2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHenry Kissinger is the main reason Hillary should never be president,
In the end she did say he was who she would listen to, that foul demon who will get countless killed for his own ambitions.
The idea that Hillary would bring anything progressive except progressing people into corpses is beyond me.
Make no mistake, Hillary will oil up the war machine, Bernie will at least try not to.
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)Beautiful line! Will have to remember that when I go off on a warhawk diatribe.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Kissinger is one of the main ones, thats for sure
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)expressed even the slightest shred of remorse).
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Paul ("Project for a New American Century" Kagan. PNAC = Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld's blueprint for destabilizing and occupying the Middle East.
Kissinger and Kagan are Clinton's foreign policy advisers. Here is what they did with her office of Secretary of State:
Honduras: Classic Kissinger.
Libya, Syria: Classic Kagan.
These fuckwads are intending to ride Clinton back into the White House to continue their wars. She is their tool, rather than the other way around. But it doesn't really matter who is who's tool. Together they will end any hope for peace in this world. They will further end any hope of saving our planet. Their transglobal billionaire/corporate backers intend a cushy berth for themselves on the 'Titanic.' Those of us on the lower decks, chained and gated against the lifeboats, get to drown.
Death is their way of being. Death of our planet, death of all of its critters, death of its beauty and its creation of consciousness itself, are the natural consequence of rule by uber-greedy, uber-warmongering, uber-criminals.
It is one hell of an epic battle we are in to turn them out of power. We throw them out and back they creep into the office of Secretary of State and into the White House, under the apron of a "feminist" and "progressive."
Our Founders understood that democracy must be designed specifically to prevent this imbalance between rulers-gone rogue on foreign wars and the majority who wants peace. They didn't know about global warming--how could they?--but they were savvy about everything else--about the STRUCTURES needed to curtail rogue rulers. They even knew about corporations and feared their power (though they failed to give us a structure against that danger--they relied on the states to curtail corporations). Our Corporate Rulers have now undermined, sabotaged and/or destroyed every structure that our Founders set up to prevent what is happening now.
We are only desperately hanging on, by our fingernails, to the last of them: our right to vote. And even that has been undermined by "privatization" of our vote counting system (with 'TRADE SECRET' code) and the outrages of unelected fascists like Scot Walker who are additionally disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters (the young, the poor, the black, the brown).**
I repeat: It is one hell of an epic battle we are in to turn them out of power. It is a battle to reassert our humanity. It is a battle to restore our democracy and begin doing good in the world, which our people desperately want our government to do. It is a battle to save the only habitable planet that we know about--the one that gave us birth.
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**(Note: Please do notice that Bernie Sanders does extremely well in caucus-type primaries which are counted by humans, NOT by machines with 'TRADE SECRET' code, and does far less well in the electronically riggable systems; and the opposite is true for Clinton--does well in the riggable systems, does very poorly when humans count the votes.)