thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-22--China, QAnon Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

non is one of the most annoying things on Twitter and its followers are morons .
And , also , it is dangerous and unacceptable that monopolistic Silicon Valley tech plutocrats are exerting more and more control over human communication .
I criticize QAnon constantly and find its acolytes intensely irritating .
And , also , I don ’ t want monopolistic tech billionaires paternalistically protecting my fragile little mind from them .
In a corporatist system of government , where few meaningful distinctions exist between corporate power and state power , corporate censorship is state censorship .
Permitting such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is extremely hazardous for the future of human development .
The dawn of political insight is when you realize propaganda isn ’ t just something that is done by other countries and other political parties .
Step 1 : Foment violent extremism in a key geostrategic region you want to control .
Step 2 : Wait for the government of that region to respond to extremism .
Step 3 : Spin their response as unprovoked tyranny , tell the world interventionism is required to prevent another Holocaust .
Q : What does “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tankie ” is a noise you make when you want to avoid contemplating the uncomfortable possibility that someone else might be less MSM-brainwashed on foreign policy than you are .
A : China is a large Asiatic nation which westerners use as an emotional punching bag for their capitalism-induced rage , propaganda-induced confusion , and fears about the death of the US empire .
Believing China wants to take over your country , censor your internet and give you a social credit score is exactly the same sort of foam-brained othering which told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take over your neighborhood so they can have sex with your wives .
“ I guess you don ’ t realize this Caitlin , but it ’ s actually possible to be critical of the US government and mindlessly regurgitate CIA narratives about China , ” said the Smart Internet Person .
“ It ’ s called being fair and balanced.
” US conservatives whose precious religion admonishes them to “ remove the plank from thine own eye ” are obsessed with China , a nation on the other side of the planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than those of their own country .
If a foreign government is authoritarian toward its own people and your government is authoritarian toward the entire world , then yours is the more authoritarian government .
If your attempts to fight tyranny help advance the planet-dominating agendas of the most powerful government on earth , then you ’ re not fighting tyranny .
You ’ re facilitating it .
Troops that are stationed outside a nation ’ s borders are just glorified mall cops .
They ’ re not defending people , they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They ’ re an army of Paul Blarts .
In studying the secretive behaviors of global power structures it ’ s important to be honest with yourself about what you know and what you don ’ t know .
My experience in such discussions is that people generally know a lot less than they pretend to know .
It ’ s okay to just not know .
Complaining about the existence of conspiracy theories is power-serving behavior .
Instead , complain about the existence of government , corporate and financial secrecy which causes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the powerful are up to behind that veil of opacity .
They concentrate all the power in these tiny little elitist circles , then say “ You don ’ t get to know what we ’ re doing with all our power over here .
Not only that , but you don ’ t even get to talk to each other about what we might be doing , even though it could directly affect you.
” How crazy is that ?
At the very least don ’ t play along with them and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of that .
It ’ s fine to discuss and debate the validity of individual theories ( I do it all the time ) , but to complain about the fact that people form theories about possible conspiracies when we know for a fact that powerful people conspire is just infantile .
Talk about revolutionary changes you want and there ’ s always people going “ I agree , but that ’ s taking it a bit too far.
” It ’ s like mate , people aren ’ t even moving in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk of taking things too far .
You ’ re creating inertia for literally no reason .
Just push for exactly what you want and not one iota less .
Don ’ t reel it in because you ’ re worried you ’ re being excessive or not being “ realistic ” or whatever .
Don ’ t come to the negotiation table with your compromise .
Come with a clear idea of exactly what you want , and then add fifty percent more for good measure .
There are people whose entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t do their job for them .
Make them push you back , and make them fight for every inch .
The reason you can find revolutionary writings from generations ago indistinguishable from those of today is because their insights are simple and complete .
Nothing more was required .
All that needed to change , and still needs to change , is the inertia against actualizing them .
Like so much else , this is mirrored in the inner journey : you can have a major epiphany , think it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then stay stuck in the same patterns for years .
The insight will keep resurfacing , but the inertia against actualizing it will prevent really changing .
But then , one day , you ’ ll recall that insight you ’ ve had many times before , and it will land in a different way .
And then something will shift , and actual changes will be made .
We can expect to see this in our society as well .
We ’ ll make the changes we ’ ve long known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new currency .
May humanity become so compassionate and empathy-driven that severe mental illness is no big deal since you ’ ll get all the help you need , but being psychopathic or sociopathic is a severe handicap in which the inability to empathize sticks out to everyone like a sore thumb .
Spirituality , the real kind , is just a matter of getting curious about what ’ s actually going on with your own inner processes and your own consciousness , and hopefully finding some answers in your own direct experience @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there or extraordinary than that .

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non is one of the most annoying things on Twitter and its followers are morons. And, also, it is dangerous and unacceptable that monopolistic Silicon Valley tech plutocrats are exerting more and more control over human communication.
I criticize QAnon constantly and find its acolytes intensely irritating. And, also, I don’t want monopolistic tech billionaires paternalistically protecting my fragile little mind from them.
Twitter shouldn’t be censoring this.
In a corporatist system of government, where few meaningful distinctions exist between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship. Permitting such a thing, to any extent, is extremely hazardous for the future of human development.
The dawn of political insight is when you realize propaganda isn’t just something that is done by other countries and other political parties.
Step 1: Foment violent extremism in a key geostrategic region you want to control.
Step 2: Wait for the government of that region to respond to extremism.
Step 3: Spin their response as unprovoked tyranny, tell the world interventionism is required to prevent another Holocaust.
Q: What does “tankie” mean?
A: “Tankie” is a noise you make when you want to avoid contemplating the uncomfortable possibility that someone else might be less MSM-brainwashed on foreign policy than you are.
Q: What is China?
A: China is a large Asiatic nation which westerners use as an emotional punching bag for their capitalism-induced rage, propaganda-induced confusion, and fears about the death of the US empire.
Believing China wants to take over your country, censor your internet and give you a social credit score is exactly the same sort of foam-brained othering which told previous generations that black men want to take over your neighborhood so they can have sex with your wives.
“I guess you don’t realize this Caitlin, but it’s actually possible to be critical of the US government and mindlessly regurgitate CIA narratives about China,” said the Smart Internet Person. “It’s called being fair and balanced.”
US conservatives whose precious religion admonishes them to “remove the plank from thine own eye” are obsessed with China, a nation on the other side of the planet whose alleged misdeeds are far less egregious than those of their own country.
If a foreign government is authoritarian toward its own people and your government is authoritarian toward the entire world, then yours is the more authoritarian government.
If your attempts to fight tyranny help advance the planet-dominating agendas of the most powerful government on earth, then you’re not fighting tyranny. You’re facilitating it.
Troops that are stationed outside a nation’s borders are just glorified mall cops. They’re not defending people, they’re guarding resources and commercial interests. They’re an army of Paul Blarts.
