{"id":182329,"date":"2019-01-18T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182329"},"modified":"2019-01-21T06:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:49:01","slug":"american-liberal-delusions-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182329","title":{"rendered":"American \u2018Liberal\u2019 Delusions on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finian Cunningham \u2013 Strategic Culture.com Jan 17, 2019<\/h1>\n

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The anti-Trump so-called \u201cliberal\u201d American politicians and media suffer from a cozy big delusion. The Democrats and their supportive media, such as CNN and New York Times, as well as the foreign policy establishment, including the CIA, promote the belief that all of America\u2019s ills and problems will be solved if only President Trump could be impeached.<\/span><\/p>\n

The so-called \u201cliberal-left\u201d in the US \u2013 which has nothing to do with leftwing or socialist politics as most of the world would define it \u2013 is increasingly warning that Trump is taking America into a dark place of authoritarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take a recent\u00a0op-ed<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the New York Times by columnist Roger Cohen with the headline: \u2018Donald Trump Just Cannot Help It\u2019. It\u2019s a scathing piece which lambasts Trump in very personal terms as a \u201cmalignant\u201d conman.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key line perhaps is when Cohen writes: \u201cThe Reichstag Fire was at least a fire. Here, there is smoke and mirrors.\u201d He is referring to what many historians contend was a false-flag arson attack on the German parliament in 1933, which allowed newly elected Chancellor Adolf Hitler to install his Nazi dictatorship by claiming the sabotage was a communist plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many critics of Trump, including Cohen, are concerned that the president is \u201cmanufacturing a crisis\u201d over his border wall proposal. They accuse him of using the US government shutdown and the political impasse with Democrats on the proposed border wall funding as a pretext to introduce a state of emergency. Cohen\u2019s mention of the infamous Reichstag Fire has therefore a seemingly radical inference. He, and many others in the American liberal-left, are warning that Trump is a crypto-fascist.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is some merit to that argument. Certainly, Trump seems to be whipping up a crisis about immigration which is not justified in terms of numbers and conditions on the border with Mexico. The influx of migrants and refugees is widely reported to be at an all-time low going back over the past 40 years. Most of the present migrants are families, fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries. Trump\u2019s scary depiction of \u201cdrug dealers\u201d and \u201cterrorists\u201d seems to be unabashed fabulation to incite fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

His threats of invoking a state of emergency in which he will use executive powers to instruct the compulsory building of a security barriers on the southern border are therefore disproportionate and uncalled for. Trump\u2019s would-be arrogation of emergency powers has disturbing implications of overriding US constitutional law, and sidelining other branches of government. There are genuine concerns that the direction is one of authoritarianism, even fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here is where too many Americans are deluded about Trump. They think he is the singular problem, an aberrant president. Get rid of him, they say, and we can all return to \u201cnormal democracy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is that the US has been sliding into authoritarianism, plutocracy and oligarchy, or dare we say fascism, for decades. The political figure of Trump \u2013 obnoxious as he is \u2013 is merely the culmination of this degenerative process in American politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

The obscenity of American capitalism and its grotesque exploitation of millions of American citizens \u2013 creating islands of super wealth among a sea of poverty \u2013 is a repudiation of any notion of a functioning democracy. The two-party pimping for big business, Wall Street and the military-industrial racket that has been going on for decades makes a travesty of any claims about \u201cwe the people\u201d and elections. This backdrop of actual functioning oligarchy is why many voters \u2013 among the half, that is, who bothered to even vote \u2013 reached out to \u201can outsider\u201d like Trump and his conman promises of change.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the inherent problem isn\u2019t Trump. It is the system that produces the conditions and precursors for someone like Trump to end up getting elected.<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be noted that people like Roger Cohen and other American \u201cliberals\u201d who are wringing their hands about Trump never seemed to express concern about the dominance of big business and banks in running America\u2019s corporatocracy. Cohen and his ilk were also big supporters of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2013 wars that were illegal, resulted in millions of innocent casualties, destroyed societies and spread the scourge of terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

How is getting rid of Trump supposed to be a return to \u201cnormal democracy\u201d? When that purported \u201cnormal democracy\u201d is a myth, a fantasy belied by massive poverty, inequality and oppression of ordinary American workers and their families, alongside criminal imperialist wars of genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cohen\u2019s reference to the Reichstag Fire false flag and Trump\u2019s propensity for authoritarianism may sound like radical criticism. But it is only radical schtick. It is worse than Trump\u2019s con artistry because it propagates the delusion that America has an underlying democracy. The reality is American democracy stopped functioning a long time ago. When exactly it stopped is debatable.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 9\/11 \u201cterror attacks\u201d in 2001 were certainly a candidate for comparison to the Reichstag Fire false flag event. They ushered in executive powers in Washington to wage criminal wars \u201cagainst terrorism\u201d anywhere on the planet, and for far-reaching police state surveillance of US citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or we could go back to the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 when the US created a pretext for the Vietnam War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 by his Deep State enemies, which was a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against American democracy, violating the nation forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 which gave private banks and plutocrats the ultimate power over the creation of money in the US and thus a veto on economic policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many other instances (extermination of native Americans, African slavery) could be cited which testify to the fraud of \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d. The seeds of authoritarianism, militarism and fascism were sown decades ago. To blame this putrefaction of democracy on Donald Trump is the delusion of American apologists for the system\u2019s long-time corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump is NOT the problem, writes Finian Cunningham. He’s just the fall guy. Because America has been transforming itself into an authoritarian plutocracy for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182332,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182329\/revisions\/182332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}