Obama Worshippers Only Enable the Collapse

Having just finished reading a column from Patrick J. Buchanan entitled "A Left-Right Convergence?" in which the longtime paleoconservative mused about a coming alliance between anti-fascist elements of the left and the right I must admit that I have been pushing this idea for years and it is nice to see someone like the old warhorse himself bring it up. It has long been the ONLY logical way to seriously challenge the corrupt bipartisan warfare state and the rigged system of spoils to benefit an American oligarchy grown fat, arrogant and rotten beyond mere words that is protected by an omnipresent all-seeing eye of a gargantuan surveillance machine and enforced by paramilitary police forces and a weaponized judicial system. While I do not agree with Pat Buchanan on everything - or for that matter most things - he is onto something here and in his column he pays tribute to Ralph Nader whose new book "Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State" is as sensible as it is heretical to the so-called left in this country, a morally bankrupt gaggle of squabbling identity based groups clinging to the putrescent criminal enterprise that is the Democratic party like little piggies sucking on their mother's teats.

Having formerly been aligned with much of the left before I came to my senses and began to identify more with the more rational progressives and principled conservatives and libertarians I can speak from experience that it is a fool's errand to break through the cult like reverence for Barack Obama and his already crowned successor Hillary Rodham-Clinton. The MSNBC marinated liberals who have drank the Kool Aid of false hope and chump change are as unreachable as their less refined counterparts who have been lobotomized by Fox News and will always be lured out to dutifully goose-step to the polls come election time to take revenge against whatever demon that happens to be conjured up for them by Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and Roger Ailes. They are flip sides of the same coin which like the proverbial bad penny just keeps turning up and serving the establishment by allowing the two-party racket to continue to function as though there is a nickle's worth of difference between the two, primarily that one is just more overtly fascist than the other.

Until there is a mass awakening from the lie that is our so-called "democracy" to unify in opposition to that red, white and blue jackboot that will be stomping on a human face forever we can only continue to defy the odds, fight the good fight and prolong the imminent and inevitable collapse. But it is is not as though there are not those out there offering alternatives, Pat Buchanan shows that and I excerpt the following from his piece:

Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.

The American people rose as one and told the government of the United States not to drag us into another Middle East war in Syria.

Barack Obama was ready to launch air and missile strikes when a national uproar forced him to go to Congress for authorization. Congress seemed receptive until some Hill offices were swarmed by phone calls and emails coming in at a rate of 100-1 against war.

Middle America stopped the government from taking us into what even the president now concedes is “somebody else’s civil war.”

This triumphal coming together of left and right was a rarity in national politics. But Ralph Nader, in “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” believes that ad hoc alliances of left and right to achieve common goals can, should, and, indeed, shall be our political future.

To call this an optimistic book is serious understatement.

Certainly, left and right have come together before.

Two decades ago, Ross Perot and this writer joined Ralph and the head of the AFL-CIO to stop NAFTA, a trade deal backed by America’s corporate elite and its army of mercenaries on Capitol Hill.

Congress voted with corporate America — against the country.

This is why Ron Paul was so reviled by the establishment - he had crossover appeal and the stones to take a stand against the vicious forces of the neocon infested Bush administration back in the days when any deviation from the lockstep orgy of nationalistic patriotism and blood vengeance for 9/11 would have one smeared ruthlessly as a traitor or worse. It was during this period and Congressman Paul's courageous denouncing of the wanton crimes of the war machine while millions of Americans were learning to love torture and mass surveillance that I came to admire the man's message as did millions of non-conformists, non-party over country loyalist and people who were able to think for themselves did.

