Julian Assange and his Wikileaks are obviously carrying water for the Donald Trump campaign, it is very possibly doing so in concert with the spies of the Putin regime in Russia. As RMJ has pointed out they have obviously been stealing the contents of the e-mail accounts of figures in the Hillary Clinton campaign to be released whenever there is a seriously awful revelation about Donald Trump to try to get him elected president of the United States. The adulation on the left for Julian Assange and his spies has been revealing of the real nature of that left, illogical at best, corruptly duplicitous and reflexively hating the United States all through. This whole thing, from the advent of Wikileaks to the adulation of Edward Snowden and his Assange, Glenn Greenwald is saturated and dripping with hypocrisy. Just why it's OK when they and their sources do far more than the NSA has been accused of doing, I have yet to have explained. Now that it's rather obvious that a foreign and despotic government is involved in their ratfucking of American democracy, any "left" that supports or tolerates their presence deserves to finally wither and blow away.
I wonder how much what Snowden dumped into the lap of both the Chinese and Russian governments may have been a help to them in these efforts. He is reported to have taken so much stuff with him, so many documents, that it is impossible for him to have known what he was handing over to them. I have always wondered why it hasn't occurred to the Greenwalds, the Laura Poitrases, now that Hollywood has decided to make Snowden and the rest into a constructed myth, Oliver Stone, that their hero, their ticket to stardom and relevance in show biz, didn't likely turn over huge amounts of information on private people, average citizens, and Chinese and Russian dissidents. Not that I really think any of them would care about those people. This thing has been a chance for some rather sleazy people to profit themselves and to gain the mindless adulation of the lefty media which has so thoroughly discredited itself that it is probably farther from influencing events and elections than it has ever been in my life time, never mind yours.
We need a real left and I doubt it's going to come from the kind of people who have deputed themselves to constitute "the left". I wouldn't trust anyone to be part of it who haven't seen through Julian Assange and Wikileaks, Snowden and Greenwald or the lefty media that is still trying to sandbag the only woman between us and a president trump. This is the year such guys have entirely discredited themselves. They are a dead weight any real left with any real aspirations to gain office and do good have to put down. Unless we do that, we won't go anywhere.
The reflexive anti-Americanism of the alleged American left is an inheritance from the Marxists, anarchists and others who were, in reality, as opposed to democracy as any oligarchs. There was, from the start, a huge measure of intellectual snobbery involved in those movements, certainly by the time Lenin became the main world figure of that "left" many of its main figures and certainly it's scribbling class were thorough snobs who adopted Lenin's Vanguardist ideas, seeing themselves as the most developed and capable vehicle of the world revolution they dreamed up out of their theoretical politics. That attitude echoes in the phony left that is what most people mean when they talk about "the left". The reputation for snobbery among them is not going to dissolve because it is true.
It is no shock that such a left would despise the most liberal political figures that American democracy have managed to produce, if there is one thing that can be said for those who can get elected, they haven't done it through disdain for and disrespect of what the American people will accept. And it is rather incredible that as the American democracy has, actually, produced progress, progress that is endangered by Republican-fascism, the very people who did that are widely despised on that "left". More incredible, still, is the respect that those who have even openly supported actual dictators, even those with blood on there hands, even those who amassed body counts in the Nazi class of crimes as they have despised American politicians who have not done those things. There is hardly a magazine of the left which didn't feature such content and some which still do. Just yesterday I read a defense of Vladimir Putin in one of them. That taste for dictators elsewhere is matched by a disdain of Hillary Clinton, someone who, if we are lucky enough to elect her, will certainly not rule as a despot, murdering journalists, murdering political opponents, resistant to getting entrapped in foreign wars.
Let me put it plainly, in October 2016, Hillary Clinton is the most liberal person who American politics has produced as a presidential candidate. If she is elected she will very likely govern to the left of Barack Obama - unlike him, she has absolutely no illusions that Republicans are going to support her policies and unlike him she has no need for their love, something that thwarted Obama's first two years in office and led to his crippling weakness. In any real terms, Hillary Clinton is the real American left, the left that can gain office and change things in a direction pointed in a better direction. The alternatives we have before us are as serious as any ever presented to the American voters. It is literally the difference between a candidate who has the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, the Progressive Caucus and a candidate who has the support of neo-Nazis, the David Dukes, the white supremacists and Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump is in hock to Russian Oligarchs and who knows who else who will expect to benefit from his presidency. Anyone of the alleged left who isn't supporting Hillary Clinton's election this month has discredited themselves and should not be trusted, not today, not into the future. The real left must dump them.
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