Corbin, unfortunately your article is accurate. The USA is a hostile nation as it was even before our founding. The fruit never falls far from the tree so we should not be surprised.
Can we change the ethos of our nation and live up to the ideals of freedom, free speech, liberty and justice for ALL and not just the wealthy white?
It will take a radical change of direction and the leadership of uncorrupted youth guided by sage uncorrupted elders. Let's see if this can be done.
Personally, I think it's a lost cause and has been for some time, now. There is something very sinister about us. The whole "we're the greatest country on earth" thing is troubling and caustic. And embarrassing.
The wealthy have always justified their actions and usually consider everyone not in their class as servants. Unfortunately, there are wannabes who are willing to bootlicker until they become the overlords.
No idea. Willing to wash my hands of the whole caustic mess as I am certain that I will not live long enough to see any improvement. This country is so far gone that, even if there were enough sane people left to make a stab at improving, there are too many MAGA plodders to allow it to happen. This is a whole different country than it was when I got here. I fear that intelligent, compassionate and peaceful people are outnumbered--by a lot. "Department of War", indeed. No way back from that.
With Iran, if you don't go back to 1953 you won't understand it. With our governance you have to understand the tension between a centralized, unitary system and a decentralized divided governance. It is a system of compromise, but when dominated by liars, at least from Nixon, but perhaps way before that, it is corruptible. You are correct, the only difference between now and then is the present transparency and stupidity dominating the executive branch. We have long used a big stick, sometimes with soft talk, sometimes not, but the victims of our big stick are both internal (blacks, people of color, native peoples) and external. Iran is just the latest victim, and the clarity about our unjust action more broadly held.
Right, Wayne. We overthrew their democratically elected govt for the Anglo-Iranian oil company - now BP. We installed the brutal Shah and turned a blind eye to his murderous regime that inspired the Islamic Revolution. We also provided Iraq - Rumsfeld went to Baghdad, personally - with chemical weapons they used on Iran. Whole villages were wiped out. Pets were dying in the streets. Yeah - Iran is a threat to us and the whole world if you listen to Netanyahu (like we did over Iraq). Lebanon, Syria, Iraq have all been neutralized. The last strong resistance to Greater Israel is Iran. That is "the problem".
Spot on, as usual. Thank you for saying this. The unconscionable atrocities we've committed and enabled in Latin America alone should make any decent human being want to crawl into a hole and die of shame. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans have no idea what our government does or who it serves. The most f'd up veneer is that we live in anything resembling a functioning democracy.
Also, my Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) and his mini-me, my congresscritter Dan Goldman, need to go away and STFU FOREVER. Now I'm wondering whether Goldman's primary challenger Brad Lander passes the PAC screen.
I’m almost twice your age and have been watching what you describe so accurately since before you were born. Thank you for your ongoing clarity. I wish I could do more to help AFight Worth Having. I’ll be working to help Rachel Peace win the Primary in NJ District 4. I’m sure she would qualify for your list on her merits but the district is so Red I worry our time and money will not be enough to oust Chris Smith
I'm reminded of the saying, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
That's an apt description of American foreign policy since the Korean War.
Just think of the victims: Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Gaza, now Iran. With no doubt more to come, especial with the current warmongers in power, aided and abetted by a corrupt Congress & Supreme Court. Who's to stop them??
As I see it, we're on a downhill slope with nothing to grab on to. The endless "USA! USA!" propaganda in all the mainstream media makes sure of that.
Democrats have to DO different, not just TALK different. Do everything FDR did. Crack down hard on all economic theft (stock trading, AI, bitcoin. betting). Crack down on real crime. Build infrastructure and give useful jobs to young men so they can be proud of building the country. Encourage local culture instead of forcing SF culture on the rest of the country. Don't make unnecessary wars.
