An Objective Look at Amerika
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AIL
Jet fuel that's a good one.
Great article
I just finished reading another article that validates some of the issues raised by this objective look at America.
This was in the UK The Guardian. The pictures are very sad.
A large number of them are all struggling to survive.
The death of the American mall
Once-proud visions of suburban utopia are left to rot as online shopping and the resurgence of city centres make malls increasingly irrelevant to young people.
Once sentence in this article says it all> in simple street language.
"what’s going on is the customers don’t have the [Unwelcome language removed] money. That’s it. This isn’t rocket science."
http://www.citylab.com/work/2012/12/death-american-shopping-mall/4252/
I just finished reading another article that validates some of the issues raised by this objective look at America.
This was in the UK The Guardian. The pictures are very sad.
A large number of them are all struggling to survive.
The death of the American mall
Once-proud visions of suburban utopia are left to rot as online shopping and the resurgence of city centres make malls increasingly irrelevant to young people.
Once sentence in this article says it all> in simple street language.
"what’s going on is the customers don’t have the [Unwelcome language removed] money. That’s it. This isn’t rocket science."
http://www.citylab.com/work/2012/12/death-american-shopping-mall/4252/
LanceFreeman
Mayor
What really galls me is this: There is always money available for foreign wars, the hiring of mercenaries at exorbitant rates, 'nation building' in foreign lands, after we have laid waste to targeted nations, and welfare money for Illegals, but never enough to put our people back to work, or to rejuvinate our own crumbling cities and infrastructure, or to take care of our veterans.
Boltlady
Governor
There is one group that is benefitting. The front end alignment people and the tire companies from people running over all the potholes.
LanceFreeman
Mayor
There is one group that is benefitting. The front end alignment people and the tire companies from people running over all the potholes.
Good thinking there, BL. Trust you to find the silver lining in this dark cloud.
Boltlady
Governor
LanceFreeman
Mayor
The following is an excerpt from the article:
If one looks at what is happening in the United States today, not through the “media”, which is a mere propaganda organ of the corporate Elite, but through the writings posted by thoughtful Americans on the Internet, one can immediately notice what Professor Michel Chossudovsky (globalresearch.ca) has repeatedly referred to as the “criminalization” of the U.S. state apparatus. Surveillance of entire populations, the unbelievable arming to the teeth of domestic law enforcement agencies, brazen lying by highly responsible U.S. officials and perpetual violation of the U.S. constitution as well as international law, have become the hall marks of the domestic and international conduct of the Government of the U.S. All this is being done by keeping the U.S. public in the dark, as well as manipulation of the public mind, through systematic destruction of the middle class, and through engineering of consent by the media, and through creation of appropriate mind-sets at schools and beyond.
The United States has not only become a surveillance state in which privacy has evaporated as a result of the invasive surveillance of all digital life, but also a state which spies on foreign countries, including its allies, as exposed by Edward Snowden and many other whistleblowers. The shamelessness with which the Government of the United States and the corporate media “defend” the issue of domestic and foreign espionage is astonishing. When Snowden exposes the unconstitutional acts of the US Government he is dubbed a traitor! There is a strange logic that permeates the corridors of the US Government and the newspapers, and the airwaves of its media; a logic which says that – to expose illegality, to expose violation of the constitution, to expose deception of an entire nation, is unpatriotic!
The trends set in the United States of America have been more or less mimicked in other Western countries. The reason for this is simple – it is a single financial Elite that controls the politics, economics and foreign policy of the advanced world. The goal of this Elite is the establishment of the New World Order (NWO), a One Word Government under its firm and ruthless control. Under the NWO, the future of mankind is regimented and eternal serfdom, both physical and mental – control of the Elite, control by the Elite, and control for the Elite.
Modern Science and Technology and media have increasingly become tools of global control by the Elite. Consent of entire populations is engineered through the media, through falsification and concoction of history, and through general control of academia. Above all, the power to coerce and kill that has now been put into the hands of a puppet US Government through massive legislation and lethal inventions must compel every thoughtful person to ask as what is going on in the world. The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act of 2011) and Executive Order 13603 have given the US Executive the power to take away the transport and food stocks of private citizens at will, and even kill Americans.
Once one begins to delve into these matters the Elite strategy becomes very obvious. On March 13th, 2014 Dave Hodges posted a chilling piece on his website. His article is titled Slave Labor Camps Are Awaiting. He states [13]:
“The powers that be have no choice, as most Americans will not willingly go along with what is coming. In previous parts of this series, the forces of WW III have aligned and are positioning for WW III. Your incarceration and subsequent use of slave labor, under a declaration of martial law, is next.”
