The Real Left Of Reality Has To Dump The Duplicitous Play-Left Of Ideology

My disillusion with the American atheist-secular left has been a developing thing.  It first started even before I knew what it was in my realizing that I'd put my faith in a bunch of the biggest bumblers, losers, liars and idiots who were never going to win an election but had, as of then, already lost several to Republican-fascists that should have kept them out of office.  That part of it started fifty-one years ago in the election that brought Nixon into office.   It continued in 1972 in an election that one of the most decent men to have ever gotten the nomination of a major party lost to the man who, up to that time, was the most criminal of men who had been elected,  George McGovern who, in his later years, was honest enough to say that his candidacy in that election was a disaster based, in no small part, on the reforms of the nomination process he, himself, had a big hand in.  Like I said, George McGovern was one of the most decent men to have ever gotten the nomination.

It continued in the Carter Presidency as the left continually overshot in their demands and who weakened Carter from the left even as the Republican fascists were from the right.   That classical American liberal,  Edward Kennedy running a primary challenge to him was certainly not helpful, neither were the media even before the Iranian gangsters took hostages in the American embassy and Ted Koppel, really the entire media, used it to end Carter's presidency and put Ronald Reagan in office, the man who, up till now, has held the record for most appointees to be indicted and convicted of serious crimes while in office.  

I could go through the entire thing, up to and including the role that Nader and the Greens had in helping Republicans ratfuck the 2000 election and in 2016 as the secular-atheist left proves it is incapable of learning from the hardest of experience, something it is proving in a superfluity of evidence  as we work up to 2020.  

The secular-left never learns a fucking thing no matter how bad and hard the experience gained from its fuckups gets,  the affluence of many of them, shielding them from the worst of that hard experience is certainly a part of it, most of them are white, middle class or upper class, when not filthy rich, have security and live in the kind of bubble that wealth brings you.   Many of them have tenure, a few of them have regular media gigs where they ratfuck the real left that might win elections from the left,  some of them on TV and the radio, some of the online, some of them in the archaic ink on paper media.  

This is all a prelude to me pointing out that though the wealthy owner of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, has given up the editorship to D. D. Guttenplan, remaining as its owner, um, "publisher", it still regularly gives her husband, the Putin asset,  Stephen F. Cohen space to spew his pro-Putin, and so pro-Trump propaganda.  On the 14th, in a piece of Putin's luggage titled, "Why Are We in Ukraine?" (Honoring Dr. Hill's request, I will not link to Cohen's fictions, anymore)  Cohen rather jaw droppingly says: 

For centuries and still today, Russia and large parts of Ukraine have had much in common—a long territorial border; a shared history; ethnic, linguistic, and other cultural affinities; intimate personal relations; substantial economic trade; and more. Even after the years of escalating conflict between Kiev and Moscow since 2014, many Russians and Ukrainians still think of themselves in familial ways. The United States has almost none of these commonalities with Ukraine.

Which is also to say that Ukraine is not “a vital US national interest,” as most leaders of both parties, Republican and Democrat alike, and much of the US media now declare. On the other hand, Ukraine is a vital Russian interest by any geopolitical or simply human reckoning.

I'll break in here to note that you could say the same thing about Germany and France in 1938 or 1941, up to and including the day after Pearl Harbor when Germany, honoring its pacts with the Japanese fascist government declared war on the United States.  Big countries are rather notable for interfering and dominating and engulfing smaller countries they share a border or region with. You could argue the same thing about Poland or any of the countries where a slavic language is spoken.  

Why, then, is Washington so deeply involved in Ukraine? (The proposed nearly $400 million in US military aid to Kiev would mean, of course, even more intrusive involvement.) And why is Ukraine so deeply involved in Washington, in a different way, that it has become a pretext for attempts to impeach President Donald Trump?

A "pretext for attempts to impeach President Donald Trump,"  there you have it, The Nation, by proxy, carrying water for Donald Trump in the form of vanden Heuvel's husband,  Stephen F. Cohen.  "Pretext?"  THAT Donald Trump broke any number of laws rather blatantly with a huge involvement with gangsters foreign and domestic apparently is unimportant to The Nation magazine as owned by vanden Heuvel and as regarded as a premier organ of the secular-atheist left media in the United States.   I don't look at it nearly as much as I used to, mostly because I don't trust them and I certainly don't trust anything said from that ideological cover-job without serious fact checking, anymore.  