In studying the secretive behaviors of global power structures it’s important to be honest with yourself about what you know and what you don’t know. My experience in such discussions is that people generally know a lot less than they pretend to know. It’s okay to just not know.
Complaining about the existence of conspiracy theories is power-serving behavior. Instead, complain about the existence of government, corporate and financial secrecy which causes people to form speculative theories about what the powerful are up to behind that veil of opacity.
They concentrate all the power in these tiny little elitist circles, then say “You don’t get to know what we’re doing with all our power over here. Not only that, but you don’t even get to talk to each other about what we might be doing, even though it could directly affect you.”
How crazy is that? At the very least don’t play along with them and police each other about it on top of that.
It’s fine to discuss and debate the validity of individual theories (I do it all the time), but to complain about the fact that people form theories about possible conspiracies when we know for a fact that powerful people conspire is just infantile.
Talk about revolutionary changes you want and there’s always people going “I agree, but that’s taking it a bit too far.” It’s like mate, people aren’t even moving in that direction yet, let alone at risk of taking things too far. You’re creating inertia for literally no reason.
Just push for exactly what you want and not one iota less. Don’t reel it in because you’re worried you’re being excessive or not being “realistic” or whatever. Don’t come to the negotiation table with your compromise. Come with a clear idea of exactly what you want, and then add fifty percent more for good measure. There are people whose entire job is to push you backward, don’t do their job for them. Make them push you back, and make them fight for every inch.
The reason you can find revolutionary writings from generations ago indistinguishable from those of today is because their insights are simple and complete. Nothing more was required. All that needed to change, and still needs to change, is the inertia against actualizing them.
Like so much else, this is mirrored in the inner journey: you can have a major epiphany, think it’s going to change your life, then stay stuck in the same patterns for years. The insight will keep resurfacing, but the inertia against actualizing it will prevent really changing.
But then, one day, you’ll recall that insight you’ve had many times before, and it will land in a different way. And then something will shift, and actual changes will be made. We can expect to see this in our society as well. We’ll make the changes we’ve long known are needed.
May empathy become the new currency. May humanity become so compassionate and empathy-driven that severe mental illness is no big deal since you’ll get all the help you need, but being psychopathic or sociopathic is a severe handicap in which the inability to empathize sticks out to everyone like a sore thumb.
Spirituality, the real kind, is just a matter of getting curious about what’s actually going on with your own inner processes and your own consciousness, and hopefully finding some answers in your own direct experience. It’s nothing more out there or extraordinary than that.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-23--The Bonus Army Protest

The Bonus Army Protest

Some 4 million vets had returned from the war and found that others had taken their jobs at a considerably higher wage than the $ 1 per day soldier ’ s pay and expected more help from their government .
Presidents Wilson , Harding and Coolidge each firmly opposed making any to payments to the mostly unemployed vets , with Coolidge stating that “ Patriotism , bought and paid for , is not patriotism.
” In 1924 , Congress kicked the can down the road by promising a bonus payment of $ 1.25 for each day of overseas service and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ service .
There would be a limit of $ 625 for overseas service and $ 500 for home service .
But Catch-22 was that it could not be redeemed until 1945 .
The vets quickly dubbed it the “ Tombstone Bonus ” because many of them would be dead before collecting .
With the Great Depression deepening , demands for making an immediate payment were escalating .
Finally , a bill was passed but President Hoover vetoed it .
In response , some 300 veterans , led by ex-sergeant Walter Waters boarded a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early May , 1932 , and headed for Washington , DC .
Soon , others began their pilgrimage to the Capital from across the country in dilapidated buses , overcrowded pick-up trucks , walking and hitchhiking .
The vets and their families were in desperate financial shape with overdue bills to pay , hungry and with evictions hanging over their heads .
They demanded immediate payment of the bonus .
Calling themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Forces ( BEF ) and soon known as the “ Bonus Army , ” between 17,00 and 25,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1932 .
Assuming their demands wouldn ’ t be met any time soon , they proceeded to set up a long term presence .
In orderly fashion , they mapped out streets named for states , set up a library , the “ B.E.F .
Post Office , barbershop , military-style sanitation , appointed M.P.s to keep order , published their own camp newspaper and even organized evening vaudeville shows .
Some ten thousand other vets occupied partially-demolished government buildings on a stretch between the Capitol and the White House .
Extremely patriotic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flag fly over every tent and shanty .
Calling themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Forces ( BEF ) and soon known as the “ Bonus Army , ” between 17,00 and 25,000 trekkers began arriving on May 23 , 1932 .
Assuming their demands wouldn ’ t be met any time soon , they proceeded to set up a long term presence .
In orderly fashion , they mapped out streets named for states , set up a library , the “ B.E.F .
Post Office , barbershop , military-style sanitation , appointed M.P.s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ camp newspaper and even organized evening vaudeville shows .
Some ten thousand other vets occupied partially-demolished government buildings on a stretch between the Capitol and the White House .
Extremely patriotic , the vets insisted that an American flag fly over every tent and shanty .
Further , as Roy Wilkins , then a young reporter with a press pass , wrote , “ There was only one absentee in the camp : James Crow.
” ( 1 ) The entire , massive undertaking was one in which Blacks and whites shared everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was still segregated as was Anacostia Park when the marchers arrived .
The vets who had fought a war together deliberately decided to live side-by-side and set up in the “ black ” section of the park .
This fact alone may have led some people fear the movement .
General MacArthur ’ s “ most trusted subordinate ” Brig .
Gen. George Van Horn Moseley portrayed black and white veterans living together as “ proof that Negros and Jewish Communists were planning a revolution.
” In truth , radicals and communists were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a serious element in the movement .
( 2 )

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By Gary Olson
J uly 28 will mark almost the 90th anniversary of one of most controversial protests in U.S. history and yet it remains virtually unknown to most Americans. On that day, in 1932, 500 U.S. army infantrymen with loaded rifles, fixed bayonets and gas grenades containing a vomit inducing ingredient, 200 calvary, a machine gun squadron, 800 police and 6 M1917 army tanks, prepared to attack 17,000 unarmed men, plus thousands of their wives and children. Moments before the assault, Gen.Douglas MacArthur, in charge of the operation, turned to a police official standing next to him and said, “I will break the back of the enemy.” uly 28 will mark almost the 90th anniversary of one of most controversial protests in U.S. history and yet it remains virtually unknown to most Americans. On that day, in 1932, 500 U.S. army infantrymen with loaded rifles, fixed bayonets and gas grenades containing a vomit inducing ingredient, 200 calvary, a machine gun squadron, 800 police and 6 M1917 army tanks, prepared to attack 17,000 unarmed men, plus thousands of their wives and children. Moments before the assault, Gen.Douglas MacArthur, in charge of the operation, turned to a police official standing next to him and said, “I will break the back of the enemy.” The attack was ordered by President Herbert Hoover and commanded by Gen. MacArthur. Dwight D. Eisenhower was MacArthur’s aide and Major George S. Patton led the tank unit. After donning gas masks, the army tossed hundreds of tear-gas grenades into the encampment which started raging fires and the assault drove all the bedraggled occupants from the area. The encampment was then burned to the ground. This wasn’t Cuba, the Philippines or the Mexican border — but in Washington, D.C. The camp, nicknamed “Hooverville,” occupied by WWI veterans who were living in tents and shanties others living in crumbling government buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue near the capital. If your education was anything like mine, there wasn’t any mention of this event in any history class.
