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Michael Moore Loses It
(Again): Warns Of "Extinction Of Human Life Due To Donald Trump"
But contrary to some of your words, Michael Moore is neither
a "leftist” nor a particularly liberal guy.
His record of political support proves that absolutely.
General Wesley Clark? Hillary Clinton?
He is also a talker and not much of a doer when it comes to
politics and social issues.
He is just one more comic American political figure, yet
another buffoon.
American politics are packed with them, in all shapes and
sizes. Airheads, narcissists, phonies, cheap opportunists - a regular human
menagerie.
John McCain. Newt Gingrich. Joe Biden. Lyndsey Graham. Chris
Christie. Trent Lott. Bill Clinton. Nancy Pelosi. Good God, what a sad parade marches
across America’s national politics.
There is unquestionably a tragi-comic streak in American
politics.
Part of it is in something a great critic called the
"culture of complaint." This is a phenomenon observed by outsiders
and given its name by Robert Hughes, in which Americans argue
endlessly without ever solving or achieving anything.
All kinds of pro- and anti- groups form on any issue you
care to mention, and all the groups provide soapboxes for wannabe politicians,
and almost nothing ever said or done amounts to anything beyond a great deal of
noise.
I suggest the roots of America's truncated politics as being
both the way politics are financed and the massive reality of America as world
bully, an ugly reality which goes pretty much unquestioned by all significant
participants in American politics while they quibble about this or that fine
point.
These two things form the entire foundation for modern
American society: elections which cost billions of dollars each campaign, assuring
only candidates the donating elites approve of and a massive, brutal world
empire, which entails the ugly realities of the Pentagon, 17 national security
agencies, plus regular coups, overthrows, and colonial wars.
You never even get a guy like Bernie Sanders,
self-proclaimed socialist, seriously questioning the thing that overwhelms the
political reality of America, the thing which chews up money, creates endless
conflict, and slowly destroys the very freedoms Americans like to foolishly believe
they enjoy. The Patriot types are the most foolish in their childish words on
the subject, but in the entire American political spectrum, you find no serious
questioning of foundations for fear of being called disloyal or cowardly.
It all makes the establishment pretty much unassailable in a
form of permanent government with the constant demands of empire always put first
but with lots of pretty window dressing about democracy and rights. Hopes for
change are dim to non-existent. Even pushy, billionaire, iconoclastic Trump is
pretty well shut-down already. I very much doubt he will achieve anything worth
achieving.
