First, no this is not a post about Lenin’s famous pamphlet by the same name……..
This election has proven to be the election that has nothing to offer the people of this country but more and more interventionism….NO where is there a candidate with the exception of 3rd party candidates that has anything to say other than more….more….more to mindless interventionism.
They are, the two major ones, in bed with the defense contractors of the M-IC…..
How can this change?
In the midst of an election in which the issues are largely ignored in favor of sensationalism and smears, the anti-interventionist voter is pretty much at sea. Hillary Clinton’s demagogic Russia-baiting of Trump as a Kremlin “puppet” augurs a foreign policy that will take us back to the arctic winter of the cold war, circa 1950. On the other hand, the GOP nominee, for all his encouraging “America first” rhetoric and his stated unwillingness to get into another arms race with the former Soviet Union, would likely take us into other quagmires – ISIS, China, Iran – and, in any event, cannot be trusted.
So what is to be done?
The first thing is to disabuse yourself of the notion that any politician or political party currently prominent will magically get us out of the business of Empire. This isn’t to say that political action is wrong, or ineffective – far from it. What I’m saying is that it is up to us to build a movement out of which a new politics of peace and liberty can be nurtured and brought to maturity.
Source: What Is To Be Done? – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
American people need to stand up and start worrying about the future and the problems that all the nation’s interventionism has created….it is a vicious cycle that needs breaking and only the voter can do it…..
Enough said?
I’ve been saying for years that we can’t “help” others if we can’t help ourselves first. And by “help” in quotes, I’m referring to the military actions we’ve taken in the name of freedom. Domestic policy should always be first, foreign policy second; but not to the extreme we had post WWI.
I totally agree
Again, totally on the mark. But it will not be the “voters” who will bring about change, it will be an existing counter-force to the Washington/Wall Street cabal. Traditionally, unless huge numbers of “citizens” take to the hills as revolutionaries, something I cannot see Americans doing because they are not actually an ethnic “people” and are severely and hopelessly split along racial, ideological and religious lines, that means the military. Prepare for a military coup… and they will take the guns away, make no mistake.
7 Days in May….great book and a better movie…..could be a happening….chuq