A nice little read by Caitlin Johnstone.
The real violent extremists are the oligarchs and imperialists who run the US-centralized empire from both mainstream parties.
Not Antifa. Not trans people. Not anti-genocide activists. Not protesters against ICE.
The extremists who are inflicting the real violence and abuse in our world are the ones committing genocide, starting wars, backing blockades, imposing starvation sanctions, arming proxy conflicts, circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, and flirting with nuclear armageddon.
Donald Trump is a violent extremist. Joe Biden is a violent extremist. Keir Starmer is a violent extremist. Benjamin Netanyahu is a violent extremist.
Oligarchs who knit themselves into the murderous imperial power structure like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson and Larry Ellison are violent extremists.
The Democratic Party is a violent extremist organization. The Republican Party is a violent extremist organization.
War profiteers like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are violent extremist organizations.
Empire management firms which facilitate imperial violence and control like Palantir, Oracle and Starlink are violent extremist organizations.
There is no designated terrorist group foreign or domestic which can hold a candle to the death toll and human suffering that has been inflicted by the western empire.
And to add to that list is a complacent America population that either ignorantly stands by and hopes that all these extremists will go away on their own … or that some hero will one day come in like a Hollywood action movie and save everyone at the last possible moment because no one wants to lift a finger or put themselves at risk in order to save everyone else.
True–sure.
But since I’m complicit in that I’d really rather just not think about it and be extra-violent to someone smaller to make up for it–maybe someone poor and brown, or who makes lots of noise I can’t easily dismiss about how I’m bad?