Some discussion about voting. For the record, I stopped voting for D's and R's during Obama 1. The PROBLEM, as I see it it control by the D's and R's. They control the primaries so they decide WHO CAN AND CANNOT run for office. There is no room for independents. If you don't sign on to the uniparty, you can't get enough money to run for office.
It costs, what? $2 Billion to run for president. $100 Million to run for Congress ? We need open primaries run by each state. We need more control over PAC money and other "gray" area mass contributions and let me name AIPAC and the Israel lobby. Overwhelming influence (money) from Zionists has gotten into several wars in the mid-East. Like Iraq - based on lies and now Iran.
Iran has not attacked another country in centuries. Very peaceful. They support their Shia allies like Hezbollah that defends Lebanon from Israel and the Houthis who defend Yemen from Saudi and the US. REAL terrorists: al Qaeda created by US support for bin Laden and ISIS created by US support for al Baghdadi. We had al Baghdadi in Abu Ghraib, but released him - he turned up in Mosel preaching ISIS, then swept into Syria with a couple hundred white pickup trucks (from where ?) to overthrow Assad. WE have created al Qaeda and ISIS and used them to cause terror and chaos on others that we demonize with the same playbook of lies.
You can find long lists of terror activities by al Qaeda and ISIS. Not for Hezbollah or Houthis - yet we repeat over and over that it is Hezbollah, for example, that are the terrorists even though they stood up for the Lebanese as a people's militia to defend themselves from invasions and attacks by Israel - the REAL problem. Greter Israel is the Zionist version of LEBENSRAUM.
Sorry for being so verbose, but I can hardly stand what we are doing to Iran BASED ON LIES.
Corbin, the most lucid view of 'murka I have ever seen in print. Denial is the deadliest Lie of all. It mocks reality, which by any definition implies that this animal we call ourselves is capable of self-awareness. As the rednecks say - 'All hat, no cattle.' My dad used to say that the greatest liars in the world are those who believe their own lies. There is little more to be said here, we have, so to say, screwed the pooch. And let's see our Constitution for what it really is: best fluff job ever done on a people. I have started to call the Founders the Flounders, cuz that is what has happened to those lofty ideals, they have floundered on the rocks of history. And to question whether Lincoln's 'nation divided against itself' can remain upright, my observation is that it NEVER was united, from the get-go. Now he was an imperfect noble man, a begrudging learner who encountered his own flawed ego and actually progressed from that. He was murdered in cold blood for that. Now his alter ego, the least noble man to ever walk the soil of these shores, is murdering anyone who might pull back the curtain in Oz. All the enablers who have grossly profited from 250 years of egregious usury are laying down cover fire as they head for their fortresses in the hills. Since the beginning of 'civilization' we humans have denied our savagery, our barbarism, hiding behind illusionary gods and angels and divine clergy and 'genius' leaders whose sole mission in life was to profit from and wreak havoc with these illusions. Yes, there are some really good humans out here, and many still working on that never-ending goal, but they are not 'murkans, they are Earth citizens. For the rest: Denial, liars who believe their own lies with zeal and rage and devastation. 'Believe me, the check is in the mail, and I will destroy you if you dare utter the truth that there is no check and I can never be believed.'
America's greatest strength is its open culture and imperfect system(s) of self-reflection and -correction. What fuels democracy's potential is active citizen participation. Voting is a right - exercise it. Voting is the US Constitution in-action.
Voting is good and necessary, but it is not sufficient. Compare, for example, the words of candidate Obama and the actions of President Obama. No one gets anywhere near real power in this country without the blessing of America's Owners.
I hope you'll interview Jason Poulos who is running against Jake Auchincloss in MA - CD4 as well as Jeromie Whalen who's running against Richard Neal in MA - CD1.
Corbin, unfortunately your article is accurate. The USA is a hostile nation as it was even before our founding. The fruit never falls far from the tree so we should not be surprised.
Can we change the ethos of our nation and live up to the ideals of freedom, free speech, liberty and justice for ALL and not just the wealthy white?
