COMMENT TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
“Donald Trump is a
xenophobic fascist”
I'm sorry, but I just do not see how George Clooney is
qualified to speak to the matter.
First, what does a jet-set, wealthy screen actor, who likely
lives in a gated community, know about such matters?
His are just empty words, stagey lines, indicating a set of
attitudes.
Second, is Clooney unaware of what a fascist country America
has become, regardless of who is president?
I doubt it - which of course makes him even less qualified
to speak - and being the kind of country that it has become, it is now
impossible to have good presidential candidates. Sanders never had a chance.
Today, America murders people in a half dozen parts of the
globe, day-in, day-out, and it does so in the cowardly fashion of the old
Argentine military junta.
It has kept a constant national hate campaign whipped-up against
a billion people since 9/11.
It is responsible for horrible bloodshed in its march of
terror across the Middle East.
It never utters a word over the predation and murders and
slavery of its semi-official colony in the same region.
American police kill 1,100 American citizens on the streets
each year - a record which exceeds the bloodshed of any so-called terrorists.
As far as the only realistic alternative in this election, Hillary
Clinton, I'd take a chance with Trump. At least he is not a proven cold-blooded
killer and non-stop liar. And it is his independence of mind which is bringing
out a regular chorus of people like Clooney to call him names in public.
Hillary genuinely, with no exaggeration in the words, is a
murderous fascist.
Readers might appreciate this analysis:
By the way, as some British people might not know, the
symbol of the Italian Fascists, the bundle of axes wrapped together called
fasci plural and fascio singular, which had been a Roman imperial symbol of
power, has been a feature on the back of the American 10-cent coin for a very
long time. It also features in decorative motifs in Washington’s Capitol.
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What is really sad is the state of America today, a huge,
rich place which can only manage as serious candidates Clinton and Trump.
It is absolute political poverty, but that's because America
is not really a democracy. It is a plutocracy - muscle-bound with a gigantic military
and state security apparatus – with a lot of stage trappings of democracy.
A really independent candidate, even if he or she could be
elected, is in danger, without question, of repeating the fates of John Kennedy
and his brother.
And guys like cocktail-party political commentator George Clooney
haven't a clue.