My real leftist friends get it but they are radicals, socialists and in a few cases avowed Marxists just as my libertarian non-interventionist, pro-Constitutional and in a few cases avowed anarchists do. The real enemy is a shared one that is targeting any and all dissent which will be crushed ruthlessly when the time comes. What in the hell does anyone think that all of these NSA programs exist for? Why is that massive data storage facility out in Utah there? It is all being done for the day when the US totalitarian state finally goes fully live and the machines start spitting out the pickup orders for troublemakers. More than a few of the sheep may be on those lists thanks to the miracle of the three-hop query but their blissful ignorance will only be shattered when they round the final bend in the steel chute to line up for their turn to experience the captive bolt pistol. I found the words of former NSA turned whistleblower William Binney to be as frank a warning as one could expect, I excerpt from the transcript of a podcast interview with Rob Kall of progressive website OpEd News:

R.K.: Anything that we haven't covered yet?  We have got to wrap this up.  Anything that we haven't covered that's really important that you would like the listeners to know about?

W.B.: Just that my major concern isn't with NSA having access to this data or having this data, it's the use of it and once they get it and store it, being used by law enforcement and our law enforcement is spreading that around the world to other law enforcement and so it's corrupting not just our democracy, we're becoming a police state because of this but it's also corrupting the countries around the world so it's really endangering the democratic process and the court systems that we have established.  That is really destroying our society.  We may not know it yet but eventually it'll get to all of us.

R.K.: Bad news.  So you told me that you're going to spend the rest of your life on this. 

W.B.: Yes.  Until my government basically starts to do the right thing, and that means become a constitutionally based operating government.

R.K.: Do you see any ideological or party differences in the way this is being handled?

W.B.: Actually no.  I think they're all basically the same.  They've been, I mean for example you know Bush would prefer to have acquired the terrorists, captured them, put them in to torture them to get information; whereas Obama would kill them with a drone.  So it's the same principle, I mean they're just doing whatever they want, there are no limits to what they want to do.  Especially the latest NDAA that talks about giving the president the power to declare anybody, any US Citizen even in this country a terrorist and have the military pick them up, take them off the street, incarcerate them indefinitely, and give them no due process. 

That to me is executing something very similar to what the Nazis did in 1933, Special Order 48, that did exactly the same thing.  And that's how they got rid of all of their opposition.  All the communists and anybody else that opposed them.  But I mean they sent them to the concentration camps.  So far we have not been sending them to the concentration camps but they'll do things like send the FBI after you or maybe attempt to put you in jail like they tried to do with a number of us. 

So they're not as radical yet but the problem is that when you give people that kind of power or they hold that kind of power, sooner or later, they're going to use it. One way or another.  

The seriousness of our dilemma when it comes to the liberal version of dancing with the dunces and their ongoing prostration for the Democratic party and the treacherous snake-oil salesman Barack Obama is evident in the way that investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald is treated. Per the blog Raw Story Greenwald's recent appearance on Democratic party propaganda machine MSNBC's "All in With Chris Hayes" highlights the the hostility of liberals to the truth, particularly on Obama's NSA Stasi as was written about by Greenwald in his just released book "No Place to Hide".  I excerpt the following from the Raw Story piece:

“There are lots of people who watch this show who hate you, frankly,” Hayes said.

“Really?” Greenwald joked. “Oh, my god, that’s so disturbing, I didn’t know that.”

“You have a way of making people very angry at you, and you have a way –– I think sometimes, if you don’t mind my saying –– of alienating possible allies,” Hayes continued.

Greenwald said that when he started writing about politics, he “didn’t have a big megaphone, I didn’t have a large corporation that gave me a camera or a newspaper that gave me a big platform.”

“I had to find a way to be heard,” he said. “You’ve got to be aggressive in terms of having your critique heard.”

“People feel like they have to choose between Barack Obama and Glenn Greenwald,” Hayes countered. “And there are millions of people in this country who are like, ‘If that is the choice, I choose Barack Obama. I like Barack Obama. Like, Barack Obama got a lot of people Medicaid.’”

Greenwald said that the same people who attack him now cheered for him when he was attacking the Bush administration.

