by
system failure
Trump's
rise in power helped towards the complete exposure of what is
considered 'Left' in America, which is actually the neoliberal
establishment with a Lefty mask, and has nothing to do with the real
Left.
Barack
Obama, Hillary Clinton and all the mainstream media of the neoliberal
machine exhibited a totally selective progressiveness, which can be
identified in multiple cases. Take for example their behavior against
two different groups in America. The fake Left has no problem to
express its progressiveness in favor of the LGBT community, but has
literally declared war against the working class and labor rights,
not only in the US, but in every mature capitalist country in the
West.
But now,
with Trump in power, there is plenty of evidence for the hypocrisy of
the fake Left inside and outside the US. Because the other key
feature of the real Left is that it is permanently and
unconditionally anti-war.
Well,
guess what: the 'Lefty' Obama and his associate Clinton expanded the
US wars through their proxies in Syria, destroyed Libya, and opened
the road for the US to participate in war crimes against civilians in
Yemen, as we speak. The result? More destruction, chaos and human
suffering. Why did they do that? Again, because they represent the
fake Left. They are just neoliberals who have been bought by the US
corporate interests that constantly promote for-profit wars.
And
while the neoliberal pundits of the fake Left corporate media were
attacking Trump for his racism against women, immigrants, etc., they
were immediately allied with Fox when Trump decided to bomb Syria
twice: last year and this year, this time together with his
neocolonial friends.
And
the latest bombing showed beyond doubt how deeply the forces of the
global neoliberal regime are committed to one
of the
common goals,
which is non-stop, for-profit wars. The new golden boy of the regime
in Europe, Emmanuel Macron, together with Theresa May, immediately
aligned behind Donald Trump and joined him. Yet, the media promoted
Macron as the 'new' in the French politics and almost painted him as
a 'progressive' young politician who will fight the old political
norms and crush the far-right danger. Guess what: the 'new', 'fresh'
Macron has declared war against the French workers and unions, which
is, by the way, another common goal of the forces of the neoliberal
regime globally.
Selective
progressiveness and hypocrisy is mind blowing in this case. Double
standards adopted by the fake Left is a situation that has become
permanent and beyond doubt. The airstrikes against Syria were
completely illegal, under the pretext of the alleged chemical weapons
attack against civilians by the Syrian army, without any substantial
evidence. Yet, the fake-Left leaders and media mechanisms remain
silent in front of the crimes of Israel against unarmed Palestinians,
or, the war crimes of the US-backed Saudi regime against thousands of
civilians in Yemen.
The
fake-Left pundits are not permitted to decline from the common
"script" written by their rich bosses at the top of the
neoliberal regime hierarchy because they will immediately lose their
job and their golden paychecks. And so, some conservative pundits are
the only ones now in the mainstream media who have the courage to
tell the truth about war and the related narratives. Watch Tucker
Carlson(!) as he challenges pro-war neoliberal who, of course, adopts
the foolishly simplified narrative 'if you are against intervention =
you are probably a Russian tool':
But it's
even worse. How about the fake-Left media nostalgia for the war
criminal George W. Bush?
The real
Left equally defends and fights for the rights of every group, either
it's the LGBT community, the workers, the immigrants, etc.
Today,
those who are closer to the real Left in the US, like Bernie Sanders
or Jill Stein, will be confronted fiercely by the establishment,
especially now that their popularity is rising. Because when the real
Left will come in the frontline of the US politics, it could really
change the game in favor of millions of Americans. The neoliberal
regime will fight this perspective, no matter if its fake-Left mask
will eventually fade completely in the eyes of the American voters.
It's been my observation that the Statist worldview seems to separate the new from the old in the Democrat Party.
ReplyDeleteOld time democrats respect civil liberties, as well as election results. Not so the Statists (or Obamunists, if you prefer)