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Title: The Parties of Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR Are Dead
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Published: Jun 10, 2016
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2016-06-10 08:42:40 by Stephen Lendman
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The Parties of Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR Are Dead

by Stephen Lendman

America was never beautiful. Today it’s unfit and unsafe to live in, a monster threatening humanity’s survival.

US duopoly power replaced the eras of Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. No JFKs exist, a peacemaker assassinated for opposing war, urging nuclear disarmament and rapprochement with Soviet Russia.

New Deal, Fair Deal and Great Society programs are heading for history’s dust bin. Bipartisan neocons infesting Washington want social justice ended, neoliberal enslavement replacing it, fascist police state harshness enforcing it.

America is a gangster state, criminals running it - beginning in the 1990s under Bill Clinton, hardened under George W. Bush, institutionalized under Obama, certain to worsen no matter who succeeds him.

US voters in November get to choose between deplorable, unacceptable choices - Clinton the most recklessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history, Trump a billionaire, racist demagogue, both self-serving, mindless of popular needs and concerns.

Four more years of endless imperial wars are certain. America will resemble Guatemala before they end, its people impoverished, terrorized by police state harshness, constitutional rights replaced by full-blown tyranny.

Most disturbing is how uninformed and indifferent most Americans are about a ruthless system destroying their lives, welfare and futures.

Elections accomplish nothing, rigged to sustain continuity, benefitting wealth, privilege and power exclusively over progressive governance of, by and for everyone equitably.

The nation I grew up in from the 1930s through the 60s no longer exists, unfit and unsafe to live in since neocons usurped power - Hillary Clinton their current standard bearer.

Will November’s election (sic) be rigged to install her? Corporate controlled electronic voting machines make it simple. So does disenfranchising millions of unwanted voters.

Green party presidential aspirant Jill Stein blasted the Democrat party, calling it “a disgrace… blatantly rigging the system” for Clinton, the corrupted media establishment supporting her, an unindicted racketeer, war criminal, major threat to world peace.

Late in my life, I can’t shake a deep foreboding for what I fear coming, dangers threatening everyone, youths with no futures, endless wars on a slippery slope toward possible mass annihilation.

Poet TS Eliot once mused about the world one day ending “not with a bang but a whimper.” Thermonuclear weapons in the hands of neocons like Hillary Clinton risk otherwise.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

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#1. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)

America was never beautiful.

I beg to differ. There are parts of America that are very beautiful indeed. The author of this piece needs to get out more. A

No JFKs exist, a peacemaker assassinated for opposing war, urging nuclear disarmament and rapprochement with Soviet Russia.<<

Ok,so he is just confused. JFK wasn't a peacemaker. He was a coward. They are different things.

New Deal, Fair Deal and Great Society programs are heading for history’s dust bin.<<

He is also delusional. America would be safe and secure today if they had been tossed in the dustbin the instant WW-2 ended.

as Bipartisan neocons infesting Washington want social justice ended, neoliberal enslavement replacing it, fascist police state harshness enforcing it. <<

Blah,blah,blan. He is so clueless he is confusing conservationism with globalism. He obviously grew up as a leftist,and was trained to be a kneejerk leftist in school. Nothing could be further from the truth. The so-called "neo-cons" are nothing but fascists,and Fascism is a left-wing political movement. A Fascist is what a Communist turns into when/if they grow up.

America is a gangster state, criminals running it - beginning in the 1990s under Bill Clinton, hardened under George W. Bush, institutionalized under Obama, certain to worsen no matter who succeeds him. <<

Proof that even a dim bulb can have an instant of brilliance. Absolutely SPOT ON!

US voters in November get to choose between deplorable, unacceptable choices - Clinton the most recklessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history, Trump a billionaire, racist demagogue, both self-serving, mindless of popular needs and concerns. <<

And his train leaves the tracks once again. Presidents are NOT elected to bow to popular needs and concerns. Presidents are elected to GOVERN,and to govern in such a matter they do what is best for the NATION,not any one group of individuals whiners.

