Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America: Voting Will Not Save Us
John Whitehead
“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
We are one year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us.
Yet what is being staged is not an election.
It’s a con game, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko, a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, and a bamboozle, and “we the people” are nothing more than marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls.
We’re being duped into believing that this mockery of a choice between two candidates who are equally unfit for office actually translates to having some say in how the government is run.
To the contrary, this particular con game is part of a long-running, elaborate scam to keep the Deep State in power and leave the populace deluded, distracted and incapable of demanding accountability, transparency and decency from the government and its cohorts.
It is a heavily scripted, tightly choreographed, star-studded, ratings-driven, mass-marketed, costly exercise in how to sell a product—in this case, a presidential candidate—to dazzled consumers who will choose image over substance almost every time.
This year’s presidential election, much like every other election in recent years, is what historian Daniel Boorstin referred to as a “pseudo-event”: manufactured, contrived, confected and devoid of any intrinsic value save the value of being advertised. It is the end result of a culture that is moving away from substance toward sensationalism in an era of mass media.
As author Noam Chomsky rightly observed, “It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
In other words, we’re being sold a carefully crafted product by a monied elite who are masters in the art of making the public believe that they need exactly what is being sold to them, whether it’s the latest high-tech gadget, the hottest toy, or the most charismatic politician.
Politics is a reality show, America’s favorite form of entertainment, dominated by money and profit, imagery and spin, hype and personality and guaranteed to ensure that nothing in the way of real truth reaches the populace.
After all, who cares about police shootings, drone killings, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture schemes, private prisons, school-to-prison pipelines, overcriminalization, censorship or any of the other evils that plague our nation when you can be sucked into an alternate reality so emotionally charged and entertaining as to make you forget that you live in a police state.
But make no mistake: Americans only think they’re choosing the next president.
In truth, however, they’re engaging in the illusion of participation culminating in the reassurance ritual of voting. It’s just another Blue Pill, a manufactured reality conjured up by the matrix in order to keep the populace compliant and convinced that their vote counts and that they still have some influence over the political process.
Stop drinking the Kool-Aid, America.
The nation is drowning in debt, crippled by a slowing economy, overrun by militarized police, swarming with surveillance, besieged by endless wars and a military industrial complex intent on starting new ones, and riddled with corrupt politicians at every level of government.
All the while, we’re arguing over which corporate puppet will be given the honor of stealing our money, invading our privacy, abusing our trust, undermining our freedoms, and shackling us with debt and misery for years to come.
Nothing taking place on any Election Day will alleviate the suffering of the American people.
The government as we have come to know it—corrupt, bloated and controlled by big-money corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups—will remain unchanged. And “we the people”—overtaxed, overpoliced, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us—will continue to trudge along a path of misery.
Corporate greed will continue to call the shots in the nation’s capital, while our elected representatives will grow richer and the people poorer. And elections will continue to be driven by war chests and corporate benefactors rather than such values as honesty, integrity and public service. Just consider: it’s estimated that more than $10 billion will be spent on the elections this year, yet not a dime of that money will actually help the average American in their day-to-day struggles to just get by.
And the military industrial complex will continue to bleed us dry. Since 9/11, we’ve spent more than $8 trillion to wage wars abroad. Although the U.S. constitutes barely 5% of the world’s population, America boasts almost 40% of the world’s total military expenditure, spending more on the military than the next 10 biggest spending nations combined. Even with America’s military might spread thin, the war drums continue to sound as the Pentagon polices the rest of the world with counterterror activities in 85 countries.
Americans should be mad as hell.
Many of our politicians live like kings. Chauffeured around in limousines, flying in private jets and eating gourmet meals, all paid for by the American taxpayer, they are far removed from those they represent. Such a luxurious lifestyle makes it difficult to identify with the “little guy”—the roofers, plumbers and blue-collar workers who live from paycheck to paycheck and keep the country running with their hard-earned dollars and the sweat of their brows.
Conveniently, politicians only seem to remember their constituents in the months leading up to an election, and yet “we the people” continue to take the abuse, the neglect, the corruption and the lies. We make excuses for the shoddy treatment, we cover up for them when they cheat on us, and we keep hoping that if we just stick with them long enough, eventually they’ll treat us right.
People get the government they deserve.
No matter who wins the presidential election next year, it’s a sure bet that the losers will be the American people.
As political science professor Gene Sharp notes in starker terms, “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”
The Establishment—the shadow government and its corporate partners that really run the show, pull the strings and dictate the policies, no matter who occupies the Oval Office—are not going to allow anyone to take office who will unravel their power structures. Those who have attempted to do so in the past have been effectively put out of commission.
So what is the solution to this blatant display of imperial elitism disguising itself as a populist exercise in representative government?
Stop playing the game. Stop supporting the system. Stop defending the insanity.
Washington thrives on money, so stop giving them your money. Stop throwing your hard-earned dollars away on politicians and Super PACs who view you as nothing more than a means to an end. There are countless worthy grassroots organizations and nonprofits working in your community to address real needs like injustice, poverty, homelessness, etc. Support them and you’ll see change you really can believe in in your own backyard.
Politicians depend on votes, so stop giving them your vote unless they have a proven track record of listening to their constituents, abiding by their wishes and working hard to earn and keep their trust.
Stop buying into the lie that your vote matters. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the only thing you’re accomplishing by taking part in the “reassurance ritual” of voting is sustaining the illusion that we have a democratic republic.
What we have is a dictatorship, or as political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page more accurately term it, we are suffering from an “economic élite domination.”
A healthy, representative government is hard work. It takes a citizenry that is informed about the issues, educated about how the government operates, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay involved, whether that means forgoing Monday night football in order to attend a city council meeting or risking arrest by picketing in front of a politician’s office.
It takes a citizenry willing to do more than grouse and complain. We must act—and act responsibly—keeping in mind that the duties of citizenship extend beyond the act of voting.
