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One of the greatest methods for guaranteeing the continuation of the expansion of fascist horrors around the planet are the expressions of belief wherein Donald Trump and those closely associated with him are portrayed as being unprecedented. This distortion can be expressed in a favorable manner or in a condemnation of their corruptions. These now common misrepresentations are widely promoted by those who are openly supporters and those who would be aghast at the idea that they were also serving to reinforce what they ardently seem to oppose. In both cases, the misguided belief that Trump is extraordinary is central to the generally delusional passions across the supposed spectrum of the majority of voters. The recognition of this unity seems widely inconceivable and that inconceivability is the basis of the guarantee of greater debauchery. Maintaining the inconceivability of the greater unifying reality is now the foremost priority of vast numbers of media outlets – both supposedly “progressive” and supposedly “conservative.”
The one aspect of the bipartisanly enabled Trumpian version of the status quo which is most salient involves an openly indifferent, deceitful, proud use of manipulative gibberish and the deliberate crassness used to appear as if this administration is without precedent while it depends upon the corrupt foundational work of all of its predecessors. In a very real sense, Kamala Harris could fit within this gibberish spouting corruption. Liberals and the MAGA crowd both continue to refuse to see the bipartisan unity. In order to cling to their desperate delusions both are unified in their incapability to see the continuities – such as how Trump’s priorities and Obama’s priorities are overwhelmingly of the same bipartisan intent. The priorities are 3 part – get elected by leading people to think you will do what you will not do, increase global instability through military aggressiveness based on accusations, and continue expanding the private corporate domination over all life. Their personal methods of implementation and expansions of the shared religiosity are mainly superficial variations in technique and style while deception and self-deception are key tools for both. As Trump continues to expand the long-established disemboweling of the supposed constitution, the hyper-securitization, militarizing, and the bipartisan disdain for equal justice around the planet, his supporters and their democrat colleagues (who ignorantly believe they are oppositional) both insist that his administration is something unexpected and has an immensely powerful uniqueness. A self-fulfilling assessment. Their shared misreading depends upon a vainly willful rejection of accurate interpretation of the history of presidential and congressional cunning and misrepresentations which have been bipartisanly grinding away at any and every supposed foundational rights which are assumed to be connected to the FakeUSA.
The FakeUSA is a religious state. Its highest holy is unrestrained scheming for private profits. The church alternates between two choirs which are funded by the monetarily-obsessed elites of the church who are quickly bored by and resentful of any voices which have redeeming, unscripted and genuine qualities and which do not help drown-out the tormented cries of the prey – whose consumption is mandated by the greed-filled desperate elites. Trump is the latest choirmaster and his effectiveness is reflected in the passions and smugness of both choirs. He out-Bushes the Bushes and he out-Obamas the Obamas and he proudly knows he has achieved a level of honest indifference to rampant suffering – in the name of monetary impunity – which his predecessors and congresses had long been striving towards. He also knows that it is the passions of both his supporters and his (supposed) opponents which reinforce the falsehood of his fake individualism. THEY make him extraordinary and they both foolishly help make his democrat and republican enablers appear as if they are to varying degrees more respectably reticent and hapless. They mistake cynicism and compliance as a sign of wisdom. Cravenness flourishes among the voters as they proudly eschew integrity in favor of what they misguidedly grasp at as pragmatism (which is, in reality, a devotion to can-kicking and lint-picking for the benefit of the greediest predators).
The truth about all of this coordinated bipartisan corruption is most clearly expressed in what is commonly referred to as foreign policy. As the imperialist capitalist program of impunity and arrogance expands, it, like all previous iterations of its sort, jettisons credibility, promotes credulity, and begins devouring its own members while blaming others for its own escalating debauchery. What the vast numbers of voters continue to fail to realize is that there is no place on the planet which is not foreign land which will be plundered for the capitalist cult. This includes their bogus “homeland.” Nowhere has this corruption been more clearly expressed than in the bipartisan elevation of Marco Rubio to be the Secretary of State.
As a senator in the D.C., Rubio made his twisted predatory religiosity a badge he burnished with mind-numbing vanity. This, of course, meant that he was a comfortable fit for that private club. That Trump should want him nearby was an indicator of the ungrounded flamboyance which lights the halls in the D.C. and is used to project the necessary shadows to heighten feelings of rampant insecurity among the masses.
Thus, on the exact same day when Trump was sworn in to his second presidency, Marco Rubio was unanimously endorsed by all of his colleagues in the senate by a vote of 99 to 0. Every democrat, every republican, and every fake independent in the club willingly supported Trump and Rubio as their preferred team. Not a single vote in opposition to what is an obvious union of the pridefully noxious and the predatory. These are the same people who depend upon the voters belief that they live in a democracy. Apparently, their definition of democracy is the same as the definitions of uniformity and conformity combined with capitalizing cravenness.
So, every time someone promotes, either one way or another, the notion that Trump is a singular force from outside which contrasts with accepted norms, the message and the messenger are only working to distract their audience from the reality that they are trapped within a juggernaut which is powered by prideful self-loathing and cynicism and driven by the fake independents, the democrats, and the republicans together. They, along with Trump, need for us to NOT see their devotion to the same corruption.
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Clark T. Scott.