The US is Governed by the Wall Street/CIA/Endless War Party Which Never Loses Power Regardless of How People Vote

• The US is Governed by the Wall Street/CIA/Endless War Party Which Never Loses Power Regardless of How People Vote
  by Neil Clark, https://www.rt.com/
  Last eight months prove United States a bonafide regime
  The only surprising thing about Donald Trump’s recent U-turn on Afghanistan is that anyone should be surprised by it. Elected to the Oval Office as a harsh critic of US involvement in costly Middle Eastern conflicts by a war-weary public, The Donald has turned out be just as much of a war president as those who went before. He’s ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian government airfield and dropped the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on Afghanistan. That’s in addition to threatening North Korea and Venezuela and escalating US involvement in the bombing of cholera-stricken Yemen.
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  The millions of Americans who voted for Trump, hoping he’d be the president to bring the troops back home, have been cruelly disappointed and are certainly feeling betrayed. They shouldn’t be at all shocked, however, as American political history shows us a clear pattern.
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  The sad, inescapable truth is that it doesn’t matter who gets elected as president and what they say on the election trail; the policies on the issues that matter remain the same after the inauguration. What the last eight months have proven, to anyone who still had any doubts, is that the US is not a ‘democracy’ that changes course according to the public will, but a full-blown regime, governed by the Wall Street/CIA/Endless War Party which never loses power regardless of how people vote.
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  Even if the ‘wrong’ candidate somehow gets elected, as Trump did last fall, the Wall Street/CIA/Endless War Party, working in tandem with their close allies embedded in the US mainstream media, still have plenty of tools at its disposal for making sure there‘s no significant departure from regressive policies that enrich the elite, but leave everyone else worse off.
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  We’re encouraged to see Trump as the big problem (if only he’d go away everything would be alright again!), but in fact, The Donald is only the latest POTUS to ‘revert to the mean’ when in office. We tend to forget that back in 2000 a certain George W. Bush was hailed as ‘The president who wouldn’t meddle’ after years of Clintonian interventionism. What happened? Dubya meddled more – and even more disastrously than Bill Clinton.
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  In 2008, Obama was the president who would break with the neocons after the Bush era. He would ‘Stop the War’ and reset relations with Russia. He was even awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. But guess what? He followed exactly the same policies of regime change and interventionism.
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  Going back 25 years many progressives believed the election of Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, the boy from the ‘wrong side’ of the railroad tracks, would mark an end to the greed-fueled excesses of the Reagan/Bush I years.
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  But Bill only deregulated further and the super-rich got even richer. While Clinton did Wall Street’s bidding at home, he also did it abroad, targeting Yugoslavia, with its socially-owned economy, for destruction with a bogus ‘humanitarian’ bombing campaign. Practically the same thing was replicated by Obama and his NATO allies against Libya exactly twelve years later.
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  The striking thing about American politics over recent decades has been its continuity. The wars against resource-rich independent states in strategically important parts of the world have carried on, regardless of who’s been in the White House. The 1 percent continue to get richer, and the poor poorer, whether we have a boo-hiss nasty Republican or a nice ’progressive’ Democrat in the Oval Office. Every incoming president pledges to do something about inequality and to improve the lot of the middle class, and everyone fails.
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