(I originally wrote the following as a reply to a portion of a comment by n1cholas on Oui’s recent post ABC News and Russia Witch Hunt. It grew, and I am now posting it as a stand-alone.)
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n1cholas wrote:
When sane conservatives are forced to operate as Democrats, then liberals and Democratic Socialists break off and can begin dragging the country forward. And not one moment before.
Outside of the impossibility of a good definition of the word “sane” in this context, it appears to me that you have hit only half of the nail on the head here.
A more complete statement might go something like his:
When sane Republicans are forced to operate as Democrats and sane Democrats are forced to operate as Republicans, then the Democrats can shove troublesome liberals and Democratic Socialists to the side (as did the HRC/DNC forces with Bernie Sanders during the primaries); the sane Republicans can do the same with their own troublesome members and we can once again can begin dragging the country toward the bipartisan neocentrism of the Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II and Obama years. And not one moment before. Only then can the American Empire even possibly continue to reside in its important world position.
Of course, even if that were to happen…a result regarding which the mass media are working more and more feverishly with every passing day…Russia and China would still have something to say about it.
It’s 1984, people.
WTFU.
Oceania covers the entire continents of America and Oceania and the British Isles, the main location for the novel, in which they are referred to as ‘Airstrip One’. Eurasia covers Europe and (more or less) the entire Soviet Union. Eastasia covers Japan, Korea, China and northern India.
1984.
Permanent (nudge-nudge/wink-wink) “war,” which serves to keep the world’s population in a such a permanent state of fear that they can be fairly easily controlled.
1984 came a little later than Orwell imagined…I’d say around the time that Russia and China became sufficiently capitalist/oligarchist to be trusted in this latest version of the Great Game…but we’re in it now.
Up to our necks.
Is there a better solution?
I don’t think so. Not anymore. The system will continue to function just as it is functioning now, at least until it breaks down. (And when might that happen? Years? Decades? Months? Next week? Tomorrow? All bets are off on that subject because the whole system is too potentially volatile. One outside extremist force could…with a single successful WMD attack…change everything.) All “extremists”…and the Trumpers are most definitely that in eyes of the U.S. neocentrist/bipartisan control system, as are the Sanders supporters…all extremists of every stripe will be if not totally eliminated at least reduced to buffoonish cartoon characters that can be thoroughly non-personed by the media and thus laughed off. Trump’s recent success was simply a failure of the U.S. control system. It was not ready for the power of social media, and Trump and his allies (Controllers?) took advantage of this mistake.
That particular error will not be repeated.
They will either totally get rid of Trump and his allies (by any means necessary, hopefully non-violent) or failing that, at the very least cripple them, probably through some sort of change in one (or maybe even two) of the majorities in Congress over the next several years.
Watch.
The center will hold.
This time.
Watch.
