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Kamala Harris announces unconditional support for IDF rape prison, sniping children in the head, shredded children, bombing schools, bombing hospitals and the Israel's final solution for the Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/yNLLYmFaF5

— Bryce Greene (@TheGreeneBJ) August 9, 2024

A couple of months ago:

Trump tells donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests if re-elected

Presumptive Republican nominee calls demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza part of a ‘radical revolution’

This is all election-year rhetoric, of course. What it points to, however, is the power Zionist billionaires have over American society. Here's the Grayzone detailing what that's all about:

There is a lot of useful information in this video so even though it's nearly two hours long it's all worth watching. Of course, not everyone has all that time to spare, and a lot of the discussion is pretty gruesome.

The point of the two-party endorsement of genocide, for me, is that we really do need to make it clear to the world that America is nothing close to being a democracy. America is an oligarchy. Perhaps this needs to be explained in detail. It was imagined in the era of the Founding Fathers, the century before the century before last, that America had to be an oligarchy with a thin veneer of democracy sprayed over it, because the genocide against native peoples had to be controlled and it had to be universally "okayed" that half the country was to be a permanent concentration camp.

America's concentration-camp identity (and here we must remember that Crevecoeur told his audience to buy a slave or two) meant installing the institutional order discussed in the Federalist Papers. Of course, keeping the concentration camp going meant (at a later point) creating something like the Compromise of 1850, which didn't work out, thus the US Civil War and three-quarters of a million deaths to push America into a better era for the former slaves and the same old genocide for the native peoples.

Corresponding to the institutional order is a degraded social imaginary in which the institutional order is based on cult membership. In business we obey the cult of money; in politics we are either the cult of "we're nice" (as exposed by Chris Hedges in Death of the Liberal Class) or the cult of hatred for the "far left." It shouldn't be surprising, then, that though the two cults ferociously pretend to oppose each other, their combined activity leads in the same direction every time. It is this degradation of the social imaginary into a cult order that explains why the film "Death to America" has its title.

What rules America today is a conversation between Zionist billionaires demanding a genocide and a political class operating on puppet strings. (We certainly don't know who rules the White House: it's not Joe Biden, and it's not Kamala Harris. And they, whoever they are, like things this way, so why should we expect they'd ever leave?) The political class response went as follows: You want a genocide? Okay, we'll dutifully kick out anyone in Congress who dissents, have all the protesters fired, censored, and (here's the Trump-Biden innovation) deported, shut down the public sphere. That should insure Israel's victory, or so they think, it being implicitly assumed beforehand that the divine purpose of the United States is to "support Israel."

But here's a bomb expert to clarify the reality on the ground:

In short, when the wider Mideast war begins, a lot of people will be saved by going to the appropriate shelters once the missiles are confirmed as being en route. But Israel will take a very large amount of structural damage.

The rhetoric of the participants in the current conflict cannot be taken seriously. Today you can read about all sorts of controversies about prominent celebrity Scientologists. But it would appear that Scientology's main defense is that it, as a set of beliefs, can't be taken seriously. These people believe in Xenu or something. Perhaps, then, we ought to apply this sort of logic to our understanding of the endorsers of genocide, also members of cults. What importance do we wish to place upon the arguments of people who are telling us that genocide is okay because Trump is worse? This is, of course, not to exclude those who believe (as Trump proclaimed) that Joe Biden is a "Palestinian." They are even more obviously cult members.

This notion ascribed to Yeshua of Nazareth, of "love everybody," might be useful in the current situation. Protect yourself, not in the ordinary sense of buying a gun and leaving it around the house for your kids to play with it, but rather in the sense of protecting your role as a participant in the social imaginary. You don't want to be them. As for the outcome of the Presidential election, there's really no sense in which ordinary people can contribute meaningfully to what's going on, short of an actual revolution. It's really a matter of the flows of money, which people worship above all. Vote for Stein if you dare. But generally we should keep an eye out for the general cult paranoia that characterizes this era, with its consequent violence.

Here one recalls the mass extinction of 66 million years ago, with its great rock hitting the Earth. Many of the remnants that survived did so by burrowing underground. Hamas survives to this day because it burrowed underground. Hezbollah has burrowed underground, and I'm sure the Israelis have done so too. What is our US equivalent today?