I certainly can understand that, it makes me physically sick to see how many liberals now give Obama a free pass for things that they squealed for Bush's head on a pike for but that is the problem with party loyalists, particularly in a society where the two-party system is just a cover for criminality of whom the only real loyalty is against the very concept of a free and decent society. 

But all that is just my own personal opinion for what it's worth. Hell, after all I am a guy who is reviled by both sides and one who has been denounced on the Obama water carrying site Democratic Underground: "Donn Marten is just a blogger who hates Democrats" as well as by the filth over at the neocon racist sewer Front Page Magazine, a kind of Stormfront for anti-Muslim types: "For leftists like Martin, U.S.-EU policy is simply aimed at "making Ukraine safe for corporate vultures".  There is no greater badge of honor in being hated by both the Democrats and Republicans and their legions of losers, lackeys and lickspittles but that puts me in some pretty damned good company with Buchanan, Nader, Greenwald and Ron Paul.

Americans better wake up because an alliance that sets aside petty ideological differences to mount a unified and sustained defense against the fascist corporate warfare chance is the only chance that we have.

Democrat-Republican Warmongers Unite to Crush Antiwar Rand Paul

Perhaps the greatest hoax in the toxic sewage lagoon that is the political system of The Homeland circa 2014 is that there is no such thing as bipartisanship. Bullshit! While the ongoing con job that is staged for public consumption of the irreconcilable differences between Team Red Elephant and Team Blue Jackass is what passes for conventional wisdom in the state-corporate media and as such is eaten up by the rubes and low-information types that comprise the vast majority of the American electorate the truth is pretty clear to any who want to see. Both American political parties (any others are completely shut out of the phony democratic process) are nothing more than dueling factions of a criminal syndicate and there is ALWAYS agreement on certain issues. For example, the mass warrantless surveillance of millions of law abiding Americans, the ongoing redistribution of wealth to the top fractional one percent, the ongoing fleecing of the American taxpayer to continue to underwrite the criminal scams of the untouchable gamblers on Wall Street and the support of all wars both foreign and domestic. Oh, and there is the bipartisan effort to destroy prospective Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul that is now as the economic propaganda slogan goes "picking up steam".

With the neoconservative warmongers again ascendant, the incompetent Obama on his way out and either Hillary Rodham-Clinton or some Sheldon Adelson funded Nazi ready to take over the keys to the war machine Senator Paul's anti-interventionist stance, criticism of the NSA Stasi and other the post September 11, 2001 Constitutional wrecking machine and message which is resonating must be stopped at all costs. The neocons are the ultimate parasites and their origins as ideological worshippers of Leon Trotsky were at one time allied with the Democrats until the antiwar movement during the Vietnam era. They jumped to a new host on the rising Ronald Reagan-Bush dynasty GOP and are very close to making the round trip if the warmongering Mrs. Clinton wins the presidency in 2016. The Pauls being Rand and his father Ron - whose courageous stance against the neocons when any opposition to the Bushreich's wars of aggression was shouted down as treason made him a modern American hero - have become public enemy number one for the entrenched two-party gangsters that have seized control of both foreign and domestic policy.

Rand Paul represents exactly what the existing occupiers of the American political system fear the most which is a deviation from their ongoing game of 3 card Monte continually staged on Main Street of a star-spangled Potemkin Village and sold to the suckers as "democracy". God forbid that anyone ever emerge to create a debate on the "New Normal" of the wars and looting of those both foreign and domestic to enrich plutocrats, energy cartels, the global finance mafia and the whores who serve them.

The great libertarian writer Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com who never hesitates to call out bullshit in high places, hypocrisy and the scoundrels who are passed off as respectable by the corrupt media in their methodical polish a turd with a red, white and blue cheesecloth calls it like it is in his latest piece entitled "The Establishment's War on Rand Paul" from which I excerpt:

The war is on – no, not that war, this war: I’m talking about the GOP establishment’s war on Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, whose presidential campaign has taken wing and soared. And it isn’t just the Karl Roves and Peter Kings of this world who are up in arms over the prospect of an anti-interventionist libertarian in the White House: they’re getting plenty of tactical support from "liberals" like David Corn.

