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In reply to the discussion: Kremlin attacks Morgan Freeman and insists everyone should ignore his Russia Video [View all]ancianita
(43,311 posts)Everyone here wants to go for this message because Morgan Freeman has played god in a film??
Think about how most people thought the Russia Internet insurgency was pretty far fetched when it was first brought to public attention.
Now we can find common cause with AEI people who are of the globalist class, right or wrong? Just chuck their pasts while this whole "Russia as enemy" frame plays out?
The more I think about it the more skeptical I get.
"For now" is a common front that right wing tanks hope will get them over.
I can't look at it working "for now."
I have to look at the whole history of right wingers in the AEI think tank parent. Do you remember the groups attacks here of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's association with AEI? I read all her books, and I can assure everyone that she was never an opportunist con.
You can trust this video at face value if you choose.
You say, "for now," but this video's motive, to me, isn't about "saving the country from complete destruction by Trump..."
It's about saving the complete destruction of the austerity globalists' credibility in American politics at all.
Globalists and their congressional henchmen have allied with Russian mafia style capitalism, Kochs and the rest, when they think it has helped them take control of the land base of the West's largest democracy.
You don't think AEI doesn't curry their favor and wealth? I do.
As for Americans in general, now that they've seen the election mess Putin's propaganda machine contributed to, I don't think that most Republicans see Putin's Kremlin as even a potential future American ally. But globalists do. If they can rewrite the history of which "side" they were on, they would, even as they continue to do business with a country hostile to the West.
Today, the AEI knows that Republican Americans have no choice but to doubt the viability of institutions supported by the wealthy Republican class.
The timing of this video shows a newfound fear from that class. Over a year in on the FBI's following the money.
The more I think about who is backing this video -- especially, given the legal, international precedents that this massive criminal investigation on this poser president's posse of Russian colluders (including major GOP players) will establish for future governance in this country -- the more the video reveals to me the wealthy class's concession to the nation's loss of confidence over a major right wing party's credibility as a patriotic American party.
The attendant neonazi noise in America isn't just coincidence, either.
I don't think I'm overthinking this. It wasn't that long ago that the reality we're in now wasn't thought to even be likely.
Putting Morgan Freeman's best god face (and script) before us doesn't make me trust the motives of this advisory board's parent think tank. This advisory board is being paid to prop two party viability after the parent org's beloved GOP is shown before the world to be a dupe of a hostile foreign power.
PR is sophisticated. Celebrities are good people who want to help what they think are good causes. I love Morgan Freeman. But too many times we've seen well meaning celebrities misguidedly 'help' -- just not the way they believe they are. I'm sure AEI knows we trust Morgan Freeman -- no one's more convincing than "god" -- so we'll feel good about the soul of this right wing think tank.
AEI history is bigger than "for now," and so I think this video is sincere, vague, mollifying in its attempt to keep the AEI maintaining globalist trust and endowments in a country that is churning to return its government to its Constitutional, democratic structure, and away from a Russian mafia style corporate one.
When you say, "Once we're rid of this common enemy, we can go back to fighting conservatives on the pressing issues such as single-payer healthcare, women's rights, and climate change, etc." then I realize now just how this globalist war of attrition is played, whether that war exhausts us through the Obamacare war, the neonazi white supremacist war, the war on women, immigrants, fossil v. green energy, or on each other.
I've just decided to not trust or support this untimely, scripted admission of "war." The AEI house is putting its money on pandering, at best; propagandizing, at worst.
Thank you for helping me consider this further. I do understand your hope that this contributes to what's best for us all. I hope that happens.