He further writes:
Brzezinski expressed even more of a sense of Globalist dread and panic during a 2010Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal in which he stated that “the major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people,” he said.
There can be no other reasonable interpretation, that this is a direct threat against all who oppose being enslaved and eventually exterminated.
One must read Dave Hodges’ article and look up the references mentioned in the text of the article. He describes how food supply will now be “legally” controlled by the government and people will be controlled by controlling the food supply. Hodges states:
“The purpose of the coming martial law is twofold: (1) Eliminate all opposition to the authoritarian rule which has taken over our government; and (2) Use forced labor (i.e. slavery) to martial the resources of the coming war….
Food will not be the only means that people will be drawn into the camps. There are many secondary programs that have already been beta tested by this administration.”
In the light of the above it also becomes very clear why the US domestic law enforcement agencies are being militarized. The DHS is being provided with armored vehicles, and other military equipment, and has placed an order for 1.6 billion bullets, enough bullets to last a 20 year war. Drone bases are being set up and the US population is being increasingly subjected to harsh treatment by law enforcement officials. [Continued----]
If one looks at what is happening in the United States today, not through the “media”, which is a mere propaganda organ of the corporate Elite, but through the writings posted by thoughtful Americans on the Internet, one can immediately notice what Professor Michel Chossudovsky (globalresearch.ca) has repeatedly referred to as the “criminalization” of the U.S. state apparatus. Surveillance of entire populations, the unbelievable arming to the teeth of domestic law enforcement agencies, brazen lying by highly responsible U.S. officials and perpetual violation of the U.S. constitution as well as international law, have become the hall marks of the domestic and international conduct of the Government of the U.S. All this is being done by keeping the U.S. public in the dark, as well as manipulation of the public mind, through systematic destruction of the middle class, and through engineering of consent by the media, and through creation of appropriate mind-sets at schools and beyond.
The United States has not only become a surveillance state in which privacy has evaporated as a result of the invasive surveillance of all digital life, but also a state which spies on foreign countries, including its allies, as exposed by Edward Snowden and many other whistleblowers. The shamelessness with which the Government of the United States and the corporate media “defend” the issue of domestic and foreign espionage is astonishing. When Snowden exposes the unconstitutional acts of the US Government he is dubbed a traitor! There is a strange logic that permeates the corridors of the US Government and the newspapers, and the airwaves of its media; a logic which says that – to expose illegality, to expose violation of the constitution, to expose deception of an entire nation, is unpatriotic!
The trends set in the United States of America have been more or less mimicked in other Western countries. The reason for this is simple – it is a single financial Elite that controls the politics, economics and foreign policy of the advanced world. The goal of this Elite is the establishment of the New World Order (NWO), a One Word Government under its firm and ruthless control. Under the NWO, the future of mankind is regimented and eternal serfdom, both physical and mental – control of the Elite, control by the Elite, and control for the Elite.
Modern Science and Technology and media have increasingly become tools of global control by the Elite. Consent of entire populations is engineered through the media, through falsification and concoction of history, and through general control of academia. Above all, the power to coerce and kill that has now been put into the hands of a puppet US Government through massive legislation and lethal inventions must compel every thoughtful person to ask as what is going on in the world. The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act of 2011) and Executive Order 13603 have given the US Executive the power to take away the transport and food stocks of private citizens at will, and even kill Americans.
Once one begins to delve into these matters the Elite strategy becomes very obvious. On March 13th, 2014 Dave Hodges posted a chilling piece on his website. His article is titled Slave Labor Camps Are Awaiting. He states [13]:
“The powers that be have no choice, as most Americans will not willingly go along with what is coming. In previous parts of this series, the forces of WW III have aligned and are positioning for WW III. Your incarceration and subsequent use of slave labor, under a declaration of martial law, is next.”
He further writes:
Brzezinski expressed even more of a sense of Globalist dread and panic during a 2010Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal in which he stated that “the major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people,” he said.
There can be no other reasonable interpretation, that this is a direct threat against all who oppose being enslaved and eventually exterminated.
