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Full
Spectrum Dominatrix vs. Off Spectrum Narcissus
By Pepe
Escobar
July 31, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Sputnik"
- History
can be a damned good screenwriter – currently
presenting an excruciatingly agonizing, do-or-die
choice (“Love trumps hate” vs. “Lock her up!”) not
only to US voters but also to the whole planet,
which will be affected, directly and indirectly, by
this choice.
On one side we have a populist over-the-top
billionaire pop Narcissus, a.k.a. “cheeto-faced
ferret-wearing shitgibbon” (thank you, Scotland) and
reality TV con artist peddling himself as the one
and only cure to a post-Mad Max American dystopia.
On the other
side we have what storyteller and Explainer-in-Chief
Bill “In
the Spring of 1971, I met a girl” Clinton
described as the ultimate workaholic do-gooder chick
who also happens to be an Exceptionalist
neoliberalcon dedicated to making the world safe
for all sorts of dodgy, vested interests, from Wall
Street to the
industrial-military-intelligence-security-media
complex and Israeli-firsters AIPAC.
No less
than sixty-eight percent – and counting –
of Americans, surveyed earlier this week, don’t
trust the girl who melted Clinton’s heart in the
spring of 1971. And as it stands – still not
counting the Democratic National Convention bump –
the pop Narcissus, against all odds, is
ahead.
Chaos against Chaos
She may be
the
Queen of Chaos, aptly about to reign over the
Empire of Chaos, while for pop Narcissus the
sweet smell of success boils down to a relentless
guerrilla tactic of using chaos against the
fundamentals of the Empire of Chaos, less than 140
words at a time.
So far, he has
clearly identified Bill Clinton’s girl’s attachment
to bipartisan dogmas with the potential of making
her vulnerable — Hellfiring everything from free
trade (especially NAFTA) to nation-building, and
even regime change. In the process, he viscerally
tapped into a silent working class majority that’s
mad as hell and can’t take it anymore. Pop Narcissus
clearly relishes his role of Brioni-suited
Republican posing as a shock to the system.
Still the
Clinton machine – awkwardly surfing the fallout
of the subterranean email server tsunami — did not
get the message, and selected Virginia Senator Tim
Kaine as Hillary’s running mate; a neoliberalcon
Wall Street choirboy dismissive of labor rights and,
true to character as a corporate poodle, a fan
of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Opposition to TPP —
a possible candidate as Obama’s Vietnam — may have
been incorporated at the last minute into the
platform of the Democratic Party. But still no one
really knows whether Hillary is pro, against or
hedging to infinity. The senator for Virginia, land
of the free CIA and the brave Pentagon, also happens
to be a cheerleader for
offshore drilling.
Pat Buchanan,
who worked for Nixon and Reagan and knows a thing or
two about corridors of power, has described pop
Narcissus’s ideology as “ethnonationalism”; a
nostalgia/xenophobia-drenched nativism/protectionism
gig. But with a twist; foes also include
Exceptionalistan’s corporate elite.
And that’s
when the game really gets going. For days,
between the Republican and Democratic national
conventions, the news cycle was monopolized
to subsonic hysteria levels by the “Trump as a Putin
agent” drama. Neocon mouthpieces disguised
as respectable conservatives dissected every –
manufactured – nuance of the “bromance”. Intel ops
freaked out that Trump now has access to highly
classified national security briefings. Former NATO
honchos such as retired US Navy admiral James
Stavridis blared that Trump’s musings on Russia and
NATO, “undermine European confidence in the
reliability of the US as an ally — particularly
in the face of Russian adventurism.”
The simple
fact that pop Narcissus does not seem inclined
to pursue Cold War 2.0 against Russia has been
enough to convict him for national treason.
Fire walk with me
Hillary
Clinton’s starring roles, on the other hand, are
smash hits.
Here she is
as Wall Street’s Golden Girl.
Here she is as a relentless gold-digging
machine.
Here she is as a Neo-Athena Queen of War. And
expect a future Oscar to go to
The Three Harpies about to conduct the next
Hunger Games: Hillary Clinton as President, Michele
Flournoy as head of the Pentagon and – the most
terrifying words in the English language — Secretary
of State Victoria Nuland.
The CIA did
not take down
WikiLeaks. Hillary Clinton will make sure
someone does. She will make sure “Russian
aggression” is enshrined as some sort of national
motto. When Hillary Clinton went for a “reset”
in US-Russia relations, in both English and Russian,
it was translated as “overload” – a Freudian slip
that elicited a smile from Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov but a thousand jokes all
across Russia.
While Hillary
is a faithful disciple of the Pentagon’s Full
Spectrum Dominance doctrine, Trump has been smart
enough to pose as totally off spectrum. And that’s
why he became so attractive to vast hordes of Angry
White Males, non-college educated, who barely make
ends meet, resentful of everything, starting with a
Commander-in-Chief incarnated by the “skinny black
guy with a funny name” and now, possibly – horror
of horrors — an Under My Thumb Power Woman. And it
makes it even easier when, to convey the message,
all you need is a minimalist vocabulary.
Powerful
interests behind Trump outline the three key items
of his agenda; stop illegal immigration; rebuild the
US military; and fight currency rigging — from the
European Central Bank (ECB) to Japan (quantitative
easing) but also China (no significant yuan
devaluation) – as a means to bring jobs back home.
Some of this
might appeal to the US establishment. Instead,
virtually the whole establishment, now fully
regimented under the Queen of Chaos, envisions a
potential pop Narcissus’s reign as a populist,
racist, cripto-fascist dystopia – complete
with stupid wall, AR-15 idolatry and total
submission to The Fixer-in-Chief.
No one really
knows how The Fixer-in-Chief would conduct foreign
policy. No US President is capable of bending the
will of the consensual War Party. For the moment,
Democrats count on pressing a dangerous
triangulation. Over two years ago, Hillary Clinton
all but http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20140304/hillary-clinton-compares-vladimir-putins-actions-in-ukraine-to-adolf-hitlers-in-nazi-germany
aligned President Putin with Hitler. This week,
while selling Hillary Clinton to the nation as his
successor, President Obama said, “anyone who
threatens our values, whether Fascists or Communists
or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always
fail in the end”.
In the end,
this is not about “values”; it’s about failing never
being an option for the US Deep State. The motto
of the Deep State might as well have been coined
by a character in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire
walk with me. Who’ll stare down the fire, Athena or
Narcissus? |
