The FBI is predictably looking into whether or not foreign bodies funded the chaos at the Capital earlier this month, as opposed to the chaos regularly on display at the Capital, but this probe I feel is presumptuous and likely erroneous. For starters, it irrationally presumes other parties in the world are as obsessed with money as those in the USA themselves, while somehow possessing available finances during a global pandemic which predominately those outside the USA are taking seriously, despite being short the tens of trillions in debt owed by American business interests to foreign governments and foreign businesses. And it offensively presumes that nobody does anything in this country unless paid to do so. While pretty much all Americans obsessively daydream about proudly accepting rewards in the form of anything hoarders of resource are willing to part with, they very rarely do, in regards to being proffered anything substantial with reliable follow-through by the most selfish among us.
I’m not suggesting that no element from among the masses of unwashed received financial incentives or support for their violent insanity, but I am reminding everyone that nobody self-enriches like American leaders do. As is the case with protestations in the USA generally, people do not require assistance in finding matters to be upset about, whether those matters are real or imagined. And even on a slow news day, the biggest societal issues domestically tend to come about because those with resources are willing to lie, cheat and steal to perpetuate control over said resources. No matter the resulting destruction. And that’s the thing.
As above, so below, each and every participant to the instability shaped like a country is readily insisting that endangering the lives of others is a small but necessary price to pay in order to get what they themselves want in life. Endangering the lives of anybody is not an actual right of any sort, yet it remains the lone standard for measuring patriotism, with the more lives one is willing to risk somehow equating to the more vast one’s patriotism. The business leaders willing to poison millions, political leaders willing to subjugate millions and religious leaders willing to condemn millions, one and all provide the most amplified examples of American patriots. With citizens themselves giving more esteem to the most self-serving public figures than to the people in their own towns who actually affect their livelihoods. Saving lives from harmful products and services affording legal protections, saving lives from social inequalities up to and including lucrative wars abroad, or saving lives from the effects of religious superiority complexes, any effort at avoiding death is taken as anti-establishment. Diverting any resources whether public or private away from those who want it to those who need it is popularly regarded as unpatriotic, no matter how many lives are destroyed by the injustice.
The largest threat to Americans is America. And the denial projecting that blame outside USA borders is the same denial refusing to believe that its own government proactively awarding indifference for the sake of nationalism is suspect. It’s the same denial refusing to believe its own political party proactively awarding indifference as social bandwagons running circles in ideologically gated communities is suspect. It’s the same denial refusing to believe the parent companies profiteering its favorite inanities so that underpaid/overworked consumers can be price-gouged for the privilege of awarding their own personal indifference is suspect. It’s the same denial refusing to believe its preferred denomination of whichever dogma offering the most appealing argument for avoiding accountability is suspect.
And it’s the same denial refusing to believe that its own fucking population could be capable of the most ignorantly self-entitled opposition to life and liberty the world has ever experienced.