The Divine Mr. M

~Elizabeth Warren came in third in her home state. Her main shortcoming is that she is at heart an Academic, not a Politician and does not have a real killer instinct. She now has one of three choices.

#1: She can 'stay the course' and probably help set the stage for a brokered convention, which is likely going to happen whatever she does.

#2: She can drop out and endorse Bernie, which will alienate the Democratic Establishment, tho at least she would remain true to her principles.

#3: She can drop out and endorse Biden, in which case she will be dead the Progressive Movement.

I feel bad for her.

~World War Three, aka The Cold War, started with the Berlin Blockade on June 24th, 1948 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26th, 1991.

World War Four, aka The War on Terror, started on September 11th, 2001 and is still ongoing...

The assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the various attacks that led to that and Iran's missile attacks in response are merely skirmishes in that latter war.

All this hysteria about nuclear war is just that: hysteria. So cut that shit out. It is exactly what Trump wants, a distraction from Impeachment.

Note the pattern; Trump creates a crisis, ramps it up, and then seemingly 'solves' it.

If you're carrying on about 'WWIII' and 'the end of the world' blah blah blah, you are doing Trump's work for him...so fucking calm down.

We're not getting into a big ground war with Iran because we have nowhere from which to launch such an operation. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are going to let the US pour a half million military personnel into their land just like that. Hell, Iraq says we need to get out all together. And Afghanistan is still a serious clusterfuck.

That said, I suspect the highly ineffective Iranian missile strike was meant to lull us and appease the folks back home. Good chance they got some other nastiness cooking. Time will tell..but there is not going to be Armageddon. /rolls eyes

~In the wake of the recent Mass Shootings, many of you are still rattling on about the NRA and Gun Control.

Folks, the NRA is largely a spent force, both politically and fiscally, so that noise is swinging at ghosts.

APX 90 million Americans own, at a minimum, 350 million guns, so forget about 'control'.

But I see more and more of y'all are talking about White Males and White Nationalism. Still hard issues to tackle, but at least now we're in the right ballpark...

I wrote the following text back on Jan. 22nd, 2013...

"Obamacare is a classic example of how a really good idea is perverted by The Corporate State. Universal Health Care in a Modern Industrial State should be a Civil Right.

Obama, who is not a Liberal but a Center/Right Corporatist, faithfully promised a Public Option throughout the entire election, yet dropped it within months of getting elected. That was via the Insurance Industry because they knew that most folks would take the PO over their bullshit polices.

Said industry also help fund the Astroturf organizations that took over the early tea Party movement, switching them from a TARP related focus to an anti-Obamacare focus, giving Obama 'political cover' to dump the Public Option.

But this also had the effect of bringing all the loons in that movement to the fore, creating the most gridlocked Congress since the 1850's.

As I have said, "I believe The Corporate State has learned The Hitler Lesson, that once a political radical grasps the levers of power, you can no longer control him with money. [It'll be a 'him' every time] That is why they ran all of the loons the GOP base favored off the road with cash early on. Mittens was always a sacrificial candidate. The Corporate State is perfectly happy with that smart accommodating black chap.""

I retrospect it seems that the real Hitler Lesson is that when y'all use Racism as a political tool to divide and suppresses the interests of The People some manner of despot will inevitable arise.

Side Note: this was tagged with "most humans are servile ignorant scum"

July 15, 2019

Sam Smith - While the media and public follow political changes in our society, cultural changes take a back seat. This is unfortunate because often political change is the result of things happening in our culture.

For example, when I started covering Washington in the late 1950s, over half the reporters in the country only had a high school degree. How did this fact affect journalism in general? A more natural relationship to lower working class Americans and their concerns.

Last year the Washington Times ran a story that showed another cultural shift:

According to a Pew Research Center poll released this week, Democrats are now the party of college graduates, especially those with post-graduate work. Meanwhile, people with a high-school degree or less, by far the larger group, slightly lean toward Republicans.

According to Pew, 54 percent of college graduates either identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, compared to 39 percent who identified or leaned Republican. One-third of Americans have a college degree.Just 25 years ago, those numbers were perfectly reversed in the Pew survey, with the GOP holding a 54-39 advantage among people with college degrees.

In other words, an increasingly well educated Democratic Party had lost the support of a class of people that helped to define it during the New Deal and Great Society. It is small surprise that the last truly liberal administration - the Johnson years - started over a half century ago.

