Cixin Liu, (The Three-Body Problem and other novels), caused racist controversy among the alt-right sick puppies — they refer to themselves as sad but the are sick fucks — who proceeded to ruin the Hugo Awards by gaming the voting system into a list of ONLY their crew. The idea was to strike a blow against what they called leftwing east-coast academic liberal bias, in which only people of other cultures were awarded. Non-white males, is what they were “defending”, along with non GOP war pigs.
Their work is universally bad. It’s written poorly and tends to be juvenile in content, with scenes of pointless violence, macho strutting, and stupid speeches. We’ve all seen the type and know of certain publishing houses that made a living from it, such as Baen.
Generally speaking, their stuff is propaganda promoting alt-right pro-war rah-RAH militarism, sexism, and bigotry.
Their simplistic crap deserves no award and when faced with only such choices, NO AWARD is the choice that won all categories, leaving many worthy works out of the running and unable to qualify in a later year.
Unfair, ugly, and typical GOP bullshit.
So imagine this year’s Hugo Awards, given out at the World Con in Helsinki, Finland: Virtually all the winners were women.
What ugly backlash will the uncultured alt-right culture-war goons unleash now?
Its the same kind of swelling bigotry Obama’s election uncaged from the GOP bigots. Not just racism but President Obama’s tax stance, his animosity toward unfettered capitalism, trade, and rape of resources, and his suave, sophisticated manner of unruffled competence drove the GOP madder. And Obama, in many views, was actually a centrist with right wing tendencies, compared to what policies democratic socialists would prefer.
Culture war includes all this, which most of the public doesn’t hear or take note of, as well as Alex Jones, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and the other spewers of mindless fear, crazy conspiracy, and unmitigated hate. All of FOX News is but propagandistic lies. Talk radio, where it was fomented, is heard by few of the people in this country but is almost a sole source of attitudes for practically all trumpers.
It’s no longer their bloc vote driving our politics, either. With Putin’s cyber war victory and successful stealing of what was otherwise an overwhelming landslide win for Hillary Clinton —or against Trump, really — we moved beyond our old electoral system of voting. This second-largest margin of victory on record did not matter given the slick cheating from the treasonous GOP and Trump campaign, and we cannot return to the system that gave us the debacle of Trump.
Nothing new has been proposed, no new system is being designed or discussed. No protocol exists even if we manage to oust Trump and the GOP from our politics.
This means the Koch Plan will prevail and big money will continue to call the shots in an oligarch of increasing fascist ugliness. It literally doesn’t matter how high we hang Trump and the GOP for treason now.
If more race riots are planned by Bannon and the alt-right Breitbart Nazi gang, we’ll see increasing chaos. No less than an excuse for a Kristallnacht crack-down is being cobbled up out of this pathetic show of weakness. That’s what the quislings and traitors want. Of course we can confidently predict more race riots will be staged, since the Charlottesville, VA event worked so well to upset the entire nation.
People are seething with hatred for Trump, and with good reason but he’s largely an irrelevant symptom. The GOP has for decades used the ploy of shoving everything it can as far to the right as possible so the “correction” will never us back where we started. This inches us incrementally further right until the likes of Obama seems almost liberal to many.
Trump is the same ploy. The GOP will let him go as crazy as possible so any correction — Imam Pence’s cherished dreams of imposing an evangelical theocracy, for example — will seem reasonable.
Except that an American Taliban is NOT reasonable.
That is where we’re headed unless Mueller’s investigation takes down the GOP along with Trump and his crime family for treason. That’s what should happen, we all know it, but there is no guarantee, and even if it goes down that way, there is no protocol for what happens then. Will we see a strongman arise, or a military coup, or a corporate triumvirate?
We need a purge but we need a plan for what happens after it.
We need to ensure no one at any level of government linked in any way to Trump or the GOP that enabled him is tolerated. Period. All his appointees, all quislings who went along to get along, all Trumpers and republicants must be purged. Government must be cleansed of them. Eradicating the cancer is the only way to stop it. It won’t stop itself, it must BE stopped, by being cut out of the body politic.
Identifying psychopaths using the 44-point inventory of psychopathy should lead to isolating them from society, and certainly should mean keeping them out of all positions of power over anyone in any way at any level, high and low, governmental and civic. Only this will thwart Charles Koch’s plan implemented with his brother David and many other super-rich psychopaths, a plan to eliminate government and to install an oligarchy of very few very rich rulers benefitting from everything. Total control, no restrictions, regulations, or laws, is what Charles Koch’s plan calls for, to benefit only him and his chosen few ilk.
Call it big money, call it treason, call it insane; it’s all that and more, but it’s also real, and the greatest existential threat to mankind in history.
Which side will you stand on? Guess what? You don’t have that fucking choice; you’re not one of the chosen winners.
/ Old 815, “Night Screed”
