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I can not believe it. Is crazy Johnny McStain really gone ? I pray for György Schwartz to be NEXT…
Re: “The Other Side of John McCain,” is well written and Caitlin Johnstone has another one on Medium. I posted her article and the very same day got flamed by my family. They don’t want to know that McCain and his wars was/are evil. What they said was based on their own indoctrination and really hurt. I would have deleted Facebook but I want to keep the IM feature, so I deactivated my FB account. I am hoping to move to Signal and then delete FB entirely.
http://www.unz.com/article/corbyn-is-being-destroyed-like-blowing-up-a-bridge-to-stop-an-advancing-army/
…………Our political language is rupturing because we are now completely divided. There is no middle ground, no social compact, no consensus. The second camp understands that the current system is broken and that we need radical change, while the first camp holds desperately to the hope that the system will continue to be workable with modifications and minor reforms.
It is on to this battlefield that Corbyn has stumbled, little prepared for the heavy historic burden he shoulders.
We are arriving at a moment called a paradigm shift. That is when the cracks in a system become so obvious they can no longer be credibly denied. Those vested in the old system scream and shout, they buy themselves a little time with increasingly repressive measures, but the house is moments away from falling. The critical questions are who gets hurt when the structure tumbles, and who decides how it will be rebuilt.
The new paradigm is coming anyway. If we don’t choose it ourselves, the planet will for us. It could be an improvement, it could be a deterioration, it could be extinction, depending on how prepared we are for it and how violently those invested in the old system resist the loss of their power. If enough of us understand the need for discarding the broken system, the greater the hope that we can build something better from the ruins.
We are now at the point where the corporate elite can see the cracks are widening but they remain in denial. They are entering the tantrum phase, screaming and shouting at their enemies, and readying to implement ever-more repressive measures to maintain their power………….