As Justice John Josephus Grant warns in the 1943 film A Stranger in Town:
“As citizens, we carry a burning responsibility. It means that when we elect men to public office, we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that after we’ve elected them, we can’t sit back and say: ‘Our job is done. What they do now doesn’t concern us.’ That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then the heroic struggle which welded thousands of lovely towns like this into a great nation means nothing. Then we’re not citizens, we’re traitors. The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood. The kind of government we get is the kind of government we want. Government of the people, by the people and for the people can mean any kind of government. It’s our duty to make it mean only one kind – uncorrupted, free, united.”
Originally published by the Rutherford Institute
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]
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I don’t know too many plumbers that live paycheck to paycheck..
When did it all start (or finish) I wonder. Possibly I think in all probability with Clinton and Blair – or if you wish to go back even further, with Nixon and the decoupling of the US$ from the gold standard. Then came the development, more like the underdevelopment, of the EU and its voyage to nowhere! And now the current political elites and their attendant chums who are also bought and sold for by the western media.
And then comes the coup de grace when the Americans quite openly blew up the Second Nordstream pipeline: and the reaction of the Germany government? Fine, Wunderbar! As Germany collapses into a long-run recession.
Clinton & Blair? Closer to the truth is 1620, and the Mayflower landing, the first seeds brought over and sown to grow a very peculiar system. USA INC.
Spreading subterfuge wherever.
Yes. The social contract has been made necessary so that members of a society don’t tear each other apart for trivialities like an inch of land but also to administer inequalities so as to prevent civil wars and other major conflicts. It wasn’t established, far from it, to do away with the System that produced those inequalities. And so, the wealthy, who anyway had the means to raise larger armies and acquire more and better arms than their rivals but got tired of violence, convened the rest of the society to propose to them an alternative way to settle differences; a seemingly “convincing”, “rational” way to get justice done within the prevailing principles of injustice of the regime of lucrative private property. The aim of the State was only to substitute the pen and the stamp to the sword and the gun.
Before that, people owned what they needed to use (use value is indeed the rationale behind ownership) and so it was clear what to own from the commons, and there was a lot of land left free for the next generations. Ever since commerce and exchange got recognised as a way of life, there was no clear criterion as to how much anybody “needed” to own to make business, hence conflicts and wars over resources.
This is why, IMO, it is not about “a choice between two candidates who are equally unfit for office”; it is about the office not being fit for, nor being designed to effecting change, and all attempts, I’d contend shall fail within the capitalist regime.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”—Carl Sagan
Decade after decade, every election it is the same old thing— red Koolaid, blue Koolaid… it is an addiction…addiction to ignorance
We find ways to Center, or are shown, a way out of the bamboozle As we do that we find in a Flash that the bamboozle is not all it’s cracked up to be!
As author Noam Chomsky rightly observed, “It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
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Less celebrated authors made the same point. In 1969, when I was 14, I devoured The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss.
FWIW, just now I did a search to find an image of the “iconic” book cover. I discovered in passing that this book, and the late McGinniss’s reputation, have since been scathingly critiqued and trashed.
I only glanced at the blurbs, but it was noted that the 1969 “revelations” were even then trite, facile, and exaggerated or specious. They also observed the irony or paradox that the book itself was a best-seller, implying that it was also marketed like toothpaste and cars– and that, for all its popularity, it didn’t inspire much reformist blowback.
It might well be the case that if I were to re-read the book a half-century or more later, it would seem more sensational than impressive.
But the central premise is certainly true. So whatever the quality of the book or the writer’s methods, like Galileo I mutter “And yet it moves!”
Winning Bigly!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-seeks-rewrite-role-bolstering-ukraine-nato/story?id=83159716
February 28, 2022
“I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said in a statement. “Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets,” he said. “Let History so note!”
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https://archive.fo/0o3iI
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-great-strategist-henry-kissinger-turns-100-china-ukraine-realpolitik-81b6f3bb
May 26, 2023
Henry Kissinger Surveys the World as He Turns 100
He now believes that Ukraine—“now the best-armed country in Europe”— belongs in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “I’m in the ironical position that I was alone when I opposed membership, and I’m nearly alone when I advocate NATO membership.” He would like the terms of the war’s end to include the return to Ukraine of all territory with the controversial exception of Crimea. “For Russia, the loss of Sevastopol, which was always not Ukrainian in history, would be such a comedown that the cohesion of the state would be in danger. And I think that’s not desirable for the world after Ukraine.”
Mr. Kissinger leaves no doubt that he believes in a Pax Americana and in the need “to defend the areas of the world essential for American and democratic survival.” But the ability to “execute it politically,” he says, “has declined sharply, and that is our overriding problem now.” He ascribes this political weakness to a decline in belief in the U.S. in its own historical ambitions and institutions. “There’s no element of pride and direction and purpose left,” he laments, as American leaders grapple with angst generated by events of “300 years ago.”
Kissinger, 100, yet still on the list of many nations as fugitive from international justice, for a half of that century of his.
Yet another “ironical position” he’s in, out of many.
His whole very person is just one big Irony-with-legs.
Join the club, so populous in membership
The rhetoric surrounding the Israel/Gaza situation is becoming incredibly hysterical:
“Fox Turns to Fabio To Weigh In on War in Gaza: Hamas Is ‘10,000 Times Worse Than the Nazis’”
(Mediaite)
Meanwhile I read more and more tweets like this:
“Hamas slit the throats of babies. Broke the pelvises of women they raped. Set fire to people they tied up. Shot babies in prams. Cut out people’s eyes. Kidnapped elderly women and babies.”
And this:
“Multiple terrorists ‘captured’ a young woman at the music festival.. they mutilated her and gang-raped her. While one of the terrorists was still raping her – he shot her in the head – and carried on anyway.”
Clearly the “40 beheaded babies” is no longer sufficient. The ones shovelling this psychotic drivel are whipping themselves up into what are obviously their own masturbatory fantasies revolving around self-pitying torture porn. Usually accompanied by starry eyed visions of “the beautiful Israeli people shining their beacon of light to guide the world” etc.
