Saturday, November 08, 2014
Should be interesting
Now that Gorby has correctly defined post-1989 America as an unstoppable bully, it will be interesting to watch the flips and squirms among neocons and lefties. For 25 years they've considered Gorby to be "one of us", a supporter of all the evil crap that America has been pushing on the rest of the world.
Turns out Gorby is a Russian after all. He may support some of that evil crap, but he's also capable of spotting a bully, able to see the plain facts of aggression.
Neocons have been able to ignore Putin's correct diagnosis of our aggression because Putin has also diagnosed the rest of the evil crap.
Cognitive dissonance will force a decision. Does Gorby join Putin in the category of New Hitler? But he's so nice and liberal! Or does Putin move into the category of nice and liberal? Not bloody likely.
One flip will NOT happen: Neocons will never acknowledge that they've been engaging in massive unprovoked aggression for the last 70 years.
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Later thought: Well, maybe some will flip, but not at the top levels. I was a standard neocon from 1989 to 2007. Believed all of that crap, liked Gorby, hated Putin. After the Wall Street coup of 2008 I started to doubt the orthodoxy, but didn't really cut loose until I unplugged the television in 2010. Without constant reinforcement from TV, I could start evaluating facts from a wider view. So it is possible to flip out of a phase-locked system, but not if you're getting paid big bucks and big status to stay inside.
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