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American Lethargy...why our country must inevitably implode.
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 17 August 20062 comments
I’ll resort yet again to one of my favorite movie quotes, this one from The Magnificent Seven..when Calvera, the bandit is speaking to Yul Brynner: "I put it to you...if the Lord had not wanted them sheered he would not have made them sheep"
Mussolini stated it even more simply: "America is a nation of sheep" Perhaps we weren’t that then..but we sure are now.
What brings down any great nation...and they all fall eventually...is weakness, apathy, indifference and lethargy.
We have them all in spades!
The American public, sadly, is said to be the worst politically educated populace on the globe, falling just behind Uzbekistan on the long list of ignorants.
Since our citizenry is so totally focused on video games and TV, buying and selling real estate and sipping latte while discussing new fad diets and exotic vacation venues, we pay but slight attention to the problems which plague our land. For example, the public neither knows nor cares about:
Missing BILLIONS of taxpayer’s dollars in Iraq and in the Pentagon.
Iraq contractor’s gross criminal behaviors. (Halliburton, KBR, Custer Battles, Bechtel, et al)..and the total lack of collected fines.
Mass corruption in the Afghan and Iraqi governments. (Afghanistan opium production is way up despite Bush’s and Karzai’s claims to eradicate them!)
Encouragement by large corporations and the Republican Party for illegal aliens to cross our borders and accept "Work Americans won’t do" (a lie, of course).
The loosening of Constitutional protections and advocacy of various modes of torture by our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales.
The relatively open ports and unprotected chemical and nuclear plants across the nation...while George Bush constantly insists he’s "protecting us"...like a good father!
Refusal to put our nation on a solid and dedicated course toward utilizing renewable energy sources and getting away from a petrolium based economy.
The list goes on and on and on.
From this vantage point it sure looks like the flock is going to be fleeced once again.
Forum posts
18 August 2006, 05:49
You’re right. And it’s all too pathetic for words.
18 August 2006, 19:01
I agree with virtually everything you’ve mentioned in your article except for one key item: The Republican Party is and hasn’t been the only political party that has betrayed our nation through its actions and corruption. The Democratic Party is equally to blame. Throughout my long life I have seen the so-called differences between these two parties diminishing every year, most especially in the last five. Both parties have been bought and paid for by the same conlgomerates (the list is too long for me to mention in this post, but, hey, you can Google, can’t you?) both parties preach the same foreign policy, and members of both parties acquiesce to the same think tanks, and often have gone to the same Ivy League schools. 75% of all members of Congress go on to become very rich lobbyists for the same powerful multi-nationals they have fought for throughout their political careers once they step down from their term as ’public servants’. Our political class is very good at theatrics, ridiculous in-fighting and corruption, neither are any good at protecting the interests of the American people. But then again that’s understandable, since after long years of musing about the sad state of American politics, the only thing our political class is interested in is their own aggrandizement. Our political class is infested with pathological liars and corrupt parasites, and we really cannot reclaim our Republic until we as a nation clean house this coming November by voting INDEPENDENT.
Liebermann might be call himself an independent, but any one with their eyes on the prize can see through this pathetic parasite’s real intentions. That’s another thing the political class is very good at, perverting the English language to such an extent that the masses now believe that Industry is laziness, ignorance is strength, democracy is tyranny and war is peace. Great writers like Huxley, Orwell and Hayek all warned us about the power of modern day nation-states and their ability to confuse and control the masses through terror and deceit. Their prophecies have been more than amply fulfilled here in 21st America.
For all practical purposes, as far as the dwindling and hard-pressed American middle class is concerned, both parties are the same, both parties have done little if anything at all to protect our jobs and incomes, which contributes enormously to their political apathy.
Instead of actual intelligent debate on issues, who have the same interminable Punch and Judy show, the same circus that our mass media thrives on. This circus achieves two things for the puppet masters: It pacifies the public into thinking we actually have a real democracy thus making it very easy for them to control the population, and it allows them to make huge vats of money at the same time they are knifing us in the back.