Why do they hate him?

The Rovians hate him because he challenges the whole Fox News-neocon right-wing paradigm that has kept the GOP a dwindling minority party ever since the Bush era ended with a whimper. The progressives hate him because he is the most likely candidate – at the moment – to be facing Hillary Clinton in 2016, and they know they’ll have a hard time selling a candidate who still refuses to second guess her 2003 vote for the Iraq war. So the two groups have a common enemy – which, in politics, is enough to cement a working alliance between two supposedly antithetical forces.

Of course they aren’t really antithetical: while Establishment Republicans and Establishment Democrats duke it out every election, it’s not an ideological fight so much as a battle for the spoils. And when it comes to foreign policy, "politics stops at the water’s edge," as that old reprobate Arthur Vandenberg used to say: left and right are united for the Empire.

AND

In the context of today’s politics, the demographics are different but the principle of "divide and rule" is the same. The "Paul Democrats" and "Paul Independents" are precisely the kind of younger urban voters both Rand and his father have done such a phenomenal job attracting. These are people Democrats have tended to take for granted – and Rand is the first Republican politician since Reagan to challenge them on this terrain. Which is why Democrats like Corn, and the other partisan hacks masquerading as "journalists" – Rachel Maddow comes to mind – have it in for Sen. Paul.

As for the Rovians and their neocon Deep Thinkers, their unappeasable hate for the Senator is due to his last name – and the knowledge that this isn’t really about Rand Paul or any particular person, it’s about a movement that threatens to overtake them. Once John McCain and Peter King stop being the face of the GOP, the Establishment that manipulates the leadership of both parties is in big trouble.

The last thing the Establishment of both parties wants is a 2016 presidential race pitting an anti-interventionist anti-surveillance Republican against the stridently interventionist Hillary, who long ago declared that the Internet needs "gatekeepers." I would argue that of all the potential candidates, it’s Rand Paul who has the best chance of stopping the Clinton Restoration. Jeb Bush as the candidate would make it a clash of dynasties, with the Clintons an easy winner in that kind of contest. Marco Rubio has limited appeal, and by the time the primaries get going will be polling in the vicinity of John Bolton. Chris Christie is over. David Petraeus, once a neocon favorite, is in disgrace: you only get to have that kind of fun after you’re safely elected. So who’s left?

Yes, the increasingly odious Ms. Maddow over at MSNBC the Obama apologist network. While I always have viewed Rachel Maddow with a somewhat jaundiced eye, particularly since she like Minnesota Senator Al Franken emerged not only unscathed from the wreckage of liberal radio network Air America. While serious critics of US policy and the entire corrupt system like Mike Malloy and Randi Rhodes were exiled Maddow and Franken saw their fortunes improve dramatically when the network collapsed. Their prominent positions today would seem to indicate at best a tendency to sell out a cause, go establishment or cash in or in layman's term become RATS.

I have followed the work of Maddow for a good while now and while talented, the pride of MSNBC is nothing more than a shill for the corrupt ruling political class. Her show is regularly devoted to nothing more than the promulgating of DNC talking points, playing the identity politics card (she is openly gay) to demonize the Republican party - largely through her cherry picking of the most racist, white-supremacist, ignorant religiously obsessed morons - to shill for corporate sellout Democrats. What a sad demise for a woman who actually has talent but now as is apparent zero principles beyond whoring herself out for her defense contractor employer and the Democratic party. Hell, she actually makes Roger Ailes look honorable in a perverse sort of way, after reading what has been pretty much called a hit-piece "The Loudest Voice in the Room" I can say that the man at least has some sort of values system - as largely repugnant as it often is which is something that Ms. Maddow and the rest of the war party winged monkeys that are now being scrambled for an attack on Rand Paul are lacking.