Still Carrying On Up The Junta?

Put together this and this, and you get pretty much the complete list. Barely a generation ago, these people were nothing more than the weird Trotskyist sect of Max Shachtman and the obscure academic cult of Leo Strauss (figures of whom most Americans have still never heard). Yet this junta is now into its fourth consecutive Presidential term of being able simply to order purely aggressive wars against countries entirely of its own choosing. And it is looking forward to at least the third consecutive Presidential Election that it cannot lose, this time between two socially ultra-liberal, geopolitically ultra-hawkish dependents of the military-industrial complex. There is no way of voting for anyone even very slightly at variance with the junta: the coup is complete at last.

And not just in America. See here and here for most (though not quite all) of the members of our own junta, which, under the close direction of the American one, has staged a coup in Britain, also in slow motion, but also now nearing completion. They crowned their previously almost unheard of puppet, Tony Blair, as Leader of the Labour Party within minutes of John Smith's death, and then proceeded to airbrush from history the fact that Labour was by then several years into being guaranteed victory in the following General Election, the first of three one-horse races, to have "won" which is absolutely no achievement whatever.

Then they wafted David Cameron into the Leadership of the Conservative Party, a body now unrecognisable as a political vehicle for anyone who believes in British independence, the Union, real education, the countryside, agriculture and small business, law and order, family values, energy independence, co-operation with Russia on the basis of shared values deriving from Classics and the Bible, a grown-up relationship with America on the basis of our common heritage, or treating Israel neither any worse nor any better than any other friendly state. Coverage was lavished on Cameron, and in any case far more people voted for him than could possibly have been entitled to do so. Who were they, where were they, and where had they been for the previous dozen or more years?

And then they removed Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats, ostensibly for a level of alcohol consumption entirely normal among British politicians, but in fact for opposing their agenda of never-ending war against countries chosen almost at random. They did not quite get their favoured Chris Huhne in instead, despite the carefully arranged bias of the print and broadcast media, which would have been shocking had it not been for the Blair and Cameron precedents. But they did get someone who was at best ambivalent about his party's anti-war stance, and far more in the tradition of their old cheerleader, Paddy Ashdown. Having tired of him, they have simply ousted him, and, having transferred their affections away from Huhne, are busily installing from their point of view the unimpeachable Nick Clegg.

Then there will be no way of voting for anyone even very slightly at variance with the junta: the coup will be complete at last.

Won't it?