Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows
Junious Ricardo Stanton
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows meaning the quest for power often unites the most disparate and unlikely individuals and groups as allies in their quest for power. Total opposites, antagonists and others find themselves linked in pursuit of their goals for power. We are seeing this play out in the 2024 presidential selection process. Donald Trump is heir to the new Republican Party I say new party because the GOP of the Bu$h, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Colin Powell global warmonger cabal has morphed into something different and embraced Donald Trump a man who didn’t campaign on or promise more wars, designate new global Islamic threats but turned inward and offered hope to “Make America Great Again” a slogan he plagiarized from Ronald Reagan.
In 2016 Trump was scoffed at and mocked because he said he wanted to get along with other countries like Russia, China and North Korea, establish robust trade with them and the rest of the global community. For that he was demonized, derided and scorned by the military industrial complex and their media stooges. Lies were told and he was portrayed disingenuously as a flunky for Vladimir Putin and Russia.
Meanwhile after decades of covering over his grift, corruption, racism, sexism, his constant warmongering and the rapid decline of his mental acuity and physical dexterity, Joe Biden was unceremoniously kicked to the curb by the Democratic Party big wigs. Kamala Harris was immediately elevated and thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket but not through voter choice via primary elections, local caucuses or any other forms of democratic engagement but by pure fiat! The party shot callers put her up and that was that. Despite the undemocratic way she was selected and foisted upon the party and public, it is the Democrats constantly echoing the canard “our democracy is at risk”. Their hypocrisy is boundless. They must think the American public are stupid.
Political campaigns are not immune from the culture wars and the growing divides and schisms in America today. As the campaigns progressed there was much talk about threats to democracy, Donald Trump was cast as the new Hitler and on and on. We saw a push to line up endorsements to support each candidate. Celebrities not known for civic activism, engagement or geopolitical awareness like Beyonce and Taylor Swift were lauded for supporting Kamala Harris. Bruce Springsteen has come out in favor of Harris as have a host of pop and Hip Hop artists and well known actors.
I’ve never been a fan of celebrity endorsements because I don’t know how much celebrities know about geopolitics and what is going on in the world. We need well informed folks sharing information with us, not shallow shills and compradors selling us out to a political party or candidate.
Unions like the Teamsters and Firefighters who historically endorsed candidates declined due to a split when the rank and file supported Trump or Harris but the union leadership supported Harris or Trump. An elitist newspaper like the Washington Post declined to endorse either candidate which prompted its editor Robert Kagan a prominent Neocon and key participant in the Project for the New American Century to resign in protest. Wow, a warmonger who helped peddle lies about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and influenced elected officials to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya gets himself in a snit and quits because his newspaper doesn’t want to go on record supporting Kamala Harris?!
The oddities keep piling up. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was running essentially as an independent because the Democratic Party, the party of his father and two uncles but now the same party talking about saving our democracy; froze him out of the primary process, just like they did US Senator Bernie Sanders during the last election cycles! Kennedy is best known as a critic of Anthony Fauci and the COVID responses that have done so much to destabilize and wreck this country. Kennedy worked hard to get on state wide ballots. He had a large following but he subsequently dropped out of the race and joined Donald Trump’s campaign. So did former Democratic Congresswoman Telsi Gabbard a US National Guard Medic who was deployed to active duty in Iraq. While in Congress Gabbard was an outspoken critic of US foreign policy and the escalating wars the US was sponsoring or engaged in. She joined the Republican Party and is campaigning for Trump! Elon Musk the billionaire who owns Space X, Tesla and X (formally Twitter) who exposed the blatant censorship the former owners unleashed on Donald Trump and ordinary Americans when he purchased the social media platform, is a heavy supporter of Trump and his message of national self-sufficiency.
Meanwhile staunch liars and warmongers like: Dick Cheyney, John Bolton, Michael Hayden John Negroponte and a host of the other architects of the disastrous Global War on Terrorism and imperialist resource wars that have kept the US embroiled in ongoing foreign wars since 9-11, are all coming out in favor of Kamala Harris! Are you kidding me?!
Stranger still is the fact the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris have acknowledged and accepted their endorsements. What’s up with that? What does this say about her as a potential president and the prospects for peace?! Why aren’t more people asking her and Democratic Party officials about this? Where is Bernie Sanders when the nation needs him?
The somnambulance of the American people is astounding; we are literally sleepwalking, being glibly led into more wars, economic conflict and ruin while a dog and pony election show keeps us distracted and unaware. We are being duped big time while people like me warning about the nexus between strange bedfellows, national priorities and policies goes unheeded.
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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 7:23 AM
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