If it were possible I would love to know what information might have been collected about Stephen F. Cohen during the Brezhnev era when he was excluded from the Soviet Union, the subject of his academic specialty.  It might explain why he has emerged as such a big fat fan of Putin and his water carrier at The Nation.  Though I think the phenomenon he represents isn't that rare on the left, as I noted they've been ratfucking elections with the result that Republican-fascists win over and over again for more than half a century, now.   Researching this article I came across an article by one of Cohen's defenders who is moving the idea of Bernie Sanders running an independent candidacy when he inevitably loses the Democratic nomination, something that, as he pointed out, is already being prominently pushed inside the official Bernie Sanders campaign. 

On October 23rd, an extraordinary article was published online at Newsweek, but merely as “Opinion,” and this not coming from Senator Sanders’s Democratic primary campaign for the U.S. Presidency, but only from a supporter: “‘BERNIE OR BUST’ IS A WARNING—IGNORE IT, AND TRUMP WINS | OPINION”. It would be a historic article if the Sanders campaign endorses it. And, on October 27th, they seem to have done just that, by allowing its author to send it on October 27th to the campaign’s enormous email list (which includes me). . . 

Either the Sanders campaign blundered to provide their email list to the article’s author, or else this statement now IS a warning that comes from the Sanders campaign. (I have emailed the sender, asking how he got my email-address, and there has been no reply yet. I also emailed Faiz Shakir, the Campaign Manager for Bernie Sanders — likewise no answer yet.)

And if that isn't enough, this ass gives a pie-in-the-sky scenario in which, COMPARING SANDERS TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, NO LESS, he encourages the idiot Sanders folks to imagine him becoming president through a three-way race.

If he runs a third-Party campaign, he actually could end up drawing more Electoral-College votes, and even more voters’ votes, than either of the other two Parties’ nominees would. He could possibly end up doing, to American politics, what Abraham Lincoln did in 1860: replace one of the two existing Parties by a new Party. Instead of replacing the Whigs by the Republicans, as Lincoln did in 1860, Sanders could replace the Democrats by the Greens in 2021. It would be American politics for the 21st Century, transforming away from the billionaire-monopoly politics ever since 2000 if not since 1992. Then, with the Clintonized (mega-corporate-controlled) ‘Democratic’ Party finally becoming replaced by a progressive-populist Democratic Party (up against Trump’s conservative-‘populist’ billionaire-controlled Republican Party), America might actually become a democracy again — a politics in which ideology (instead of interethnic and gender differences) will be providing the basis for voters’ political choices. The billionaires would likely lose their existing control over the U.S. Government.

Sanders definitely wants to become a Democratic Party U.S. President, but, if that Party rejects him yet again, he could actually win even bigger as an independent, who goes up against the two billionaire-controlled Parties. Perhaps he, now, finally, knows this.

If Sanders were to buy that scheme, one thing we would know for certain, he is as ego-maniacally, vangloriously and senescently demented as Donald Trump.  And what you can say for Sanders, if he were to believe that, you can say for the man who wrote that and the people who believe it.   Yet that kind of crap is common on the secular-atheist, college-credentialed play-left as read in the magazines and, even more so, as seen on the Patreon sites and Youtube channels of the idiot play left, continuing into this next half-century since they tipped the election to Nixon. 

The play-left, the secular-atheist left has more than a century of proving they are a total disaster for the real American left - not to mention lefts in many other countries - they are ideological cultists and fools who never, ever learn anything from the worst results of their previous activities.  Considering they are, to a person, pretended champions of scientific method and empirical observation, they are totally indifferent to it preferring the kind of dime-store appeal to authority that comes from the publishing houses and media outlets of that side.  They are worse than undependable, they are the enemies of the real left that has an actual track record of, at times, gaining power and producing results.   The real left has to dump them, attack them and discredit them because they will destroy egalitarian democracy - something which few of them actually prefer over Marxism or anarchism or some anti-democratic distortion of socialism.  Like Trumps fundamentalist supporters, they support their ideology over anything in real life, only their fundamentalisms are really based in two different aspects of Mammonism, materialism, the vulgar and the snooty styles of it.