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Patton’s tanks crushed the makeshift buildings...The veterans fled across the Anacostia River, and Hoover ordered the assault to stop. But MacArthur saw the protesters as communist agitators intent on overthrowing the U.S. government, and continued the operation. More than 1,000 injured veterans ended up in area hospitals. One veteran died and a veteran’s wife miscarried. Dwight D. Eisenhower was then MacArthur’s junior aid. He didn’t approve of the action. “I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there,” he said during a later interview . “I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff.”— Matthew Gault, “Cavalrymen and infantrymen jerked gas masks out of their haversacks,” the Baltimore Evening Sun reported. “The spectators, blinded and choking with the unexpected gas attack, broke and fled. Movie photographers who had parked their sound trucks so as to catch a panorama of the skirmish ground away doggedly, tears streaming down their faces.”Matthew Gault, When Patton Rolled Tanks Over Veterans in Washington, D.C. Some 4 million vets had returned from the war and found that others had taken their jobs at a considerably higher wage than the $1 per day soldier’s pay and expected more help from their government. Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge each firmly opposed making any to payments to the mostly unemployed vets, with Coolidge stating that “Patriotism, bought and paid for, is not patriotism.” In 1924, Congress kicked the can down the road by promising a bonus payment of $1.25 for each day of overseas service and $1.00 for every day of home service. There would be a limit of $625 for overseas service and $500 for home service. But Catch-22 was that it could not be redeemed until 1945. The vets quickly dubbed it the “Tombstone Bonus” because many of them would be dead before collecting. With the Great Depression deepening, demands for making an immediate payment were escalating. Finally, a bill was passed but President Hoover vetoed it. In response, some 300 veterans, led by ex-sergeant Walter Waters boarded a freight train in Portland, Oregon in early May, 1932, and headed for Washington, DC. Soon, others began their pilgrimage to the Capital from across the country in dilapidated buses, overcrowded pick-up trucks, walking and hitchhiking. The vets and their families were in desperate financial shape with overdue bills to pay, hungry and with evictions hanging over their heads. They demanded immediate payment of the bonus. Calling themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Forces (BEF) and soon known as the “Bonus Army,” between 17,00 and 25,000 trekkers began arriving on May 23, 1932 . Assuming their demands wouldn’t be met any time soon, they proceeded to set up a long term presence. In orderly fashion, they mapped out streets named for states, set up a library, the “B.E.F. Post Office, barbershop, military-style sanitation, appointed M.P.s to keep order, published their own camp newspaper and even organized evening vaudeville shows. Some ten thousand other vets occupied partially-demolished government buildings on a stretch between the Capitol and the White House. Extremely patriotic, the vets insisted that an American flag fly over every tent and shanty. Further, as Roy Wilkins, then a young reporter with a press pass, wrote, “There was only one absentee in the camp: James Crow.” (1) The entire, massive undertaking was one in which Blacks and whites shared everything together. During WWI, the military was still segregated as was Anacostia Park when the marchers arrived. The vets who had fought a war together deliberately decided to live side-by-side and set up in the “black” section of the park. This fact alone may have led some people fear the movement. General MacArthur’s “most trusted subordinate” Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley portrayed black and white veterans living together as “proof that Negros and Jewish Communists were planning a revolution.” In truth, radicals and communists were dismissed by the BEF and were never a serious element in the movement. ( 2)
As noted American historian Howard Zinn wrote, “In the 1930s, America was in a state of near-revolution, something that very much worried the people in Washington.” (3) The vets were labeled “Red Agitators” and Gen. MacArthur declared that the marchers were “... traitors bent on overthrowing the government — pacifists and its bedfellow communism are all around us.” The Army’s Military Intelligence Division thought that Communists were deeply involved in the efforts and J. Edgar Hoover, the new FBI director, was intent on proving that the Bonus Army was inspired by reds. Fitting then, that in instructing his troops on the possible use of force during the assault, Maj. Patton advised that “Large numbers of casualties will become an object lesson.” Historians agree that 1932 was “cruelest year” of the Great Depression and on June 25, 1932 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a compensation bill but it was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 62-18. By July, General MacArther and Secretary of War, Patrick Hurley were anticipating violence, not just in the Capital but especially in the slums of dozens of major cities. Over the preceding two months, MacArthur had been secretly training special army units in “riot control.” Interestingly, the Marine Corps was not involved in these activities and in an Army intelligence report, not declassified until 1991, we learned that it was feared the Marines were unreliable because they might side with the Bonus marchers. Apropos to this concern, Marine Corps Gen. Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in the history of the Marine Corps, had visited the encampment and told the vets: I never saw such Americana as is exhibited by you people. You have just as much right to have a lobby here as any steel corporation. Makes me so damn mad, a whole lot of people speak of you as tramps. By God, they didn't speak of you as tramps in 1917 and ‘18. (4).
In November, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president. Although he also opposed the bonus, after the assault he said, “This will elect me.” It’s interesting to speculate what might have occurred had the Bonus Army still been there after FDR’s inauguration. Wouldn’t any president have acted in similar fashion to Hoover? In 1933, FDR sliced $480 million from veterans’ benefits including reducing disability payments by 25 percent (20 percent of the marchers were disabled) “to balance the budget.” In 1936, the legislature passed another bonus bill but again FDR vetoed it, arguing it wouldn’t be “fiscally prudent.” Convinced that his New Deal efforts had saved capitalism from socialism, Roosevelt returned to being a conventional politician advocating for balanced budgets. (5) This time, both the Senate (76-19) and the House (324-61) overrode his veto and the vets received $583 on average. Some jobs went their way under the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps and 700 worked in so-called “Veterans’ Rehabilitation Camps” in Florida. In the end, some 45,000 BEF members had passed through Washington before scattering across the country to join millions of others during the depths of the Great Depression. I’m not an historian but one lesson that occurs to me is that this episode, which has been relegated to the dustbin of U.S. history, is the critical role of mass protest in achieving even a modicum of justice. For example, the Bonus Army’s march and its aftermath was a major factor contributing to the passage of the G.I. Bill — something else omitted from my history textbooks. With millions of vets returning from WWII, politicians could not be unmindful of what occurred in 1932. Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, two eminent scholars on the era remind us of the primary motive behind the eventual passage of the bill: Beneath all of this was the very real fear the nation would pay for lack of a comprehensive plan to help veterans by facing a much larger and more hostile version of the Bonus Army. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., now a political foe of Roosevelt agreed that veterans could not come home and sell apples as they did after the last war, because if that is all they are offered, I believe we would have chaotic and revolutionary conditions in America. (6)
Experts working for the American Legion, not the Congress, drafted a rough version of what eventually became law. Opponents included leaders of elite colleges who feared that working class men and women would lower the educational standards of their institutions. Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, predicted that American colleges and universities “will find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles.” Southern politicians were dismayed that millions of Black vets would be given $20 per week, thus undermining the wage system in the Deep South. The Senate passed the bill 50-0 and it passed the House, 387-0 because the $20 per week provision was stripped from the original version. After more intense wrangling which cast doubt on the bill being passed at all, the powerful American Legion Lobby brought intense pressure on opponents. Finally, FDR set aside his opposition to “special privileges” for vets and signed the G.I. Bill on June 22, 1944 — with the $20 per week wage intact. Some 12 million vets took advantage of it. (Note: My father was one of them).
