Morning Comrades.
Admittedly, there are too many ideas and drafts floating around in this space that I once again struggled to present some sort of cohesion here - believe it or not I do actually try and tie all these brain farts together in some sort of progressive structure. Of course, this little adhd riddled brain spent the last 4 hours trying to figure out how to do just that without actually getting any fucking writing done and as it happens so often, something clicked because I got angry. Angry at the audacity of their bullshit to be clear so don’t ever let anyone tell you that anger isn’t a gift. It is.
As I was browsing the usual rage amplifiers Tuesday morning, the propaganda arms of the NATO empire were trying, desperately as usual to deflect from their very real support and complicity in genocide by focusing their narrative on the dangers to the threat of democracy- from Trump, to the German New Nazi Party to Oban, Le Pen- you name it. It doesn’t really matter from where you read this, since both Reagan and Thatcher very much laid the foundation for these far-right parties to emerge as their excuse to legitimize their fascist bullshit throughout the self-titled home of freedom and democracy, aka the “west”. I know, it sounds a little off the wall but these movements are nothing but that, they don’t represent a reactionary front against the conservative capital party hierarchies but rather exist as an extension of them - you know the modus operandi - again no matter if its the Tea Party, UKIP, the French National Assembly or the German AFD - they’ll scream bloody murder against anyone not into their white supremacist bullshit and the ruling parties will scream “we have to defend democracy” only for them to then legitimize exactly these racist and fascist realities through their so called democracy.
I don’t give a fuck about their brand of democracy.
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