Working themselves into a lather -so predictable from these gormless hacks.
Maybe X should be rebranded thus:
✖️🖤🔪⚰️💰💉☠️🖤✖️
More X’s needed though. At least a XXX for porn of fear and gore.
George, just to add: Copy of Mein Kamph found in kids bedroom. Well, there’s nowt like a bit of light bedtime reading to send you off to the land of Nod is there ? Zzzzzzzz !
But, at least Fabio “can’t believe it’s not butter!”
Ya but not voting is even worse. Besides, the deepstate/uniparty is not all powerful and sometimes we get a Trump
Do Old Fashions count?
With this reasoning, might as well get a gun and start a revolution or kill myself.
I chose to get liquored up instead.
Come on man.
A glimpse of the unaparty….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/17/20-year-low-for-baby-born-in-england-good-news-for-planet/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/12/choosing-childlessness-for-the-sake-of-the-planet
The Telegraph and Guardian are supposedly at the opposite ends of “the political spectrum”.
And most people really think they are.
Since 2020 it has been clear that there is zero diversity in the media. I don’t care how many channels there are. They all speak with the same voice. One theological view is that the devil is the Prince of Lies and the Lord of illusion. That’s the media.
kidnappedfromisrael.com
What exactly is the point of these posters of (allegedly) kidnapped Israelis unless it is to serve as props to be ripped down by designated “Hamas supporters” thus provoking the requisite outrage?
The kidnappedfromisrael.com faces are from a website called doesn’t exist .com
the missing dogs hormous or houmas or hamas stole had me in stitches.
Notice how the immaculate passport has turned into President Isaac Herzog reveals that an annotated copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was found in a children’s room that was used as a base by terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip by hamas. real headline 😂
Note how rebel anti establishment free speech warriors laruance fox and co went absolutely coordinated mental and wanted the person seen ripping down the ‘ illegal flyer posters’ hang and put in prison.
The real question is how much it costs to have them put up. all flyers postering at that level is run by different firms who own the areas.
last I heard it was £2.50 euro per poster. Flyer posting is borderline gangsta world.
when I was in Rotterdam last week we saw several thousand of them posters put up daily twice daily.
Some serious bankrolling has gone into having them put up allover Europe.
Is that the site that generates pics of people that don’t exist? Wouldn’t surprise me. I sometimes wonder if Israel exists at all. The rhetoric that surrounds it is just so psychotically stupid.
https://twitter.com/RisingSand/status/1724177377226309965
“Here is a bed. It is a terrorist bed!”
“Here is a toothbrush. It is a terrorist toothbrush!”
“Here is a grenade under the sink! It is a Hamas grenade!”
But brace yourself for the ultimate!
A baby bottle above a WHO sign? What evil bastard would do that?
Don’t make the mini effort to vote; that will make the work of the FBI, DOJ & co to select the next US muppet president easier. It is getting increasingly a hassle to organize a good one, just look at the present zombie and the mail in vote exposure recently.
Off topic.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-just-as
Mark Crispin Miller on the two types of censorship – one is the big flamboyant one the media makes a fuss over and isn’t real censorship (general rule: if the media tells you about it then it isn’t a threat to them) and the other is the quiet censorship that just ignores something ensuring that the vast majority never get to hear about it and therefore acting as real censorship.
What really gets me – as always – is the bit at the end about paedo-porn for the kids. This is the bit where I rub my eyes and shake my head and then look back at it and still think, “Nah, that can’t be real!” etc.
And on a related topic:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/porn-run-on-seized-tv-channels-say-residents-20020401-gdf5uw.html
Now does that reflect back on our glorious free culture i.e. that what the Israelis pulled on the Palestinians is a more upfront version of what has been happening “over here”? Porn as something that deliberately “messes with our young men’s heads”?
But of course this is the stuff of “Right Wing conspiracy thinking”! We groovy Lefties just laugh at it! You know – ‘cause we’re so smart!
That might be 0.01% of Gazan youth head mess up; the other 99.99% came over the last decades from your friends Hamas.
So you make stuff up to “make your point”? Sorry, Antonym. I feel bad about the Israelis. I’m sure there are plenty of decent ones. But their leadership – and the Zionist mafia – are the most insane psychonutters around today.
gods chosen people go figure !!
Jeez George – would you be watching TV, let alone porn whilst being bombarded?
These days anything seems possible – fuck knows
But i get you.
The article dates from 2002. You know, when Israel was a lovely place. Where you’d go for a Club 18 to 30 holiday. And shoot the neighbours.
”politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial (medical) complex”
Frank Zappa.
In today’s quotes. alt media is the entrainment fantasy channel of netflick/twitter.
One of my favorites quote that have been so stupidly used.
‘I dont watch TV’or’read MSM newspapers’!…..crowd.
but the same people now watch and read and spend triple of amount of time on alternative media.
That’s a fair point..when I consider the amount of time I spend “researching” topics from the many sources that are available on a screen, I recall another quote: “the medium IS the message”
“but the same people now watch and read and spend triple of amount of time on alternative media.”
Aha , I wasn´t aware that the increased time I spend threefolded , not even that it increased at all. But maybe I´m just the exemption from your self inflicted and carefully conducted study. Because you don´t wanna exaggerate , do you ?
If the actual fallout from the “entertainment” wasn’t so life or death, their series would fold and be off the air in a week, max.
“Captive” audiences, offered up mostly cheap swill.
Just trying to edit my post since the freaking algorithms insist on trying to guess which word I was typing rather than letting me actually type it. : / But I can’t seem to get to the edit function.
The edit button requires persistence.
