Another FREE post: As The World Turns Away — From US / Israel Ugliness.
It is always deeply troubling if not downright unsettling when our icons, whether individuals, countries, or gods, turn out not only to have feet of clay, but are revealed to be made entirely of putrid mud. As their true natures are revealed by their consistent actions, their decades of false projections, vile hypocrisy, and relentless lies that cloaked them and made them seem ‘iconic’ begin to disperse and uncover their festering rot. We are of course talking about the formerly great United States of America and the self-professed ‘chosen by God’ peoples and their nation of Israel.
Both of these countries have enjoyed unprecedented success and admiration from the majority of the world for the past half a century or more.
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Held up as enterprising, bold, innovative, and lethal, when messed with, or if provoked or threatened, they rose to the top of the world rankings – one as THE Super-Power, and the other as a little ‘Giant’ that could do it all.
Along with their vaunted economic and military power, these two countries were heavily promoted as the bastions of virtue, oasis of democracies, equality, justice, fairness, and constitutional secular tolerance and acceptance.
As inherently immigrant constructed ‘new’ nations, they were held up to be the ‘promised lands’ where the disenfranchised of the world could seek succour and success denied in their distant places of origin.
That image held intact for decades, in spite of the glaring falsities visible just under the surface, till these past few years, when aided by the corrosive effects of the their two most toxic leaders, Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu, and their open hereto unacceptable bigoted and racist rhetoric and actions, the masks melted rapidly to reveal the rotten innards of two ‘civilized, world leading countries’ that were in reality morally bankrupt and built on lies that challenged their constitutional underpinnings.
As ‘democracies’ they both Fail.
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