John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Tulsi Crushes the First Democrat Debate, The Most Googled Candidate, Landslide Winner in a Bunch of Polls
“The fool who dared go against her was scorched, isn’t even on the radar”
I don’t watch television, so I didn’t see the debate.
But I know Tulsi Gabbard can be impressive.
That, of course, is precisely why she gets so little mainstream press coverage or mention by other politicians.
Indeed, she is treated as something of a pariah by many, as other past genuine independent American voices have been, from Ralph Nader to Ron Paul.
She is the only candidate saying at least some of the truths going to the heart of America’s serious problems.
Since her truths touch on empire and the use of force to keep it going, hers is not a welcome voice.
The costly, violent commitments America insists upon abroad terribly affect matters back home, too. American society suffers from many ugly and damaging problems because imperial/military efforts literally chew up resources and rivet the attention of politicians. It’s a serious systematic social disease, if you will.
Virtually all politicians in both parties embrace the empire and the military as part of the natural environment of the country.
Kind of a geopolitical natural environment, not to be messed with or fouled.
After all, they all profit from it, either in career paths and benefits or in money.
The graphs of public response to Tulsi’s words, words the debate format kept extremely limited, strikingly demonstrate that large numbers do respond when they get to hear her.
It is, of course, just part of the way America is ruled that all genuine maverick political voices are quietly and effectively muffled. It is treatment the exact opposite of that extended to a John McCain kind of maverick, someone who actually shilled full-time for empire and establishment while pretending to be independent. McCain served as a domestic version of the mercenaries the United States employs in places like Syria, mercenaries disguised as jihadi types.
Unfortunately, the polling results may provide a spur to even greater efforts at keeping her isolated.
That’s just how it is in America’s great “democracy,” which produces leadership like Trump, Bolton, Pompeo, and Haspel and forges unbreakable bonds of friendship with the bloody likes of the Saudi Crown Prince and Netanyahu.
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