The two dominant factions among the country
clubbers who lord it over the morlocks in the United States of Dreamland
consist, on the one hand, of a rightwing group who spend a lot of time producing
and decrying fake news, and a center-right group of Eloi who have produced a
fake consensus history and spend a lot of time contrasting the present
barbarians with the beautiful normality of once upon a time.
The murder of 11 mostly elderly Jews in
Pittsburgh has produced a lot of articles about how anti-semitism could be
happening in Dreamland, of all places. But anti-semitism is, as Rap Brown might
put it, as American as apple pie. A minor story this week about Trump sponsored
anti-semitism gained some attention: Radio Marti, a government funded propagandastation that broadcasts to Cuba, took up the cudgels of American whitenationalists (and Hungarian anti-semites and the rightwing government of
Israel) against George Soros. Soros is a billionaire with liberal leanings, and
hence must be thoroughly scourged as a cosmopolitan, a secret Nazi accomplice
when he was 12, etc., etc. He’s today’s Rothschild, with the difference that in
the 19th century a Zionist country with a total contempt for liberal
Jewish culture did not yet exist to add its noise to the moronic inferno.
This news story, however, pinged my memory of
the good old days, specifically, the old entanglement of American propaganda
outlets and anti-semitism during the Cold War. So I went into the archive and
looked up some of the material, and I thought, wow, here’s an unexpected
predecessor of exactly those gang colors worn by members of the Trump gov
today!
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