It will take a radical change of direction and the leadership of uncorrupted youth guided by sage uncorrupted elders. Let's see if this can be done.
Personally, I think it's a lost cause and has been for some time, now. There is something very sinister about us. The whole "we're the greatest country on earth" thing is troubling and caustic. And embarrassing.
But what are the alternatives?
The wealthy have always justified their actions and usually consider everyone not in their class as servants. Unfortunately, there are wannabes who are willing to bootlicker until they become the overlords.
No idea. Willing to wash my hands of the whole caustic mess as I am certain that I will not live long enough to see any improvement. This country is so far gone that, even if there were enough sane people left to make a stab at improving, there are too many MAGA plodders to allow it to happen. This is a whole different country than it was when I got here. I fear that intelligent, compassionate and peaceful people are outnumbered--by a lot. "Department of War", indeed. No way back from that.
With Iran, if you don't go back to 1953 you won't understand it. With our governance you have to understand the tension between a centralized, unitary system and a decentralized divided governance. It is a system of compromise, but when dominated by liars, at least from Nixon, but perhaps way before that, it is corruptible. You are correct, the only difference between now and then is the present transparency and stupidity dominating the executive branch. We have long used a big stick, sometimes with soft talk, sometimes not, but the victims of our big stick are both internal (blacks, people of color, native peoples) and external. Iran is just the latest victim, and the clarity about our unjust action more broadly held.
Right, Wayne. We overthrew their democratically elected govt for the Anglo-Iranian oil company - now BP. We installed the brutal Shah and turned a blind eye to his murderous regime that inspired the Islamic Revolution. We also provided Iraq - Rumsfeld went to Baghdad, personally - with chemical weapons they used on Iran. Whole villages were wiped out. Pets were dying in the streets. Yeah - Iran is a threat to us and the whole world if you listen to Netanyahu (like we did over Iraq). Lebanon, Syria, Iraq have all been neutralized. The last strong resistance to Greater Israel is Iran. That is "the problem".
Spot on, as usual. Thank you for saying this. The unconscionable atrocities we've committed and enabled in Latin America alone should make any decent human being want to crawl into a hole and die of shame. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans have no idea what our government does or who it serves. The most f'd up veneer is that we live in anything resembling a functioning democracy.
Also, my Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) and his mini-me, my congresscritter Dan Goldman, need to go away and STFU FOREVER. Now I'm wondering whether Goldman's primary challenger Brad Lander passes the PAC screen.
I’m almost twice your age and have been watching what you describe so accurately since before you were born. Thank you for your ongoing clarity. I wish I could do more to help AFight Worth Having. I’ll be working to help Rachel Peace win the Primary in NJ District 4. I’m sure she would qualify for your list on her merits but the district is so Red I worry our time and money will not be enough to oust Chris Smith
Spot on, Corbin!
I'm reminded of the saying, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
That's an apt description of American foreign policy since the Korean War.
Just think of the victims: Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Gaza, now Iran. With no doubt more to come, especial with the current warmongers in power, aided and abetted by a corrupt Congress & Supreme Court. Who's to stop them??
As I see it, we're on a downhill slope with nothing to grab on to. The endless "USA! USA!" propaganda in all the mainstream media makes sure of that.
Mark Twain's War Prayer comes to mind.
Democrats have to DO different, not just TALK different. Do everything FDR did. Crack down hard on all economic theft (stock trading, AI, bitcoin. betting). Crack down on real crime. Build infrastructure and give useful jobs to young men so they can be proud of building the country. Encourage local culture instead of forcing SF culture on the rest of the country. Don't make unnecessary wars.
The Democrats, just like the Republicans ARE THE PROBLEM. They control the primaries. WRONG.
Some discussion about voting. For the record, I stopped voting for D's and R's during Obama 1. The PROBLEM, as I see it it control by the D's and R's. They control the primaries so they decide WHO CAN AND CANNOT run for office. There is no room for independents. If you don't sign on to the uniparty, you can't get enough money to run for office.
