Et tu, Matt Damon? Latest H-wood icon to spew ignorant liberal nonsense on CBS.

Patrice Greanville

Matt Damon and Gary White on worldwide initiative for clean water
CBS This Morning | March 22, 2017

Matt Damon showed up on CBS This Morning today to talk about his latest pet project, helping the world’s poor with easier access to clean water. It’s a pressing issue, and one, as he pointed out, affecting women directly and preferentially, since it is usually they who, on foot, like draft animals, must do the “water provisioning” for their families or tribes. Almost every single day.

Unfortunately, Damon, while making it sound as if America was the great hope and generous caregiver of the world, missed an opportunity to educate the public about the pervasive poverty that lies at the very root of these terrible situations. For water access and abysmal poverty with their enormous sequel of unnecessary suffering issue from man-made conditions of underdevelopment. This much is a well established fact, difficult to avoid by even a mediocre inquirer, but I suppose Damon for all his smarts and good will doesn’t have enough lights to do a simple, educated Google search.

Or maybe he simply does not think in those terms. If so, he was just proving to us, once again, that liberals cannot be trusted, and that their “remedial actions”, whatever little good they may do, often obfuscate terrible systemic wrongs that guarantee the continuation of the very issues these people seem so agitated about.

Your liberalism is showing

The essence of liberalism—the centrist’s natural political option— is to put bandaids on horrid wounds caused by a criminal and putrid feudal or capitalist system. The simple idea of addressing the root cause of a terrible problem, as natural and logical as seeking the actual cause of a medical disease, never occurs to these people. How can this be explained? They may have a built-in aversion to such basic confrontations with uncomfortable realities.

So here is Damon Goody Two-Shoes talking about helping the world’s poor with this water initiative, which is good as it goes, except it doesn’t go nearly far enough. For instead of devising schemes to lend money (lend as opposed to outright grants!) to deal with water scarcity and lack of access among the underprivileged of this world, Damon should be asking why a system he seemingly endorses (under “America good” premises) produces such staggering, obscene inequality. Why is there, supported by the most formidable accretion of military muscle, a global matrix in which 8 men (6 of them Americans) control as much as HALF of all humanity’s wealth; in which appalling poverty never seems close to a cure; and where his own government intervenes automatically on the side of the filthy rich wherever anyone appears on the scene wishing to give the masses a fair shake.

Damon should know that people everywhere do not need charity and handouts. They need justice. And justice comes from revolution. Too bad Damon can’t—or won’t—figure this basic and rather obvious truth for himself. But when did pampered celebrities, insulated from everyday reality encounter anything approaching the truth about a social issue?

The most embarrassing part for Damon (if he has any sense of embarrassment left) is his clueless (or witting) praising of George W. Bush—yea, W, as “one of the most generous presidents…”  This must be part of the media’s recent campaign of “image rehabilitation” for the momentarily disgraced president, a man who amply qualifies, along with Obama and the rest of that cynical cabal, as a Nuremberg-class war criminal.

Apparently no one bothered to tell Damon such elementary facts.

MAIN IMAGE: Damon.

EDITOR’S NOTE: No material by this author or any other author published on this site should be read as a defense of Donald trump and his policies. For us Trump, the GOP and the Democrats are all part of the same malignant threat to Democracy, truth and honesty in fiscal affairs afflicting the US and the rest of the world. The purpose here is to show the partisan hypocrisy of the Democratic party and its numerous shills in Congress, media, “power ministries” (CIA, FBI, etc.) and elsewhere, all pushing for war to please their masters in the Military Industrial complex and Wall Street’s agenda of global hegemony at any cost. We should further note that these parties, if they were in office, would be implementing policies almost identical to Trump’s, so, as usual, the differences, such as they are in US politics, amount to a hill of beans and mere questions of style and topical priority.