A Bridge To Far

A Bridge To Far

By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
July 13, 2020

The murder of black people has been a constant in American
barbarity since Colonial times.  

Persistent white murder has caused black agony to erupt in spasms
of despair that have only altered its methods, not ended it.  

White racism, officially supported, has suppressed black outrage
but not stifled it.  

Whites continue to murder blacks but cannot murder black spirit.  

After a long, grisly sequence of vicious and legally inexcusable
murders by various vile, sociopathic, pseudo-military police forces,
the Floyd murder inflamed it again, this time with complex
differences.  

Unlike the national fury after the murder of Dr. King or the storm of
rage over Rodney King’s abuse, this explosion can not be described
as a “race riot”.  

Though the murder of a black man triggered it, and though his
murder is the central theme around which the phenomenon has
coalesced, the great majority of active participants have been
white.  

This is unprecedented.  

The question then is whether a small but not negligible minority
of white Americans has, in a historically brief time, so developed
ethically that it now embraces the deeply humanist creed of the
moral giants, Einstein and Schweizer, Eugene Debs and Desmond
Tutu.  

The answer is that it has.    

Clearly, many whites have made that ethical climb, or they
wouldn’t be in the streets in great numbers over what has
been traditionally a black issue.  

This raises questions. 

Has definition of a traditionally racist issue morphed from
what it historically has been?  

And is there, in fact, any issue that is strictly racial any more,
at least among relatively enlightened whites?

If not, then it follows that for them an existential issue for
one race is an issue for all races.  

This is a huge stretch for the propagandized, deformed American
psyche even to grasp, let alone fully to embrace.  

Stuffed with the poisonous philosophical styrofoam of American
Exceptionalism, brains and souls befouled and infused with the
shallowest, stupidest, cruelest, latter-day Nazi Ubermensch tripe.

Americans are ill-equipped to understand and accept even
themselves, much less those we’re schooled by The Empire
to regard, around the world, as our subhuman underlings.  

Powerful unanimity of purpose between elements of historically
alienated “races”--the term is no longer validated by science, btw--
not only seriously threatens racism and white dominion, it mortally
menaces hegemonist dogma across the board, which makes it
deeply terrifying to the American Capitalist Tyranny, its .0001%
owner class and its purchased government.  

Passionate demand for an end to police murder of blacks, for
defunding or eliminating these brutal, dishonest gestapos of state-
directed terror, is just the most openly hideous crime our diseased
system inflicts on all of us.  

General awareness of this--taking nothing away from enlightened
white empathy with blacks over serial murder-by-cop--is the far
broader, denser background reality--as dark matter in the universe
is the field and matrix of all that is visible--that with its
tremendous gravity has drawn moral whites into genuine
brotherhood of purpose with violently traumatized blacks in their
frustrated and unending quest for justice in America.  

Tragically, as acute observers see, though there is broad and
growing comprehension by Americans of the deep falsity and
brutal exploitation the State inflicts on the great mass of
them, there is neither a committed cadre of inspiring leaders,
nor a coherently formulated creed around which a potent public
uprising against injustice can coalesce.  

In place of fused, mobilized, revolutionary unity, we have chaotic,
un-focussed desperation.  

This will not win.  Historically, it never has.  

The long, sad unwinding of the beautifully, humanely motivated
Occupy adventure is the latest case in point.  

Based on the widely shared conviction of the deeply evil, biocidal
character of cheating, lying, obscene, violent, tottering Capitalism,
having definite aims and goals, worthy despite the anxious ridicule
of the besieged oligarchic state, it lacked the effectual warhead
of a committed, passionate leadership with a defined program for
elimination and replacement of the gangrenous piratical corpse it
courageously opposed.  

And so, rudderless and internally confused, adrift, subject to
attrition and relentless abuse at the hands of the System’s police,
it broke, dissolved and faded away.  

The reason no such cell of visionary leaders of a potent
revolutionary creed exists here is neither single nor simple.  

Capitalist America--the monstrous corporate combine that owns
and controls the State--has waged ruthless war against any politics
intended to benefit the people, but repression alone has never
eliminated determined political opposition anywhere.  

Decades of highly sophisticated propaganda has debased and
lobotomized a victimized electorate but cannot eradicate
intelligences that rise above it.  

A rebel group can be bought off if traitors run it but never from
principled leaders and we’ve had public men who have not sold
out and given their all to oppose our vicious system in years gone
by, though we have none now.  

The best of them were undermined and sabotaged by the very
organs of law so falsely celebrated as incorruptible and
independent of co-optation.  

The fact is that the combination of repression, propaganda, and
legal malfeasance, have so thoroughly strangled truth in America
that coalescence of a core team of the best minds and hearts is
impossible.  

And even if it were not, absolute control of all organs and platforms
of communication with American citizens belongs to the criminal
State.  

Does the lack of guiding hardcore cadre mean that this broad,
inspired effort will come to nothing?  

Well, no, in the sense that Occupy didn’t come to nothing, and its
effects outlived its endeavors, still reaching hearts and opening
minds.  

It has already, in its main intent--demand for an end to police
murder, for defunding, dissolution, and repurposing of the hideous
Waffen SS ethic it has come to embody--made waves of progress
that, regardless of success or failure, will never completely subside.  

That said, the fantasy of a revolutionary transformation of the
Capitalist Tyranny is just that.  

The movement, embodying in an inchoate way so much that is
profoundly just and fervently desired by the most aware and
enlightened Americans, lacks the social power it would need to
break and replace our dirty, dying Empire and its antibiotic system.    
A wise man observed that human history is a race between
education and disaster.  

The great hope of the moment is that sheer fear of the people will
bring to an end the sick Nazification of American police systems,
for blacks above all, but in reality for all of us.    

Overthrow of the Capitalist Tyranny depends, though, on irresistible
citizen action based on a deeply informed conviction of its irr
emediable evil, and unshakable resolve to destroy it.  

The furious drive of the Capitalist Tyranny toward ecocide and our
own extinction may not give us time to get there.  

Nature has evidently had all the abuse she’s going to take from
Capitalism.

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