Key to this shift - and hardly mentioned today - was the decline of labor unions. Aside from being an organizing tool, these unions were also important educational institutions. If we had strong unions today, the Trump con would have a much harder time being believed by working class Americans.

In 1960 about 30% of workers belonged to unions. By 2012 that was down to 11.3% (0r 6.6.% for private sector workers). In other words almost two thirds of union workers had lost their labor mentors. The now much better educated Democrats have paid little attention to this and the Republican right filled the gap.

Of course, it's quite possible for the well educated to work with high school grads, but it has to be seen as desirable by both and in a climate of increasing class distinction becomes less likely. One result: the common assessment of liberals as "elitists."

As a Harvard graduate who was introduced to politics in Philadelphia as a 12 year old stuffing envelopes around union guys, and who later was involved in the civil rights movement and edited a newspaper in a poorer part of town, I know this is not a matter of politics or ideology. It is the result of experience, culture and inclination. You just have to care what people who aren't like you worry about.

This tendency has weakened in no small part due to cultural reasons, one of the classic ones being that the Internet has encouraged us to deal primarily with those like ourselves. This limited approach can also be seen in identity culture which ignores the possibility that one's own identity can be strengthened by building natural alliances with people not like you. As one of six children I learned early that others were different from me and from each other. and if you were only one-sixth of the total you needed some friends and allies.

And what brings us together: common interests and common causes.About a decade ago I described in an interview one way I had been involved in doing this back in the 1990s:

We had a conference here in Washington, in which we invited members of, I think it was something like fifteen third parties, state or local or national. We had Libertarians there and we had Perot people there. I think 120 people come to this conference from all over the country, and here's what our game was. We were going to try to find consensus on a bunch of issues.

Now mind you, we had a group that ran from the old leftist from the 1930s, all the way to the Libertarians and the Perot people. We came up with seventeen points of agreement, using some very, very simple principles. One was that we were in that room not to talk about the things we disagreed with each other on, but to find the things we agreed upon. One of the Libertarians came up to me and said. "You know, we're going to have to fight you on healthcare, so maybe you don't want us here any more." I said, "No stick around, we'll find some things to agree about."
We sat around at different tables that each took different issue areas. And the way we did it, we had a board on which we would list the ideas people proposed. And then you each had three stickers, and you'd get up and you'd put your three stickers with your name on it all on one, or one on three, or two on one and one on another, and it was sort of fun because everybody got out of the normal political mode.

If you got all through this and you had,say, ten or twelve issues that had a lot of stickers on them; there were also some that only had one. You could go up and you could get your sticker from the one that only had one on it and move it to some place else. At every table we came up pretty much with a consensus on a number of issues.

We also had a fishbowl negotiation. Where there was a problem, these ten tables would appoint someone to go be a negotiator. And then we would sit behind the person who was our negotiator, and if we didn't like what that person did we'd call a timeout and then we'd negotiate with our negotiator.

I'd never seen anything like this. This wasn't my idea. This was all new to me. I came up with the sticker idea; that was my only contribution to the thing. At the end of the day we came up with seventeen points of agreement.

What if blacks, Latinos, women, labor union members and others came together and discovered what they agreed upon and put it out as a political declaration of a new coalition? It wouldn't damage their identities in the slightest, but would create a major force of common interest. And that coalition, far more than anything that is happening now, could change the course of the election as well as improving its relations with each other. .

The Democrats have a fine collection of candidates but this isn't a political Apprentice show,. It's about creating a forceful projection of what would happen no matter who was elected. It's about changing the lives of millions of Americans. And convincing them, as the Democrats have been so often unable to do this past half century, that they have the force and support to do it.

https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/if-democrats-lose-to-trump-here-are-few.html

~Some people get mad at me when I say I'm glad Trump got elected instead of Hillary. [I wanted Bernie, but...well, you know] The HilBots become positively apoplectic, getting as vicious as any Trumptard. But Hillary would have been just more of the same slow somnambulist slide into the Corporatist Abyss, like the proverbial frog in the pot. She is a not a 'liberal', but, like Obama before her, a Center/Right Corporatist who merely makes 'liberal noise' at the Dem base while selling out to her donors and adding money to the Clinton coffers. Really, what good are LGBT Rights when you can't afford your rent or put food on the table?

The Donald on the other hand is a nonstop horror show of Racism and Fascism, all so overt that even the most craven compromisers can no longer stomach it, as they each, one by one, puke him up. But this American Nightmare Realized was truly necessary. It has held up a mirror to us collectively and forced us to confront all of the many ugly truths about who we are as a Nation and a People.

