Russia distraction
Distract
from what?
Forgot about
global warming....
Toxic water in
Flint....
Take the bait
swallow the
Maddow line
drag the 'citizenry'
into a mindless
black hole
Widening gap
between
rich & poor
1% wants it all
who pays attention
when you've got Mueller
They have a slogan
"the one who dies
with the most toys,
wins"
It's a deep,
spiritual
disconnection
nature is a tool
to the psychopath*
Democrats
push NATO
war
with Russia
their 'liberal' followers,
maybe we should
call them disciples
since its Easter,
ignore truth
help bang war drums
The corporate media,
as one would expect,
is doing their job
of distracting
the public
with Hollywood
story lines
All while
the news
(that is fit to print)
schools the American people
on the mythology
of exceptionalism, freedom
and liberty
The only liberty
actually involved though
is the corporate 'liberty'
to steal the
global public
purse
and natural heritage.
* Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.
Addendum from Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now
"I should say, the Democrats are helping [Trump]. They are. Take the focus on Russiagate. What’s that all about? I mean, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that you’re not going to find anything very serious about Russian interference in elections. I mean, for one thing, it’s undetectable. I mean, in the 2016 election, the Senate and the House went the same way as the executive, but nobody claims there was Russian interference there. In fact, you know, Russian interference in the election, if it existed, was very slight, much less, say, than interference by, say, Israel. Israel, the prime minister, Netanyahu, goes to Congress and talks to a joint session of Congress, without even informing the White House, to attack Obama’s policies. I mean, that’s dramatic interference with elections. Whatever the Russians tried, it’s not going to be anything like that. And, in fact, there’s no interference in elections that begins to compare with campaign funding. Remember that campaign funding alone gives you a very high prediction of electoral outcome. It’s, again, Tom Ferguson’s major work which has shown this very persuasively. That’s massive interference in elections. Anything the Russians might have done is going to be, you know, peanuts in comparison. As far as Trump collusion with the Russians, that was never going to amount to anything more than minor corruption, maybe building a Trump hotel in Red Square or something like that, but nothing of any significance.
The Democrats invested everything in this issue. Well, turned out there was nothing much there. They gave Trump a huge gift. In fact, they may have handed him the next election. That’s just a—that’s a matter of being so unwilling to deal with fundamental issues, that they’re looking for something on the side that will somehow give political success. The real issues are different things. They’re things like climate change, like global warming, like the Nuclear Posture Review, deregulation. These are real issues. But the Democrats aren’t going after those. They’re looking for something else—the Democratic establishment. I’m not talking about the young cohort that’s coming in, which is quite different. Just all of that has to be shifted significantly, if there’s going to be a legitimate political opposition to the right-wing drift that’s taking place. And it can happen, can definitely happen, but it’s going to take work."
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