Donald Trump, in a speech given in Charlotte on Thursday, August 18, cast himself as the truth teller for forgotten Americans and a champion of those who feel that the best is behind them. He was clearly presenting himself as a guy who fundamentally calls it as he sees it\u2026in contrast to Clinton\u2019s politically correct doublespeak. \u201cI am running to be the vote for every forgotten part of this country that has been waiting and hoping for a better future\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThe insiders fighting for the insiders\u2026I am fighting for you\u201d was his pitch.<\/p>\n
Putting the cat among the pigeons \u2014 or the Donald among the ducks \u2014 was the surest way to ignite the stink-bomb that signalled the commencement of the shit-stirring reality-tele fiasco that subsequently enveloped Washington D.C. \u00a02016 had suddenly become the year that closed ranks against the prying eyes of those who would dare to question institutional insider-corruption \u2014 only God could help those who dared question the conventional wisdom of the insiders. \u00a0Assailing our collective nostrils was the stench of the Pentagon\u2019s army-pit body-odour brought on by unregulated warfare and unaccountability.<\/p>\n
The truth about America\u2019s murderous Foreign Policy debacle is rendered mute within the current \u2018duopoly\u2019 seeking the leadership position because both sides need to defend the might-is-right posturing practices that keeps the $$ faucet open. Self-criticism is verboten because it might appear to rain on the parade of the exceptional people, and besides, everybody loves a circus. To question what is happening in the Middle East would entail ruffling the feathers of the insider-elite who hide behind a strain of propaganda that truly represents the literature of the Moneyed, Military and Media classes, there to silence doubters and dissidents. Yes, those forces that had gotten together in order to cower the mug punter into submission with tales of Armageddon and end-of-history shit, were more than successful in scaring the citizens of the free world to piss their pants in fear of phantom catastrophes.<\/p>\n
But the Government, with the connivance of the media, lied about the location of the fetid smell of corruption that engulfs the nation \u2014 if not the world \u2014 in attributing the source of the stale crotch smell now permeating our democracy to the barbarian-at-the-gate. They who have so successfully turned the media into a laundry for airbrushing the unwanted aromas emanating from all things covert, are not about to allow an outsider, a trumped-up crusader, to marshal the disenfranchised, the alienated, the Waiting-for-Godos of the world to redefine the political map.<\/p>\n
If the media is capable of having Henry Kissinger, Robert Kagan or Victoria Nuland over for a civilised chat and a quiet cup of tea without nostril-twitching, it proves that stage-managing shit is no big deal in America. The media has become so efficient in commodifying the good-guy, bad-guy image of insider versus outsider to consumers, that it frequently uses its power to shape the public \u2018discourse\u2019 in ways that are nothing short of medieval. The trick to aligning the policy of Constant Warfare with the public mood is to create the threat of a constant enemy. It works every time; the public have become pathologically unaware of the consequences of America\u2019s Foreign Policy, oblivious to the horrors that are perpetrated in their name. Homeland Security hype was introduced to interpose a sense of fear in the public mind against the enemy in order to conceal the fact that Foreign Policy is merely a cover for pursuing wars for profit. Manipulating the truth became the premier art form disseminating shit on-line, on-cue, on-record and en masse, since technology produced the means to reduce a healthy degree of paranoia to a mere pusillanimous twitch.<\/p>\n
If the resolution of the 2008 financial collapse was to keep insiders inside the game \u2014 and outsiders (the rest of us) outside of the game \u2014 it worked.\u00a0 It was because the insiders enjoyed the privilege of occupying a profitable and protected place within the system that enabled them to act exclusively and separately from regulation and oversights that would have curbed their greed. The fat-cats of Wall Street, Post Code $$$$ were purring over their ill-gotten gains as the sky was falling on Main Street. Those obese felines who pussy-footed between Sorcery Finance, Kitty-Litter-Squats and back again to rort us over and over again were ghetto-masters from the unregulated underworld. We, the \u2018suckers\u2019 exposed to the villainy they so specialised in, could only experience what it was like to not be an insider. And when the house of cards crashed down, these thieves within the system were the first to front up at Noah\u2019s Welfare Ark for protection against the shit-fest they had unleashed on an unsuspecting world \u2014 thus did the literature of democracy commence to lose its meaning.<\/p>\n
So instead of fixing the banking system, the literature of privatization has lifted the grammar of consumerism to a new level of profit-from-purchase as a panacea for every conceivable transaction known to human kind. \u00a0The consequences of separating those who remain inside the system from those outside of it\u2013 those who cannot afford to consume \u2014 is not an issue that can be resolved by capitalism, however. Hence, the existence of the Western ghetto style of communities. The literature of Capitalism has become king, because it is the kingmaker of consumer products that furnishes the Extreme Centre with material meaning for those capable of surviving within the system. Industrial Finance, Military Hardware, branded transportation, gadgets to fiddle with, gazebos to gawk out of, gear to flatter the ego with, artificial grass to lie upon, or simply everything and anything to project ones desires onto, are engineered for us 24\/7.<\/p>\n
