I can think of few things more pathetic than watching the reaction to something like the G20, and seeing regular people cheering for one leader over another.
There are no non-evil major leaders. I see a lot of Merkel praise lately, but this is the woman who destroyed Greece, causing many deaths and much suffering, because she wanted to bail out German banks indirectly, rather than directly. Over 90 percent of the money sent to “Greece” has actually gone back to banks, and the cost has been great misery. Merkel could have just bailed out the banks without harming the citizens.
Merkel is a truly, profoundly, evil person. If you think she isn’t, your moral compass is in your nether regions. Now, of course, like most leaders, Merkel has done some good, even praiseworthy things, but when you kill and impoverish an entire nation because your commitment to your ideology won’t let you just bail out banks directly, you’re evil.
This makes every major decision maker at the IMF evil (and for far more than just Greece) and certainly makes those EU decision makers involved evil.
Putin has many admirers, but he is a bad man, and if you don’t believe it, it is because you don’t want to know.
May is clearly evil. Trump has continued wars he could have and should have stopped. Those of you who love Obama, who is no longer in power, love an evil man, who destroyed Libya for no good reason and expanded and ran a huge assassination program. Macron is scum, he ran Hollande’s economic policy, which was a mess, and he has spent the summer fighting unions. His economic policy won’t work–on the contrary, it will hurt a lot of people. Bill Clinton was scum; his embargo of Iraq cost about a million civilian lives, half of whom were children. He was okay with that.
There are almost no exceptions: Everyone who runs a major country in this period is evil. Generally, there isn’t even a case of being able to say, “Well, they’ve done some bad things, but the good they’ve done outweighs it.” None of them are FDR, where you can say, “That’s clearly evil, but at least he did more good than evil.”
None of these people are your friends. None of them have your best interest at heart. None of them care about your civil liberties, freedom, or prosperity; whether you live or die is a matter of indifference to them. (Well, there is a small class of people they do care about. If you’re one of those people and happen to read me, you know who you are.)
The reason I am behind Corbyn so vehemently is that, for the first time in my life, there is a candidate with a serious chance of running a major power who isn’t “the lesser evil.” Even Sanders was a lesser evil candidate; albeit a heck of a lot lesser. Corbyn was against all the wars. He supports Palestinians, etc, etc. He isn’t perfect, but he’s easily in the “far more good than evil” camp. Note just how much the press and almost everyone else in the elite hates him.
If he gets in power, we’ll see how he does, but at least he has an actual record of integrity and doing the right thing, when he had every reason to believe that it meant he’d never be in power.
None of that is true of Merkel, Trump, Obama, May, etc.
You are their meat. You are their subjects. Your existence matters to them only to the extent you serve their ambition and their ideology, and no more. They have somewhat less care for you than a farmer shows for his cows.
Knowing who has your best interests at heart, who actually cares about you and will act on it, is the most basic human survival skill. We were very good at it back when we lived in bands of 40 to 60 people, but we are terrible at it when living in societies of millions, when we don’t know who everyone is.
We’d best learn, because our failure is costing us dearly, and it will cost us more in the future.
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