Apology

 

(Before I go further, I assume you, the readers, have noticed the Warning at the entrance to this blog. I apologize to those who will refrain from coming anymore because by having to sign in ( i have to as well) maybe seems somewhat intimidating. It's about Google and about the fact that now to thwart freedom of expression by calling it something else is all too easy for nut cases who feel threatened by talk and miss the point entirely. Freedom of expression is being renounced all over america today and if you hear any politician decrying that fact, let me know, and I'll send them the anti-hate freedom award. But I'll keep on writing, though after this election it wont be much use to anybody. Just don't vote, organize, resist, and love, protect yourselves, your family and everyone else AND prepare for the worst because that's what we're going to get, no matter who our so-called leaders are.)

Am I the cynical one when liberal media analysts talk about soldier love, and there being no greater love than a soldier who goes to war in a foreign country and protects himself and his fello and fella soldiers from harm? Is that truly heroic and is it true love?

Why can't I accept the principal that what we are now all accepting is the glorification of kicking ass? It seems to me that we have as a national theme the same as most street gangs. Allegiance to a gang or a country is not significantly different. I hate to sound like that fuck face president from the NRA but the whole street cred mentality needs to be thrown out the window. The notion that all of us have talent of some kind that could be exploited if we could get it on TV or in a combat zone is mostly ridiculous.

I'm an average guy that did not buy into the American Dream because I would rather save my dream for when I sleep and see what comes out of that. To pretend that everyday life is the working out of some illusionary ideal probably helped Freud (remember him) or Carl Jung be driven crazy with delusions of idealization.

So what about that soldier love? Living in America for many people is worse than the worst Afghanistan combat zone. More people die over the weekend in some cities than all the soldiers in the combat zones, so who's living the life of friendly fire? The US spends trillions of dollars protecting it's soldiers with the finest weaponry, while the people who finance it all live it up on the proceeds from the manufacture and sales of weapons everywhere. It's a form of worship that most gods would be envious of. There used to be a word to describe the anti-sacred-sacrilegious, that's it.

We know that the Jews, the Arabs, the Catholics, the Protestants, the civilians, no matter how powerful the armies that conquered them or no matter how cruel their own armies, we've survived it all, probably giving more credence to the Buddhist principal, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Buddha or John Mellencamp. We're one of the most durable species on earth despite our tendency to entertain illusions, not only through our choice of drug usage but through our persistence in making up beliefs that have no basis in reality, and worse, fighting over those beliefs. If in the animal world dominance and submissiveness is the anti-thesis to our seeking of freedom, then freedom is only the absence of dominance-submissive behavior. We invent guns, weapons, wars, all that shit, simply because one on one, no one has much of an advantage over another.

Look at it this way. Put a Vietnamese toddler in the ring with a young Muhammed Ali and what happens? Ali throws up his hands, laughs, and picks up the baby, and says you never called me Nigger. Then put George Wallace ( he's an old now dead racist democratic governor of Alabama) in with Ali and guess what, George will bring a gun because that's the only way he can win. But even then, Ali will throw up his hands, laugh, and say, "since you got a gun, I'm knockin you out in one."

There are a million legal teams working on every aspect of government, corporate and personal limitations on freedom while most people sit around and watch idiot tv on a small screen telephone.

Meanwhile, people say they're afraid of walking, running, eating, sleeping in their own neighborhoods but do you think they get the idea that it is their neighborhood and if enough people get out and are visible, run together, walk and talk together that the nuisances, which you can never get rid of because social and economic stratification is everywhere, will either leave or shut up.

Government is patriarchy, there is nothing to learn from it. It doesn't matter whether there is a woman leader, government and religion are not feminized, if there is a natural, less abrasive genetic code embedded in women. 

Women will be the heart of real change, just not American or western women raised in the belly of ambition and vengeance.

 Revolution is not anything that happens outside of each of us but is more the changes that are inside us, inside our heads.

Although Darwin's evolutionary theory depended more on natural selection of physical characteristics, the Lamark theory of improvised characteristics utilized and evolving from one generation to the next may be more appropriate for our socialization processes.

Our beliefs and need for information is in a constant state of ambience so when things happen to challenge our beliefs, new information can cause old beliefs to become non-useful, and we can make changes to a new way of thinking.