It’s no wonder that Dr. Martin Luther King and his advisers studied the Bonus Army’s tactics for inspiration in preparing their own multiracial Poor People’s Campaign events in Washington, D.C. during the Spring of 1968, just weeks after King’s assassination. Another important lesson from the Bonus Army marchers was, “If you have a grievance, take it to Washington, and if you want to be heard, take a lot of people with you.” (7) Finally, today we have a confluence of factors, including the capitalist state’s failure to protect its citizens from the Covid pandemic, looming fiscal austerity in the face of another Great Depression and newly transparent institutional racism, has provided an unparalleled opportunity to replicate the Bonus Army’s action in the nation’s capital, this time on a hitherto unprecedented scale, depth and breadth of demands.
Gary Olson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA.
(1) Alan Spears, quoted in Nicolas Brulliant, The Forgotten March, The National Parks Conservation Association (Fall, 2018), p.7. https.npca.org.npca.org/artic les/1915-the-forgotten-march. (2) Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, The Bonus Army: An American Epic (New York: Walker and Company, 2004), p. 7. For those interested in further reading, Dickson and Allen’s meticulously researched account is the best source. (3) Howard Zinn, “Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution,” Interviews with Ray Suarez in 2007, first published as, Howard Zinn with Ray Suarez, Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About a People’s History (New York: The New Press, 2019). Mickey Z, “The Bonus Army,” 50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know (New York: Disinformation Books, 2005). (4) The Bonus Army: How a Protest Led to the G.I. Bill, “All Things Considered,” NPR, November 11, 2011. The following year, Gen. Butler gave a speech about his military service, saying “I spent most of my time being a high class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall Street and for Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
5) For more, see, Gary Olson, “‘Was It Only Fear Itself?’: FDR and Today,” Common Dreams, June 19, 2020.
(6) Dickson and Allen, p.269
(7) Ibid., p.277.
(Thanks to Kathleen Kelly, my in-house editor, for her helpful comments)


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-23--Hamilton movie: central banker worship & proof the US has no left

wonder if Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will ever understand the real truth about why his play is so popular… ?
Miranda probably believes that if he had written a play about Eugene V. Debs ( America ’ s greatest socialist ) his talents , approach and techniques would have produced a spectacle of similarly spectacular success , LOL… .
The believers of Broadway are nothing if not wilfully naive ( i.e .
stupid ) , unsinkably optimistic and totally oblivious to the jingoistic propaganda which is self-centeredly , brayingly warbled at the top of everyone-on-the-stage ’ s lungs in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ included .
Non-Americans often roll their eyes at the inevitably absurd “ Hollywood ending ” of many US movies , but what can a viewer do when confronted by the endless fake cheer and perpetual smiling of Broadway besides beg for temporary blindness ?
Indeed , one of the great results of the coronavirus is the shuttering of Broadway ’ s lights – may it always be dark inside that incredibly empty-headed art .
I find very few things as physically disagreeable as all musical theatre ( Bertolt Brecht and Monty Python are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ My friend and editor at The Greanville Post disagrees .
For him some classics like Oklahoma , Carousel , My Fair Lady , Evita , Cats , American in Paris , Annie , etc .
remain enjoyable and at times uplifting , despite their overwhelming white complexion .
He distrusts absolutes in anything . )
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In any case , opera is just as atrocious , and may I give you a news flash : nobody cares about opera .
It is a totally outdated art , and yet the vast majority of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West is directed towards opera .
Why ?
The answer is also linked to the success of Hamilton – elitism and 1 % -er domination of Western governance .
Musicals are not so very elitist as opera , but the average American man only sees a Broadway play after constant arm-twisting from the missus .
And yet… we have had this broad success of Hamilton .
How can we explain it ?
Why must we endure it ?
When will the American musical finally die , ending their assault on our ears and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffering parents of high school drama club members ?
The answer is clear : the US is a bankocracy , and Hamilton is its unparalleled propaganda I have not seen Hamilton and I never will – if I hate musicals already , why would I like one which is built around mythologising , propagandising and lying about the greatest central banker in American history ?
The popularity of Hamilton is completely attributable to the total domination of corporate media in the 21st century .
My last article , US national media is useless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news sources ?
, thus had to be published before this one : it discusses how ever since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , which allowed the rise of monopolistic media conglomerates , to watch one national US media is to watch them all – there is total uniformity—even to the precise time slot they transmit identical stories .
I also discussed how in music there used to be such a thing as a “ local hit ” within different US regions , but since 1996 a banal song can be a # @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the conglomerates decide to support it and replay it , replay it , replay it , replay it .
The same goes for Hamilton : advertising works , and the conglomerate media saw a “ pro-central banker ” play , squealed with delight , and decided it should be bigger than The Bible .
So five years of corporate-ordered omnipresence of Hamilton coverage was not just in the pro-Broadway New York Times ( Five Years and 100-Plus Stories : What It ’ s Like Covering ‘ Hamilton ’ – that ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , mind you ! )
, but across the nation : “ It goes unspoken that ‘ Hamilton ’ is now available everywhere , for a $ 6.99 monthly Disney Plus subscription ” .
It “ goes unspoken ” precisely because in the US the corporate media has obviously ordered Hamilton to be atop the cultural agenda for years .
It is now available as a movie for this Fourth of July weekend , thus the “ news peg ” for this article .
This omnipresence explains why I truly do not need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intelligently ( though I did interview people who have seen it – hey , I ’ m not a bad journalist who doesn ’ t do homework ) – the US has been OBSESSED with it for years .
But nobody seems to realise why because in all of the drooling , gushing reviews nobody gets at the economic aspects inherent in a play about a central banker .
