We will soon go to the polls and vote for the one person that we trust to be out new commander-in-chief……but in this day and age do we need a commander-in-chief?
Maybe it’s the phrase — “Commander in Chief” — that best captures the transcendent absurdity and unaddressed horrors of the 2016 election season and the business as usual that will follow.
I don’t want to elect anyone commander in chief: not the xenophobic misogynist and egomaniac, not the Henry Kissinger acolyte and Libya hawk. The big hole in this democracy is not the candidates; it’s the bedrock, founding belief that the rest of the world is our potential enemy, that war with someone is always inevitable and only a strong military will keep us safe.
Source: Commander In Chief: Not Needed – LA Progressive
The voter needs to wake up top the fact that we are in a perpetual war footing…..we need to find a way to take ourselves out of this ever expanding equation…..all in all it is a world gone mad……(good title for an article)……
The relentless drumbeat against Donald Trump continues. The Washington Post on October 14 endorsed Hillary Clinton for president while also including in the print edition nine articles, three op-eds, and three letters blasting the GOP candidate, including pieces in the Style and Metro sections of the paper. On the following day there were five articles, a lead editorial, three letters, two op-eds, and two cartoons. And the Post is not alone, with the New York Times doing its bit in running news articles on Trump’s alleged sexual proclivities while the television media continue to run with the stories relating to earlier revelations. When Trump raised the possibility that all of this activity is being coordinated and possibly in part fabricated by the Clinton campaign, he was castigated for even suggesting such a thing.
More disturbing, in my opinion, is the role the White House has been playing in the drama. President Barack Obama has been active in speaking for Hillary and damning Trump, describing the GOP candidate as both unfit for office and lacking in the experience necessary to become head of state. There is a certain irony in Obama’s assertions, as he himself entered office as probably the least experienced president of the past hundred years, but it is the White House’s taking the lead in an electoral campaign that is at a minimum troubling. Traditionally, the president as head of state should be above the fray, as he is paid and empowered by the people to run the country, not to campaign for his successor. It is to be presumed that the Democratic National Committee foots the bill when Obama engages in campaign whistle-stops, but one has to wonder if that includes all the infrastructure costs involved in moving the president from place to place. And, undoubtedly, it would be difficult to winnow out costs when Obama combines campaigning and his official duties.
Source: A World Gone Mad | The American Conservative
Your vote can decide whether the world continues to go mad or if sanity can return of our foreign affairs……
Me? I’m thinking Green!
Yesterday one Hillary investigator stated the average gmail user has more security than her own little phone thing. This is the woman to protect us in cyber war ?
Damn good question….
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Happy Hump Day and I appreciate your help….hope all is well with the move….chuq
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There are many words describing the American landscape and the people roiling in it, but bottom line it’s always been a dictatorship with the POTUS as figurehead leader while the real rulers are elites, kleptocrats and war hawks. Problem: America is not a nation, it doesn’t even have a name. Americans are not a people, they are a distrustful aggegate of refugees from all parts of the world who came “there” to make money. Not to become a people, but to get rich, by whatever means. Most were at first desperate people escaping religious persecution and it’s a historical fact that such people become the most fanatical persecutors in their turn. The political “system” as established put all but the elites at an immediate disadvantage – negroes ensconced as a slave race; women denied the vote; working people deliberately exploited and oppressed, jailed, beaten and murdered when they tried to rise above the elitist bar. I could go on. But the war aspect, that comes from the capitalist fact that war is the tried and true way leading to the fastest way to get rich and powerful. “America’s” state of war isn’t always with guns: it’s been waging war against the poor and the environment since its inception, usually through favourable international treaties that allowed their elites to extort resources and slave labour from the rest of the non-industrialized world. And they learned this from the western empires, particularly the British empire, of which “America” as ruled by Washington and Wall Street, is but an extension, the whole thing controlled by the Zionists. Repeat: there is no such a country as America. All of us in the Americas are Americans and personally I resent being lumped in with those ignorant numbskulls with their monster trucks, their Kardashians, their guns and their appallingly sub-moron Hollywood movies and TV entertainment. I don’t care for parties, but the day “America” crumbles as any more of a threat to the world, I’ll make an exception and celebrate VA Day: Victory in the Americas.
Damn! Well said and some very good observations…thanx….chuq
Glad you did not get offended, but my observations span a lifetime, and I’m now officially 70, having lived 65 of those years across the USA border, in Canada. I had a history teacher in grade 12 who liked to remind us of our national position vis-a-vis the southern dragon: when America sneezes, Canada gets the flu. Politically, socially and economically, Canada is little more than another banana republic feeding cheap natural resources into the maw of the dragon. When pimp America says, “Strut your stuff, girl!” Canada struts her stuff… or the political and economic backlash is as instantaneous as a slap across the face. Fortunately for Canada, she’s young, resilient and has a lot of natural attributes to peddle for the pimp. Furthermore, and luckily for her, she’s mostly WASP. The pimp likes WASP.
I was not offended at all…I will be 70 in June so we have seen much the same plus I was a screaming radical in the 60-80’s….you may post any comment…chuq
Geez… I’m looking in the mirror. Activist, environmentalist, some politics, human rights – Central America during the Reagan death squads years, some Chilean involvement after Pinochet take over via CIA and the torture and slaughter of 10,000 Chileans, special gift from Uncle Sam. Now it’s up to coming generations to do whatever it is they deem right, necessary, or do nothing – their choice, not mine. They chose not to join the fight for justice so whatever they reap now from Killer Ray or the Pervert, they fully deserve every bit of it. Welcome to the Hunger Games without the predictable ending.
I knew that this generation was in trouble when one of their songs was “Waiting for the world to change”….kinda sez it all for me….chuq
Better a commander-in-chief than a junta!
The only commander in chief is the defense industry….and we do not vote for them…so a junta has already been…
I faded for most of today, & had planned to come by to comment. However, the comment above about covers it; I couldn’t see any egregious claims that aren’t clearly evidenced by historically established fact. And said well, too; a long litany of the indicators that show just how broken human culture has become… for it isn’t limited to this country, or Canada. We infest the entire globe.
That’s all I have today; I’ll pick it up tomorrow….
gigoid, the dubious
Get some rest and see ya tomorrow…chuq