her, so she could become President and change course. But they don’t do the research, and with the exception of single digits, won’t vote for her.
All this points to what I call ‘fragmented consciousness’, or schizoid mind. The prognosis: No matter who wins or steals the upcoming election, you can expect to see further erosion of US influence outside the USA. Too many broken treaties, too many sanctions, too many illegal coups and attacks on other countries have completely destroy American credibility.
It’s a pattern that was first noted in novels like The Ugly American, and movies like "Apocalypse Now”. The BRICS summit sent a clear message: Yankee Go Home!
But the worst part is that from a ‘cosmic perspective’, otherwise known as Karma, all of the European colonial project and its toxic American offshoot are losing on all fronts. Europe’s own Russophobia has destroyed its own economy, and their own leaders, Macron, Scholz, Starmer in particular have popularity ratings in the 20th or lower percentile.
And the US election is about who do you hate the most. Or childlike naivete that either candidate will improve things, much less care about anything but their own careers.
The US election proves Marx’s point, that history repeats first as tragedy and then as farce. We’re definitely in the farce stage, but there’s a lot more tragedy coming.
“The Chickens are Coming Home………to Roost”.
Is there any way out of this? Yes. What is needed is a revolution in Consciousness.
Question Everything.
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The media focuses on domestic issues but not on the destructive role that US foreign policy and the military play in US political life. Here is a “Harris type” depiction of a politician. It is a very watered down version of the very serious violation of the 4th Amendment, which protected us from illegal searches. Ed Snowden exposed that and had to flee………….to Russia, to avoid getting thrown into the dungeon.
Trump’s iconic performance of a purveyor of McDonald’s French Fries, or just a simple Garbage truck driver suits his persona. I sure would want someone of their educational and intellectual caliber running our Great Country.
But this clip is pretty interesting. Culture War on display from Vietnam Era
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