All
The Craziest Things About America Are Being
Highlighted By This Virus
By
Caitlin Johnstone
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“Corona is
a black light and America is a
cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan
Amram colorfully
tweeted
a couple of weeks ago. Her observation
has only grown more accurate since. |
March 28, 2020
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The corporate cronyism of America’s
political system has been highlighted
with a massive kleptocratic
multitrillion-dollar corporate bailout
of which actual Americans are only receiving a tiny
fraction. Instead of putting that money toward
paying people a living wage to stay home
during a global pandemic, the
overwhelming majority
of the money is going to corporations while actual
human beings receive a paltry $1,200 (which they
won’t even be getting
until May at the earliest)
at a time of
record-smashing unemployment.
America’s
capitalism worship has been highlighted
with
Wall Street Journal
headline “Dow
Soars More Than 11% In Biggest One-Day Jump Since
1933”
running at the exact same time as “Record
Rise in Unemployment Claims Halts Historic Run of
Job Growth — More than 3 million workers file for
jobless benefits as coronavirus hits the economy”.
Stocks are booming,
Amazon is surging,
and mountains of wealth are being transferred to
sprawling megacorporations, while actual human
beings are terrified of what the future holds.
America’s joke of a healthcare system
is being highlighted
as uninsured COVID-19 patients are
racking up $35,000 medical bills
and even insured COVID-19
patients are looking at
out-of-pocket expenses in excess of $1,300.
Combine this with the millions of Americans getting
thrown off of employer-provided health insurance and
you’re looking at a huge number of people who will
avoid getting tested and avoid treatment as much as
possible. Both heads of America’s two-headed
one-party system have spent decades forcefully
creating this dynamic.
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America’s
income and wealth inequality is being
highlighted
in a nation suffering from all of the above
problems while
most Americans were already unable to afford a
mere $1,000 emergency expense.
A one-time $1,200 payment to a population
already stretched that thin guarantees that
millions will be plunged into crushing debt and
destitution in a nation with a historically
unprecedented billionaire class raking in even
more unearned wealth.
The insanity of America’s war machine
has been highlighted
as awareness grows during a global health emergency
that
government military spending negatively impacts
government healthcare spending
and the US has the most bloated military budget on
the planet. Now
as journalist Max Blumenthal explains
this war machine’s escalating hostility toward China
is causing Americans to needlessly die of the virus.
America’s fake political system has
been highlighted
as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee
completely vanished for a week
and then returned to deliver an
embarrassing string of befuddled interviews
upon his return, reminding the nation once again
that the Democrats are running an
actual, literal dementia patient
for the most powerful elected office in the world.
Biden will of course be running against an
incoherent reality TV star who
only last week
decided that the virus is indeed a real problem
which needs to be seriously addressed, and who now
already wants to
begin rolling back
the inadequate measures his administration
implemented far too late. The debates between two
men who don’t understand what they’re doing and
can’t string a sentence together between them will
soon be broadcast around the world for all of
civilization to behold.
America’s lying mass media are being
highlighted
with propagandistic lines that would make Kim Jong
Un blush, like The New York Times
claiming today that
“the American medical system is unsurpassed and its
public health system has a reputation as one of the
finest in the world”. We can safely expect US media
to get even more demented as they expands their
hysteria-inducing new cold war propaganda campaign
against Russia to China as well.
America’s murderous sanctions machine
has been highlighted
as the US continues ramping up its economic warfare
against Iranian civilians, with
thousands already dead
and
potentially millions to follow
due to Tehran’s inability to access necessary
equipment, medicine and resources during the
pandemic. The Trump administration has not eased the
sanctions during the outbreak, and
has in fact added to them,
because killing Iranian civilians has always been
the goal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
has gone on record
to say that the objective is to make Iranian
civilians so miserable and desperate that they
overthrow their own government.
So basically
everything crazy about America is being amplified to
absurd caricatures of its own insanity and
highlighted for everyone to see. There’s a lot of
ugliness coming out into the light as a result of
this virus, which may end up being one of its few
perks for everyone. As they say of both viruses and
governments, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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