Capitalism has become the most successful game in town (if you are moneyed) proving the point that there is nothing sacred in the world anymore. There is no longer any clear-cut distinction between left and right in politics\u2026only a centre\u2026only an Extreme Centre that has come into existence to define status in this unsavoury world of profit taking, warfare and alienation. Everything from sexual orientation, diet, body shape is measured by responses to the gravitational-pull of money. If you have what it takes to be taken \u2014 sexually or professionally \u2014 a two-dimensional life is yours for a price. But life became bigger than life itself when Wall Street was allowed to take charge of the money, which begs the question, what does this say about American awareness? \u00a0Inflating appetite for profit-taking that casino-capitalism\u2019s voodoo schemes offer is to expose one to a system wherein indifference to the consequences of corrupt practices are of slight matter. To understand the effect that exclusivity plays in the scheme of things, it is necessary to step outside the gated-community to discover what \u2018fixing\u2019 the system means.<\/p>\n
Consequences test the viability of an economic system. China, a Communist State running an economy capitalising on capitalism, has chosen a unique path into the future based on inclusiveness. Having grafted elements of Marxism and Confucianism to a programme that is putatively a long march towards including all in the economic system, the test now is to manage issues affecting the polity as a whole. Frequent regulation to fine-tune the transition to include ever more of the rural population into the grand-plan would appear to be the first line of defence. That China\u2019s extreme centre \u2014 consumerist et al<\/em> \u2014 can function without inflicting constant warfare on its neighbours, suggests that it has a historic perspective within its core that contains the capacity to mollify extremes of power.<\/p>\n While America continues with its insidious Empire creep to devastate one country after another, China, on the other hand, appears to have a different awareness regarding the potential to cultivate non-aggressive means to grow its industrial might, without resorting to crushing its competitors. America, on the other hand, seems to lack basic decency at the level of its social stem cells. Its bloody colonial past is a history of violence that keeps on giving. In your face celebrity culture, secret bank accounts, ghetto creation, the-biggest-this-the-biggest-that, the postal service that can deliver death and destruction by air to any part of the globe \u2014 and does \u2014 describe a nation that has devolved into a parliament of vanities. Whilst there are esteemed people in hallowed halls distilling the essence of Gabriel\u2019s trumpeting of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, there is nigh total absence of any evidence showing awareness or respect for human values in America\u2019s social stock. The greatest show on earth turned out to be a David and Goliath struggle between the founding Fathers and the egomaniacal materialists for pride of place\u2026what ensued was a vainglories stampede into debauchery\u2026with the help of firearms aplenty.<\/p>\n The spectacle of carnage that American Military might has wrought on the Muslim World in recent decades is gruesomely evil and fully exposed to everyone, yet no amount of violence perpetrated in the name of America is too much for a public that seems to lack any awareness of what it means to possess decency. The hot favourite to wear the mantle of President in the upcoming election is none other than Hillary Clinton, a representative of the aforesaid \u2026one of the destroyers of Libya\u2026go figure\u2026see the blood on her hands?<\/p>\n So the American avatar has feet of clay and blood drips from its hands. It is now high time for the so-called West to divest itself of this leadership model that is only capable of germinating inept seed that breeds standover tacticians ad nauseam: American democracy is a misnomer, a hideous mask. Its extreme centre is dead weight in the purifying waters of hope without an ethical code. Text can produce the two-dimensional man or woman, but leadership requires a three-dimensional grasp of reality that includes all its subjects in a code of conduct that represents some form of justice for all. Confucius was understood in a very real and three-dimensional way because his thinking was concerned with consequences, per se<\/em>. Similarly, Marx\u2019s insightful economic thinking was universal in the breath of its inclusiveness. But the American avatar, more demon than divine teacher, can do no better than denigrate its competitors for the purpose of ravishing them \u2014 its \u2018war-on-terror\u2019 a schizophrenic HOWL that would have made Alan Ginsberg cringe.<\/p>\n So if per chance Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or wishy-washy Sanders got in the way of a giant wayward intergalactic gum-boot and were erased from reality in one foul swoop, what would the consequences be? Maybe sweet bugger all! American patriotism has been bursting the seams of its Military attire since day one and the consequences have been awful. Where are the quality leaders needed to address this problem? Believing that their own brand of patriotism to be God-given, Americans set about laying country after country to waste in the name of democracy. Along the way, the vulgarity of their loud militaristic fa\u00e7ade unleashed a very nasty version of exceptionalism into the world.<\/p>\n Patriotism in Moscow, Ankara, Brussels, Sydney, New Delhi, Mogadishu or Havana has no place in America\u2019s New Global Order.\u00a0 That is why the Hegemonic Extreme Centre has so many ballistic missiles pointed outwardly in all directions. The Empire had demonstrated its taste for dominance at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to install fear as the central plank of its agenda. To mark the arrival of the Brave New Extreme Centre era, nuclear fireworks were the instruments of choice.\u00a0 Expect the patriots who come out to vote in November to squabble over which insider they should support to make their War Brand great again and enjoy the privilege of fingering the nuclear triggers.<\/p>\n