Sunday, October 17, 2004

Yes, Mike, We're Doomed

By Kurt Nimmo

It’s inevitable. No matter who Americans vote for on November 2 things will only get worse. Because Kerry and Bush are essentially indistinguishable. Both represent the interests of the ruling elite—that is to say predatory globalization and endless invasions of small and mostly defenseless third world nations.

Kerry is no more a liberal than Clinton was a liberal. In fact, the Democrats have spent the last couple decades alienating and marginalizing sincere liberals.

Kerry is Bush Lite. Democrats are the Bush Lite Party.

Kerry makes Faux Liberals feel better about mass murder (as Clinton made them feel better about mass murder in Yugoslavia, the Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan).

On November 2 Americans will get to choose between a Faux Liberal, who parades himself as Bush Lite, and the real McCoy. Since Kerry is parroting Bush—on Iraq and pre-emptively killing dark-skinned people—is there any reason to vote for him?

Is there any reason to bother casting a ballot with choices such as these?

Is it unfair to say that casting a ballot for Kerry against Bush is not only the wrong thing to do, but is immoral and reprehensible?

“I fear, really, that we are doomed on some level here. We are so close to not being able to pull it back, to turn it around—to get control of our country back in our hands,” Michael Moore told an audience in Phoenix during the final presidential “debate” earlier this week. “We have allowed the wealthy to take control now of all our democratic process. It may be too late—I don’t know, I hope it isn’t.”

Moore said he has faith Kerry will be elected.

“[But] it doesn’t mean that November third everything is going to be hunky dory. Believe me. November third we had better commit to redouble our efforts once Kerry’s in the White House and be on his ass once he’s in there to do the right thing.”

Moore is a sincere liberal, not a faux liberal, not a Clinton liberal, a so-called New Democrat (in other words, Republican Lite). Moore, however, unfortunately suffers from a delusion many sincere liberals share—they believe popular will can shape what a Democrat does once in the White House. For some reason they believe there is a wide gulf between Democrats and Republicans and the Democrats can be persuaded to “do the right thing.”

For some reason memory fails liberals on numerous accounts: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton—these are Democrats who have started or perpetuated wars, overt and covert, and are responsible for the murder of millions of innocent people.

Kerry will not deviate from this well-established tradition.

Kerry has said repeatedly he will continue to do what Bush has done, only he will do it more effectively. For Kerry, the “right thing” is to kill more Iraqis, to pursue an unwinnable and immensely destructive occupation. For Kerry, Iran and Syria are the problem, not Ariel Sharon’s daily butchery of the Palestinian people.

Kerry, like Clinton before him, is a New Democrat.

Surely, Clinton killed more people than either Bush I or II (sanctions against Iraq were levied primarily under Clinton, resulting in around a million innocent civilians killed, half of them children). He terrorized the Iraqi people for years with bombing raids. Clinton even did something many thought politically impossible—he bombed a country in Europe. And many liberals, even sincere liberals, supported him for doing this (for instance, many liberals viewed the attack on Yugoslavia as a “humanitarian” gesture directed against brutal Serbs who were ethnically cleansing their neighbors).

In Yugoslavia, Clinton set the pattern for Bush and the Straussian neocons. “[Clinton and] NATO bombed Yugoslavia, in contravention of its own charter, to set the seal on its ‘new strategic concept’: that NATO can bomb any country which is doing bad things domestically, even though it has neither attacked nor threatened any NATO member, and that NATO can decide what to do entirely on its own, without consulting the UN. The Yugoslavs had always agreed to a UN force in Kosovo, but had said no to NATO,” writes David Ramsay Steele.

Straussian neocons, of course, have no use for NATO, but their aim is identical: they “can bomb any country which is doing bad things”—for instance, building their own nuclear weapons or supporting indigenous groups resisting Israeli aggression, for instance Hezbollah. Kerry simply wants to “internationalize” the bombing and murder, whereas Bush and Crew want to go it alone.

Yes, Mike, we’re doomed.

It will be either Kerry or Bush on November 3 and the murder and destruction will continue. In fact, if Kerry “wins,” many liberals will fall in line and support the “war against terrorism,” as they supported Clinton’s invasions and bombing runs, his targeting of civilian infrastructure, and his destruction of pharmaceutical factories. Nothing will change except more people will support this madness. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will complain mightily and daily about the “liberal” Kerry but the foreign policy of the United States will not change. Republicans, chagrined, will snoop high and low for Kerry’s Monica Lewinsky.

Michael Moore may well “be on [Kerry’s] ass once he’s in there to do the right thing,” but this is a meaningless and entirely laughable threat. It is casting pearls before swine.

Michael Moore and the liberals are seriously deluded—John Kerry is a neoliberal and his “base” (as Bush put it in a scene from Moore’s Fahrenheit 911) is the ruling elite, the multinational corporations, for lack of a better word the New World Order of banking and global investment and the “defense” industry and Big Oil and the demented Likudites in Israel.

Kerry’s base is not Mike and the slackers he addressed in Phoenix.

The sooner Michael Moore and the liberals realize John Kerry is the enemy—same as Bush is the enemy—the sooner they will realize now is the time to stop fooling around with Democrats and build a truly progressive political party in America.

Mike says we’re doomed if Kerry does not win. In fact, we are doomed if we keep crawling to Democrats to save us from Republicans. Kerry is a good cop to Bush’s bad cop.

It’s a Faustian deal no matter how you look at it.

Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is the author of Another Day in the Empire: Life in Neoconservative America, a collection of essays published by Dandelion Books. Visit his weblog at KurtNimmo.com.

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