The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
The nation's bipartisan chiefs meet to mourn the dead. Not all of the dead. Just their own.
Since they operate as a system, the system is honored each time its members are honored. And the system sees that the system is always honored.
—Yours truly, here
I had something wonderful queued up for today, a video that revealed how even more vile and dangerous Flock cameras are. (You can watch it here if you like without my text.)
But Dick Cheney recently died and even more recently was funeralated at the Washington National Cathedral, a soaring monument to what DC calls religion, a bipartisan place where murderers are praised. Requiescat.
What You Need to Know
1. Dick Cheney was an actual murderer, if by murderer you mean the don who orders the hit. Among Dick Cheney’s hits, a million or more formerly living now dead in Iraq.
2. Love of the Cheneys helped Kamala Harris lose. Yet there she is, front row. See image above.
3. The funeral attendance was wide and bipartisan. Not just big Democratic pols, but notables as well showed up to say farewell.
Bottom Line: Elites and Elites
Elites honor each other to keep the whole game alive. As I wrote when the first George Bush died:
From lesser lights to greater, from murderers to comedians, the praise continues.
As usual, the network of those who run the world we merely inhabit have nothing but respect for each other. And why not? They may pick each other off from time to time (both Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khaddafi were once in high favor), but over the long haul, keeping each member of the ruling circle in a reverential spotlight keeps them all — keeps the circle itself — in reverence as well. Since they operate as a system, the system is honored each time its members, no matter how deadly, are honored as well. And the system sees that the system is always honored.
Elites and elites. By honoring each other, they honor eliteness itself, their place in the world. And nothing’s more important to elites than their place in the world.
Notes
1. Some high profile figures, smarter than Harris, did not attend. (Why smarter? Harris reportedly still has White House dreams.) Barack Obama wisely declined to show, avoiding a repeat of this:
Still, he sent his regards:
Although Dick Cheney and I represented very different political traditions, I respected his life-long devotion to public service and his deep love of country. Michelle and I extend our deepest condolences to his family.
“Devotion to public service.” Elites and elites.
2. Bill Clinton also failed to appear. He even more wisely had pre-scheduled a ribbon cutting in Arkansas; Sarah Huckabee Sanders needed the help. Okay, it was actually this. But Huckabee Sanders was involved, as well as her pro-genocide dad, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Elites and elites.
3. It’s going to take more than the Mamdani of our dreams, the one we want him to be, to unseat this world.
Maybe some of them went to make sure he was really dead.
Ah Rachel, you democratic party apparatchik, you fake leftist, so careful to avert your commentary from US support for genocide in Gaza. I'm sure you're calculating that attending Cheney's funeral may buy you more time at MSNBC.