The mushroom cloud is already here. It’s just moving too slowly to see at first. The traces of it can be seen everywhere-in the peeling paint and overgrow of houses that can’t be refurbished with this economy, in the unnaturally hot weather we’ve all in some way experienced, in things as mundane as our culture’s typical political vocabulary amid a state of decline. The cloud has been created by a litany of mistakes humanity has made-the rise of corporate power, the weakening of our liberal institutions, the modern disconnect from nature-that happened in increments too small for enough people to have cared to stop them.
The cloud has grown through the self-perpetuating strings of disasters that these missteps have made (the corporatisation of the economy drove up poverty, poverty drove up rightist demagoguery, rightist demagoguery resulted in an even more corporatized government, and so on), till now, after centuries of this collapse cycle, the cloud is close to manifesting visually in a war between the two major nuclear superpowers.
There’s no reasoning with those behind this war effort, because they see this situation from a completely different vantage point than ordinary people do. They’ve been taught not to perceive the dangers of a confrontation with Russia by their extreme conditioning into neoconservatism-what Dr. Paul Craig Roberts calls “the most dangerous ideology that has ever existed”-which glorifies war and U.S. imperialism without limit. They’ve been made physically comfortable with the idea of an apocalypse by their immersion in the modern super-rich lifestyle and by the luxury survival bunkers they’ve built in recent years. Economic terrorism and environmental holocaust are rationalized in the same way, turned into what look like trivialities from within the safety of the palace.
Hillary Clinton, who so well exemplified this elite disconnect from danger by promising last year that her precarious no-fly zone plan couldn’t lead to war with Russia, represented an agenda that the Deep State has been planning on getting through whether or not she’d win. This agenda is being advanced through frequent and theatrical revelations from suspicious government sources about Russia, a tactic which was illustrated dramatically last month when the beltway Russiagate uproar softened after Trump signed Russia sanctions. And it includes nothing less than the creation of a society devoid of empathy or independent thought, where fear over manufactured enemies and a hostility toward nonconformists are universal and enforced by every aspect of life.
Something like that already exists as so much of the populus hates the poor, sides against whistleblowers, and detests science and higher education. And it’s clear those responsible for this will do anything to turn it into their ideal vision.
I don’t know exactly what the Deep State is trying to do by escalating tensions with Russia, or what exactly is going on with this wild internal drama the government is in, or what the outcome of it all might be. What I know is that all life on earth, or at least anything like democracy, is under threat from the insane agenda being enabled by the Clintonites. And that I should make my intentions and the intentions of most Americans clear: we are not going to let the planet be destroyed in a heart-wrenchingly appropriate atomic cloud because a small minority of the population still sides with the old systems.
Yes, Peter Dou, Joy Reid, and the other palace insiders who, even in this moment of peril, are now tweeting racism and sexism charges against Sanders supporters amid the first hints of scrutiny for your 2020 Wall Street candidate. I’m stating what the Washington culture, in its arrogance, has decided to ignore, which is that most people don’t support the imperialist, neoliberal order. This was proven last year when it took the literal flipping of millions of votes to nominate the establishment candidate, who then lost an election all indicators said the people’s candidate would crush. It was also proven when the corporate news outlets became less sought out than the independent media, when the grassroots political scene became dominated by revolutionary-minded people, and when the formerly untouchable oligarchy couldn’t get its TPP passed because of the people’s will.
If those insiders don’t like my use back there of the term “neoliberal” as they’ve made clear in other contexts, or don’t like my pejorative use of the term “neocon,” I’m proud to include them. Because words like these express the obscene injustices of the machine that the Clintonites are trying to keep in place-and that we, the majority of the population, are going to dismantle before it can take the human race down with it.
We don’t support your way of running things, Clintonites, because we’ve essentially had them in place for 5,000 years and they’ve gotten us here. It’s August 2017, a few more small malfunctions on humanity’s part are probably all that separate us from obliteration, and we’re not letting it happen that way. We’re going to keep making noise about the Deep State’s tactics from our enormous platforms in the alternative media. We’re going to keep seeking out strategies to block what the neocons want to do, whether those strategies involve politics or some deeper means if change. We’re going to end this insanity, build a better world in its place, and do so knowing that till the nuclear missiles are actually fired, the mushroom cloud is reversible.
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