HILLARY CLINTON: The woman who fought Barack Obama to be America's
first dictator.
In the days of the Cold
War, the narrative of the arch-reactionaries and anticommunists revolved around
a conspiracy theory according to which the United States had been infiltrated
at the highest levels by agents of the Soviet Union.
In the early 1950s,
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy led the anti-Soviet campaign, alleging that
Russian spies occupied top positions in the government, in universities, in
Hollywood and even in the military. According to McCarthy, “a conspiracy so
immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history
of man” implicated not only the Soviet Union but was also responsible for the
“loss of China” in the 1949 Chinese Revolution.
The “Red Menace” was
the pretext for attacking and delegitimizing all manifestations of social and
political opposition, including the Civil Rights movement, as the work of
“outside agitators” who received their orders from Moscow. It was Martin Dies,
the Democratic congressman from Texas and initiator of the witch-hunting House
Un-American Activities Committee, who declared in his 1940 book The Trojan
Horse in America that Moscow had “envisioned an unusual opportunity to create
racial hatred between the white and Negro citizens of the United States.”
In the late 1950s,
after the heyday of McCarthy, the political thread was taken up by the John
Birch Society, founded in 1958 by Massachusetts businessman Robert Welch, who
notoriously declared that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a “dedicated,
conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.”
In 1964, Welch backed
the ultra-right Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, whose failed presidential
campaign was heavily influenced by John Stormer’s book None Dare Call It Treason.
“Will America continue to aid the communist enemy,” Stormer asked, “to disarm
in the face of danger, to bow before communist dictators in every corner of the
earth? The decision is yours.”
Nothing is dead in
politics. The legacy of McCarthyism is now being revived by the campaign led by
the Democratic Party and summed up in a hysterical screed published Wednesday
in the Washington Post by Hillary Clinton, the
self-professed former “Goldwater girl,” under the headline, “Mueller documented
a serious crime against all Americans. Here’s how to respond.”
According to Clinton,
“Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and
security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert
S. Mueller III’s report.” The perpetrator again is Russia, which Clinton,
citing the Mueller report, claims has carried out a “sweeping and systematic”
attack on the United States.
The Clinton narrative,
which is the official line of the Democratic Party, is a monumental lie.
Responsibility for Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 elections is attributed
entirely to the operations of Russian bots and “Guccifer 2.0,” the persona of
the individual who supposedly hacked Democratic Party emails. Her campaign,
Clinton writes, was the “target of a Russian plot,” directed by President
Vladimir Putin, who “seeks to weaken our country.”
And what did this new
“conspiracy so immense” actually involve? According to the Mueller report
itself, organizations associated with Russia allegedly spent $100,000 on
Facebook ads. This is 0.12 percent of the $81 million spent by the Democratic
and Republican election campaigns themselves on Facebook ads, in a campaign
dominated by the $5 billion spent by the billionaire backers of the two parties
to buy the election.
As for the release of
Democratic Party emails, even if one accepts the unsubstantiated claim that it
was Russian operatives who turned them over to WikiLeaks, what the emails
revealed were true facts about the operations of Clinton and the Democratic National
Committee (DNC)—facts that the electorate had every right to know. Among the
documents released were Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs and other banks,
for which she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Other leaked emails
exposed the corrupt efforts of the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie
Sanders.
Clinton lost in the
2016 elections because the Democratic Party, in line with the class interests
it represents, made a calculated decision not to raise any social issues or
make any appeal to the working class in its campaign against Trump. Do Clinton
and company really expect the public to believe that Facebook ads put out by
Russian agents were behind the collapse in voter turnout in working-class areas
of Michigan, Wisconsin and other states?
The victory of the
billionaire demagogue Trump was the result of widespread disillusionment with
the Democratic Party after eight years of the Obama administration, which broke
every campaign promise and exposed as lies the empty prattle about “hope” and
“change.” Obama focused his energies on bailing out Wall Street and shoring up
the wealth of the corporate and financial elite.
In her column, Clinton
goes on to call for an alliance between the Democratic Party and the
Republicans. The situation calls for “clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive
partisanship,” she writes. She urges Republicans to work with Democrats in an
intensified campaign against Russia—with or without the Trump administration.
She writes: “It’s up to members of both parties to see where that road map
[provided by the Mueller report] leads—to the eventual filing of articles of
impeachment, or not. Either way, the nation’s interests will be best served by
putting party and political considerations aside and being deliberate, fair and
fearless.”
Clinton wants a
bipartisan foreign policy that is “fearless” in its aggression against not only
Russia, but also China. “Unless checked, the Russians will interfere again in
2020, and possibly other adversaries, such as China or North Korea, will as well,”
she warns. Unless Trump is “held accountable, the president will likely
redouble his efforts to advance Putin’s agenda, including rolling back
sanctions, weakening NATO and undermining the European Union.”
Changing what needs to
be changed, such words could have been penned by Robert Welch himself.
