Reflections

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People who call for the extermination of 1.5 million "superfluous" inhabitants of eastern Ukraine are NOT fascists.  The people we have in charge of our governments ARE.

On Abby Martin

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On Abby Martin: IMO, her call for Russia to withdraw all military aid to the SE, as she stated in her recent interview with Carolyn Baker, was not just naive but inane. If it were up to Abby Martin, Hitler would have (not could have, but would have) captured all of Europe, including the UK, and quite likely Russia too.

On the Left's Continuing Tendency to Conflate Nazism with Fascism: The Ukraine, once again, is NOT about "fascism" anymore than multinational corporate capitalism can be compared to a mom and pop grocery store. As I stated earlier, most Americans don't even know what fascism is. They may have heard about Spain, and maybe about Pinochet, but if that's all the left has to throw at the NAZIS in Kiev, it may as well pack up shop and shoot itself in the head.

I realize that a lot of people in the left like certain pundits, and I also realize that some of these pundits like to throw words around, hoping they will stick. Words are the most potent weapon of war. As such, they matter very much.

I am not talking about higher algebra here. I am not talking macroeconomics. Most Americans think fascism is a sauce you put on hamburgers. If the pundits can't distinguish between a Big Mac spread, a garden variety fascist and a Banderian Nazi like Yats or the leader of the Right Sector, then, just perhaps, they also need to shoot themselves in the head.

If their followers can't distinguish it, they're in equally serious trouble, noting that most of them, seemingly, cannot. Every time I hear reference to "fascists" in Kiev, it's like chalk screaming on the blackboard. I realize Putin is too pussilanimous to trouble the Americans with anything that would break his former wetdream of almost perfect comity. He still calls them fascists, after all, but, at least, Glazyev calls them Nazis.

The left, I think, is almost totally schizophrenic. It simultaneously criticizes Putin and enables him. It confuses the gobsmack ETHNIC CLEANSING and GENOCIDAL agenda of Nazis (specifically) with most garden variety forms of fascism that do NOT have that specifically NAZIFIED agenda that is such an integral part of the Nazi DNA. And, while it never could get its pundits straight, the leftt will follow just about anyone,and then parrot any sound byte that the pundit may utter.

And that's just the LEFT. I'm not referring to the liberal class. Sad days, yes? We clearly don't deserve democracy. Before it ever reappears, may there be a radical cleansing on every level - inner, outer, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - that cuts to the very root of the world tree.

All we need to do is get out of the way.

You think?