it all means hope to me

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You see, plutocrats would rather not commit genocide to get what they want. They just do that if they have no other means to get what they want. As long as you appease them other ways, they don't slaughter masses. Since the masses never slaughter plutocrats out of existence, this really is the best that could realistically be hoped for right now. I see Russia's willingness to call them on it and to extend protections to the peoples at highest risk from them as a great sacrifice for the good of humanity. I am also hoping that the Israelis will respond more to Russian pressure to stop slaughtering Palestinians than they have our non-pressure.

You may think my outside-the-box take on geopolitical affairs is "cute" or even "naïve", but I'm telling you I know for sure that naked inhumanity is the last resort of plutocrats. They know how to milk their trillions out of cold wars, and they prefer it to open slaughter they can only keep CALLING righteous, against visible evidence to the contrary.

It's also encouraging that Biden is a master of the kind of blather that is required of cold warriors, and Obama shows every indication of becoming even greater still in this regard. They can greatly thrill the plutocrats, and they will... even give them a chance to self-righteously throw McCain to the dogs, calm the natives. The plutocrats are capable of squashing Rove, and they will if they are certain Obama and Biden will give them what they want. They were already certain Hillary would. They just needed this encouragement from Obama.

People of good conscience are forced to vote for people of little conscience in order
to oppose those of no conscience. -- [quoth me]

As long as it suits the plutocrats, we will have that option.

That's the way I'm coming to understand this shit he calls "hope". It is hope. Just not the kind we came to know at the movies, not the kind that suits the dreamers of a decent world, probably not even the kind he could ever let himself admit even to himself. It's not the kind the kids signed on for either. It's not the kind people can stand to stare in the face. It's too damning. We will go back to going crazy with love for Braveheart and Maximus, the heroes we are desperate to know but only dream.