Yesterday's rally against the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., a vast and confused hodgepodge of liberal groups, snuck in one notable "progressive" demand: that Trump take his hands off NATO.
Since its founding, NATO has served as a belligerent enforcer of Western hegemony, one which fuels militarization, enforces neocolonial domination, and provokes global conflicts—from Yugoslavia to Ukraine—while serving arms dealers and empire.
Its post-Cold War expansion encircled Russia, violating past promises, and its illegal wars under "humanitarian" pretenses have devastated nations like Libya and Afghanistan.
Even if he wanted to, the figurehead Donald Trump would never be allowed to put his hands on NATO.
I also have to wonder, because this otherwise seems like a pretty ok protest, who snuck in the "NATO" part here, since in some other posters for this event it was actually not included:
Palestine also conspicuously missing. Indivisible has always been Democrats trying to dig in like a tick to co-opt and neutralize popular rage against the government. It’s trying to replicate the Obama campaign model of co-opting popular rage against Bush and the terror war, then neutralizing it from above to preserve all the policies people were fighting against.
I was reading MSM articles yesterday that noted with confusion that these protests seem to skew much older than larger mass gatherings in recent memory, and seem to have more overt displays of “patriotism”. No mention of the students out here the whole time getting kidnapped off the street while every DNC-aligned institution cheered. No mention of the crackdowns on the popular uprisings against police brutality under Biden. No mention of all the people acquitted for shooting unarmed protestors in the past several years. I can’t imagine where young people would have gotten the idea that peacefully standing around an American flag respecting the sanctity of police, private property, and non-violence would be a waste of time at best and suicidal at worst.
Yeah I have been involved in local organizing and activism for a long time and the Indivisible folks are a relatively new development and are painfully obviously coopted from the start.