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Well, well. Here we are again.

You really have to ask yourself why it is that Americans will flock spontaneously to their local airports to protest their president's illegal banning of immigrants but can't be bothered to do the same in equal numbers to protest their president's illegal bombing of yet another war-torn nation in the global south.

It could be that immigration falls naturally under the "racist-white supremacist" clause of the identity politics version of the social contract, whereas illegal wars that take place far away among "people of colour" who are on all kinds of different "sides" just cannot be comprehended in the "racist-white supremacist" analysis of the world.

It could also be that Americans of whatever political stripe are vaguely in favor of war because they can never really be sure whether it is for good or for ill, so best to just let the bosses have at it.

But really, the failure of the American "left" to actively oppose American imperialist militarism since the last gasp of that One Big Rally back when Cheney and Rumsfeld organized Bush II into invading Iraq is not a failure of any actual "left".

Because for all intents and purposes there is no American left, just a simulacrum thereof consisting of online identity politicking claiming the leftist label and the occasional socialist-materialist leftist so frightened of the attacks from the Id Pol Vampire Squad that they might as well be on the radical liberal team themselves.

The Emperor has orange hair and bad clothes and zero effective internal opposition.

May we hope that Russia and Iran backed by China will step up where leftists fear to tread?

mjw51<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/author/mjw51/> | April 14, 2018 at 2:04 pm | Tags: Amerika<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/tag/amerika/>, anti-war movement<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/tag/anti-war-movement/>, Leftist politics<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/tag/leftist-politics/>, Syria<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/tag/syria/> | Categories: Commentary<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/category/commentary/>, Smoke and Mirrors<https://mjw51.wordpress.com/category/smoke-and-mirrors/> | URL: https://wp.me/pKmIb-U4

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