Linked in previous. Worth a reprint because it shows that I understood the situation in 2010. I didn’t fully discard partisan shit until I discarded the TV in 2012.
HIKERS
All the Propaganda Factories are hugging and weeping this morning about the three “hikers” in Persia getting a visit from their mothers.
All the Propaganda Factories believe without question the government’s claim that these three “hikers” are just innocent wanderers. How dare the Persians accuse them of spying!!!!
Ratshit. Plain old common sense tells you they’re spies. Ordinary wanderers couldn’t get into Iraq in the first place. It’s a war zone. And ordinary wanderers, after getting into a war zone for some cheerful strolling, wouldn’t cross the border into another supposedly hostile country.
Persia is right. And our government, which hired the “hikers”, knows this good and goddamn well.
It’s a long-standing and reciprocal international practice when spies are caught: the government that sent the spies never admits it. I’m not bothered by that. I’m angry about the total complicity of our allegedly “free” “press” in this whole campaign.
In 2002, Comrade Bush got us into Iraq and Afghanistan with a set of false arguments. The brand-D propagandists have been complaining about the Iraq falsehoods ever since, while ignoring the Afghanistan lies and generating new counter-falsehoods in the process. Now Comrade Obama is running the same sort of campaign to ensnare us into a war with Persia, and neither side complains. Partly, I suppose, because it’s a direct continuation of a campaign started by Comrade Bush, so both “parties” have separate reasons to support it.
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This shows that Obama recreated the Uniparty in two realms at once. Traditionally R was Wall Street and D was Main Street. Truman broke the rule but the rule returned after Truman. From 1946 to 1968 D was the party of aggressive war and R was isolationist. This was broken in 1968 when D adopted the antiwar side in order to hate Nixon. From 1968 to 2008 aggressive war was an R specialty.
Obama broke the D = Main Street tradition more dramatically, which I noticed HUGELY at the time. Then in 2010 he rebranded Romneycare as Obamacare, completing the Wall Street uniparty. He also broke the D = antiwar tradition, which I noticed in the above piece but didn’t add to my overall worldview.
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