The question in the title is V.I. Lenin’s
question. His answer was to create a revolutionary “vanguard” to spread
revolutionary ideas among the workers, the economic class that Karl Marx had
declared to be the class rising to the ascendency of political power. Finally,
democracy, frustrated by upper-class interests in its earlier manifestations,
would become reality. The workers would rule.
Given the presence of evil and human
failing, it did not work out in that way. But Lenin’s question remains a valid
one. Americans whose economic life and prospects for their children have been
destroyed by the offshoring of American manufacturing and tradable professional
skills jobs, such as software engineering, answered the question by electing
Donald Trump.
The Americans, dispossessed by the
offshoring corporations, elected Trump because Trump was the only American
running for a political office who called attention to the problem and declared
his intention to fix it.
By standing up for Americans, Trump
alienated the global corporations, their executives, and shareholders, all of
whom benefit from stealing the economic life of Americans and producing abroad
where labor and regulatory costs are lower. Neoliberal junk economists describe
this labor arbitrage, which reduces the real incomes of the American labor
force, as the beneficial working of free trade.
These offshoring firms not only have
destroyed the economic prospects of millions of Americans, but also have destroyed
the payroll tax base of Social Security and Medicare, and the tax base of local
and state governments, with the consequence that numerous pension systems are
on the verge of failure. The New York Teamsters Road Carriers Local 707 Pension
Fund has just failed. This failure, experts predict, is the beginning of a
tsunami that will spread into municipal and state pension systems.
When you add up the external costs of jobs
offshoring that are imposed on Americans, the costs far exceed the value of the
profits that flow to the One Percent. Clearly, this is an intolerable
situation.
Dispossessed Americans rose up. They
ignored the presstitute media or perhaps were driven to support Trump by the
hostility of the media. Trump was elected by dispossessed America, by the
working class.
The working class is out of favor with the
elite liberal/progressive/left which abhors the working class as racist,
misogynist, homophobic, gun nuts who oppose transgendered toilet facilities.
Thus, the working class, and their chosen representative, Donald Trump, are
under full assault by the presstitutes. “Trump Must Go” is their slogan.
And well he might. Trump, in a fit of
stupidity, dismissed his National Security Advisor, Gen. Flynn, because Flynn
did what he should have done and spoke with the Russian ambassador in order to
avoid a Russian response to Obama’s provocation of expelling Russian diplomats
at Christmas.
Russians have been demonized and ascribed
demonic powers. If you speak to a Russian, you fall under suspicion and become
a traitor to your country. This is the story according to the CIA, the
Democratic Party, the military/security complex, and the presstitute media.
Once Trump put Flynn’s blood in the water,
he set the situation for the sacrifice of other of his appointees, ending with
himself. At the present time, “the Russian connection” black mark is operating
against Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. If Sessions falls, Trump is
next.
Let’s be clear. As a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, Sessions met with the Russian ambassador, just as he
met with a number of other countries’ ambassadors. There is nothing unusual or
surprising about a US senator meeting with foreign diplomatic representatives.
Those who accuse Sessions of lying are
misrepresenting the facts. Session met with ambassadors in his capacity as a US
Senator, not in his capacity as a Trump representative. As a former US Senate
staffer, I can attest that it is perfectly normal for US Senators to meet with
diplomats. John McCain and Lindsey Graham even fly to the Middle East to meet
with terrorists.
Despite the facts, the Washington Post, New
York Times, CNN and all the rest of the CIA’s media whores are consciously and
intentionally misrepresenting the facts. Americans do not need any more
evidence that the entirely of the American media is totally devoid of integrity
and respect for truth. The American media is a collection of whores who lie for
a living. The presstitutes are despicable, the scum of the earth.
The real question is how has contact with
Russian government officials become criminalized, grounds for removing a
National Security Adviser, an Attorney General, and impeaching a President
himself. President John F. Kennedy had ongoing contact with Khrushchev, the
head of the Soviet government, in order to resolve the Cuban/Turkish missile
crisis without nuclear war. President Nixon had ongoing contact with the
Russians in order to achieve SALT I and the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
President Carter had ongoing contact with Russians in order to achieve SALT II.
President Reagan worked with the Russian leader in order to end the Cold War. I
know. I was there.
But if President Trump wants to defuse the
extremely dangerous tensions that the reckless Clinton, George W. Bush, and
Obama regimes have resurrected with a powerful thermo-nuclear state that only
wants peace with the US, President Trump and any of his appointees who spoke to
a Russian are unfit for office! This madness is the position of the idiot
liberal/progressive/left, the CIA, the Democratic Party, the right-wing morons
of the Republican Party such as Lindsey Graham and John McCain, and the two-bit
whores that comprise the Western media.
Dear reader, ask yourself, how did communications with
Russians in the interest of peace and the reduction of tensions become a
criminal act? Have laws been passed that it is forbidden for US officials to
speak with Russian officials? Are you so utterly stupid that a presstitute
media that has never in your entire life told you anything that was truthful
can convince you that those who seek to avoid a conflict between thermo-nuclear
powers are “Russian agents”?
I have no doubt that the vast bulk of
Western populations are insouciant. But if there is no intelligence and
awareness left anywhere in the population, and most certainly there is none
whatsoever in the governments of the West or in the Western media or the
Identity Politics of the liberal/progressive/left, then don’t expect to be
alive much longer.
The entirely of the world has been put on
the knife-edge of existence by the arrogance, stupidity, and hubris of the
neoconservative pursuit of American world hegemony. The neoconservative
ideology is the perfect cover for the material interest of the
military/security Deep State that is driving the world to destruction.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