Mr. Whitehead writes the same article over and over, repeating things known for decades. Then he says it can all be solved by my watching less television, attending city council meetings, and ceasing my grousing and complaining. Mr. Whitehead, clearly you’ve never heard of Andrew Breitbart and the Tea Party movement. Breitbart died in 2012 at age 43 having worked himself to death trying to save this country. From 2009-2013 mostly low income working class Americans gave time away from family and money they didn’t have creating public meetings for ordinary Americans. You may have heard of us, we were called “racist” and “overwhelmingly white” by “both” political parties. We weren’t rent a mobs who left venues covered in trash. Meeting places were left immaculate. In Nov. 2010 we gave the GOP House an historic landslide victory of +63 seats. This outraged the GOP who much preferred to be in the minority. Trent Lott was quoted in Wall St. Journal at the time saying, “It is of utmost importance that these new people be co-opted immediately.” And they were. GOP made sure they weren’t heard. Most TP groups were small and had no money, but a few grew quite large and made millions of dollars. Then many fake Tea Party groups appeared, ie, Establishment groups that pretended to be TP, some raising quite a bit of money. In 2014 Mississippi Republican primary and runoff consisted of the Establishment candidate vs the grassroots candidate backed by a TP group. The TP group was beaten like a rag doll by the Estab. which paid black democrats to vote for the Estab. candidate in the election, per NY Times. The Estab. won….6/30/2014, “The Ruling Class Went Down to Mississippi,” Angelo Codevilla…https://lawliberty.org/the-ruling-class-went-down-to-mississippi/…Over to you, Mr. Whitehead.
Breitbart was a Republican.
That made him just another exploiter of the working class, feeding off their ignorance, fear, and corporate manufactured patriotism.
Whitehead is guilty as charged of repetition and self promotion, but it beats reading Mainstream bullshit and distracting trivia.
Breibart worked for Drudge doing headlines for a few years. He always said culture was more important than politics. He brought gays unto GOP. He was by no means an exploiter or a standard Repub. in any way. He died at age 43. there was no one to replace him. He was one of a kind.
Thank you for that. You mention in passing how the 2010 victory you gave the party”outraged the GOP who much preferred to be in the minority.” This is an astonishing statement in its implication that the electorate basically face a anti-democratic uniparty system, where none of what people think they do to make their voice heard actually matters. It’s all a ridiculous ‘simulacre’ of a democracy.
It shows how it’s absolutely necessary to re-invent the system in its entirety.
UK is the same, sheep still think their vote counts.
Many know it’s a facade of a Democracy and they (politicians) do the bidding of the globalists whilst stopping the peasants from revolting.
Who can forget Boris Johnson squirming uncomfortably in his chair as he parroted “build back better” in 2020.
Go back to 2018/2019 the same alternative media sold Bojo as something different a radical to the system and rebranded the Conservative party as anti Establishment.
The whole Brexit mega ritual had the alt free thinkers believing back in the system.
it was all about getting you people to get back engaged and go out and vote.
Yes, the US is too big, must be broken in approx in 3 parts. Southwest might want to join Mexico. Until 1994 the House had been controlled by Democrats for 40 straight years. Around that time Rush Limbaugh emerged and wondered it the GOP even existed. They finally won but still much preferred the minority and got back there as fast as possible. With it wide open border that will never be closed, this mean that I’m enslaved for life to global genocide machine. That isn’t “democracy” they talk about, that’s slavery.
Whatever it is, it’ll be better than having puppet Biden sitting in the White House.
This is why the media is damned:
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1724174270438257142
Corbyn is caught in the vicious demand that the noise “Hamas” be condemned as “a terror group”. If he says “yes” then that validates Israel’s genocide.
Because there is no doubt whatsoever that Israel is a terror group. There IS doubt that “Hamas” even exist as the media portrays them. And the biggest doubt of all is that the events of Oct 7 happened as they are portrayed.
Another matter this throws up is the insistence on what the UK government defines as a “terror group”. The wretchedly compliant mainstream mind must have its validation of correct official assignment which functions like the outcome of the old thelogical disputes. And the lay people can rest assured on the issue of e.g. whether women are permitted to have souls.
That Western governments with their own atrocious record of terrorism should be the ones assigning the “terror” designation to others is ludicrous. And yet there are those criminally impressionable and infantile minds that are happily assured by these spurious and arbitrary decisions that invariably serve the power interests of the rulers.
Corbyn -continuously excoriated and held to the highest moral standards- though heeeeer comes David Cameron.Again.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/david-cameron-1.7026977
‘PM Rishi Sunak shakes up leadership team with unusual move as Conservatives lag in the polls”
Good article and well said. I caught you five stars. My only contention with this, is that this isn’t just here in the US. These con games are global and the point of their precious little “Reset” that they’re trying so hard to implement right now is to KEEP it that way. 👍
It just wears a different costume in each country that’s all.
‘Kool Aid’ and elections are not the biggest problems in the US:
https://brokenscience.org/part-2-tackling-the-obesity-crisis-without-drugs/
You think obesity is our biggest problem?
In 2023? With tent cities becoming permanent fixtures around our major cities and our government morally and literally bankrupt? With the horrors of the toxic vaccines still taking lives and more medical tyranny threatening? With the 4thIR poised to take over our lives and force billions into new depths of poverty and dependence?
Obesity? Our biggest problem?
I can’t agree.
One, of the biggest Hannah.
Coca Cola probably kills far more people than cocaine. It just works a little slower.
And yes, I’ve seen the videos. The US government should be transported to a distant galaxy:
Quoting you:
“The US government should be transported to a distant galaxy.”
What kind of Justice is that, for your distant galaxy?”
That’s really rather sadistic as a proposal, on its face.
What did that galaxy ever do to you?
Okay.
A galaxy full of nasty carnivores.
leading politicians in the U>K from the Torys called them…
‘ A Life style choice ‘
Well, some voting COULD save us, or at least stop the bleeding, if it was done in a non-corrupt system. And some voting now can be a good thing, i.e., direct democracy voting on initiatives, referendums, etc., at the state, county, and city levels. Although certainly not without problems. I remember Mike Gravel, former Senator and prez candidate who got into direct democracy and ran as a prez candidate in 2006 trying to publicize his “National Initiative”, a proposal for citizen direct democracy initiatives at the national level. This is how we finally got the weed legalized in some states, through direct democracy initiatives. Let the people, say, vote on whether to fight the fucking wars in Ukraine or for Israel. I don’t know about other countries, but voting for any politician in the democratic or republican parties has long been, i.e., since the beginning, a worthless endeavor. I remember an essay by W.E.B. Dubois wrote about why he would not vote in the 1956 American national election. He was 88 at the time, explained how he used to vote and all that, but had finally concluded it was useless to vote for either of the totally corrupt political parties. Same thing Eugene Debs said 50 years earlier. It has only become worse. Obviously, the political system in the U.S. has to change. I’ve long been in favor of a boycott of the two major political parties in this country.
