Self Evidently Speaking….

Two Revelations:

A) Putin is an infinitely more dangerous enemy than Osama Bin Laden ever was. Nearly everybody was willing to do pretty much anything to bring the latter to justice, whereas now, one-third of the country is fine siding with someone who is seriously threatening nuclear war…you know, the kind of thing that would make the number of Covid deaths seem amusing.

B) There has never been a greater intelligence triumph than Putin turning what would be a U.S. President into an intelligence asset. Even more spectacular than that, the nitwits who made it happen (Trump’s 100 million cultists) believe they’re accomplishing the opposite by sticking with him like lovestruck teenagers. As Kaiser Sozay said, “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

I can’t say that I’m astounded anymore by how starkly wrong, hateful, and ignorant is the trump cult. How can I continue to be amazed by and scornful of a group of people who are so truthfully aligned with their true natures?

What’s getting me is the foolishness of one friend who told me how shocked and angry she was about Putin’s indiscriminate use of cluster bombs and other antipersonnel weapons on civilians. She forgot about the barrel bombs he used on Syrians. She forgot about OUR use of such weapons in Iraq. In Afghanistan. In North Vietnam. In South Vietnam. In Tokyo. In Hiroshima. In Nagasaki. In Dresden. In Hamburg. In Philadelphia. In Gaza. In Ramallah. We didn’t invent civilian terror bombing, but we certainly perfected it. Someday, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps never, we’ll halt the almost uniform support for American exceptionalism from most Republicans as well as many Democrats. Some day we’ll say to our collective selves, “It’s not them, it’s us.” I anticipate this will happen soon, just as soon as I get those X-Ray Specs I sent away for back in 1977. If you’re interested, one interesting article on the subject is this: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/04/1084230259/not-every-war-gets-the-same-coverage-as-russias-invasion-and-that-has-consequenc

It discusses American indifference to U.S. atrocities, but de-emphasizes the race element to this indifference, which kind of avoids the real issue. If Americans are incapable of feeling empathy for the non-white people dismembered, burned alive, raped, and/or otherwise mistreated as a result of the American Military Industrial Complex, than perhaps they should consider excluding those actions from their foreign policy….or switch to dismembering, burning alive, raping, and otherwise mistreating only other white people.

Out here.