Nobody seems to make the link between the economic program of Western central banker collusion ( Quantitative Easing ) , the reality of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 10-part series I wrote on this issue can be found here ) which has been crystal-clear since 2008 to anyone with half a brain , the elevation of central bank policy over democratic votes in the Eurozone , and then this absurd adoration of Hamilton ?
How can it be a mere coincidence that at a time when central bankers have become more powerful than ever we also can not – still – turn anywhere without being exhorted to love Hamilton ?
Just as rap music is the musical propaganda of modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ musical propaganda .
The pro-central bank propaganda is apparently overt during this 3+ hour show : a large part of the show is dedicated to showing how the US central bank was created , and of Alexander Hamilton persuading them of the worth and necessity of a central bank .
Hamilton may not use the phrase “ QE ” , but how can anyone fail to see the link between inequality-creating , 1 % er enriching , 99 % er impoverishing QE and this stupid play ?
Like all great art Hamilton apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too bad it is the “ moment ” of ravenous , society-destroying elite bankers .
Since 2015 I have said that the proof that there is no true left in the US is that I have not read of even one stink-bombing of a Hamilton performance .
That the US left has not been able to mount any counter-attack on this neoliberal propaganda shows how appallingly clueless they are .
Ishmael Reed Tries to Undo the Damage ‘ Hamilton ’ Has Wrought from The Nation was so notable because it stuck out so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exception which proves the rule .
The US left has been steamrolled by Hamilton and provided ( as usual ) so very , very little resistance , but Hamilton is a perfect example of just how easy it is to propagandise the US public – such is the extent of the dominance of their corporate media .
Media concentration in the US is so absolute that if they decide something or someone or some concept should be promoted – one simply can not escape it .
And , I am sure , talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US dinner party is to ensure that you are not invited back , LOL .
How was this central banker propaganda so effectively repackaged into suitable American jingoism ?
In July 2020 even the World Socialist Web Site is decrying the attacks on statues of Lincoln and Jefferson ; after decades of trying , corporate sponsors are going to force the rabidly anti-American Indian Washington D.C. to finally give up their “ Redskins ” football mascot/slur – so why on earth aren ’ t they coming for Hamilton ?
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Alexander Hamilton bought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wealthy slave-owning family – it ’ s a no-brainer .
If you support Hamilton and have some stupid liberal sign up in your front yard YOU are part of the problem ( as much for liking awful Broadway as for being an obvious fake-leftist ) .
However , when we actually consider the economic ideology all over Hamilton we should easily grasp that the corporate-dominated US media is not about to permit sustained attacks on this spectacularly successful pro-central banker propaganda piece .
What they are going to do is what places @ @ @ @ @ @ @ print lies about how Hamilton “ despised slavery ” .
Why would Miranda care – he did the same whitewashing .
Of course he wasn ’ t going to talk about how the central banker Hamilton was all about debt slavery ( no corporate media gushing in that case ) , but it ’ s pretty artistically opportunistic and cynical to make Hamilton some sort of abolitionist just to sell out his stupid musical .
Tellingly , Miranda was forced to publicly admit he was wrong to be silent for so long regarding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy adores Alexander Hamilton in the QE era – did you really think he was anti-establishment , LOL ?
Reading drama reviews always produces plenty of eye-rolls – they are full of hyperbole and purple prose worthy of the biggest off-off-off-Broadway ham ; everybody is just so very , very , VERY SPECTACULAR and AMAZING and TALENTED – but The New York Times lead movie critic writing that he “ can ’ t escape tears ” when watching Hamilton… how can we explain that ?
Like I said , I ’ m not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I ’ m not even going to read its plot summary on Wikipedia .
I have been unwillingly forced to acquire adequate Hamilton knowledge via cultural osmosis , but I also did ask around .
Part of its appeal , per reports , is undoubtedly based on jingoism and revisionist history – we ’ re all just so proud to be American ( and to be led by heroic bankers in our wonderful bankocracy ) .
However , what is more shocking is how the play apparently significantly plays up the anti-monarchical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Independence by… upholding the pro-monarchy Alexander Hamilton ?
Jefferson said of Hamilton : “ Hamilton was not only a monarchist , but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.
” I hear Miranda ’ s next play is about the great abolitionist Robert E. Lee .
So the apparently underlying theme of Hamilton is how revolutionary and cool the anti-monarchy stance was ( way back in the late 18th century ) , and it is these ancestor worship-heartstrings which produce tears in fake-leftist pseudo-intelligensia like A.O .
Scott .
How could they possibly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fight against aristocratic privilege ?
Answer : in a bankocracy bankers are the vanguard party , so they simply must be whitewashed as spotless leaders .
Thus we can refer to Scott ’ s headline – ‘ Hamilton ’ Review : You Say You Want a Revolution – to get at the heart of what helped draw in so many American males to willingly watch Hamilton : make being conservative “ revolutionary ” .
The play does what Westerners always do – try to end history long before 1917 by perpetuating the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ somehow still “ progressive ” and not fundamentally aristocratic ( bourgeois ) ; the play obviously perpetuates the false Western belief that the summit of democracy ’ s reach is Western liberal democracy and not 20th century socialist democracy .
However , with every passing corona hysteria day it ’ s more and more obvious that in the 21st century the latter is vastly outperforming the former , which did nothing but replace monarchy with bankocracy ( thus it was merely a bourgeois/aristocratic revolution ) .
There are secondary propaganda bases for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ successfully espouses 21st century US liberal ( fake-leftist ) identity politics .
But a huge part of this is merely technical and based entirely on what I can easily prove is the fundamentally reactionary nature of Broadway itself , because absolutely nothing is “ Whiter ” than Broadway in US culture .
Musicals like Our Town , Oklahoma , The Unsinkable Molly Brown , The Sound of Music , Music Man , Carousel – these are all whiter than Wonder Bread on a styrofoam plate in a snowstorm in themes , composition and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Molly Brown be played by a Latina , after all ?
There are no Hindus in Our Town .
Finding a young Black girl who can sing , act , AND has red hair is going to make staging a production of Annie difficult , but making Depression-era Daddy Warbucks Black is historically impossible .
This is why playgoers have remarked how they have been thrilled by the mere presence of non-White actors in this type of a musical , but also in any musical .
All of this supports my assertion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The use of rap was also another mere technical – and not intellectual or artistic – pseudo-achievement of Hamilton ; that fundamentally reactionary Broadway required 40 years to finally use rap music and Hamilton was the first – big deal ?
The good news is : nobody over 50 can keep up with such rapid-fire spoken word poetry , and thus many of the elder showgoers surely missed out on the undoubtedly fascinating rap lyrics about the meetings to build the US Treasury .
Western democracy does indeed have two classes : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ cool ” – which seems impossible – is the greatest achievement of Hamilton in its effort to propagandise the American public into accepting QE , ZIRP and the post-2008 policies which have gutted the US and left it poised to plummet into prolonged socio-economic chaos following the hysterical corona overreaction .
