A weakened and discredited Western Civilization faces revolution
Paul Craig Roberts
The next two months are a dangerous period. It is Trump’s and Netanyahu’s last two months with a Republican Congress in the Israel Lobby’s pocket. The New Democrats such as Abdul El-Sayed and Melat Kiros are less likely to put Israel’s Zionist agenda ahead of their own agenda. Netanyahu knows that Israel on its own cannot deal with Iran. The US has to do the job for them. Whatever pressure and persuasion the Israel Lobby has left will be exerted on Trump before the Democrat Congress takes over in January. This morning’s news reports are that Trump and Netanyahu are preparing to attack Iran in the next day or two. Apparently Iran does not intend to preempt the attack by striking first.
Trump foolishly just before the midterm election announced that he was going to renew attacks on Iran after the election. Trump even said that he was thinking about using nuclear weapons. Nuclear thoughts are no doubt the result of Trump and Netanyahu losing the conventional war with Iran and having to ask Iran for a cease fire. Trump’s announcement no doubt caused even more Republicans to vote for Democrats to show their disgust and disappointment with a leader in whom they placed great hopes, but who turned his back on them and served Israeli aggression instead of American renewal. The person responsible for the Republican loss is Donald Trump. The election statistics that have been collected clearly indicate that Republicans were voted out of office by Republicans themselves. As Greg Palest recognizes, the Democrats “didn’t get a mandate. Rather, the public un-mandated Trump.” https://www.gregpalast.com/in-victory-a-smell-of-doom-for-democrats-in-2028/ But the election has put power in Democrat hands, and it will be used, mandate or not.
If Trump actually believes what he said–that the election was not about him and that if he had been on the ballot the Republicans would have won hands down–he is too unrealistic to have a chance to survive the second half of his term. On November 4 Democrats were already calling for preparing subpoenas to be issued, for investigations to begin, for retribution. Republican Senator Ron Johnson said on TV that the Democrats “are at war with us. They want to exterminate us.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYk6On3SmI
Senator Johnson is correct, and he seems to be the only Republican who understands this. In my article yesterday I pointed out the direction that I think matters are heading. https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-midterm-election-has-changed-more-than-the-political-composition-of-congress/
If Trump renews his attack on Iran–especially if he uses nuclear weapons–he will deliver himself on a silver platter to the Democrats for destruction. The destruction will include his family and the Republican Party. The Democrats will not need the subpoenas, the investigations, the false charges. They will have in their hands bound and tied a war criminal who followed up his electoral repudiation by renewing a war for Israel. If Trump uses nuclear weapons, the Zionist neoconservatives will love him, but he will be reviled by everyone else.
Is Trump so throughly under Netanyahu’s control as to commit suicide? Yes. ( Some consider it anti-semitic to speak of Israel’s influence over America, but Israelis themselves speak openly about their power. For example, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Shimon Peres: “Let me tell you something very clear: don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and America knows it,” IAP News, October 3, 2001. More recently Netanyahu said publicly that it was easy for Israel to manipulate the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3YwXYmUtE )
Possibly Trump might see his dilemma. He has just been repudiated and his presidency essentially ended by his service to Israel instead of to America. He could try to make a deal with the Democrats by agreeing not to obstruct or interfere with their rule beginning in January if they give him a pass and drop the impeachment and further investigations and indictments.
The traditional Democrats might go along with this. But would the new ones, the ones like Abdul and Melat, the ones on the cutting edge bringing a revolutionary agenda to the Democrat party?
Possibly, but I think not. They see in the destruction of Trump the destruction of the Republican Party, which is what the New Democrats want as Senator Johnson understands. Abdul and Melat did not enter politics in order to join the Establishment and collect the griff. They entered politics in order to overthrow what they see as a corrupt racist society.
And it is corrupt, but perhaps for reasons different from their concerns.
Decades ago, it was the 1970s when I was a young Congressional aide to US Rep. Jack Kemp, to US Senator Orrin Hatch, as staff associate, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, Chief Economist, Republican staff, House Budget Committee, staff associate Joint Economic Committee, that Irving Bristol, editor of The Public Interest, called the Republican Party “the stupid party.”
Irving Kristal is sometimes said to be the father of neoconservatism. But if so, he, unlike the neoconservatives today, had an open mind. He published my critique of the Keynesian macroeconomic policy that had produced stagflation and “the American malaise.” He published my explanation some years later of how the supply-side policy had cured stagnation and the worsening Phillips curve trade-offs between inflation and unemployment.
My 25 years with Republicans convinced me that Irving Kristol’s characterization of Republicans was correct, and Trump’s stupidity has underlined Irving Kristol’s conclusion.. By serving Israel in exchange for Israel Lobby election campaign contributions, Trump and the Republican Congress sold out the voters who had placed hope in them and put themselves at the service of a foreign power. Conservatives and Zionist neoconservatives try to hide this fact by identifying US and Israeli interests as the same.
My explanation of the midterm election differs from what you are hearing from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, Politico, and the conservative websites and podcasts. None of these “news sources” are reporting what has really happened. Each and every one is desperately trying to control the narrative that favors its agenda.
In the entirety of the Western World objective news reporting does not exist. What exists are struggles to control the narrative in the interest of some cause or money source. When people watch news they are simply indoctrinated.
What we have is a world in which it is almost impossible to get truthful information. Truthful information is what I try to provide, and there is not much appreciation of my efforts. My agenda is the truth to the extent that I can find it. I am not always right.
I don’t know how long it will take the New Democrats to take control of the Democrat Party and election outcomes. They might suffer setbacks, and it might be a long time. But it is in the cards. What is the cause that opposes the New Democrats? Who defends the Constitution? The First Amendment has been redefined as a white privilege to commit hate speech.
Truth will become identified with edicts that serve the ruling agendas. Already we see in France leftwing demand that it be made a criminal offense to make any remark about the growing non-French component of French society. The French left want the French people silenced about the immigrant-invader takeover of their country. There are today large numbers of French intellectuals and indoctrinated French people who do not believe that France should be restricted to a nation of French people. A significant percentage of French themselves actually agree with Abdul El-Sayed that ethno-ethnic countries should not exist. They are actually willing for France to be terminated as a nation of French people. Marine Le Pen, who speaks for ethnic France, is continually persecuted by the French establishment.
It is the same throughout Europe and in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain. Western Civilization and white ethnic nations have become unwanted and undefended. When symphony orchestra conductors are fired for preferring Mozart and Beethoven to rap music, what chance does Western Civilization have? https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-erasure-of-western-civilization-accelerates/
The destruction of ethnic nations will replace ethnic diversity with identical towers of babel. All countries and all people the same. Ward Kendall wrote a science fiction novel about it–Hold Back This Day–only it is no longer science fiction. It is our reality.