"Potemkin Revolution"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4202
We've just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed
"No Kings" shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are
rolling into town on the 22nd of November — a quite apropos date for
this shindig as I've often found myself wishing for a cheap Italian
rifle and a school book depository lately.
This is from the same blast of inspiration which coughed up the "No
Kings" flyer parody, and my disgust/amusement at the continuous parade
of half-assed Democratic astroturf "Potemkin Revolutions" through my
city, such as the latest partisan bitchfest headed our way next week.
Caitlin Johnstone published an excellent Substack piece recently about
the flood of fake movements – mostly Democratic Party front groups –
hitting us one after the other this year. It's not just the shallow
fakery that's got me pondering, but how this strikes me as some kind of
"domestic 'color revolution'" blitz by the Democrats. Like US-backed
"color revolutions" in Hong Kong or Ukraine, the DNC's domestic version
functions much the same way — divert and waste attention, time and
energy and promote US capitalist interests.
It's not enough for the DNC to suppress our voices in their media and
their phony "democracy"; they have to add insult to injury by flooding
the public protest space with these inane fake "movements" which cause
no trouble, make no demands and constitute no threat to the State or to
Capital – and so are ultimately useless.
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"U.S. Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone
at Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake
___________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4202
We've just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed
"No Kings" shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are
rolling into town on the 22nd of November — a quite apropos date for
this shindig as I've often found myself wishing for a cheap Italian
rifle and a school book depository lately.
This is from the same blast of inspiration which coughed up the "No
Kings" flyer parody, and my disgust/amusement at the continuous parade
of half-assed Democratic astroturf "Potemkin Revolutions" through my
city, such as the latest partisan bitchfest headed our way next week.
Caitlin Johnstone published an excellent Substack piece recently about
the flood of fake movements – mostly Democratic Party front groups –
hitting us one after the other this year. It's not just the shallow
fakery that's got me pondering, but how this strikes me as some kind of
"domestic 'color revolution'" blitz by the Democrats. Like US-backed
"color revolutions" in Hong Kong or Ukraine, the DNC's domestic version
functions much the same way — divert and waste attention, time and
energy and promote US capitalist interests.
It's not enough for the DNC to suppress our voices in their media and
their phony "democracy"; they have to add insult to injury by flooding
the public protest space with these inane fake "movements" which cause
no trouble, make no demands and constitute no threat to the State or to
Capital – and so are ultimately useless.
-----
"U.S. Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone
at Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake
___________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
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