Your favorite "outsider" politicians helped whitewash John McCain's legacy of bloodshed
John McCain might be dead, but the attempts to whitewash his legacy of warmongering are dangerously alive.
John McCain might be dead, but the attempts to whitewash his legacy of warmongering are dangerously alive. So much of this has come from the kinds of places one would expect it to, like mainstream news media outlets such as CNN, FOX, and MSNBC, but a great deal of it has also come from what we have been told are political outsiders to the establishment.
And their words about McCain speak volumes.
Rand Paul, the flip-flopping "libertarian" Republican Senator from Kentucky, tweeted that McCain was "a man of great courage and conviction."
Justin Amash, another pretend "libertarian" Republican with semi-hawkish foreign policy views publicly hoped for McCain's memory to be "eternal".
Cory Booker, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey, tweeted: "Death may end a life but it can never end a love. John Loved America: his impact will forever endure."
Abdul El-Sayed, an up-and-coming phony "progressive" Democrat, called McCain a "unique breed of statespeople - the maverick thinker".
Bernie Sanders, who built a career siding with the corporate two-party system, labeled McCain a "friend", an "American hero", and "a man of decency and honor".
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that McCain "represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service."
Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, sent out a tweet lamenting McCain's "strength and maverick spirit", ending it with a dreamy comment about how she'll miss his "maverick spirit" but most of all, "his kindness."
One cannot be on the outskirts of the establishment while helping to whitewash the legacy of such a man. Period.
McCain has been a staple of the Republican Party for decades. He is a legend among neoconservative circles. He supported the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the invasion of Libya in 2011. He supported crippling economic sanctions against Iran over nonexistent nuclear weapons. He helped escalate tensions between North and South Korea. He joined in on the hysteria over a "threat" from Russia. He met with "rebels" to help sow the seeds of chaos in Syria. And he supported countless numbers of spending bills that helped keep America's defense spending the highest among any other nation on earth.
If I missed your favorite "outsider" from either of the two major American political parties, please take a moment to visit their Twitter feed and check out their comments on the passing of John McCain.
Such comments are guaranteed to be telling as to whether their allegiance rests with American taxpayers or with the oligarchy overseeing the two-party system.