By Caitlin Johnstone
une 05, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Barack Obama
has
given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives
Matter protests taking place in America today, and it
was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of
actual substance as you’d expect from a president who
spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement
with empty hope narrative while advancing the same
murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.
The
former president talked about changes that need to be
made as though he wasn’t the most powerful politician in
America for two full terms, praised the nation’s police
officers saying “the vast majority” of them protect and
serve the people, and encouraged them to continue making
empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm
them down.
“I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement
that share the goals of re-imagining policing,” Obama
said. “Because there are folks out there who took their
oath to serve your communities to your countries [who]
have a tough job, and I know you’re just as outraged
about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of
the protesters. So we’re grateful for the vast majority
of you who protect and serve. I’ve been heartened to see
those in law enforcement who recognize, ‘Let me march
along with these protestors. Let me stand side by side
and recognize that I want to be part of the solution,’
and have shown restraint and volunteered and engaged and
listened because you’re a vital part of the
conversation, and change is going to require everyone’s
participation.”
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George W Bush
also weighed in on the protests, with the
“compassionate conservative” who murdered a million
Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into
fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for “empathy,
and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace
rooted in justice.”
Establishment narrative managers on both sides of
America’s imaginary partisan divide have been saturating
the mass media with gushing praise for the two former
presidents and their wonderful words of healing and
unity, and indeed, the words are quite nice. They will
change exactly nothing, but they sound nice.
And that is exactly what a US president’s real job
is. Not to end police brutality and systemic racism, not
to make changes which benefit the American people, and
certainly not to make the world a less violent and
murderous place, but to say pretty words which lull the
public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the
sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them
blind.
This is not accomplished by
tweeting obnoxious things about shooting “thugs” and
getting censored by Twitter. It is not accomplished by
threatening to implement martial law against the
will of the states. It is not accomplished by using the
military to brutalize
protesters so you can pose in front of a burnt
church with an upside-down Bible. It is not accomplished
by calling the brother of George Floyd and
being curt, uninterested and dismissive. It is not
accomplished by first mismanaging a pandemic, then
mismanaging a response to an incendiary police murder,
then having nothing soothing or sympathetic to say that
makes people feel like you’re listening and you care. It
is not accomplished by creating an environment which
allows
photos to circulate of the nation’s capital burning.
And that, right there, is the one and only reason why
certain elements of the establishment do not like
President Trump.
Whenever I point out the
many, many evil establishment agendas that have been
advanced by the current US president, I always get Trump
supporters asking me “Well if he’s serving the
establishment, how come establishment media and
politicians attack him so hysterically, huh?”
This is why. At first glance it might seem strange to
see Democrats and their aligned media shrieking about
Trump with such an unprecedented degree of vitriol, but
they aren’t doing this because Trump resists the
establishment in any meaningful way on domestic or
foreign policy; he provides
no significant resistance to toxic establishment
agendas at all. The reason there’s been such shrill,
hysterical rhetoric about this president from
establishment narrative managers is because unlike his
predecessors, Trump puts an ugly face on the empire.
People who have dedicated their lives to advancing
the interests of the oligarchic empire see Trump as an
incompetent manager whose oafish, ham-fisted approach to
his role risks drawing attention to the evil things the
empire does. The US police force, for example, hasn’t
gotten any more brutal or racist since Trump has been in
office, he just hasn’t been able to manage events and
narratives competently to keep the peasants from waking
up and revolting.
Establishment narrative managers understand how to
skilfully manipulate public perception without being
obvious about it, and they understand how easily an
incompetent steward of empire can snap people out of
their propaganda trance. They therefore dislike Trump
for the same reason a new mother dislikes a noisy
neighbor: they’ll wake the baby. They don’t dislike
Trump because he does good things, and they certainly
don’t dislike Trump because he does bad things. They
dislike Trump because he does bad things in a way that
startles the people out of their sleep.
That’s the real reason the political/media class has
been behaving so weird the last four years. It isn’t
because Trump’s not a loyal empire lackey (he is), it
isn’t because he’s a Russian secret agent (he’s not),
and it isn’t because he’s a uniquely depraved president
(he’s not). It’s because he allows people to see the
perverse mechanics of a globe-sprawling murderous empire
for the sick, evil thing that it actually is. That and
nothing more.
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