More proof he was raised and programmed as a leftist.

Most disturbing is how uninformed and indifferent most Americans are about a ruthless system destroying their lives, welfare and futures. <<

Uhhhhh,uhhhh,uhhhhh........

The dummy has recognized the problem,and is still clueless about the cause,which is one he has most likely promoted his entire life.

Elections accomplish nothing, rigged to sustain continuity, benefitting wealth, privilege and power exclusively over progressive governance of, by and for everyone equitably. <<

See? Have you ever seen bullshit piled higher? "Progressive" is a leftist code word for "Fascist".

Some people will never learn because they are incapable of looking at anything with a open mind and open eyes. They prefer their dogma over any reality they will ever be presented.

The nation I grew up in from the 1930s through the 60s no longer exists,<<

Only because fools like you worked hard your whole life to destroy it.

... unfit and unsafe to live in since neocons usurped power - Hillary Clinton their current standard bearer. <<

Once again,you fool,there is NOTHING the tiniest bit conservative about Fascism,and Bubbette! is nothing more than a modern day Mussolini,but without all the polished charm.

Late in my life, I can’t shake a deep foreboding for what I fear coming, dangers threatening everyone, youths with no futures, endless wars on a slippery slope toward possible mass annihilation. <<

You should fear it because you and your comrades were the ones that created the present and the near future. Just because late in life you woke up and discovered you were not to be a part of the ruling classes changes nothing.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-10   10:06:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Ok,so he is just confused. JFK wasn't a peacemaker. He was a coward. They are different things.

Hi Pete, nice to see you here.

However, I must strongly disagree with your quoted statement.

JFK was assassinated because he threatened the global war machine. He was about to end US involvement in Vietnam, was about to dissolve the CIA due to its criminal and immoral activities, and demanded that Israel agree to allow US inspectors inside of their Dimona nuclear research facility to ensure they weren't developing nuclear weapons.

So I don't understand how you could view him as a coward.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-10   11:51:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

JFK was assassinated because he threatened the global war machine.<<

No,he wasn't. He LOVED the global war machine. It made him feel macho,and all punks love feeling macho.

I am GUESSING he was killed because his father stole the election from the people who really won it,and they were steamed anad went out and found a patsy to rectify the "injustice".

Just a guess,though.

>>He was about to end US involvement in Vietnam, was about to dissolve the CIA due to its criminal and immoral activities, and demanded that Israel agree to allow US inspectors inside of their Dimona nuclear research facility to ensure they weren't developing nuclear weapons.<<

All Kennedy Klan propaganda. After he was killed the Kennedy Klan were out of business politically on the right,so they took a hard left turn,and that shithead Robert suddenly became the darling of the left,after being chief consul for the House Un-American Activities Committee. He went from investigating them to being one of their leaders in the blink of an eye.

So I don't understand how you could view him as a coward.<<

He was a coward because instead of doing his duty in the Pacific and laying off the strait the Japanese were moving supplies through so he could attack and sink Japanese troop and cargo ships,he threw out a sea anchor and let his PT boat drift while he and the whole crew took a nap. Men under his command died because of this,and it seriously pisses me off that the Kennedy Klan were allowed to turn his cowardice into heroism. The Navy wanted to court-martial him for dereliction of duty,and old man Joe Kennedy was pushing Roosevelt to give him a Medal of Honor. The compromise was neither happpened.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-10   16:35:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

e was a coward because instead of doing his duty in the Pacific and laying off the strait the Japanese were moving supplies through so he could attack and sink Japanese troop and cargo ships,he threw out a sea anchor and let his PT boat drift while he and the whole crew took a nap.

Doing something dumb does not make a coward, if your account is accurate.

It's well documented and accepted that he saved the life of his crew through extreme heroism and valor after the boat was hit, so your depiction of him being a coward is entirely inaccurate.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-10   17:27:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Doing something dumb does not make a coward, if your account is accurate.