Vote Communist in the next election. If Communism has been culturally genocided in your country then form a cell and issue a manifesto:
“The wealth which the People create must be returned to the People.”
Follow the money. And the guns:
What is hidden by these Palestinians here:
“Security concerns, both domestic and from Washington, have shaped Israel’s sales to China from the beginning. Israel began selling military technology such as missiles, radars, and navigation systems to China in the 1980s, even before Beijing recognized Israel, and technology trade quietly intensified in the 1990s. At the same time, there were a string of allegations that Israel transferred sensitive military technology to China.”
Weapons and military tech are two different categories. Israel needed the US dollars, the PRC the US tech.
My comment was censored.
I think you must be mistaken about that one. Sometimes comments just dont go through. It happens.
Look bad bad India!
All of this is Anarchism 101… 😎
Chilling
The republican line up for puppet in charge was evil. Each of them was for genocide. The “independent ” as we have seen is as bad. Creepy Joe is a sinister Zionist stooge and a war criminal. There is no hope.
I agree with all, but the HOPE part. There is ALWAYS hope. 👍
nm
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/joseph-mercola/covid-unmasked-how-to-take-back-our-nation/
Maybe the most important article you will read. Everybody is saying, “we know what is wrong but how do we correct it?”. Well, this writer offers a solution.
For the U.S. maybe but… you have to start somewhere.
Bs. Deep State is running the show.
What will your local Sheriff with a handgun and the Constitution do against the City of London, Bank of England Blackstone, JP Morgan, IMF, WEF in a club with Pentagon; NATO and CIA/MI6/FSB/HS/FBI/FEMA who have frequently meetings to organise their bs?
Big Finance have aligned themselves with Big Military. Every one else are underdogs.
From that site, in a nutshell :
‘The medical system is destroying health; lawyers destroy justice; psychiatrists destroy minds; scientists destroy truth; major media destroy information; religions destroy spirituality; and governments destroy freedom.‘
RFK Jr is a shill and controlled opposition for Klaus “Anal” Shwab and his little forum.
I agree with you though. We’ve got to start somewhere. I tend to agree with the opinions of the two voices in this clip.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crr-ZjRIebK/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Call the Sheriff?
OMG ! An article that doesnt refer to the marks,
suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls, as sheeple !
Where’s the smelling salts !
Send for a doctor !!
And an interpreter while you’re at it !!
cameron david real family name levitts or some khazar such
roths child man east india company hong kong shanghai bank pig wrangler
friend of david kelly who he lost and gifted israel a south african nuke
friend of syria and libya not
he back
Cameron back in government he’s the new foreign minister 🐷 💤💤
what that about then…………>?
why would they choose him..?
what is the mind game for that..?
I cant see why.
His family has roots in opium trafficking and J*deo masonic banking, He is probably Shitsack’s new boss.
The toilet are clogged with turds. First Blair and now Cameron.
Presidents are selected. Not elected. — US President Franklin D Roosevelt
Don’t vote. Revolt.
Said FDR, best friend capitalists have got (roughly his own words, too), false friend of the common worker (the New Deal disabled revolt), and best friend forever for imperialists who made a great leap forward with the first Pearl Harbor he and his criminal gang engineered (bequeathing us the rule of the shadow state post-WW2).
As with Bay of Pigs conflateable intrigue, we really, really deeply doubt either JFK or FDR had anything to do with those fiascos. Obvious false flags.
I would scrutinize instead certain camouflaged rogue jackals (if perhaps hefty) in ONI, as much a predecessor to C👁️A as OSS, and with many friends in high places, if very rich.
If as U.S.Marine populist hero Genl Smedley Butler had as his tagline “War Is A Racket”
…then turn your gaze to the racketeers.
Not their Presidential patsies.
[Clue: BOTH were rubbed out. That suggests their own heroic status, under wraps.]
Don’t vote, it only encourages the bastards. — PJ O’Rourke
Don’t vote. Revolt.
Revolting has become a rather reclusive family affair. Anything overt, even in thought, is more or less killed by the global perps in its “cradle”. That’s just a sad fact. In fact, even encouraging “revolt” is mostly counterproductive, or just destructive.
Surely we need a 3rd way. Only the original deepest prayer will light that way.
True for the indigenous population but ask yourself how did 175000 Palestinian supporters turn up in Central London?
Probably astroturfed, unlikely to be grassroots. Just a caveat from the long road there.
Back in 2003, we marched through London to try to stop the proposed illegal invasion of Iraq by Bush & Blair. The march was organised in less than a week and between 1-2 millions attended in London, with even more in other cities in the UK. You don’t have to be a Palestinian or even Iraqi to oppose lies and pure evil. Of course, they ignored us then which was the final nail in fate coffin of living in the UK: not a place for my young children.
Civil dissobedience, sure it is hard and takes courage but it works. Be ungovernable, what do they want to do ? Kill us all ? The elitist parasite class needs us but we don’t need them.
Problem is, dissidence these days, 21st century variety, you are offered 31 flavors of astroturf to eat, as the sole menu.
Exhibit A: Occupy Wall Street (high $tier$cheiße content).
Exhibit B: George Floyd BLM protests (pure $tier$cheiße content).
And on and on.
I talked to a guy in 2014 who looked a lot like a certain brand of hippie but after further review was quite patently a spook, but at least entertaining, as he told me of a rally he went to in LA, and just when several truckloads of ‘protesters’ arrived from around a downtown corner. It was only when their boots hit the ground (literally) that he noticed they were all wearing the same exact footwear, all new.
