Democrats Are Pigs and So Are Republicans

Democrats Are Pigs and So Are Republicans

August 16, 2024

U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

Author Stephen King has a new viral tweet featuring a picture of himself wearing a Kamala Harris t-shirt modeled after an Obama campaign sticker captioned with the words "I'M SPEAKING," a phrase with which she drew headlines and severe public outcry last week by using it to shut down anti-genocide protesters at a campaign rally in Detroit.

That's right: they're using her condescending shutdown of pro-Palestine demonstrators as a fun girl boss campaign slogan now.

The only way to believe Democrats are significantly better than Republicans or vice-versa is to both (A) be unable to distinguish actions from words and (B) to completely ignore foreign policy.

(A) means you have to look solely at your preferred party’s platform while ignoring the actions they actually take, which are not drastically different from the actions the other party takes relative to the 99.99% of policies and systems they leave in place from administration to administration.

(B) means you have to pay zero attention to all the violence, tyranny and abuse the U.S. government inflicts upon populations around the world, of which there is no meaningful difference between parties at all. The overwhelming majority of American violence, tyranny and abuse is directed not at Americans but at people outside the United States, so by excluding this from your analysis you are excluding almost all of the evils of your preferred party when claiming it is morally superior to the other.

U.S. foreign policy is much, much more consequential, destructive and deadly than U.S. domestic policy. It’s not a “single issue”, it’s almost all of the issues.

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