we're not in kansas anymore but now inhabit a catch 22 sort of 'world'; 

 

Everyone is getting to know this new kind of government system we have recently been gifted. Some seem to like it, apparently purely as a result of a kind of BDSM fetishism, wherein an individual enjoys being stomped on and having their dog shot. Others are lashing out. Most are simply confused.

Between the unleashing of a domestic paramilitary force that just kills people and the christening of a mega-warmachine that openly presents itself as a gang of pirates, the United States has dropped any pretense of being something other than a totalitarian state which acts with impunity at home and abroad.

One can argue about how long we have been living under this type of a system without anyone saying it aloud. Certainly, those brave folks who were crushed while resisting forced integration in the South would tell you it has been a long time since the people of this country had the right to self-determination, and the millions of dead Germans, Vietnamese, Koreans, and Moslems would tell you that US adherence to “international norms” has always been a fraud. Regardless, we have entered into something totally new under “Donald Trump 2: Double Jew Up Your Ass” in that the government is no longer pretending that people have rights, no longer pretending there is such a thing as an international order.

Pretense is a type of fraud. But when the overwhelming majority of people believe in the pretense, it holds a lot of weight, as everyone acts as though the fraud is real. And, like rights and laws, which are abstractions, people acting as though they are real means they carry real weight, even if the government can and does violate them with impunity. When the pretense is gone, no one will or can act as though these sociological abstractions of rights and laws exist, which means they do not exist in any sense...........more...........