Of course, some revolutions are merely changes in social power relationships without significant changes in the belief of whether or not that power relationship is necessary for the social order to maintain equilibrium.

No scholarship

One shouldnt have to be a scholar to understand basic nuances of justice, equality, and humanism nor even faith, hope and charity but it appears that's what one has to do.

Eight years ago we were bombarded with the ignorance of the most ignorant of the candidates running for president, and though people rightly rejected the old standard war horse of the democratic party, at the same time, voting for the lessor of two evils for most voting for trump turned into a national farce.

The media, fear of the left, fear of black people (all immigrants painted with the same brush), all contributed to this fiasco. But, rather than breathe a sigh of relief in 2020, the democrats continued to be in retrograde when it came to prosecuting the two-state solution in lieu of defending the fascistic Patriot Act. 

The patriotidiot act has dominated US foreign policy since its enactment. A document defending any right leaning faction, party, or government in every nation on earth, basing foreign policy on wealth, resources, allies in the war on terror. America supported the extreme religious nihilists of afghanistan, israel, iraq, saudi arabis, florida, venezuela, just to name a few, in order to justify humanitarian sanctions, war, and weaponization of right wing militias, militaries, and dictators around the world.

America is as fascist as the politics it represents. It fosters the same divisive international politics as the domestic fascists foster the divisive domestic policies. Thats all fascists do, affect the elimination of equal power, socialist, communal, naturalistic ideals and principles.

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Before thee, we kneel

Before thee, we kneel.

Who would have guessed that one of the most prejudicial issues over the century, anti-semitism (slavery, fascism being an example of two others) would be the pivotal issue to bring down civilization, if we can define "civilization" as the actual realization of a cultural milieu. Meaning that whether good or bad, most likely and common being good and bad in relative ratio.

The fall begins in the modern age, world war 2, the holocaust, the culmination of the western world's almost universal prejudice of judaism. Historically, like slavery, the roots go back to the medieval fears of race, religion, and power.

As we, the left, would have it, israel deserved to be punished for its seventy five years of ethnic cleansing, stealing of land, oppression of the innocent in lieu of the not so innocent idea that jews are the chosen people of an empty god. Although international humanitarian law outlines and defines what may or may not be genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other far breaching abuses of power within the international community, it does not define punishment, mainly because punishment is not within the jurisdiction of non-state tribunals and certainly not tribunals without enforcement capabilities. (ICC)

Enforcement of crimes against humanity are the exclusive right of 'might makes right' as we see in the two main worldwide conflicts in the world today, and their main adversarial combatants-Russia/ukraine and the tri-USA/israel/ terror factions. These two wars symbolize all the main contradictions of rising fascist states. All parties in these conflicts display anti-democratic, anti-freedom, pro-fascist doctrines as their method for success. Depending on which one you may "talk" to.

Israel on the other hand takes the hard line, "we are not above the law, we are the law."

Before these national leaders of the most powerful on earth, we, the kneelers, must continue to supplicate ourselves.

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Democracy in Action

If we're not going to have a type of democratic system where politicians actually represent their constituents and still have realistic differences with their politician brothers and sisters AND compromise and work out real solutions to real problems, then we need to go to an alternative.

The alignment of special populist interests against the wealthy interests that currently roam the halls of congress and state houses is necessary. Call these populist interests unions, lobbies, or any other name that represents their goals.

Tenant's unions, workers unions, medical/healthcare consumer unions

Their goals will be the issues that politicians neglect or believe that prior legislation whether current or past has adequately addressed citizen demands.

Recent DOJ lawsuit against RealPage shows real estate corporations are banding together to keep rental prices high during downturns and raising rates together so diminishing competition within the communty. Rents are based on what the market will stand and not on what condition houses and apartments are in.

City, county, and state governments listen to these corporate entities as experts so are complicit in the reality.

We weep over the Trail of Tears,

Injustice is what we scream. 

There's the Grapes of Wrath, the Jungle, the Octopus, the Death Ship

Injustice we scream,

Scenes of horror in gaza pass by us on the tv screen,

Homes and mosques and hospitals and schools turned into rubble,

An eye for an eye we scream.