By portraying Alexander Hamilton as an outsider who worked his way to the top the play undoubtedly allows viewers to maintain a certainly outdated belief in the fiction that the US is a “ classless ” society ; this is just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the creation of the myth that the US had progressed to a “ post-racial society ” .
If that was true – why the George Floyd protests ?
Miranda thinks Hamilton is a hero mainly because he knows nothing about QE , economics , the class struggle , and because he obviously admires the gangster/bankster values of rap .
If Miranda knew any of those crucial leftist analyses he would have known that in order to maintain this fiction of a “ classless ” American society absolutely everything must be burned before it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endless assertion that absolutely anything – from race to religion to gender to sexual preference to party affiliation to ___ – is more important than class ?
Anything to not focus on class !
This explains the reactionary , divisive words of Hamilton as found in the play ’ s popular song , “ Immigrants— we get the job done ” .
I ’ m not going to listen to it because when is Broadway very truly funky or cool ?
However , it surely seems to be an insult to the hard-working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that leftist or progressive ?
Due to Miranda ’ s political ignorance and obviously reactionary beliefs he was only too happy to write a song which seeks to divide the worker class based on their country of birth .
What ’ s his next divisive attack , one wonders ?
May I suggest : “ Left-handers do the job a bit differently but still get ’ er dun ” .
A pro-immigrant song can be a fine thing , but not coming in the context of banker worship , LOL – it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obviously an attempt to distract from Hamilton ’ s overall capitalist-imperialist ideology with divisive identity politics .
So… not a single stink bomb at a Hamilton performance ?
Not a single call to take slave-dealer Hamilton off the $ 10 bill amid these rebellious times ?
Idiots will deface a statue of Cervantes ( the Arab-loving “ Multicultural Dreamer ” ) , and steal a Frederick Douglass statue , but the Alexander Hamilton statues outside the US Treasury , in NYC , in Chicago and elsewhere remain standing because he ’ s apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cool leftist play ” ?
Clearly , the US left has no idea what they are doing , and that ’ s why we still don ’ t hear any leftist demands for media discussion about the links between QE , central banker dominance over Western liberal democracies , and the endless corporate promotion of Hamilton .
For all the wrong reasons Hamilton is popular – but they ’ re dead wrong , I know they are , as the song goes .
APPENDIX Corona contrarianism ?
How about some corona common sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published regarding the corona crisis .
Check the archive below .
Click on orange button .

This is part of a series of dispatches by correspondent Ramin Mazaheri
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wonder if Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will ever understand the real truth about why his play is so popular…?
Miranda probably believes that if he had written a play about Eugene V. Debs (America’s greatest socialist) his talents, approach and techniques would have produced a spectacle of similarly spectacular success, LOL….
The believers of Broadway are nothing if not wilfully naive (i.e. stupid), unsinkably optimistic and totally oblivious to the jingoistic propaganda which is self-centeredly, brayingly warbled at the top of everyone-on-the-stage’s lungs in the vast majority of Broadway musicals, Hamilton included. Non-Americans often roll their eyes at the inevitably absurd “Hollywood ending” of many US movies, but what can a viewer do when confronted by the endless fake cheer and perpetual smiling of Broadway besides beg for temporary blindness?
Miranda earns a 3% royalty on each performance of Hamilton, earning him $12.7 million by July 2017. Now of course a lot more. He's in the 1% crowd, supporting the billionaires in the 0.0001%, shitting on us all. And his entire schtick fits right in with the identity politics fraud pushed by the Democrats.
Indeed, one of the great results of the coronavirus is the shuttering of Broadway’s lights – may it always be dark inside that incredibly empty-headed art. I find very few things as physically disagreeable as all musical theatre (Bertolt Brecht and Monty Python are exceptions which proves the rule. (My friend and editor at The Greanville Post disagrees. For him some classics like Oklahoma, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Evita, Cats, American in Paris, Annie, etc. remain enjoyable and at times uplifting, despite their overwhelming white complexion. He distrusts absolutes in anything. ). In any case, opera is just as atrocious, and may I give you a news flash: nobody cares about opera. It is a totally outdated art, and yet the vast majority of public arts funding in much of the West is directed towards opera. Why? The answer is also linked to the success of Hamilton – elitism and 1%-er domination of Western governance.
Musicals are not so very elitist as opera, but the average American man only sees a Broadway play after constant arm-twisting from the missus. And yet… we have had this broad success of Hamilton. How can we explain it? Why must we endure it? When will the American musical finally die, ending their assault on our ears and especially the ears of those poor, suffering parents of high school drama club members?
The answer is clear: the US is a bankocracy, and Hamilton is its unparalleled propaganda
I have not seen Hamilton and I never will – if I hate musicals already, why would I like one which is built around mythologising, propagandising and lying about the greatest central banker in American history?
The popularity of Hamilton is completely attributable to the total domination of corporate media in the 21st century. My last article, US national media is useless – so tell me the good local news sources?, thus had to be published before this one: it discusses how ever since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed the rise of monopolistic media conglomerates, to watch one national US media is to watch them all – there is total uniformity—even to the precise time slot they transmit identical stories. I also discussed how in music there used to be such a thing as a “local hit” within different US regions, but since 1996 a banal song can be a #1 for as long as 5 months because the conglomerates decide to support it and replay it, replay it, replay it, replay it.
The same goes for Hamilton: advertising works, and the conglomerate media saw a “pro-central banker” play, squealed with delight, and decided it should be bigger than The Bible.
So five years of corporate-ordered omnipresence of Hamilton coverage was not just in the pro-Broadway New York Times (Five Years and 100-Plus Stories: What It’s Like Covering ‘Hamilton’ – that’s 100-plus stories from just one Times journalist, mind you!), but across the nation: “It goes unspoken that ‘Hamilton’ is now available everywhere, for a $6.99 monthly Disney Plus subscription”. It “goes unspoken” precisely because in the US the corporate media has obviously ordered Hamilton to be atop the cultural agenda for years. It is now available as a movie for this Fourth of July weekend, thus the “news peg” for this article.
This omnipresence explains why I truly do not need to see Hamilton to write about it intelligently (though I did interview people who have seen it – hey, I’m not a bad journalist who doesn’t do homework) – the US has been OBSESSED with it for years.
But nobody seems to realise why because in all of the drooling, gushing reviews nobody gets at the economic aspects inherent in a play about a central banker. Nobody seems to make the link between the economic program of Western central banker collusion (Quantitative Easing), the reality of a US & Western “bankocracy” (a 10-part series I wrote on this issue can be found here) which has been crystal-clear since 2008 to anyone with half a brain, the elevation of central bank policy over democratic votes in the Eurozone, and then this absurd adoration of Hamilton?
