What really is the big picture here? What will the historians be writing in a few decades or centuries, when the current political theater has faded into irrelevance and it becomes evident Eisenhower's "military industrial complex," as well as the increasingly metastatic financial sytem, have been pulling the strings on all these puppets for decades, leaving much of the population fighting over scraps, like starving puppies.

Why are so many people this naive?

Though those given any sort of platform are invariably in the service of such forces, so we get whipped around by a hollow and shifting narrative.

It's all like a large scab, slowly but inevitably peeling away.

Personally I wrote in Assange/Manning. They had the courage to look the Beast in the eyes and not blink. Just because the mob is nailing you up on a cross, doesn't mean you have lost.

The fight for the integrity of this society is only just beginning.