THE US WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN
19.12.2016
I returned to
the US from an extended stay abroad in the year 2000, to witness its step by
step descent from the City on a Hill to a floundering mastodon. The results of
the presidential election had to be recounted in the key state of Florida,
ending in a Supreme Court decision to hand George W Bush the presidency over Al
Gore, who would not have launched the War on Terror, and was explaining global
warming against the wishes of the energy industries.
In the
nineteen eighties, Ronald Reagan had met with Mikhail Gorbachev, paving the way
for the demise of the Soviet Union. His successor Bill Clinton, believed to be
a progressive, attacked and dismembered Yugoslavia, as Europeans supposedly
building a peaceful community — but in reality under American tutelage —looked
on. Following that, Bush II did as he was told, by Vice-President Cheney, an
oil businessman, ushering in seventeen years of war in the Middle East after
Muslims, fed up with US interference in their part of the world, launched the
first attack on US soil since the Civil War. Bush II’s Harvard C average had
been of little concern to voters, who would have preferred to have a beer with
him rather than with Gore.
Barack Obama
having turned ‘Yes we can’ into ‘No, we can’t’, Donald Trump woo’d voters by
talking dirty while casually remarking ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could get
along with Russia?’ Few of his high school educated supporters realized the
import of what he was saying, while the press didn’t take anything the former
TV star of “The Apprentice” said seriously: Hillary was going to take over
Russia so US corporations could exploit its phenomenal mineral trove.
Backed by
long-entrenched Neo-cons, and with a lifetime of admiration for the uniform,
candidate Hillary Clinton made no secret of her intent, and her election was a
foregone conclusion: she appealed to women, Blacks and illegal immigrants
hoping to be naturalized, and had plenty of Wall Street money.
In the closing
days of the campaign, live TV showed her exulting over her coming victory.
When, on
election night, one state after another on the electoral map turn red,
astonished anchors realized the Donald Trump saga would have a second act, and
Hillary went into hiding. For over a year, the media had shown Trump roughly
ordering his bouncers to get protesters at his rallies out. They guessed at his
real wealth, believed this story couldn’t really be happening, and that if it
was, the good fairy would put order in the house that George Washington had
built with slave labor, to be ultimately occupied by the son of an African
father and a white mother. Instead, the fairy accused Russia of hacking emails
from her party’s server that made her look like Lucifer.
During the
campaign, dozens of progressive journalists had warned that Trump’s campaign
harked back to Hitler’s, to no avail: the Ku Klux Klan predated McCarthyism,
giving White Supremacists a leg up over Bernie supporters. Polls repeatedly
showed that Sanders would have trounced Trump, but Hillary was determined to
claim her crown after decades of service to a Democratic Party that had not
represented the lower classes since the days of Franklin Roosevelt.
During FDR’s
presidency, the Red Scare birthed the House Un-American Activities Committee,
or HUAC, joined after World War II by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s special
investigative committee that ruined the lives of Americans accused of being
Soviet ‘fellow travelers’. Since then, to the three branches of government,
(the executive, legislative and judiciary) the US has added a fourth that supersedes
the others and is called ‘investigations’. Originally, the US had only two
investigative entities, the FBI for domestic crime, and the CIA, born in 1947
to keep tabs on foreign governments when the US decided the Soviet Union had to
be contained. By the nineties, investigative committees were begin created
every time something seemed amiss in the workings of government. One was even
launched into President Clinton’s sex life, although his impeachment ultimately
failed. Currently, Clintonites claim that no fewer than seventeen US
‘intelligence’ services are convinced Russia hacked the DNC!
Hillary had
pursued a brilliant career as a lawyer, an active First Lady, and a two-term
Senator from the state of New York, before seeing her first bid for the White
House scuttled by Barack Obama, thus Trump’s win was a double-whammy. It’s
small wonder that he threatened to not recognize the election results if he
lost, since both the media and politicians from both parties repeated endlessly
that he was either ‘unfit’ or ‘unqualified’ to be president. No one could
imagine the Democrats demanding recounts, using Green candidate Jill Stein,
perhaps remorseful for having siphoned off Hillary voters. Even Bernie
supporters who resented his failure to join Stein’s campaign participated in
country-wide protests under the banner ‘Not my President’, funded by Soros
money via an NGO called Move-on and obviously prepared in advance.
‘Progressives’ dismissed Trump’s plan to reverse a Russia policy that would
have led to nuclear war, more affected by the allegation that Vladimir Putin
ordered the DNC hack to get back at Hillary for claiming his 2011 re-election
was fixed.
Although the
intelligence community provided no evidence that the Russian President was
behind the DNC hack, obedient German and French media warn voters that their
2017 elections could be victims of Russian hacking. And 95% of respondents to
an MSMBC poll believed Russia had actually succeeded in influencing the
election. Most worryingly, progressive news sites that defended Russia, found
themselves on a Black list drawn up by America’s new McCarthyites.
In the run-up
to December 19th, when the Electoral College would formalize the results,
electors were being pressed to disregard the will of their voters and deprive
Trump of the presidency, (although elector-whisperers were not saying who would
then become President, Trump’s running mate or Hillary…).
Journalists
and politicians routinely referred to the Russian President as a ‘thug’, using
a 1930’s slang word from movies depicting gangsters perched on Model T running
boards, spraying their enemies with machine guns. As Russia helps the elected
President of Syria drive out the remaining Islamist terrorists from Aleppo,
Washington calls it an ‘aggressor’ for helping him reclaim his country.
The
appointment as Secretary of State of the head of Exxon Mobil, who cooperates
with the Russian President on big oil projects, as well as the presence of
Trump’s knowledgeable adult children at meetings, suggest that his government
will favor practicality over political correctness and standards of another
era. The journalists and officials who ridiculed the idea of a Trump presidency
now refer to him smoothly as ‘the president elect’.
If the
Neo-cons fail to prevent Donald Trump from entering the White House, by hook or
by crook, a foreign policy that would have led to nuclear war will be replaced
by cooperation, benefitting American business without firing a shot. The
question is: will this lead to a multi-polar world in which Trump’s successors
cannot put the US back on its hill, claiming world hegemony?
Is Trump’s Realistic Policy
consistent with the Triumph of the Eurasian Axis in Syria?
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