How can it be a mere coincidence that at a time when central bankers have become more powerful than ever we also cannot – still – turn anywhere without being exhorted to love Hamilton? Just as rap music is the musical propaganda of modern Western capitalism, Hamilton is clearly its musical propaganda.
The pro-central bank propaganda is apparently overt during this 3+ hour show: a large part of the show is dedicated to showing how the US central bank was created, and of Alexander Hamilton persuading them of the worth and necessity of a central bank. Hamilton may not use the phrase “QE”, but how can anyone fail to see the link between inequality-creating, 1%er enriching, 99%er impoverishing QE and this stupid play? Like all great art Hamilton apparently does indeed capture the moment –the zeitgeist— too bad it is the “moment” of ravenous, society-destroying elite bankers.
Since 2015 I have said that the proof that there is no true left in the US is that I have not read of even one stink-bombing of a Hamilton performance. That the US left has not been able to mount any counter-attack on this neoliberal propaganda shows how appallingly clueless they are. Ishmael Reed Tries to Undo the Damage ‘Hamilton’ Has Wrought from The Nation was so notable because it stuck out so very much – it’s the exception which proves the rule.
The US left has been steamrolled by Hamilton and provided (as usual) so very, very little resistance, but Hamilton is a perfect example of just how easy it is to propagandise the US public – such is the extent of the dominance of their corporate media. Media concentration in the US is so absolute that if they decide something or someone or some concept should be promoted – one simply cannot escape it. And, I am sure, talking about Hamilton in this way at a US dinner party is to ensure that you are not invited back, LOL.
How was this central banker propaganda so effectively repackaged into suitable American jingoism?
In July 2020 even the World Socialist Web Site is decrying the attacks on statues of Lincoln and Jefferson; after decades of trying, corporate sponsors are going to force the rabidly anti-American Indian Washington D.C. to finally give up their “Redskins” football mascot/slur – so why on earth aren’t they coming for Hamilton?!
Alexander Hamilton bought and sold slaves, he married into a wealthy slave-owning family – it’s a no-brainer. If you support Hamilton and have some stupid liberal sign up in your front yard YOU are part of the problem (as much for liking awful Broadway as for being an obvious fake-leftist).
However, when we actually consider the economic ideology all over Hamilton we should easily grasp that the corporate-dominated US media is not about to permit sustained attacks on this spectacularly successful pro-central banker propaganda piece. What they are going to do is what places like The Washington Post just did, print lies about how Hamilton “despised slavery”.
Why would Miranda care – he did the same whitewashing. Of course he wasn’t going to talk about how the central banker Hamilton was all about debt slavery (no corporate media gushing in that case), but it’s pretty artistically opportunistic and cynical to make Hamilton some sort of abolitionist just to sell out his stupid musical. Tellingly, Miranda was forced to publicly admit he was wrong to be silent for so long regarding the George Floyd protests, but the guy adores Alexander Hamilton in the QE era – did you really think he was anti-establishment, LOL?
Reading drama reviews always produces plenty of eye-rolls – they are full of hyperbole and purple prose worthy of the biggest off-off-off-Broadway ham; everybody is just so very, very, VERY SPECTACULAR and AMAZING and TALENTED – but The New York Times lead movie critic writing that he “can’t escape tears” when watching Hamilton… how can we explain that?
Like I said, I’m not going to watch Hamilton to find out. I’m not even going to read its plot summary on Wikipedia. I have been unwillingly forced to acquire adequate Hamilton knowledge via cultural osmosis, but I also did ask around.
Part of its appeal, per reports, is undoubtedly based on jingoism and revisionist history – we’re all just so proud to be American (and to be led by heroic bankers in our wonderful bankocracy).
However, what is more shocking is how the play apparently significantly plays up the anti-monarchical, republican roots of the American Revolution for Independence by… upholding the pro-monarchy Alexander Hamilton? Jefferson said of Hamilton: “Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.” I hear Miranda’s next play is about the great abolitionist Robert E. Lee.
So the apparently underlying theme of Hamilton is how revolutionary and cool the anti-monarchy stance was (way back in the late 18th century), and it is these ancestor worship-heartstrings which produce tears in fake-leftist pseudo-intelligensia like A.O. Scott. How could they possibly pick Alexander Hamilton as a leader of the fight against aristocratic privilege? Answer: in a bankocracy bankers are the vanguard party, so they simply must be whitewashed as spotless leaders.
Thus we can refer to Scott’s headline – ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution – to get at the heart of what helped draw in so many American males to willingly watch Hamilton: make being conservative “revolutionary”. The play does what Westerners always do – try to end history long before 1917 by perpetuating the false belief that Western liberal democracy is somehow still “progressive” and not fundamentally aristocratic (bourgeois); the play obviously perpetuates the false Western belief that the summit of democracy’s reach is Western liberal democracy and not 20th century socialist democracy. However, with every passing corona hysteria day it’s more and more obvious that in the 21st century the latter is vastly outperforming the former, which did nothing but replace monarchy with bankocracy (thus it was merely a bourgeois/aristocratic revolution).
There are secondary propaganda bases for the success of Hamilton, mainly how it successfully espouses 21st century US liberal (fake-leftist) identity politics. But a huge part of this is merely technical and based entirely on what I can easily prove is the fundamentally reactionary nature of Broadway itself, because absolutely nothing is “Whiter” than Broadway in US culture.
Musicals like Our Town, Oklahoma, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Sound of Music, Music Man, Carousel – these are all whiter than Wonder Bread on a styrofoam plate in a snowstorm in themes, composition and musical styles. How can The Unsinkable Molly Brown be played by a Latina, after all? There are no Hindus in Our Town. Finding a young Black girl who can sing, act, AND has red hair is going to make staging a production of Annie difficult, but making Depression-era Daddy Warbucks Black is historically impossible. This is why playgoers have remarked how they have been thrilled by the mere presence of non-White actors in this type of a musical, but also in any musical. All of this supports my assertion of what a fundamentally reactionary institution Broadway is.
The use of rap was also another mere technical – and not intellectual or artistic – pseudo-achievement of Hamilton; that fundamentally reactionary Broadway required 40 years to finally use rap music and Hamilton was the first – big deal? The good news is: nobody over 50 can keep up with such rapid-fire spoken word poetry, and thus many of the elder showgoers surely missed out on the undoubtedly fascinating rap lyrics about the meetings to build the US Treasury.
(Of course, does every rapper think his or her every word is totally fascinating and worthy of your complete concentration and attention? Rappers dominate whatever music they sit in on – in jazz this is the sin of “overplaying” and overplayers are not invited to the next jam session. Sadly, US corporate media rams rap down our throats and refuses to broadcast jazz music literally anywhere, probably because jazz cannot proselytise for individualism and capitalism like rap does with seemingly every breath.)
