{"id":28245,"date":"2017-11-24T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2017-11-24T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:14:43","slug":"the-public-are-all-alone-understanding-how-the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28245","title":{"rendered":"The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/11\/23\/or-39953.jpg\" alt=\"The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/11\/23\/public-all-alone-understanding-how-enemy-your-enemy-not-your-friend.html\">The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>In political matters, the public are taught to believe that some political Party is \u2018good\u2019, and that the others are \u201cbad\u201d; but the reality in recent times, at least in the United States, has instead been that both Parties are rotten to the core (as will be clear from the linked documentation provided here).<\/p>\n<p>Belief in this myth (that the opposition between Parties is between \u2018good\u2019 \u2018friend\u2019 versus \u2018bad\u2019 \u2018enemy\u2019) is based upon the common adage that \u201cThe enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u201d One side is believed, and ones that contradict it are disbelieved \u2014 considered to be lying, distorting: bad. But, maybe, both (or all) Parties are deceiving; maybe all of them are enemies of the public, but just in different ways; maybe each of them is trying to control the country in the interests of (and so to obtain the most financial support from) the aristocracy, while all of them are actually against the public.<\/p>\n<p>Can it really be\u00a0<em>false<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cThe enemy of my enemy is my friend?\u201d Not only\u00a0<em>can be<\/em>, but often\u00a0<em>is<\/em>. And no one is able to vote intelligently without recognizing this fundamental political fact.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true between entire nations, too \u2014 not only within nations.<\/p>\n<p>For example: Hitler and Stalin were enemies of each other, but neither of them was a friend of America (except that Stalin did more than anyone else to defeat Hitler, and thereby saved the world, though the U.S. \u2014 far less a factor than the U.S.S.R. was in defeating Hitler \u2014 still refuses to acknowledge the fact that Stalin did more than anyone else did to prevent the entire world\u2019s becoming dictatorships; so, whatever democracy exists today, is a result of that dictator, Stalin, even more than it\u2019s a result of either FDR or Churchill).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend In political matters, the public are taught to believe that some political Party is \u2018good\u2019, and that the others are \u201cbad\u201d; but the reality in recent times, at least in the United States, has instead been that both Parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4863,1465,4394,1577,4947,5591,8203],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aristocracy","tag-class-warfare","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-politicians","tag-public","tag-self-interest","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}