It costs, what? $2 Billion to run for president. $100 Million to run for Congress ? We need open primaries run by each state. We need more control over PAC money and other "gray" area mass contributions and let me name AIPAC and the Israel lobby. Overwhelming influence (money) from Zionists has gotten into several wars in the mid-East. Like Iraq - based on lies and now Iran.
Iran has not attacked another country in centuries. Very peaceful. They support their Shia allies like Hezbollah that defends Lebanon from Israel and the Houthis who defend Yemen from Saudi and the US. REAL terrorists: al Qaeda created by US support for bin Laden and ISIS created by US support for al Baghdadi. We had al Baghdadi in Abu Ghraib, but released him - he turned up in Mosel preaching ISIS, then swept into Syria with a couple hundred white pickup trucks (from where ?) to overthrow Assad. WE have created al Qaeda and ISIS and used them to cause terror and chaos on others that we demonize with the same playbook of lies.
You can find long lists of terror activities by al Qaeda and ISIS. Not for Hezbollah or Houthis - yet we repeat over and over that it is Hezbollah, for example, that are the terrorists even though they stood up for the Lebanese as a people's militia to defend themselves from invasions and attacks by Israel - the REAL problem. Greter Israel is the Zionist version of LEBENSRAUM.
Sorry for being so verbose, but I can hardly stand what we are doing to Iran BASED ON LIES.
Corbin, the most lucid view of 'murka I have ever seen in print. Denial is the deadliest Lie of all. It mocks reality, which by any definition implies that this animal we call ourselves is capable of self-awareness. As the rednecks say - 'All hat, no cattle.' My dad used to say that the greatest liars in the world are those who believe their own lies. There is little more to be said here, we have, so to say, screwed the pooch. And let's see our Constitution for what it really is: best fluff job ever done on a people. I have started to call the Founders the Flounders, cuz that is what has happened to those lofty ideals, they have floundered on the rocks of history. And to question whether Lincoln's 'nation divided against itself' can remain upright, my observation is that it NEVER was united, from the get-go. Now he was an imperfect noble man, a begrudging learner who encountered his own flawed ego and actually progressed from that. He was murdered in cold blood for that. Now his alter ego, the least noble man to ever walk the soil of these shores, is murdering anyone who might pull back the curtain in Oz. All the enablers who have grossly profited from 250 years of egregious usury are laying down cover fire as they head for their fortresses in the hills. Since the beginning of 'civilization' we humans have denied our savagery, our barbarism, hiding behind illusionary gods and angels and divine clergy and 'genius' leaders whose sole mission in life was to profit from and wreak havoc with these illusions. Yes, there are some really good humans out here, and many still working on that never-ending goal, but they are not 'murkans, they are Earth citizens. For the rest: Denial, liars who believe their own lies with zeal and rage and devastation. 'Believe me, the check is in the mail, and I will destroy you if you dare utter the truth that there is no check and I can never be believed.'
I’m going to try to help.
America's greatest strength is its open culture and imperfect system(s) of self-reflection and -correction. What fuels democracy's potential is active citizen participation. Voting is a right - exercise it. Voting is the US Constitution in-action.
Voting is good and necessary, but it is not sufficient. Compare, for example, the words of candidate Obama and the actions of President Obama. No one gets anywhere near real power in this country without the blessing of America's Owners.
While I agree with your post in theory, I do not see very many in my orbit who are reflecting, honest with themselves, engaged, etc. This concerns me.
Read this:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/04/07/fintan-otoole-trumps-random-gibberish-is-more-terrifying-than-lies-it-is-a-sign-of-derangement/?
I hope you'll interview Jason Poulos who is running against Jake Auchincloss in MA - CD4 as well as Jeromie Whalen who's running against Richard Neal in MA - CD1.
The hyperlink to Larkin's campaign takes you to the Colorado candidate.
You, of course, have it all right. Hope your work pays off.