YOU'RE AS EVIL AS THE NEOCON-NEOLIBERAL EMPIRE YOU'VE ENABLED
By Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
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The
dirty little secret of Neoliberalism is that the markets it creates are
rigged in favor of Elitist cronies.
Sorry, pal, you're evil. Self-righteous
indignation counts for nothing in the strict accounting of real progressivism.
Dear Self-Proclaimed
"Progressive": I love you,
man, but it has become necessary to intervene in your self-destruction. Your ideological blinders and apologies for the
Establishment's Neocon-Neoliberal Empire are not just destroying your
credibility, they're destroying the nation and everywhere the Empire
intervenes.
While you squandered your
political capital defending zero-cost causes like "safe spaces on college
campuses," the Empire was busy killing, maiming and making refugees of
women and children in Syria. President
Obama and his Neocon crew (former Secretary Hillary Clinton included) aren't
fools; they rely on drones and proxy armies to do their dirty work.
Neoliberalism is the
Establishment's core ideology, and by supporting Bill Clinton and Barack Obama,
you furthered, defended and rationalized the Empire's neoliberal expansion and
exploitation. Neoliberalism's
Big Lie istransforming everything into a market makes everyone richer.
The dirty little secret of
Neoliberalism is that the markets it creates are rigged in favor of
Elitist cronies. If you can
set aside your "progressive" blinders for a moment (Bill and Barack
could do no wrong for 16 long years of neoliberal exploitation), you might
learn that the Presidents and party you supported ushered in the era of
neoliberal pillage as public-private partnerships,
Philanthro-Capitalism, and rigged markets that enriched the elitist
Establishment you defend at the expense of the bottom 95% non-elites.
You defended "higher
education," which was simply a code word for stripmining the bottom 95%
via student loans to pay outrageous salaries for under-assistant deans of
student affairs and fund lavish
expansion projects.
You embraced the Corporate
Media's absurd "fake news" witch-hunt, when the biggest purveyors of
fake news/Imperial Propaganda are the "liberal" media you
unhesitatingly believe with all your heart because it reinforces your sense of
moral superiority. Never mind
that the mainstream "liberal" media is owned by corporations that are
in bed with the Establishment and the Empire.
You were silent when your
"progressive" president engaged in a global Murder, Inc., and your
former secretary of state bragged "we came, we saw, he died." Your sputtering excuses for Imperial over-reach,
extra-judicial murder and the destruction and displacement of entire
populations is a travesty of a mockery of a sham of real Progressivism.
Wake up, Self-Proclaimed
"Progressives": you're apologists for an Evil Empire.Your
devotion to the Democratic Establishment that has mastered the art of bleating politically
correct speech acts while destroying entire nations renders you the classic useful
idiots, on par with those who defended Stalinism and the Soviet Gulag
because "it was the right thing to do."
While you devote your energy to
"resisting" Trump in completely empty gestures, you did nothing to
resist the imprisonment of tens of thousands of young men of all ethnicities in
America's War on Drugs Gulag.
While you championed your
fake-Progressive presidents and party, wealth and wage inequality soared. Did you not mind because you and your household
benefited from neoliberal skimming and scamming?
How many of your self-proclaimed "progressive"
peers are in the 5% who came to do good and stayed to do well?
You have the luxury of supporting
ObamaCare because somebody else is paying the bills. It may be a corporation, the state, a government
agency, a university, a foundation or the taxpayer, but your support of
neoliberal skims and scams doesn't cost you anything.
You are a hypocrite because you
only engage in causes that don't cost you anything. Prove to us that you've been questioned or
arrested by the F.B.I. for political action against the Empire, and you will
have earned credibility. If you don't have any skin in real resistance, then
your support of politically correct speech actsis cost-free and
therefore meaningless.
I am sorry to be the one to tell
you, but your unquestioning support of a neoliberal- neocon president, party
and candidate makes you as evil as the empire you support, via your silence, rationalizations and absurdly
empty gestures in favor of cost-free political correctness.
You have surrendered principled
action in favor of a self-righteous belief that indignation makes you better
then everyone else. Sorry, pal,
you're evil. Self-righteous indignation counts for nothing in the strict
accounting of real progressivism.
Your claim to moral superiority
based on indignation makes you the moral equivalent of the
"conservative" married preacher who is sleeping with the church
secretary and skimming church funds. His
claim to moral superiority is based on indignation, too.
By supporting a corrupt, self-serving elitist Empire of
privilege and power, you are an enemy, witting or unwitting, of truth, justice,
self-determination and liberty.
If you want to become a real
Progressive, it has to cost you. You
will have to abandon the Establishment you belong to, the party you support and
the cheap veneer of self-congratulatory fake-progressivism you project.
You will have to throw yourself on the gears of the
stripmining, protecting-the-privileged autocratic war machine you have
supported by your silence and your rationalizations. To quote Mario Savio's
famous extemporaneous speech during Berkeley's Free Speech Movement:
"There's a time when the
operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you
can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your
bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the
apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the
people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the
machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Memo to Self-Proclaimed
"Progressives": "safe places" on campus don't count.
The truth is, you are an
embarrassment to real progressives. You should be ashamed of
your empty claims to the high moral ground. If you are incapable of feeling
ashamed for your self-congratulatory self-righteousness, then you are truly
lost.
Look, I know you want to "do the right thing." You
want to encourage and support truth, justice, self-determination and liberty.
To follow your better instincts, you're going to have to admit that you've been
conned, and that you've been a loyal passive puppet of an Evil Empire.
The "right thing to do"
is to recognize the Neocon-Neoliberal Empire as the enemy of truth, justice,
self-determination and liberty and withdraw your consent. If
you still don't get it, maybe these essays will help:
America was a 'stan' long before Trump Paul
Krugman et al conveniently forget that corruption, cronyism and contempt for
the rule of law long predated Trump.
We need to pull together, not
self-divide into ever more fractious camps. The oldest and most
successful Imperial strategy is divide and conquer. Don't fall
for it.
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Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/dear-self-proclaimed-progressives-youre-evil-neocon-neoliberal-empire-youve-enabled
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