Refusing to engage the enemy after being ordered to do so isn't dumb. It's cowardly and an actual crime.

It's well documented and accepted that he saved the life of his crew through extreme heroism and valor after the boat was hit, so your depiction of him being a coward is entirely inaccurate. <<

He saved the life of ONE crewman,not his crew. Which was only fair because the man was burned and drowning due to JFK's cowardice and failure to even put someone on watch.

He grew up boating and swimming,and was an excellent swimmer. He does deserve a "atta boy!" for finally performing his duties,but there was no combat or unusual risk involved. They were both in the water with no boat,and the Japanese destroyer was gone and didn't even know they had hit anything.

But if you are determined to believe the Kennedy Klan propaganda about JFK,no skin off my nose.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-10   22:48:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

He saved the life of ONE crewman,not his crew. Which was only fair because the man was burned and drowning due to JFK's cowardice and failure to even put someone on watch.

He saved his crew (with the exception of the two killed on the evening of the crash) by swimming out to Ferguson Passage and trying to signal passing PT boats, and by having his crew swim (with him towing the injured crewman) to a nearby island, then swimming with another crew mate out to another island, finding a canoe, using it several times to try to flag down a US ship, eventually finding local natives who could get his message on a coconut to the US Navy so they could be rescued.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-14   15:57:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

He saved his crew (with the exception of the two killed on the evening of the crash) by swimming out to Ferguson Passage and trying to signal passing PT boats, and by having his crew swim (with him towing the injured crewman) to a nearby island, then swimming with another crew mate out to another island, finding a canoe, using it several times to try to flag down a US ship, eventually finding local natives who could get his message on a coconut to the US Navy so they could be rescued.

Who are you,the professional Kennedy Klan apologist?

He swam out to the Ferguson Passage to try to signal passing PT boats so he could save HIMSELF. Yes,the crew would be saved also,but the way you state it sounds like you think he was going to load them on a rescue boat and stay behind.

His daddy was a traitor,he was a coward,and so were his shithead brothers. Deal with it.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-14   20:26:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

He swam out to the Ferguson Passage to try to signal passing PT boats so he could save HIMSELF. Yes,the crew would be saved also,but the way you state it sounds like you think he was going to load them on a rescue boat and stay behind.

He made several trips to adjacent islands to find a way to get rescued, and not by himself but with some of his healthier crew members.

As far as sitting in Ferguson Passage, he wasn't the only member of the crew doing the same thing, trying to signal a Navy ship..

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-14   20:55:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

As far as sitting in Ferguson Passage, he wasn't the only member of the crew doing the same thing, trying to signal a Navy ship..

I do give him credit for doing most of it,but he was the best swimmer,and his own survival was also at risk.

Where the focus should be is that it was HE that put his crew under his command in that position in the first place.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-14   20:58:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Where the focus should be is that it was HE that put his crew under his command in that position in the first place.

By doing as all the other PT commanders had to do, having no radar in a pitch black night, and that was to sit there as silently as possible in total radio silence.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-14   21:00:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

By doing as all the other PT commanders had to do, having no radar in a pitch black night, and that was to sit there as silently as possible in total radio silence.

Are you saying all the other PT commanders on patrol put out sea anchors and let their boats drift around freely with no one on watch while they all slept?

Ever been at sea? War ships and even troop ships made a hell of a lot of noise traveling at sea,and noise really travels over open water. it's even easier to hear at night. Yet a Japanese destroyer cut the PT boat in two while transiting the Straight,and didn't even know what they had hit. This is according to the ship log book.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-14   21:09:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Hell, I'll even prove you're wrong. Easy enough to find recounts of what happened directly from a former crewmember. And since you refuse to make any sort of attempt to backup what you claim, I think I've proven the case sufficiently to indicate you are either wrong, or outright lying.

