Charlottesville 2

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

What the liberal/progressive/left is trying to do with Charlottesville is to associate Trump supporters with White Supremacists and in this way demonize Trump supporters so that they will not have a voice when Trump is overthrown in a coup. Or it can be put in a different way: Charlottesville is being used by someone to discredit Trump and the people who elected him in order to pave the way for a coup, and the liberal/progressive/left is enabling the plot.

Upon reflection, I think that for most of the liberal/progressive/left the denunciations and one-sided interpretation of Charlottesville are just the ingrained knee-jerk reaction of people brought up in Identity Politics. In Identity Politics, everyone is a White Hat except racist, sexist, homophobic, gun-nut white males. The only tolerable white males are those who accept this characterization of themselves. All others are “white supremacists” or “nazis.”

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From what I read on progressive websites, those imbued with Identity Politics are letting the emotionalism of the politics run away with them. My friend, Rob Kall, who is fair and open-minded and posts my columns on OpEdNews, including those to which he takes exception, writes: “Trump is Now the Leader of White Supremacists and Nazis.” Rob reaches this conclusion because Trump held both sides responsible for the violence in Charlottesville. By seeing equivalence between the two sides, Trump “made it clear that he was siding with the White Supremacists, giving them aid, support and encouragement.” https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-is-Now-the-Leader-of-by-Rob-Kall-Donald-Trump_Hate-Groups-Neo-Nazis_White-Supremacist-170816-650.html (You might remember Jean Kirkpatrick who denounced liberals for seeing moral equivalence between the Soviet Union and the US.) I doubt this is the way Trump saw his statement. From the news videos I saw, there seemed to be plenty of hate on both sides. Certainly, there is plenty of hate for Trump among progressives.

In the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri finds Trump’s words condemning the violence on both aides to be “despicable words.” Petri apparently thinks that, counter to what the news coverage shows, the counter protesters did not engage in any violence, or else she thinks that violence from this side was justified but not violence from the other side. She condemns Trump for his statement: “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” In her opinion, the last three words, “on many sides” shows that Trump is partial to White Supremacists. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/15/donald-trumps-despicable-words/

Richard Eskow joins the chorus. He links together deaths in Charlottesville, New York, Portland, Charleston, under “white nationalist terror” and hands them to Trump. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-Won-t-Say-It-But-We-by-Richard-Eskow-Hatred_Terrorism_Trump-Mental-State_White-Male-Effect-170814-424.html

The Daily Kos also equates Trump’s blaming both sides for the violence, which is what the media reports show to be the case, with a defense of “white supremacist/neo-Nazi violence.” https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-defends-white-suprem-by-Daily-Kos-Protest_Trump-Insults_Violence_White-Male-Privilege-170815-734.html

Joe Macare at Truthout tells us that “Truthout will continue to report on the threat of neo-Nazis in the street — as well as those in the White House who are in lockstep with their agenda. We’ll talk to the people organizing against fascism on all fronts. We won’t equivocate or condemn ‘both sides.’ We won’t blame the Nazis’ targets for the hate they receive. But we know that these are not the only faces of racism. Whether it manifests itself in education policy, in gentrification, in economic inequality, in racist policing or in the United States’ immigration and ‘defense’ policies, Truthout will continue exposing white supremacy in all its forms.”

Truthout’s Anna Sutton expresses her “Heartbreak, Anger.” She doesn’t know where to begin. But she sees a fundraising opportunity. Make a donation and Truthout will “tell it like it is” against the “corporate and right-wing media” that are “bending over backwards to normalize Trump and the violence and xenophobia displayed by his rabid followers.” One wonders what corporate right-wing media she is talking about, The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, all of which denounce Trump 24/7?

How do we avoid the question: who is over the top, the “alt-right” at Charlottesville or their progressive critics?

Over at CounterPunch, a remnant of America’s left-wing, John Eskow tells us that he has walked among white supremacists “since I first learned to walk. They surrounded me in blue-collar Utica, New York—an early capitol of Rust Belt America, back in the 1950s.”

Here is Identity Politics’ association of the working class with White Supremacy. The all-powerful, all-threatening White Supremacists could do nothing to prevent—who?—from offshoring their jobs to Asia. But these people, who are so powerless that they could not even save their own jobs, are a great threat to us good people, who sat sucking our thumbs in unconcern while their economic lives were snuffed out. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/16/among-the-racists/

CounterPuncher John Wight, prior to affirming the dogma that from the very beginning America has been “synonymous with white supremacy,” first unleashes both barrels on the liberal/progressives: “Strident declamations against fascism in Charlottesville from those who supported fascists in Kiev, calls for action to be taken against extremists in America by those who’ve been supporting them in Syria. What is this if not rank hypocrisy?”

Ah, so, why did the liberal/progressives align with the military/security complex and the neoconservatives against Donald Trump who declared, to his undoing, his intention to normalize relations with Russia, thus removing the enemy needed to justify the $1 trillion annual budget of the military/security complex? These vast monies could have gone into health care for the unprovided, into public assistance for the unprovided, but the liberal/progressive/left would not have it. If the liberal/progressives are so against violence and hate, why do they support the hate campaign against Trump and Russia?

Has Identity Politics made the liberal/progressive/left deaf, dumb, and blind such that their reality is limited to the emotions that Identity Politics produces?

This is a valid question. It is not meant to be derogatory. It is meant to lead to an understanding of our plight as a country. How does a country in which blacks are taught to hate whites, women are taught to hate men, and whose history is explained as white oppression successfully deal with the defining issues of our time?

