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Caitlin Johnstone covers most of the bases here, but she misses a key point — domestic politics. The irrationality of the leadership is compounded by the exigencies of domestic politics, each party perceiving a need to either match or outdo the other on matters of national security, "patriotism" and hewing the line of imposing 18th c. liberalism ("our values") on the world. This is basically ersatz religion, thus the justifying militarism, crusades and endless war, the real motivation of which is empire and global dominance to the point of sociopathy. Once the game is in play there is no way to influence it rationally as one party seeks to remain in power and the other to topple the other. This is called "democracy." China has just lambasted this farce in a series of white papers that get
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Caitlin Johnstone covers most of the bases here, but she misses a key point — domestic politics. Caitlin Johnstone covers most of the bases here, but she misses a key point — domestic politics. The irrationality of the leadership is compounded by the exigencies of domestic politics, each party perceiving a need to either match or outdo the other on matters of national security, "patriotism" and hewing the line of imposing 18th c. liberalism ("our values") on the world. This is basically ersatz religion, thus the justifying militarism, crusades and endless war, the real motivation of which is empire and global dominance to the point of sociopathy. Once the game is in play there is no way to influence it rationally as one party seeks to remain in power and the other to topple the other. This is called "democracy." China has just lambasted this farce in a series of white papers that get
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The irrationality of the leadership is compounded by the exigencies of domestic politics, each party perceiving a need to either match or outdo the other on matters of national security, "patriotism" and hewing the line of imposing 18th c. liberalism ("our values") on the world. This is basically ersatz religion, thus the justifying militarism, crusades and endless war, the real motivation of which is empire and global dominance to the point of sociopathy.
Once the game is in play there is no way to influence it rationally as one party seeks to remain in power and the other to topple the other. This is called "democracy." China has just lambasted this farce in a series of white papers that get it mostly right. Did you hear about that? Not likely.
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Caitlin Johnstone