Pro-Hillary type identity politics recruited in favor of CIA's chief torturer by the US neoliberal regime
The
deeply irrational nature of the neoliberal priesthood shined again in
the case of CIA's chief torturer Gina Haspel, widely known as 'bloody
Gina'.
Through
another great campaign, the neoliberal apparatus attempts to smear
anyone who opposes 'bloody Gina' as being, for example, misogynist.
The method is known: the neoliberal tools highlight that the Central
Intelligence Agency will have its first female Director, and, of
course, this is something that everyone should welcome as a
progressive step forward. Yet, at the same time, through a kind of
trick, these tools make Gina's terrible record of tortures and war
crimes magically disappear.
Well,
how about the women who have the courage to condemn Gina's awful
record, like the woman in the following video? Are they misogynists
too?
Or, how
about Kamala Harris, who clearly had 'bloody Gina' in the corner for
that awful record? Is she misogynist too?
Sounds
familiar?
It is
worth to remember that 'identity politics' were used extensively by
the establishment, especially during the primaries of the Democratic
party in the US in favor of Hillary Clinton and against the biggest
threat for the establishment, Bernie Sanders. As pointed in previous
article:
The
establishment becomes highly predictable, which is a sign of
saturation. It is remarkable how the establishment mechanisms use
similar narratives everywhere to expel undesirable politicians and
policies.
Just
one paragraph from the article My
Hail Bernie Pass by
Fred Baumgarten, describes almost the whole situation: “Now
that I’m proclaiming my support for Sanders, I expect the vitriol
to be no less intense, though maybe from some other quarters with
different arguments. Secretly my friends will suspect that maybe I’m
a misogynist, too, and don’t want a female president. I’ll be
accused of being 'impractical' and 'hopelessly idealistic,' and of
'wasting' my vote. And I’ll still be held personally responsible
for getting Trump elected!”
One
of the most successful psychological techniques used by the
mechanisms of the establishment, is the bombardment of mind with
isolated words, or, phrases, ending up to become powerful symbols.
These symbols are frequently so powerful that manage to prevail over
the ability of mind to build a rational hierarchy. Which, many times,
equals to heavy misjudgment.
For
example, the fact that the United States will have the opportunity to
be governed "for the first time in their history by a female
president", often prevails over what this president truly
represents, especially among the female voters. The election of
Hillary will give a superficial satisfaction to many Americans, that
the United States will become an even more progressive society (after
Obama term), while in reality, Hillary will certainly follow the
"politics as usual", totally aligned with the neocon
agenda.
Psychological
methods also use "logical leaps" to force the individual to
bypass a certain rational hierarchy. The example in Baumgarten's
paragraph above is characteristic: even his friends will suspect that
he is a misogynist, just by saying that he will support Sanders
instead of Clinton. The political arguments, which is the main issue
in such a process, since they determine the policies that will have
direct effect to millions of Americans, are bypassed through this
absurdly simplified "logical leap": You vote for Sanders =
You are probably a misogynist.
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