Fifty years ago, no self-respecting person on the left would have dreamed of aligning themselves with the FBI or CIA

Things have changed in fifty years.

The FBI and the CIA have been rehabilitated. Comey and Brennan are heroes of the resistance. And, unlike fifty years ago, anything you read in the New York Times is Guaranteed Gospel Truth! Back in the day, your first reaction to mainstream media claims was always skepticism. 

Now, NYT/WaPo/CNN/PBS are the go-to platforms for truth-seeking lefties.

That's not all that's changed. Fifty years ago, the Black Resistance to 350 years of oppression gave rise to inspirational leaders like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and MLK. Today, Black Resistance to 400 years of oppression is centralized in the corporate-sponsored BLM astro-turf movement.

Fifty years ago, most people still viewed the Democrats as the party of unionized labour. Now it's the party of union-busting hedge-fund billionaires.

Fifty years ago, Republicans were the war party and Democrats were at least more likely to talk peace, if not actually cease and desist from dropping our Paveway instruments of democracy on recalcitrant third world peasants. Today the Democrats are as keen on perpetual war as the old war party ever was.

Sadly, what we have witnessed over the last fifty years, is the wholesale betrayal of the interests of everyday working people, of all ethnicities and creeds, by both parties.

Sooner or later, blowback is coming...

Oligarchs here and there

It's true that "our adversaries," primarily Russia and China, have their fair share of oligarchs. That's a fancy way of saying "billionaires" or "super-rich."

When I rant about the scourge of the super-rich on the world as we know it, and on the Nations of Virtue in particular, I am often reminded of that fact by folks who disagree with me but haven't thought things through.

Yes, it's true that oligarchs exist within the polity of our "adversaries." But here's the key difference.

In Russia and China, the oligarchs operate at the pleasure of the state.

In the Nations of Virtue, the USA and its vassals, the state operates at the pleasure of the oligarchs.



There's a difference.