Nobody told me there’d be days like these. Strange days indeed—the most
dangerously Orwellian days I can remember. Absolutist authoritarians
dominate both the Trump and anti-Trump camps inside and outside
Congress, and both are committed to the new McCarthyism. Devin Nunes,
head of the House Intelligence Committee, insists that Trump didn't
collude with Russians, but that he, Nunes, repeatedly warned of
Russian interference in US elections during Obama’s second term. I
suppose that the rival accusations of the Democratic and Republican
parties make this a little better than a monolithic, absolutist
authoritarianism, but not much since both claim that the Russian Bear is
everywhere.Whichever party is in power will bait the Bear, then say we
have to expand domestic surveillance, the military budget, and the
empire of bases,despite enormous potential for shared
abundance. We can look forward to more murder, poison, and privation
within our own borders and beyond.
-- Ann Garrison, "Strange Days Indeed" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).