COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ROBERT PARRY IN CONSORTIUM
NEWS
The Scalp-Taking of
Gen. Flynn
This is an excellent article on the FBI's Flynn charges, a
subject which has been wildly misrepresented and has generated the most
sensational (and meaningless) headlines in the commercial press.
Sadly, this tells us how low American politics have sunk, and
you sure do not have to be a Trump supporter to say that. I can’t imagine tales
from the old USSR or from some third-world political hellhole that could be any
more embarrassing or distasteful than what we’ve seen in America since 2016.
You have never had much of a democracy in the United States.
You have money and special interests guiding affairs of a corporate/imperial
state with an elaborate regular stage play of an "election."
In the past, many corrupt and anti-democratic practices have
come to light, but with this election a new low standard has been set on many
fronts.
Complete corruption at DNC with stealing the primaries. Just
in California, a million votes trashed. Record amounts of money spent, almost
beyond ordinary imagination. An embarrassingly bad set of presidential debates.
An almost constant stream of lies. A serious effort to overturn an election
conducted under the rules, no matter how much you may disagree with the
Founders’ anti-democratic provisions like the Electoral College. Ongoing
dabbling and interference by the former president. Such disgraceful stuff as
Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting with the Attorney General, and no investigation
or charges over abuse of office so obvious. An idealistic young man murdered on
the street, undoubtedly over his role in leaking Democratic Party secrets, and
no investigation worthy of the name conducted.
Perhaps it all reflects the record poverty of the American
political institutions. Such a huge and powerful nation, and the best it could
do was run two very unappetizing candidates. One a big-mouth, often rude
buffoon, a man who has proved a coward. The other, a woman with an immense
record of being caught in lies and with a great deal of blood on her hands.
Trump won only because of the intense dislike of Hillary on
the part of many men and women. But the Democrats had to run Hillary because
the Clinton money connections were so important to them.
The election actually added strong proof to the concept of
America as a plutocracy. A record well-funded candidate who spent
special-interest money like a drunken sailor could only be defeated by a multi-billionaire.
Obama seems to have skated over a lot of thin ice, too, with
a number of arrogant behaviors, while his actual record both in local efforts
and especially in bloody foreign affairs should make him a contemptible figure.
At least half a million killed under his supervision, yet many continue to
think of him as kindly, perhaps a good measure of how confused and bamboozled many
Americans are. His post-election secret political work is totally inappropriate,
too. He has shown himself a secretive, arrogant, unprincipled, and brutal man.
Yet all the while we have the big boyish (psychopathic?) smile.
I think we’ve reached the stage in American politics where
we can truly say, “anything goes.”