A California Classic.
The New Age epitome of “protester”. Definition of societal AstroTurf.
You are right, of course. But you forgot the pallets of bricks conveniently, magically appearing on street corners delivered by mysterious before-dawn newstrucks.
On the other hand–the tens of millions of protesters in the streets the last couple days are probably not astro-turfed. Who would astro-turf them? And who could afford it?
And notice–that small squad of New Age “protesters” your confidant saw I’m sure got plenty of airtime.
But the millions upon millions of today–ghosts to the mass media. Only the telephonistical intranets gives them existence.
The telephone-addiction-monster turns on its inventors.
How do I AstroTurf you? Let me count the ways.
With apologies to the poet, technology and media have SO many tools of
mass manipulation now, even when money is no object it can still be done for almost squat.
Mind control can get it done for free.
I mean, I don’t know all those ins and outs, just saying there is plenty enough evidence vast things can be arranged without that much funding.
Heck, CIA spymeister Kermit Roosevelt had bragged how they did it to Mossadeq in Iran already in 1952 with ease and AstroTurf ™.
Shenanigans aplenty for years in Ukraine too.
Might have worked in the past, when our rulers had shame, but they are shameless now.
The whole citation, encircling the borders of “ideological cupcake land’:
“So why did American liberals believe Obama would bring home the healthcare bacon? Because they live in an ideological cupcake land. It’s a big neighborhood, a very special place where “Your vote is important,” and “by electing the right candidate, you can change our beloved nation.” Most of America lives in that neighborhood, even though they’ve never personally met. It’s a place where the shrubbery and flowerbeds of such things as “values” and “hope” bloom. Hope that our desires coupled with the efforts of a good and decent president can affect “change.” Evidently these voters never heard the old adage, “Hope in one hand and piss in the other, and see which one fills up first.”
The slaughter of the innocents by the healthcare lobby has pretty much extinguished the political usefulness of the word hope. Nobody, especially Obama, uses it now.
The first on-stage scuffle of the Obama administration, government assured healthcare, quickly settled down into the accustomed scenario of very rich and powerful people in expensive suits “finding middle ground,” otherwise known as the status quo. Single payer healthcare soon became “a consumer government alternative to private insurance,” and is now “a system of health cooperatives. Next comes “slightly better health insurance (but not medical services) than before, from the same insurance companies but at twice the price; don’t worry though, we’re increasing your tax load so you can afford it.”
~ 2009, Joe Bageant, from his:
“The Entertainment Value of Snuffing Grandma: a Nation of Children Roots for the Mafia”
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Hears what my right wing friends would say:
All true Mr. Whitehead, but that is exactly why we need get out the vote for Trump – DJT ’24!
They propably suffer from TWS (Trump Worship Syndrome), unfortunately it is as bad as TDS. And No I am definitely no Bidump fan.
Well said. I always thought there were two forms of TDS: “Trump will destroy us all” and “Trump will save us all.”
You’re going to get one or the other so the choice is really about which one is the lesser of two evils.Assuming Trump is the nominee for the GoP then the choice is clearcut — Trump’s policies are a mixture of fantasy (“freedom cities on Federal land”) and fascism, the ‘fantasy’ being merely window dressing for the ‘fascism’. Biden OTOH is a honest to goodness politician but be belongs to another ag –, his policies are completely out of date with both national and international reality (along with what seems like 90% or more of people who work inside the Beltway) but at a local level they’re ‘mostly harmless’ and would serve to hold the line until we can come up with people more capable of governing. (Remember, its not just “Trump” that has fascist tendencies — the GoP blathers on about freedom and individual liberty but spends all its time coming up with ever more creative ways to oppress people. They’re also demonstrably an economic disaster area.)
There’s always fantasies about miraculous third party candidates and the like but the reality is that politics is a machine. Just being anointed “President” doesn’t mean you get to implement the policies you want — change is a process that takes years, decades even.
(But there again, maybe a dose of fascism is what this country needs. It will shake it out of its “It can’t happen here” complacency — too late, of course, but there’s nothing like first hand experience to educate the unwilling.)
Millennial News Update:
USA Inc has been fascist from the getgo, only it seasonally updates its Perception Management of such, through TRG (The Rendon Group) inter alia: incrementally, if transgenerationally.
“Meet the new Reich, same as the old Reich” (cue the new “Who”)
Sieg Heil!
Red Fascists or Blue Fascists. What’s the difference?
What about the aliens variety? They must be the Little Green Fascists.
Wait, that’s already taken, those are the ecoterrorists and Climate Change Fascists.
Hope you exclaim that in the strict Pickwickian sense, since homey don’t do goose steps.
‘Strictly.’ Homey can rest assured. But look at CJ Hopkins’s trouble for the EXCUSE of one little swastika. NOT TO MENTION JULIAN. On totally false charges. They should charge him for TELLING THE TRUTH, so ordinary people might have a chance to understand what’s actually happening and usually being done in their name.
I see your point about CJH, but I never did buy into the whole JULIAN confabulation, without end, simply because there are
way too many espionage holes in his story. A Chronic Crisis Actor? My apologies.
Of course, he was backed by a number of my (past) heroes, with the effect that I trust so few now, much at all, re~visiting only for the entertainment value.
Perhaps the lesson learned was that in “Modern Times” and an ever complexifying world, you can’t really put any mortal on a pedestal, or even one as temporary.
“In God alone do we live.”
It’s worth all the time and trouble learning all of it the hard way to really get some grip on that lesson, and to “somehow” know that Truth. More.
Joe Biden is a dishonest to badness politician and has been that for some time. He has seriously degraded over time which is what happens when one starts lying and one lie leads to another.
Biden has become even more incompetent in recent times which is what you get from career politicians.