Western democracy does indeed have two classes: Bankers and everyone else
Making central bankers “cool” – which seems impossible – is the greatest achievement of Hamilton in its effort to propagandise the American public into accepting QE, ZIRP and the post-2008 policies which have gutted the US and left it poised to plummet into prolonged socio-economic chaos following the hysterical corona overreaction.
By portraying Alexander Hamilton as an outsider who worked his way to the top the play undoubtedly allows viewers to maintain a certainly outdated belief in the fiction that the US is a “classless” society; this is just as the election of Barack Obama allowed the creation of the myth that the US had progressed to a “post-racial society”. If that was true – why the George Floyd protests? Miranda thinks Hamilton is a hero mainly because he knows nothing about QE, economics, the class struggle, and because he obviously admires the gangster/bankster values of rap.
If Miranda knew any of those crucial leftist analyses he would have known that in order to maintain this fiction of a “classless” American society absolutely everything must be burned before it: What is identity politics but an endless assertion that absolutely anything – from race to religion to gender to sexual preference to party affiliation to ___ – is more important than class? Anything to not focus on class!
This explains the reactionary, divisive words of Hamilton as found in the play’s popular song, “Immigrants— we get the job done”. I’m not going to listen to it because when is Broadway very truly funky or cool? However, it surely seems to be an insult to the hard-working capabilities of White Americans – are how is that leftist or progressive? Due to Miranda’s political ignorance and obviously reactionary beliefs he was only too happy to write a song which seeks to divide the worker class based on their country of birth. What’s his next divisive attack, one wonders? May I suggest: “Left-handers do the job a bit differently but still get’er dun”. A pro-immigrant song can be a fine thing, but not coming in the context of banker worship, LOL – it’s an obvious contradiction, and obviously an attempt to distract from Hamilton’s overall capitalist-imperialist ideology with divisive identity politics.
So… not a single stink bomb at a Hamilton performance? Not a single call to take slave-dealer Hamilton off the $10 bill amid these rebellious times? Idiots will deface a statue of Cervantes (the Arab-loving “Multicultural Dreamer”), and steal a Frederick Douglass statue, but the Alexander Hamilton statues outside the US Treasury, in NYC, in Chicago and elsewhere remain standing because he’s apparently “that cool leftist guy from the cool leftist play”?
Alexander Hamilton – cool? Broadway – cool?!?! Hamilton – a leftist play?!
Clearly, the US left has no idea what they are doing, and that’s why we still don’t hear any leftist demands for media discussion about the links between QE, central banker dominance over Western liberal democracies, and the endless corporate promotion of Hamilton.
For all the wrong reasons Hamilton is popular – but they’re dead wrong, I know they are, as the song goes.
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APPENDIX
Corona contrarianism? How about some corona common sense? Here is my list of articles published regarding the corona crisis. Check the archive below. Click on orange button.
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Capitalist-imperialist West stays home over corona – they grew a conscience? – March 22, 2020
Corona meds in every pot & a People’s QE: the Trumpian populism they hoped for? – March 23, 2020
A day’s diary from a US CEO during the Corona crisis (satire) March 23, 2020
– March 25, 2020
Tough times need vanguard parties – are ‘social media users’ the West’s? –
March 26, 2020
If Germany rejects Corona bonds they must quit the Eurozone – March 30,
2020
Landlord class: Waive or donate rent-profits now or fear the Cultural Revolution – March 31, 2020
Corona repeating 9/11 & Y2K hysterias? Both saw huge economic overreactions – April 1, 2020
(A Soviet?) Superman: Red Son – the new socialist film to watch on lockdown – April 2, 2020
Corona rewrites capitalist bust-chronology & proves: It’s the nation-state, stupid – April 3, 2020
Condensing the data leaves no doubt: Fear corona-economy more than the virus – April 5, 2020
‘We’re Going Wrong’: The West’s middling, middle-class corona response – April 10, 2020
Why does the UK have an ‘army’ of volunteers but the US has a shortage? – April 12, 2020
No buybacks allowed or dared? Then wave goodbye to Western stock market gains – April 13, 2020
Pity post-corona Millennials… if they don’t openly push socialism – April 14, 2020
No, the dollar will only strengthen post-corona, as usual: it’s a crisis, after all – April 16, 2020
Same 2008 QE playbook, but the Eurozone will kick off Western chaos not the US – April 18, 2020
We’re giving up our civil liberties. Fine, but to which type of state? – April 20,
2020
Coronavirus – Macron’s savior. A ‘united Europe’ – France’s murderer – April 22, 2020
Iran’s ‘resistance economy’: the post-corona wish of the West’s silent majority (1/2) – April 23, 2020
The same 12-year itch: Will banks loan down QE money this time? – April 26,
2020
The end of globalisation won’t be televised, despite the hopes of the Western 99% (2/2) – April 27, 2020
What would it take for proponents to say: ‘The Great Lockdown was wrong’? – April 28, 2020
ZeroHedge, a response to Mr. Littlejohn & the future of dollar dominance – April 30, 2020
Given Western history, is it the ‘Great Segregation’ and not the ‘Great Lockdown’? – May 2, 2020
The Western 1% colluded to start WWI – is the Great Lockdown also a conspiracy? – May 4, 2020
May 17: The date the Great Lockdown must end or Everything Bubble 2 pops – May 6, 2020
Reading Piketty: Does corona delay the Greens’ fake-leftist, sure-to-fail victory? – May 8, 2020
Picturing the media campaign needed to get the US back to work – May 11, 2020
Scarce jobs + revenue desperation = sure Western stagflation post-corona – May 13, 2020
France’s nurses march – are they now deplorable Michiganders to fake-leftists? – May 15, 2020
Why haven’t we called it ‘QE 5’ yet? And why we must call it ‘QE 2.1’ instead – May 16, 2020
‘Take your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty public servant!’ That’s Orwell? – May 17, 2021
The Great Lockdown: The political apex of US single Moms & Western matriarchy? May 21, 2021
I was wrong on corona – by not pushing for a US Cultural Revolution immediately – May 25, 2021
August 1: when the unemployment runs out and a new era of US labor battles begin – May 28, 2021
Corona proving the loser of the Cold War was both the USSR & the USA – May 30, 2021
Rebellions across the US: Why worry? Just ask Dr. Fauci to tell us what to do – June 2, 2021
Protesting, corona-conscience, a good dole: the US is doing things it can’t & it’s chaos – June 3, 2021
Why do Westerners assume all African-Americans are leftists? – June 5, 2020
The US as Sal’s Pizzeria: When to ‘Do The Right Thing’ is looting – June 6, 2020
The problem with the various ‘Fiat is all the problem!’ (FIATP) crowds – June 9, 2020
Politicisation of Great Lockdown result of ‘TINA’ economic ignorance & censorship – June 14, 2020
Trump’s only hope: buying re-election with populist jobless benefits – June
16, 2020
US national media is useless – so tell me the good local news sources? – July 4, 2020
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