Confronting a fascistic president, the Democrats have managed to frame their
entire opposition around a right-wing narrative. If the Democrats had their way
and Trump were removed—to be replaced, don’t forget, by the ultra-right Vice
President Mike Pence—it is almost certain that the immediate consequence would
be war with nuclear-armed Russia.
Inextricably connected
to the conflicts over foreign policy is the escalation of the attack on
democratic rights within the United States. Reprising the ravings of Dies,
social discontent is attributed to the nefarious efforts of Russia to “sow
discord” within the United States.
Significantly, Clinton
cites as a model the actions of the ruling class after the September 11, 2001
attacks, when “Congress established an independent, bipartisan commission to
recommend steps that would help guard against future attacks.” She concludes,
“We need a similar commission to help protect our elections.”
The September 11
attacks—a terrorist atrocity that killed nearly 3,000 people—were followed by
the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Department, the Northern Command,
domestic spying, Guantanamo Bay, the institution of torture and drone
assassinations as government policy, and other crimes. The campaign of the
Democrats over the Russian “attack”—a lie fashioned from whole cloth—has been
accompanied by far-reaching moves to censor the internet under the guise of
combating “fake news.”
The Democrats’
warmongering and attack on democratic rights come together in the persecution
of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, whose enduring contribution to the
population of the world was the exposure of the crimes of American imperialism.
For this, Assange is currently imprisoned in Britain, facing imminent rendition
to the United States. The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning is in jail
for refusing to testify against him.
Such is Clinton’s
defense of “our democracy.”
All of this further
demonstrates that in the conflict between Trump and the Democratic Party there
is no progressive or democratic faction. The anti-Russia narrative has not been
challenged by any section of the Democratic Party, including Bernie Sanders,
who is again seeking to cover up this warmongering party with a thin veneer of
social reforms that it has no intention of implementing.
The conflict between
the Democrats and the Trump administration is a conflict between two
reactionary factions of the ruling class. All those political organizations and
groups that are seeking to direct social opposition behind the Democratic Party
are playing the most criminal role. They are no less terrified than Trump and
the Democrats of the development of a genuine socialist movement of the working
class, which will oppose American capitalism and its wars.
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Everyone knows she stood by her man, blamed his
women, and perhaps was a psychological co-rapist for the sake of her political
ambitions.
Bill and Hill - and the Evil that Men Do
If you asked one
hundred people what they think about when they hear the name Bill Clinton, a
goodly number will say womanizer, cheater – a few will use the dreadful word
rapist. And that number will increase. Time and neurology are working against
the Clintons.
Most memory training programs are simply a matter of learning how to associate
memories with emotionally charged ideas. This is because the brain is designed
to remember where the dangers and the goodies lie and to forget the dry
statistics. The brain is more inclined to remember Jennifer Flowers than the
unemployment rate in 1996. This effect has tainted the collective memory of
many presidents, for example, disclosures about the mistresses of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and John Kennedy. This effect will increase for Bill Clinton
both because of the outrageous nature of his conduct and the way it has and
will be reported.
People tend to cut
quite a bit of slack for the weaknesses of the flesh because there’s a lot of
that going around. But Hillary will gain no benefit from that latitude.
Everyone knows she stood by her man, blamed his women, and perhaps was a
psychological co-rapist for the sake of her political ambitions. Before
the next president is elected, Hillary will not only have an albatross around
her neck, she will be covered with names like Wellstone, Broaddrick, Moffet,
Ward Gracen, Brown, Dowdy, Jones, Ferguson, Zercher, Willey, and more. A majority
of those one hundred people will remember the evil the Clintons did, and their
legacy will be lost in the folds of tattered dresses and bleeding lips.
Lives -- after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be
with the Clintons.
If you asked one
hundred people what they think about when they hear the name Bill Clinton, a
goodly number will say womanizer, cheater – a few will use the dreadful word
rapist. And that number will increase. Time and neurology are working against
the Clintons.
Most memory training programs are simply a matter of learning how to associate
memories with emotionally charged ideas. This is because the brain is designed
to remember where the dangers and the goodies lie and to forget the dry
statistics. The brain is more inclined to remember Jennifer Flowers than the
unemployment rate in 1996. This effect has tainted the collective memory of
many presidents, for example, disclosures about the mistresses of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and John Kennedy. This effect will increase for Bill Clinton
both because of the outrageous nature of his conduct and the way it has and
will be reported.
People tend to cut quite a bit of slack for the weaknesses of the flesh because
there’s a lot of that going around. But Hillary will gain no benefit from that
latitude. Everyone
knows she stood by her man, blamed his women, and perhaps was a psychological
co-rapist for the sake of her political ambitions. Before the next
president is elected, Hillary will not only have an albatross around her neck,
she will be covered with names like Wellstone, Broaddrick, Moffet, Ward Gracen,
Brown, Dowdy, Jones, Ferguson, Zercher, Willey, and more. A majority of those
one hundred people will remember the evil the Clintons did, and their legacy
will be lost in the folds of tattered dresses and bleeding lips.
Lives -- after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be
with the Clintons.
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