Biden has pushed the vaccine mandates so how you arrived at your assessment of him is a wonder.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/joe-biden/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/joe-biden-the-first-13-days/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/factcheck-is-joe-biden-the-new-nero/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/joseph-biden-took-an-axe/
I think you will find that whilst there is not much to choose between the parties, the Democrats are the ones currently managing to take oppressive policies to a fine art.
This became particularly obvious during the pandemic nonsense.
Fascism is portrayed as a far right thing but both the Nazis and Mussolini’s crowd were essentially totalitarian in nature and state socialism. Therefore they were at the bottom of the political circle next to the far-left, i.e. two sides of the same coin.
In essence therefore the USA is getting its fair share of fascism already.
So how to explain the Nazis selling themselves as anti-communist? Some of their first actions were to outlaw trades unions, socialist parties and so on. They even tried to sell their pogroms against Jews as anti-communist, labeling communism as a “Jewish ideology” because a lot of the founding thinkers of left wing thought were Jews.
The NSDAP — the party that gave rise to the name “National Socialist” (hence “Nazi”) — was essentially taken over by Hitler and cronies as a going concern. There were lots of these little parties around in the early 20s and it just a twist of fate that caused Nazis to be Nazis — they could have been any one of the crowd. What’s interesting, though, is to track the intellectual contortions that squared the name “National Socialist” with what was at its core an anti-socialist organization. The way it was done was to was to say that everyone was part of ‘the nation’ and that the ‘socialist’ ideal applied to the nation, not its population. The population just owed it unquestioning allegiance.
Don’t fall for the “they’re all the same” trap. Yes, they are in the sense that political parties represent a particular economic, social and cultural system with little to no tolerance for alternatives. However, at an individual level the different factions represented as ‘political parties’ can have a huge impact on how you live. Choose wisely — just don’t believe!
You answer your own question; the Nazis selling themselves. That is what the deception of history has been, parties selling themselves as something to deceive the masses until it is too late.
You are missing the point which I clearly made that fascism and communism are totalitarian and therefore to use your words ultimately demand unquestioning allegiance from the population.
Of course at an individual level there are variations on how one lives but it ends up being the same; the state is god and you must do what it says.
Communism was in essence a Jewish ideology, but a godless one by those who rejected God and based on Marxism. Marx was a Jew but again godless and that is the distinction that should always be made.
It was Marxist thought that helped bring about Hitler and the Nazis so the root was the same.
Overall whatever the ideology they all founder in the end because of the corruption in mankind’s heart.
It’s still ill voting for evil. Pathetic and cowardly.
The “lesser” of TWO evils is…
STILL EVIL. 👍
Thanks for reminding me to check the username before reading.
Voting is the adult version of writing to Santa Claus.
Perfect equivalency, exact, except Santa Claus delivers a whole lot more.
I gave you a like for the comment but THEY deliver every bit as MUCH as Santa Claus… just NOTHING GOOD. 🤣👍
Well, sure.
Ever heard of the “Santa Claus Conspiracy”? Sure you have…
https://propagandainfocus.com/the-conspiracy-label-as-a-tool-of-propaganda-part-ii-the-multi-institutional-politics-of-the-santa-claus-conspiracy-and-911-truth/
Useful link, thank you, it makes good sense. For what its worth I did a piece myself, not too long from a somewhat different perspective.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/santa-claus/
Something a bit strange just happened, a whole load of future articles appeared in the off-Guardian main page, I scanned down but couldn’t find any of the articles already published, including this one. There were all new ones that had catchy titles, but before delving in, and thinking it was a bit unusual, I refreshed the page, and they all vanished to be replaced with the list we see now.
All a bit strange.
Today we are able to travel in time in cyberspace. Everybody knows that.
I thought you knew that too. It was a glims of this you saw.
I know exactly which OffG articles will be on in 2025 and in 2030. But I dont read them.
I only read those articles of the day as I have not permission to anything else. But its ok.
https://youtu.be/zKQfxi8V5FA
Voting is the epitome of doing nothing. It is in fact far worse. People think they are doing something of value when they vote. It’s hilarious. It’s pathetic.
By voting, it is clear that each voter endorses the governmental system under which he or she lives. By the act of voting, each voter is saying: It is right and proper for some people, acting in the name of the State, to pass laws and to use violence to compel obedience to those laws if they are not obeyed.
Elections do not secure popular control over the state, they do help secure state control over the populace. Voting is a ritual that reinforces obedience to state authority. It creates the illusion that “the people” control the state, thereby masking elite rule.
In today’s US, especially at the national level, elections are worse than worthless — they simply perpetuate illusions and waste time. They are degrading and repulsive exercises in Madison Avenue PR techniques, where “the truth” is off limits from the get-go. Effort should be directed not at participating in this system but at exposing its corrupt essence and building genuinely constructive alternatives.
Voting is a social contract.
In the old days when you were seeking a job on a ship and didnt knew how to write or read, you made a X on the contract with the Ship owner with two adult known witnesses that it was your X and you who signed this job contract with the ship owner.
Its the same declaration you make with your vote X. First you show who you are in front of two public representatives who declares you are who you are, and then you write a X on the voting bill.
Declaring that you are not familiar with the way our society functions and need a nanny in form of a politician to lead you and manage you, who hereafter own you and all your property which the politician can use on your behalf in your interest.
Reference the article. The reason why the sheeple are sheeple is simply they were and are too lazy and too stupid to make themselves informed about their society and select the right man and right woman to the job and make the time and energy to seek to he does a proper job.
WE are the problem, NOT our politicians, as I previously have mentioned several times, our politicians are a sad mirror of ourselves.
https://ok.ru/video/3383749577354 chase those crazy baldheads out of town, running away, gotta face reality, you cant run away from yourself
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As a part of the major industry called politics, elections waste a lot of money.
The current political ‘chaos’ is by design, the system they wish to implement will be a form of supra-national e-governance that will be proffered as a “solution”.
Oh howdy. That would be nail on head. Yep
Debt Monetization→ Runaway Inflation→Destroy Currencies → Impoverish Population → CBDCs
Print money out of thin air at interest rates that “we” pay for through inflation, lost purchasing power, and rolling tax increases.
