{"id":47210,"date":"2019-07-15T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47210"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:32:46","slug":"mainstream-centrists-pose-the-greatest-ideological-threat-to-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47210","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream \u201cCentrists\u201d Pose The Greatest Ideological Threat To Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/07\/13\/mainstream-centrists-pose-the-greatest-ideological-threat-to-us-all\/\">Mainstream \u201cCentrists\u201d Pose The Greatest Ideological Threat To Us\u00a0All<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/medium-1-9.jpg?fit=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashton Kutcher, a stupid person who got famous playing the role of a stupid person,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\/status\/1149545225615900673\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;the following the other day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere has the middle gone? Middle class? Politicians who don\u2019t need to be far left or far right? Media the just tells the facts w\/o spin? The middle is most! The middle can innovate. The middle can negotiate. Hardworkers with inclusive values = the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year ago Kutcher also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\/status\/1021409519098769408\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0a photo of himself sipping from a coffee mug bearing the insignia of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/12\/9\/7361295\/biggest-lies-the-cia-told-about-the-torture-program\">lying, torturing<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307\">propagandizing<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking\">drug trafficking<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachJCarter\/status\/885526254149095424\">coup-staging<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y\">warmongering<\/a>\u00a0Central Intelligence Agency, with the caption, \u201cJust sending out a morning shout to the men and woman of the intelligence community that keep us safe and protect our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\/status\/1021409519098769408\/photo\/1\">View image on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\/status\/1021409519098769408\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DizGSXJVsAA1bES?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/882152508134739968\/8vihmn9W_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\/status\/1021409519098769408\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just sending out a morning shout to the men and woman of the intelligence community that keep us safe and protect our country. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gratitude?src=hash\">#gratitude<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ty?src=hash\">#ty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Kutcher had tweeted a \u201cfar left\u201d or \u201cfar right\u201d perspective, like that America should be an all-white ethnostate or that racist demonstrators should be physically assaulted in the streets, it would have made international headlines. But tweeting in favor of the CIA, who kill many orders of magnitude more people than America\u2019s fringe white supremacist groups, went almost completely unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will sound normal and obvious to you. But it shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If people could wake up one morning and suddenly see what the ruling power establishment is doing to them every single day, there\u2019d suddenly be vastly more outrage directed at the so-called \u201ccentrists\u201d, and a lot less focus on politically impotent fringe organization like white nationalists and Antifa. This is not to say that all fringe ideologies are harmless, just that none of them pose anywhere near the immediate existential threat that is posed by the current order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream \u201cCentrists\u201d Pose The Greatest Ideological Threat To Us\u00a0All Ashton Kutcher, a stupid person who got famous playing the role of a stupid person,&nbsp;tweeted&nbsp;the following the other day: \u201cWhere has the middle gone? Middle class? Politicians who don\u2019t need to be far left or far right? Media the just tells the facts w\/o spin? 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