Yes, many are suffering because of it, but to be brutally honest, not too many more than were already suffering and who would have kept suffering under HRC. And now many latent Progressives have been shocked awake.

Me, I was not all that surprised, but then I'm a pretty cynical son of a bitch. I've been sharpening my blades for a very long time.

At least now we're awake and those Racist Fascist sociopaths who dwell among us have revealed themselves in all their hideous glory, friend and family members we thought were 'good people' can now be seen as the monsters they are and handled accordingly.


What will come of all this, we shall see. Ain't gonna be pretty, that's for certain...

~45 years ago, Gloria Steinem, a feminist writer and former CIA employee, founded Ms Magazine. She said she wanted 'a magazine owned and operated by and for women', of which there was none at the time. And the publication pioneered many Women's Issues. But it also did something else, something rather more subtle; it shifted Feminism away from Radicalism and mainstreamed it into the American Corporate Culture.

In the process it turned Feminism from a vital social movement into a Marketing Niche. Once again, actually. Edward Bernays had done that with women publicly smoking cigarettes as an 'act of freedom' back in 1920. Virginia Slims reproduced that model quite successfully in the 1970's.

This Corporate Feminism told women [though mostly White Middle Class woman] that they 'could have it all' within the Capitalism paradigm if they just worked hard. Of course the actual Corporate World [White Males] fought that tooth and nail and many of those women who tried to 'have it all' dropped out exhausted. Some, like Hillary Clinton, became even worse than most of the bastards they were up against, Hillary still having to use one of those bastards as a wedge to push her way in.

And now, here she is, at the pinnacle of her 'have it all' career and she cannot even put away a goon like Donald Trump. It's not because she's a woman, though that is a factor. No, it is because she is so obviously a Corporatist and the Electorate hates that now, having been plundered and pillaged by Corporations for decades.

This is ultimate betrayal of Feminism in all its forms. When the perfect Corporate Feminist reached her moment of triumph, Corporatism has become so toxic she will be lucky to scrape out a victory against the most vile and hated presidential candidate since Huey Long.

And that is why so many of you women who have committed to this brand of Feminism – and have no doubt it IS a Brand – are losing your minds. It's not about Hillary. It's not even about Trump. It is that the failure of your Brand is now stark and undeniable, though of course you'll keep denying that to the very end.

~So, once again, my foray into American Electoral Politics is ending in Disappointment and Depression...and a fair amount of Rage. I knew better, but 'hope' seduced me. I allowed my cynicism to abate. More the fool me...

...and that brings me to this meme I created a half dozen years ago and which still holds true:

TO DEFEAT THE CORPORATE CONFEDERACY TAKES PATIENCE AND GUILE

“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate Confederacy* at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.

Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse *and* to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”

For me, that 'functional structure' is The Sisterhood. So once again I need to refocus upon the Liber Sorores. What has been written needs some editing - like the Preface now that my mother is dead - and obviously the whole thing needs to be finished...

…I wrote the above in a burst on June 8th and then the aforementioned 'Disappointment and Depression' ground me to a halt. This has stewed the past few days [it's a bit after 4am on the 12th] and it finally dawned upon me how I was 'seduced'. I want things to 'be okay', at least for a while. And that is what is driving so many now, especially Hillary supporters and those Sanders supporters who've turned on a dime to become the former.

But that's not going to happen, kids. I finally remembered my Primary Mantra; "It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." And that's what supporting Bernie – and then Hillary – is all about. We all what to 'be okay' with what we've got...and that is killing us.

Bernie means well, Goddess Bless him, but he's trying to fix something that is irrevocably broken and so many of are desperate for that to happen because we're rightly afraid of what comes next.

So Her Prophet is back once again to where he is supposed to be; working as hard as he can on building that other 'functional structure', the one he probably will not get to see, which makes said work very lonely and sad, but that is my Path and such is what I must do...

...and so it is.



*I call the thing a 'Confederacy' instead of a 'state' because it is not monolithic, but a series of groupings that compete among themselves, but are more of less unified in their general outcome, which is to own everything and keep 'the masses' under control.

Seems like Hillary is tanking and there's noise about 'parachuting in Joe Biden' to 'save the party'. Well, go ahead, you mother fuckers, just try to slip Smilin' Joe past Bernie on the floor in Philadelphia. There's going to be hundreds of thousands of Bernie supporters in the streets outside. Pulling that shit will make Chicago '68 look like a fucking bake sale. You have been warned....