Dachau, hiroshima, my lai, wounded knee, World War three,

Justified we scream

Deportation, migration, starvation, destitution

Freedom for america, charity for the poor of the world.

Torture in 1945 is no more justified than torture in 2024.

Forty thousand dead, the dead will rise up in the living,

A circle of war is complete. Go round and round, 

Israel creates the army of revenge 

Of children of martyrs they will come, grown in the belly of the beast.

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Could have left it

Could have left how you found it without going to the front lines and confound it with all your strife

Its hard to figure why hamas and hezbollah and even israel, russia and ukraine

Go to all that trouble to eke out their form of paradise when it seems they could have left it like they found it

And itd be better than than the way they made it.

Thats good for america too.

The age of exploration was more like the age of domination

The christian soldiers, getting everyone ready for the apocalypse, and it still hasnt come yet,

It just looks as if they could have left what they discovered to already be,

Left it alone, the way it was when they found it, instead they stand around with their armies, believin gods on their side,

Languishing outside the gates of hell or auschwitz or gulag 17 or black sites, black holes with no names, or borders where youre either locked in or locked out.

Were all standing around, mired in our histories of violence.

Pointing fingers, innocent though we believe we're on the front lines, but only in our minds, 

Every day we say we die for our cause.

Retaliation for what?

Bombs shake beirut. Israel is telling what they'll do and hamas and hellbollah, empty threats of retaliation,

No one wants to die, everyone wants to be on the front line.

Stone age warriors, new age technology.

Proxy wars with Iran, Russia, In Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq. Political sanctions against cuba, venezuela, yemen, china,

There is ample evidence that israel has been terrorizing the entire region for decades with overflies, indiscriminate strikes on bordering nations, such as lebanon, syria, and virtuallycontrols the southern border region shared with egypt, one can now ask about the security lapse on October 7th.

What about the security lapse on October 7th?

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Where should we stand

If we say war is never justified in a truly humanitarian world where every human being is no more no less valued than any other, then we are on the side of history thats aligned with all the humanitarian, social justice ideals ever thought or believed.

That puts us in the bullseye of the rest who control us as well as control all the reasons for war, capitalism, and fascism.

Israel along with its torturing ally, the united states, have redefined warfare in the past seven decades. The imperial arm of the us over the decades by cia sponsored guerrilla operations throughout the world, the weaponization of "friendly" terrorists (such as al Quada, taliban, shite, shia) in order to further worldwide resistance to any other national aggression, and the state authorized development of torture and black sites to coerce information. 

The weaponization of allies has now become an outed foreign policy supported by nearly all politicians, as well as citizens.

Progressive politics has become a straw dog, a mere ideological paper tiger, to provide the semblance of balance in american politics.

The fact that kamala harris has the support of moderate republicans ( those are the ones who, along with right democrats have masterminded the decades long slow and obstructed democratic legislative process) and former right wing, fascist republican officials like dick cheney, simply means we are already locked into another four years of backward thinking.

There are only two choices. Those who will vote for either one of the major candidates will get the same result from either one and those who make the choice to not support either of these candidates not only stand together but remain strong in solidarity with humanitarian interests rather than nationalistic ones.

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No matter who wins, we lose

As revolutionaries of the future and not the present, we do have to realize that it doesnt matter who "wins" in the zionist, iran, hezbollah, hamas, us, ukraine, russia, houthi battle between fascist, nationalist forces because no matter who wins, we will still lose. Support for any nationalist, religious theocracy is only a false peace

In iran and many other nationalist revolutions, including america's own revolution, liberal, and,especially, progressive idealists have always been shoved under the bus.

The left has been left out in the cold. 

Lebanon is the current victim of zionism. To pretend that this is merely a "self-defense" is ignorant, it is the us/israel clean up of terrorism as defined by 9/11 ideals. Do we need to remember the results of the last two american wars in the region. Iraq, under the auspices of corporate oil interests and afghanistan, taliban cultural, religious, and national restrictions still in effect since the 80's. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, all under impotent military dictatorships, and in Egypt's case the failure of arab spring revolutionary attempts.

Like 9/12 in america, Oct 8th in Israel, pro-nationalism on the march, the battlefront.

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