Indeed, such a country is incapable of even recognizing the real issues. It seems clear enough that our doom is certain.

Identity Politics has such a firm hold on universities, media, all sorts of subject areas in public schools such as black studies, women studies, race studies, native American studies, and in Democratic Party politics that reality is absent from the picture. Most of what is deplored by Identity Politics are simply products of history, not of the evil intentions of white males. It once was the case that the function of liberal progressivism was to reform what was inherited from the past and had been morally outgrown. But this progressive agenda has been abandoned to hate that is just as wrong and deadly as the hate to which the liberal progressives object. So we are left with what: hate against hate. This is not promising.

We have to come back to the question, why is the liberal/progressive/left comfortable with being aligned with the warmonger neoconservatives and the military/security complex against President Donald Trump who intended, until he was blocked, to reduce the extremely dangerous to all of mankind tensions between the US and Russia created over 24 years by the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes? If you are really against violence, why oppose the only president we have had since Reagan who wants to reduce the risk of nuclear conflict?

I have asked this question a number of times. I have never had an answer from the liberal/progressive/left.

Are we to conclude that they are unaware, lost as they are in their hatred of white, heterosexual males, that they don’t care, that they want Trump destroyed even it Pence, the replacement, leads us into unwinnable war with Russia and China?

Why do the environmental and wildlife preservation organizations jump on the anti-Trump bandwaggon. Are they unaware of the consequences to all life of nuclear war?

What explains the total unreality in which Americans exist? We are supposed to be the leaders of the world. How can we lead when we are so utterly, hopelessly blind and stupid and consumed by hate?

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bayouhunter
bayouhunter

Empires always rot from the inside!
Homogenous Asia will totally rule very soon!

Mike
Mike

All this back and forth…gnashing of teeth, whining. There is no real solution other than open conflict. Bring it.

Not Sure

I just erased a post on a similar topic, maybe I’ll try again.

Fighting back seems to be on everyone’s mind, but I can only see the media using any attempt of the deplorables to escalate the fight, will just further cement their Nazi label of us in the minds of the sheeple. So any attempt to intensify the conflict will only draw us deeper into the trap being set for us. How to initiate the fight is beyond me; a greater mind than mine will need to determine a strategy for the best possible outcome.

Further thought: No escalation until the enemy is identified. Hint: It’s not Antifa. Nothing can have any success until this is addressed.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Leftists have brought it on since before Trump was even elected, and gotten steadily more emphatic with it.

So far they are the ones gaining from it, and gain even more when anything from their opposition falls into that category (or can be made to fall into it).

Anonymous
Anonymous
TampaRed
TampaRed

anon,
this illustrates how much the demos are dependent upon the hard left.
i’m a lurker on moveon.org and they were pushing this hard last night-
i tried to load it here but the system kept clogging up,probably too long of a post to load–
i’m not gonna look it up but how many x in 230+ years has a potus been censured,much less for telling the truth?

john coster

Since 9/11, when a completely nonsensical cover story was successfully used to conceal a gross act of treason with the complicity of the main stream media, America has become an increasingly irrational society. The ” liberal left ” distracts us with its idiotic self-inflation as if identity politics were of equal importance as matters of war and peace and the destruction of the environment. How preposterous it is that our pampered classes will march around on behalf of the right to choose your gender and public bathroom but turn a blind eye to the slaughter of countless civilians in Syria in a war started with our tax dollars. I don’t think that Nazi white supremacists have a snowball’s chance in hell of attracting a large following in the United States. They’ve had more attention in the last week than they’ve had in the last ten years. By giving the Charlotteville incident top billing in all media outlets, the usual suspects have again diverted public attention from the ongoing depredations of the welfare/warfare state. Suddenly, the focus has shifted away from the chaos in the middle east, the implausible tales of Assad’s self-defeating gas attacks on women and children and the winner of this year’s Dog Ate My Homework Award: Russian Hackers Stole The Election from Hillary. When such bullshit stories as these fall apart, no problem. Just create some new distraction and forget about yesterday’s headlines. Then the plundering of society can continue with little interference from the population.

Yes, there is racism in the world, and there ARE differences between ethnic groups, different values and mores.
And in America the history of slavery complicates matters. But really the only thing government can do is promote peace and economic justice and discourage war and government supported monopolies that economically repress the population. Racial and cultural differences can exist without racism only in the absence of economic repression. The current elevation of racism to the dominant issue seems to me to be a distraction from the broader oppression promoted by a decadent, declining empire. Moreover, it is more likely to encourage the worst kinds of racist thinking than prevent it. Our mass media promote ignorance and racism is itself a product of ignorance and should not be confused with a pride in one’s cultural heritage.
Alas, protecting America’s cultural heritage, including that of our Enlightenment Era founding fathers is not much appreaciated these days.

Anon
Anon

This seeming insanity is literally how the “betters” are distracting us from issues that matter. If you can successfully distract the critical thinking among us with constant screeching of racism, constant economic assault on multiple fronts, keep him in line with large amounts of debt, so he is FORCED to tow a line he normally would not, and basically neuter any urges towards free will, you win. This is the game being played now. Suppress any freedom through serfdom. Even the staunchest freedom loving white male, MUST provide for his / her family, and at the end of the day, if the “betters” can squeeze him in to submission by making the vice ever tighter, even he will conform. THAT is the problem.
As was stated above, the head of the snake has nothing to do with ANY of these issues. They are simply an outgrowth and a feature of the pressure cooker that has been squeezing ever tighter around everyone. The MSM and “institutions” job is to distract the sheeple from focusing on the real threats, while the “betters” steal everything.

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