He was funnier as a comedian, than as president shaped sock puppet of the war pigs, working with Putin and the Military Industrial Complex to stage the war in media, trigger people, milk their empathy towards sending money to distant Ukrainians, concerned about distant events, soothing their malaise by sending money abroad, signing an online petition, then collapsing back on their spineless couch for bread and circuses ( Domino's & NFL ), too busy to see the homeless man.
Let us look a bit closer to home. It's a bit harsher. We send money to USAID because of their slick commercials showing us happy African children dancing gratefully around boxes labeled "USAID". This makes us feel good/ high & mighty/superior/full of pride. So we look past the fact that these children are disadvantaged because of the extractive and exploitative nature of colonialism, the very system that us keeping us in our bourgeois comforts.
1//n
As the first child of a high ranking Indian government official, I know where that money goes. Most of it goes to the same corrupt US politicians and officials that arranged the USAID, while bilking the American people in broad daylight, their sympathies clinging to USAID emotionally, or the feelgood feeling will go away. USAID is a drug of the mind. A little bit of USAID goes to Indian politicians who sign off on the receipts. TV keeps us hooked on USAID and blind.
2/n
The veteran in the wheelchair holding out the "Love our Country" sign is unsightly, as you drive to church in your finery, to a beautiful choral recital that you look forward, to soar with the angels, like the voices on media radio. The veteran is not quite invisible. He is there as an example of what happens if you don't behave. There, but for the approval of the system, go I. He is invisible to the politicians because this discarded lump of cells can't emit a vote.
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Not that he wouldn't like to. There are too many hurdles to voting. And he's in a wheelchair, in no position to vote for the next slick talker who promises to get them their veteran's benefits, a home, something. This underclass exists as new boots march patriotically out of inner cities, risking life & limb to get an education, their only way to a gulag of white collar wage slavery, machiavellian politics, the endless intrigue of the successful, badges of success.
4/n
If that person could vote, they would not send the People's money to kill people abroad. They already got PTSD and lost a limb doing that. Nor would they give money to PBS or NPR or any number of mind number agents that we are emotionally hooked on, goodygooody feelgoody, as we steal from that veteran and feed the politician's fundraising drive. "Please...give us money...money is important..even $10...poor people"
Accenture Federal Services executives are to blame.
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@TheOldGuy
Anything less would not be peace.