[Peace-discuss] FW: Dems Kept Cheerleading Bush-Era Neocons - Now There's One In The White House

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Dems Kept Cheerleading Bush-Era Neocons - Now There's One In The White House

March 24, 2018

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Dems are criticizing Trump's National Security Advisor pick, not because
he's a warmonger who was one of the original members of the Project for a
New American Century, but because he's allegedly too soft on Russia, Caitlin
Johnstone explains.

By Caitlin Johnstone

As so many of us
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/shut-the-fuck-up-john-bolton-6bdb4334f29
c> have been dreading, PNAC's favorite bloodthirsty child killer John Bolton
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/anti-war-trump-voters-just-officially-ra
n-out-of-reasons-to-support-this-president-8318f6456ad4> has been added to
the Trump administration. And as many half-jokingly predicted, Democrats
seized on this opportunity to accuse Bolton of being a Kremlin agent.

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Former UN ambassador and prominent neocon John Bolton

That's right, John Bolton, the guy who has been
<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/976970545446219781> trying to
start a war with Russia since long before the name Vladimir Putin meant
anything to the average Democrat, is being accused of colluding with Russia.
Count on Democrats to oppose the most virulent neocon in Washington by
accusing him of not being hawkish enough.

"John Bolton once suggested Russian hack of DNC may have been a false flag
operation by Obama Admin,"
<https://twitter.com/AdamSchiffCA/status/976966371417321472> fretted lead
Democratic Russiagater Adam Schiff, mistaking brazen partisan hackery for
actual skepticism about a likely intelligence community false flag.

"Don't forget the reason for H.R. McMaster's departure: He criticized
Russia,"  <https://twitter.com/funder/status/977001344879005696> added
Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin. "McMaster said publicly that
Russia needed to face serious consequences for what they've done in Syria &
for the gas attack in the UK. John Bolton would never say anything like
that."

"Trump has outdone himself by selecting Bolton," Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch
<https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch/status/977285167227301890> tweeted with a
<https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595897412/john-boltons-curious-appearance-in
-a-russian-gun-rights-video> link to a story about Bolton having appeared in
a 2013 video for a Russian gun rights group. "In one appointment, he
simultaneously increased the influence of the NRA in his Admin. & found
another way to tie himself to Russia. Does he still claim he hires the best
people? #TrumpRussia."

"Bolton is *pre-indictment* for many crimes against America,"
<https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/977202756917321728> tweeted renowned
professional intelligence  <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LARPer> LARPer
Eric Garland.

Was he referring to Bolton's unforgivable
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/23/trumps-pick-war-criminal-john-
bolton-just-super-charged-threat-attack-iran> war crimes? Of course not.

"He's owned by Russia," Garland explained.

There are of course many, many, many extremely legitimate reasons to
criticize John Bolton, and none of them involve being too soft on Russia.
Not only is he
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century> a PNAC
signatory who played a major role in manufacturing the lies that led to the
Iraq invasion, but he still
<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-bolton-no-regrets-about-toppling-sa
ddam/article/2564463> insists that that invasion was a great idea. He's
advocated for escalations and acts of military violence against every single
government that is in any way oppositional to U.S. hegemony including
<https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/892474254737977345> Venezuela,
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/john-bolton-israel-should_b_321
673.html> Iran,  <http://archive.is/BGILs> North Korea,
<https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/879413965305987074> Syria,
<http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/366524-expect-americas-tension
s-with-china-and-russia-to-rise-in-2018> Russia and China, and
<https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/22/17153338/john-bolton-national-security-
adviser-trump-hr-mcmaster> account after
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/4/15/106909/-> account of his
personal behavior toward people he's worked with indicate that he is in all
likelihood an actual, literal psychopath.

But Democratic opposition to Bolton, even when it doesn't get sucked up into
idiotic Russia conspiracy theory, appears to be receiving a relatively
lukewarm response from mainstream America. It certainly isn't attracting the
urgent attention it should be, and certainly isn't eliciting the level of
viral interest as a new "bombshell" Russiagate revelation. And why should
it? Propagandists have been pacing rank-and-file Democrats into embracing
Iraq-raping Bush-era neocons for more than a year now.

In addition to Democrats being forced to spend 2016 gaslighting themselves
into believing that a warmongering neocon who supported the Iraq war would
make a great First Female President, they have also been manipulated by the
cult of blind anti-Trumpism into accepting neoconservative death worshippers
like Bill Kristol, David Frum and Max Boot into their #Resistance fold.

"One of the most amazing outcomes of the Trump administration is the number
of neo-conservatives that are now my friends and I am aligned with," MSNBC
pundit Joy Reid
<http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/joy-reid-wants-to-argue-with-you.html>
openly admitted in an interview last year. "I found myself agreeing on a
panel with Bill Kristol. I agree more with Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, and
Max Boot than I do with some people on the far left. I am shocked at the way
that Donald Trump has brought people together."

Just as Bolton has cozied up to the Trump crowd by disguising his brazen
neoconservative globalism as libertarian-leaning nationalism, neocons like
Frum, Boot and Kristol who helped decimate Iraq have been cozying up to
mainstream Democrats by
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/iraq-raping-neocons-are-suddenly-posing-
as-woke-progressives-to-gain-support-289fa527f3f8> posing as woke
progressives, and now they're in like Flynn. Dems had to stretch and
compartmentalize their thinking to accommodate the other Bush-era neocons,
and
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-real-reason-democrats-love-bush-now-
a423db50eceb> even Bush himself to a large extent, so why would a few
experts saying "Uh seriously this Bolton guy is deeply terrifying" have any
influence over them? They already had to gaslight themselves into believing
the bloodshed caused by neoconservatism is fine.

So the American mainstream has been successfully manipulated on both sides
of the artificial political divide into supporting vestigial Bush neocons,
with #TheResistance proudly retweeting depraved death cultists like Bill
Kristol while  <https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/976965585627041792> a
majority of the #MAGA crowd support Trump's elevation of Bolton, and now
there's no one left but us homeless nonpartisans to point and scream about
where this all seems to be headed.

Partisan hack Trump supporters are worthless. Partisan hack Democrats are
equally worthless. Only those who have awakened from the relentless barrage
of mass media psy-ops and seen beyond the fake uni-party trap can see what's
going on. It's up to us to awaken everyone else.

Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who
publishes regularly  <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone> at Medium. Follow
her work on  <https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone/> Facebook,
<https://twitter.com/caitoz> Twitter, or her  <http://caitlinjohnstone.com/>
website. She has a  <https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue> podcast and a new
book
<https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Field-Guide-Utopia-Preppers/dp/064823455X/ref=c
m_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8> Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers.
This article was re-published with permission.

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