Caitline Johnstone
Have
you ever known someone who’s intensely interested in helping people, but
is so neurotic and unskillful that they mostly just make things worse?
“Stop!” you’ll find yourself wanting to yell at such people. “Stop helping! Go help yourself!”
That’s
how I see most political activism today. So many well-intentioned
people who want to help, and are so crazed by mass media psyops and
cultural mind viruses that their energy seemingly goes everywhere but
where it needs to. I’d like to say a bit about that here, if you’ll
indulge me.
It’s
really weird how many people in the political circles I move in are
still running pretty much the exact same programs they were running in
2016. There are still former Berners acting like Hillary Clinton is the
single greatest threat to America despite her being more or less
irrelevant in 2018. There are still leftists and anarchists acting as
though small neo-Nazi groups present a greater existential threat than
the mainstream neoliberal neoconservative Orwellian power establishment.
There are still liberals running the same “OMG TRUMP NAZI LITERALLY
HITLER WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE” script despite overwhelming evidence showing
that the most evil things this administration has done are all
extensions of Bush and Obama administration policies. There are still
anti-interventionist Trump voters doing everything they can to
compartmentalize away from the undeniable fact that this president is
continuing and expanding the interventionist policies of his
predecessors.
Even
if you had a crystal clear understanding of what was happening in US
politics in 2016, continuing to perceive through the lens of that same
understanding today is blindness. And the more the world continues to
change (and change it always will), the more blind you will be if you
continue to apply your 2016 worldview to it.
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