Morning Comrades.
This line of thought of was prompted by nothing surprising but it still stuck with me, as it does so often when politicians here int he West let their mask slip. Granted, that’s essentially all of the time these days, since we have allowed them to be free from fear, as any public servant that so blatantly shits on this premise should be, but I digress in my ideas of equaling the playing field of power. By now, I am sure everyone saw the clip of Nancy Pelosi, a politician from the US that personally, embodies the corrupt cruelty of our feudalistic past perfectly. For those that haven’t, here you go:
What we are not going to talk about is the inherent need for the self-proclaimed democratic power structures in the West to create bogeyman - the manufactured fear of either an internal or external threat is one of the oldest tricks in the manipulation game for power. Those with power genuinely manufacture almost all if not all threats to justify their violence over us. That’s not up to debate. What I found interesting, again, with this example is the clarity in which the real power structures show themselves. In other words, it makes no difference, whether it be in North America or in Europe, who is presenting themselves as “in charge”, what remains is this: the capitalist empire is non-negotiable and whomever, whatever is deemed a threat to its purpose, the accumulation of capital by all means necessary, will be dealt with, harshly.
Considering the fact that the US is entering another election cycle and that to this day, these elections, as wildly alien they are to the rest of the world, have measurable impact on almost the entire planet, let’s get into it.
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