The Ruling Class is deliberately causing runaway inflation (“problem”) to destroy their respective currencies, to impoverish the population and create desperation (“reaction”) at which point they’ll introduce CBDCs (“solution”).
Which is why most every single government in the world implemented identical socially/economically destructive “public health” policies during the scamdemic and every central bank is in some phase of trialing CBDCs: to “build back better” (digital slave system) out of the wreckage.
Same Establishment controlled pantomime in the UK. A new system of governance is required free from the parasite class.
‘ As author Noam Chomsky rightly observed, “It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
Chomsky has been saying truthful things in (very) long essays, but, it’s always combined with non-sequiturs as in that ‘one should always vote democrat’ (even though It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars).
A tragedy in it’s own way, the man could have been so much more, yet never dared (or was never allowed, who knows..) to say the truth and nothing but the truth for which reason his essays, in the end, are completely meaningless.
The exception is manufacturing consent, but that was written (mostly) by Edward Herman.
Anyway..
The tragedy is people thought he was an independent mind representing “liberals”. Another rich liar.
Yes, whatever his many skill sets, that is the tragic aspect.
Like many “public” intellectuals these days, or times, or time out of mind, that bags out the best of it, it’s baggin a lot (too many) of the benefits, as simply ‘too’ contaminated.
But hard to render some ultimate ultra judgment, since the battlefields are made so murky to us poor peons.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-11-12. Residual DNA in jab should not be in the jab. Widower Sues Hospital for Withholding doctor-prescribed IVM (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).
Voting is the illusion of a voice and a choice.
The U.S. Constitution says that only Congress has the power to “coin money”.
The Federal Reserve(Zionist Jews) amended the Constitution(Bankers Act) to allow the Federal Reserve to counterfeit money and charge the government interest.
America has been hijacked by the Federal Reserve.
Politicians are Federal Reserve Banker Puppets.
Jail the criminal Federal Reserve and their criminal puppet politicians.
Interest is usury, notice how the “by way of deception” gang fooled us all?!
Yes, well, I think Congress still “coins” money, but the Fed is in charge of the paper bills.
Not kidding.
Many looked at the US as an example of democracy. Looking at the last lot of election shams it has become a clown show sorry to say. That is very unfortunate for my few friends that left our country for the US.
I think they must be shell shocked.
Live the wild life, vote for a politician.
Reminds of the “Ghostbusters” melody…
They’re going out of their way to avoid saying myocarditis and pericarditis.
Hard to tell if real or parody. Living in clown world.
That’s how I felt watch 9/11 in real time.
Is this a send-up?!
“Murderna.”
The spell is, by rights, MurdeRNA.
I read somewhere … “Voting is the adult version of, a Letter to Santa”. Bully to the originator.
When voting happens in-lieu /instead of democratic activism (a la 1776) it is akin to taking a mRNA vaccine, the body’s innate immune system is fycked, you die of something that wouldn’t have killed you without mRNA-assistance.
Voting for bought-politicians (because there isn’t any other type) proves that letters to Santa are very dangerous indeed.
Drinking the Kool-Aid again?
Not just a lazy cliche – this trope reinforces the mainstream narrative of what happened in Jonestown. Most of those people weren’t poisoned but were shot and their bodies left to rot in the tropical heat before being disposed of without formal autopsies. What was Jim Jones doing meeting Jimmy Carter’s wife? How did unaccompanied children fly to Guyana when that was illegal on U.S. airlines at the time? Why were Jones’s cult accepted by Guyana’s supposedly Marxist government? What was Mark Lane (real name: Mark Levin) doing in Jonestown and how was he able to get out alive?
God its such a drag when you’re living in the past.
An operation designed to be used in future as a “see what happens when……” deterrent.
Like waco, but different
Jim Jones was a test of what will happen when the time is in. The test was a success.
The real stuff will happen in the summer when its hot.
Who are you addressing with this article?
RFK jr fans (aka – bobby jr)…
Even when the election is obviously stolen, it’s actually just a staged pseudo event.
Really, we have no idea who governs, nor from where, but it sure ain’t some doofus in the Whitehouse, nor the menagerie of thespian weirdos on Capitol Hill.
“Menagerie of thespian weirdos” – love it, good on ye
The military runs the country, the bankers run the system, and the citizens run for the hills.
I was pretty deeply involved in voting reform 2000 to 2010, in my own witty way, and after all was said and done, that was close to my conclusion. Just like the “news” they don’t, and don’t have to, occult all of it. Just key votes.
They exercise some restraint in what they feel compelled to occult, just to preserve their tactics.
But it is a very dubious process.
Gore Vidal, who knows a lot of real history, said in 04 on the air “…rigged pretty much from the getgo.”
But I had the sense he meant since 1784,or perhaps 1621. Not ONLY more modern “routines.”
But it gets ever more progressively faked.
Or perhaps a much better and more accurate word is “controlled.”
Very much like modern ways and means of Mind Control.
Probably more like Soma than ‘Kool Aid’ John:
‘Soma: an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god‘
There is an antidote to the Kool Aid anyway. He’s called Bob Moran:
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/
Am I the only one who switches off immediately at the mention of Noam Chomsky?
I know what you mean but the lad said some smart stuff in the past even if he was always dancing on a string. Never throw that baby out with the bath water – ye’ll be sorry if ye do.
There’s no place like noam.
If i’m going to tolerate anyone from the radical left, it’d be George Galloway over Chomsky any day. A fierce arguer and quite entertaining, as opposed to that permanently-aged shit stirrer who’s gotten off on every American school ‘incident’ that’s ever occurred. A vile man. A broken clock is, nonetheless, right twice a day.
The man reeks of conop.
You may be pre-conditioned by smear tactic and false rumours.
The only way to get out of this trauma is reading a lot of books with Noam and see more videos to make yourself familiar with the subject.
Here is for a start a two hour video listening and seeing.
https://youtu.be/JBqZdLjdWKQ “For What and For Why are We Doing it.”