From A Former Crewman’s Memories of JFK

A collision in the night

On that terrible night, Zinser was first on the deck and just coming off his engine room watch. He was relieved for the night watch by an older mechanic, Chief Petty Officer Pappy McMahon. Suddenly, before anyone could react, Kennedy shouted “full power” and wheeled the boat abruptly to starboard, and the sudden, unavoidable impact with the enemy warship sent the 25-year-old Zinser cartwheeling into the deep, warm void of time.

Two men on board, below deck, were killed instantly in the collision, and several others were severely burned in the gasoline fire caused from sparks when the two ships collided. A large gasoline fire from ruptured fuel tanks flared furiously all around the severed sections of the boat, like a target beacon for enemy ships or patrol boats.

The crewmen bobbed helplessly like fishing corks for a brief time, until Kennedy and his second-in-command, Ensign Thom — a former collegiate football star — helped them up to the shelter of a still floating forward portion of the severed boat.

“The skipper had injured his back severely in the collision,” Zinser said. “Though we didn’t know what was happening to anyone at the time, or what condition we were in. The ship damned near cut him (Kennedy) in half, because it hit right behind where he was on watch at the captain’s chair on the bridge.”

Zinser said despite the injuries he later learned Kennedy was suffering, his skipper would swim around in the dark, choppy seas from man to man, “checking to see how we were holding up. He’d even yell out the names of crewmen to find out where they were.”

Hours later, as dawn painted the black skies a dull gray with its timeless brush, Kennedy told the men they’d all have to try and make it to an island located a few miles away. About this time, the forward portion of the boat began to punctuate Kennedy’s words with an ominous finality — it was beginning to roll over, upside down, and would soon be headed for the bottom. And where the men were located, near some floating wreckage items, they were also vulnerable to enemy aircraft sightings, Zinser said.

Kennedy determined that Pappy McMahon, older and severely burned, probably with deydration problems, would have to be towed. Everyone else had their hands full just surviving, so Kennedy took McMahon and towed him along by the strap of his life preserver. Sometimes, when his arms got tired, Kennedy would place the strap between his teeth and tow Pappy that way for a while.

“He had Mac’s life jacket clenched in his teeth and it wore him out,” said Zinser. “He might rest a minute, but he kept going. Then Mac started moaning and saying: `Skip, I’m all done. I can’t make it. Leave me here.’ And the skipper said one time, `whether you like it or not, you’re coming Pappy. Don’t you know only the good die young?’” Zinser chuckled remembering that.

It took the men four hours to swim to the island they later called Plum Pudding, because it looked like a bowl of pudding from water level miles away.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-15   17:46:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Hell, I'll even prove you're wrong. Easy enough to find recounts of what happened directly from a former crewmember.

You really are an idiot if you think that crewmember,who JFK made into a hero and put on tv is now going to admit they were all asleep instead of doing their duty.

I think it is interesting how you obviously did a web search,and only posted the one link that supports your brain farts,and totally ignored all the others.

Not that I really care. If you enjoy being an ignorant fool and Kennedy Klan Kult member,go for it.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-16   14:25:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

What it comes down to pete is that I no longer view you as an honest person; you've lost all your credibility.

I don't believe someone who refuses to backup his statements with facts, and who makes wild-assed claims as if he's "in the know" who then demands that people believe him just on his word alone.

History refutes your stories, and nowhere on planet earth can evidence be found of what you speak, because it exists only in your own head.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-16   16:15:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

What it comes down to pete is that I no longer view you as an honest person; you've lost all your credibility.

I will make a valiant effort to deal with the pain and guilt of knowing that. Meanwhile,you will remain an ignorant fool by choice.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-06-17   13:04:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#48. To: sneakypete (#47)

Meanwhile,you will remain an ignorant fool by choice.

I'm not the one spinning my own version of history, then pretending that it'd take too much effort to support my claims by posting a link to any sort of legit info.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-06-17 17:26:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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