Supporters of Clinton in the painfully long 2016 presidential campaign warned us before the vote that if
Trump lost the election, his supporters would stop at nothing to disrupt Clinton's inauguration. They said riots, violence and revolution would break out, and that Republicans would claim voter fraud and refuse to respect the democratic process or accept the results should Hillary have won.
This scare tactic and all the other nightmare fantasies about Trump projected into public consciousness by the left were insufficient to persuade enough voters to go for Hillary, and as many suspected would happen,
Clinton voters are now doing the precise things they had previously declared to be unacceptable.Hypocrisy is now as American as apple pie, and no one is really all that surprised that phony idealists are taking to the streets, destroying property,
threatening to assassinate the president elect, and
organizing to prevent Trump's inauguration. Some are even openly calling for revolution.
The deeper irony here, though, is that people from all walks of life should be out protesting the government as well, but for much more significant reasons than to protest the outcome of the election.
In the true American spirit of redressing grievances, and as a public service to a nation struggling to find purpose and reason, here are four critical issues that any worthwhile protestor should add to their post-election list of complaints against the machine.
1.) The Orwellian Permanent War and The Military Industrial ComplexThis is the biggest elephant in the room. The U.S. has ongoing military operations in dozens of nations, and
it has at least 800 military bases in eighty something foreign nations. Hundreds of non-combative foreign civilians a year are
killed by U.S. bombs and drones and written off as collateral damage.
The military industrial complex has fully commandeered the progress and development of technology, and
sells billions of dollars of weapons each year to countries around the world including severely oppressive dictatorships states like
Saudi Arabia.
At home,
expenditures on 'defense' account for over half of every dollar U.S. taxpayers give Uncle Sam, diverting resources away from improving our country here at home. Surplus military equipment and battle hardened veterans are increasingly moving into the civilian law enforcement sector, dramatically exacerbating social issues such as
police brutality and
racism. The security industry has expanded to include the
mass surveillance of every American and continues to
invade our privacy in evermore creative ways. Genuine organic terrorism against Americans at home and abroad is the indirect result of
destroying foreign nations and entire civilizations, stealing oil and other resources from foreign nations, while murdering innocents.
War has become the health of the state and it's poisoning every segment of our society and culture.
2.) Serious Human Rights Abuses Committed by GovernmentProtestors today are taking to the streets to reject the verbal and emotional abuse of minority and sensitive members of our society, while actual physical human rights abuses are going under-addressed.Government openly engages in
the brutal torture of enemy combatants and even American civilians in facilities around the world and
on American soil.The largely privatized
U.S. prison system houses more inmates than any other country in the world, and has the highest per capita prison population of any nation ever.
Rights abuses in U.S. prisons are rampant, rarely receiving public attention. The vast majority of these prisoners are locked away from family and life for non-violent, victimless crimes.
Members of America and the world's elite are involved in covering up and participating in
a global trade of sex slaves, and widely believed to be
involved in pedophilia, child abduction and occult worship and rituals.
3.) Debt SlaveryThe top-tier of the banking and investment world have created a global system of economic slavery which intentionally creates ever-increasing public debt. The human race owes so much money that
no one really understands to whom it is owed. It could be aliens for all we know, but if the status quo remains, it would take the daily productivity of many generations to come to pay off only what is owed today, and the debt increases every minute.
This is a stealthy form of slavery that is written into
the matrix code of society. To be born on earth is to owe money. This is utterly unacceptable, and so
systemically unstable it's guaranteed to collapse, causing worldwide suffering.
4.) Environmental Stewardship is Criminally NegligentViewpoints on the environmental stress we see in our world today vary wildly depending on who you talk to and what their background or agenda may be. Call it global warming, climate change, or whatever you like, but at its core, our natural world is being sold off and destroyed for corporate profit. Massive unchecked pollution and environmental destruction by the energy industry and corporations at large is destroying this planet at an exponentially increasing rate. Industrial disasters like
Fukushima go unaddressed while
the world's rainforests are being decimated and
indigenous cultures driven to extinction. This sad list just goes on and on. It's just too much to put down here.
Final ThoughtsYou could easily add so much more to this if you like, as there are a thousand and one causes rebelling against, yet so very few ever seem to make it into public consciousness and onto the
corporate mainstream news. If you're outraged about what is happening in America today, but haven't yet included these issues on your
'mad as hell' list , then your protest isn't living up to its full potential, and
your idealism is only half-assed.
There is an important split unfolding here. It's between Liberals and the Left. Liberals howl about how bad Trump is. The Left claims Clinton is the greater danger. Liberals let the Hillary machine steal the Democratic nomination from Sanders. They're OK with that. The best of the Sanders crowd defected to the Left and said 'no way'.
Clinton is a mass murdering war monger, darling of the military industrial barons, Wall Street and the 1%. She stands for more cops, security surveillance, endless austerity while her lot loot and game the system. Clinton is corruption all the way. Outsource those jobs with 'trade deals', nothing and no future for you. With Clinton, the majority have no light at the end of the tunnel.
As Mumia Abu-Jamal has said 'If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism โ so be it." Destroying the Clinton machine is what we have to see happen to better face down the right. Because, true progressives and the Left will never, ever trust the Liberals.