Strangelove's Wet Dream or How I Learned to Loathe Elitism

“You would think that the way Americans love ironic, sarcastic humor, the majority would eagerly join us over here in the alternative media, to share our fascination with the hypocritical stage theater now being performed for our national amusement, which masquerades as politics and foreign policy.”

–Peter Chamberlain

Indeed. As Peter Chamberlain suggests in his quote above, Americans are a peculiar, passive and complicit lot when it comes to holding our "free press" accountable to in turn hold our corporate welfare backed political candidates accountable in this Cold War on the Middle Class. What possibly can American “progressives” be thinking when they allow all three political candidates a free pass as they pledge to continue selling out white collar jobs as the country heads into a Depression?


In his compelling essay entitled "Strangelove’s Wet Dream" Chamberlain implores American citizens to “become their own press in order to get around the main obstacle to freedom” and to “defend itself against an administration of deadly lies when the truth is so easily buried.” While Chamberlain makes the undisputable case for the U.S. to stop supporting Zionism, the parallels between the organized genocide of Palestinians and the American middle class by elites are striking:

“The highest form of government ever produced by man is putting the final stages of planning on freedom's demise, and yet the freest people in the history of the world believe that they are powerless to change anything, as they watch excitedly from the sidelines, screaming patriotic hymns to Clinton and McCain.”

HilBama and McCain have promised the Tech Lobby and corporate America to increase the wholesale sell-out of white collar jobs to third-world workers while a recession/depression ensues. On top of this, during the middle of the housing collapse, soaring food prices, contaminated and poisonous food/products, and no practical plans for universal health coverage or access to healthcare, one has to wonder why it is so hard for Americans, especially Democrats or so-called progressives -- to hold the presidential candidates’ feet to the fire. Chamberlain explains:

“The American government, in bed with the magnates of big business (the dictionary definition of "fascism"), have been at war with the American people for a very long time. Fat cat Republicans, who regularly bankroll both parties, have long plotted to replace democracy with a fascist dictatorship. (SEE: THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE) Corporations have invested billions in foundations to study the people, in order to make more efficient war upon their minds.”

How does the truth get buried? In a previous post, yours truly quotes the master, Hunter Thompson, who perfectly summarized the phenomena here .

When Thompson said

"The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists”,

one would think, like Chamberlain suggests, that a smart, “alternative media” or blogosphere would in fact become the vehicle or conduit for the masses to link in a socially constructive way to mobilize against corporate fascists at the local level. Just as the national debate against the war on the middle class has been strangled by a “news blackout”, Americans continue to allow themselves to be “distracted” by war and hunger abroad while the quiet war on their own livelihoods and freedoms take place right under their noses.

Peter Chamberlain offers this excellent explanation of how “egotistical attempts” by elitists to replace civility with the “inhumane law of parasitic capitalist Darwinism” who seek to turn Americans into a third world caste system of slaves applies to the elites of both parties -- Republican and Democrat equally --- as it does to Zionist-sanctioned political correctness:

“The war on terrorism uses our beliefs against us. It has been exposed as a holy war between Christianity and Islam, at least that is evidently what the Jewish neocon authors of the war want it to be. It is only a matter of time before it becomes obvious to everyone that the war of the new world order is a war against all religion. Religious belief and basic human morality must be allowed to serve as the basis for the fight against this war, because it is a war on life itself. The inherent evil of the whole operation must become the rallying point for the people to oppose the war. It is nothing less than an egotistical human attempt to overthrow the moral basis of international law, replacing it with the inhumane law of parasitic capitalist Darwinism. Kill everyone who refuses to be made into a slave!”

I agree with Peter Chamberlain. “It is wrong to allow a new holocaust of one people to fulfill the territorial ambitions of the descendents of the survivors of the last holocaust.”

While this “perfect storm” of Iraq, lack of healthcare, dwindling global resources and disappearing American white collar jobs escalate, here’s a thought: Why doesn’t the Left get the newly minted venture capitalist Al Gore to lead the fight against corporate fascists like Bill Gates who want to increase and eliminate the H-1B visa cap and other forms of immigration at a time when there are not enough jobs for our own citizens? How does it make sense to continue an antiquated immigration system that allows people to take the jobs Americans can do? All labor arbitrage and plummeting wages aside, but where is the Left to start asking “what’s wrong with this picture?”

When will the Left get it right?

Sigh. Like Hunter Thompson surmised, the wine and cheese fests plus easy access to the boss’s liquor and women must be worth the price of admission.

-2Truthy