~For a few years in my early teens I was a fairly dedicated National Socialist. Like many who find Nazism, my motivations were emotional, not political. Basically, I wanted to torture my Jewish step father, who fully deserves to be tortured, trust me. Also, my parents were rich hippy artists, so 'going Left' would not have been the rebellious act as it was for so many of my contemporaries.

After a few years, I moved on, but I have always maintained a deep fascination with The Third Reich and all its doings and have become quite an expert on the thing. As such, I wish to share some of that expertise and shall do so from the point of view of National Socialism itself in order to give those of you who've only known it from the outside a true feel of real Nazism.

A few years back I said the following: “To wit, it is contended that the German National Socialist movement, aka Nazism, had an impact upon the 20th Century – politically, psycho-culturally, philosophically, economically, technologically, theologically – of such depth and profundity that it far outweighs the impact of all the other movements of that century, one which irrevocably changed the not only the course of human history, but even the ways in which we perceive ourselves as human.”

In my capacity as Her Prophet also said: "From The Sisterhood's point of view, Adolf Hitler taught the Single Most Important Epistemological Lesson of the 20th Century. He showed in very clear and totally uncompromising terms how a purely Masculinist Patriarchal State would look and how it would function."

Now I shall put on my 'Nazi Hat' and explain a few things....

~Adolf Hitler is National Socialism's Prophet and his words are the final words on all matters related to NS.

~Nazism and White Supremacy are not the same thing, though many ignorant 'white people' have conflated the two. Nazism and Fascism are not the same thing, but again many ignorant people have conflated the two.

~Nazism is not really a political system, though it acted as one in Germany from 1919 to 1945. Nazism is a Nationalist Spiritual Movement which holds that the Germanic Peoples are naturally superior to all other peoples and as such should rule over all other peoples. While it manifests certain elements of Fascism, the latter is a pure political system based upon Corporatist collaboration.

~Hitler believed the Jews to be the natural and eternal enemy of the Germanic People. In that context, Holocaust Denial is a crime against NS. True Nazis celebrate the Final Solution as the Third Reich's most significant achievement. Denial of it is weakness, a mewling petite bourgeois conceit that that insults The Führer.

~Hitler believed the Slavic peoples to be subhuman and meant to be first enslaved and finally exterminated via a brutal labor regime. The inclusion of Russians, Ukrainians, etc in NS is in direct opposition to The Führer's beliefs and shows how polluted modern so-called NS has become.

Part of the blame for this can be laid at Himmler's door. He recruited many non-Aryan groups in to the Waffen SS as the war went on, including many Slavs. Like all too many in the hierarchy of the Third Reich, he was a weak self serving sycophant.

~In the end, Hitler said, “If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed.”

~In that context, National Socialism died with Adolf Hitler and The Third Reich. That which has followed is only pathetic mummery.

...and now I take off my 'Nazi Hat'.

Of course, most of NS is nonsense. It's esoteric foundations are just a mish-mash of reheated 19th Century pseudo-scientific racial theories that were themselves musty leftover Medieval superstitions and ancient tribal creation mythologies reworked by crackpots and lunatics, all liberally dosed with knee-jerk antisemitism. But Hitler was a genius in how he used all that and woven into NS are some Very Harsh Lessons About Power that are still true to this day.

With the advent of Transhumanism, the idea of a superior race is becoming a reality, a group of humans who will be genetically and cybernetically enhanced. But when one can engineer the color of one's hair and eyes, the whole concept of 'the blonde blue eyed Aryan superman' becomes a joke.

While the world's various ethnic groups have certain genetic proclivities brought on by culturally driven selective breeding, none of these groups are 'superior'. They each produce geniuses and defectives, though mostly, they just produce mediocre humans.

I expect some 'white folks' will start squawking about White Genocide! and other such hoohah. My response to them is 'Stop yer fucking whining! It's weak and sad.' The modern world is an Anglo-European invention and will stay that way for many centuries to come. The two most populous nations on Earth, India and China, are run along European lines and each individually has more English speakers than the entire population of the British Isles.

We of European descent have had a damned good run, nearly six centuries of almost total global domination, economically, politically and culturally. And even if we're fading, that legacy will out live us. So have some fucking dignity about this, for fuck's sake.

Remember, in the end, Kultur is more important than skin color and we've already won that struggle for the ages.