One must read Dave Hodges’ article and look up the references mentioned in the text of the article. He describes how food supply will now be “legally” controlled by the government and people will be controlled by controlling the food supply. Hodges states:
“The purpose of the coming martial law is twofold: (1) Eliminate all opposition to the authoritarian rule which has taken over our government; and (2) Use forced labor (i.e. slavery) to martial the resources of the coming war….
Food will not be the only means that people will be drawn into the camps. There are many secondary programs that have already been beta tested by this administration.”
In the light of the above it also becomes very clear why the US domestic law enforcement agencies are being militarized. The DHS is being provided with armored vehicles, and other military equipment, and has placed an order for 1.6 billion bullets, enough bullets to last a 20 year war. Drone bases are being set up and the US population is being increasingly subjected to harsh treatment by law enforcement officials. [Continued----]
LanceFreeman
Mayor
In the 1980's, Eustace Mullins had pointed out that when the 200 million guns in America will be confiscated, the Elite will impose a naked dictatorship in the USA. Since gun control has failed thus far, the domestic law enforcement agencies are not only being militarized – they are also being “Israelized” [15]. It was in 2012 that Gordon Duff summarized the new trends in the US Police Forces:
“Total militarization of police, military tactics, utter disrespect for civil law, the constitution, civil liberties, freedom of speech and the unbridled growth of centralized power under unlimited corruption; government by money and organized crime.
• Systematic suppression of dissent.
• Systematic use of intimidation to control the electoral process at every level of government.
• Seamless coordination with military and “internationalist” groups to prepare for mass internment of sectors of the population, numbering in the millions.
• Coordinated use of full military power including but not limited to bombing, strafing, heavy artillery and summary executions, the same methods Israel uses on a daily basis.
• Even more control of the press, based on the Israeli model, with two ‘controlled’ views, on pro-government and the second, `controlled opposition.’”
In an interview given to Press TV that appeared in November 2013, Jim Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth Movement, commented on US Senate Intelligence Committee’s proposed measures to allow the continuation of surveillance of US citizens in the following words [16]:
“It is completely unconstitutional and it cannot be justified on the basis of domestic terrorism. The very same Committee that is considering this legislation released a report on October 3, 2012 based upon its review of 680 fusion center reports or fusion centers’ merged Federal State and local anti-terrorism efforts gathered between 2009 and 2010 and in that 680 reports distributed all over the country they found not a single instance, -not one, zero, zilch, naught, none- of domestic terrorist activity.
So, this is clearly not directed at domestic terrorist activities; instead it is directed at opponents of the National Security State. Dianne Feinstein, I am sorry to say, is a stooge of Israel. She is one of many.”
Commenting on domestic spying and foreign espionage Jim Fetzer stated:
“It is worldwide and massive. They are vacuuming up everyone’s electronic communications, are vacuuming up everyone’s email, cell phones, any form of communication, financial and medical.
Chancellor Merkel was well alarmed because she grew up and born in East Germany which was dominated by the Stasi, the most effective secret organization ever conceived by the mind of man and it turns out at last that our own Department of Homeland Security was modeled after the Stasi in combination with the NSA the HS is seeking to dominate the United States or try to disarm Americans so they cannot stand up and oppose the imposition of tyranny by this administration.
It is a very serious situation. I am very profoundly troubled and the whole world ought to be disturbed by what is going on here.”
And what is being done to the people of USA will be followed in the advanced world and elsewhere. People are being perpetually duped, confused and fed with lies and distortions. The public is not being given the respite and time to think, by design. As pointed out by Werner de Gruijter, Arnout Ktediet and Sven Jense [17]:
“Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic who construct an image of toughness – tough on crime, on terrorism, on humanistic-inspired idealism etc – are tapping into a sensitive spot that blocks critical thought among the public. Obama’s brute and harsh reaction on Edward Snowden’s revelations is just another example. Somehow it seems like “We the people ..” lost track of ourselves. …
Many countries in the West, like Britain, France, Spain, the US and the Netherlands have experienced in recent years an exponential increase in technological surveillance and a resolute decline in parliamentary and judicial control over state police and secret service.
Issues like ban on torture, the possibility of detention without charge, privacy and freedom of speech were in public debates reframed in favor of state control. And everybody accepted it. To be fair there was some opposition – but it lacked intensity.
This cultural shift towards perhaps a more authoritarian future for the West is no coincidence of nature. It is man-made.”
“Total militarization of police, military tactics, utter disrespect for civil law, the constitution, civil liberties, freedom of speech and the unbridled growth of centralized power under unlimited corruption; government by money and organized crime.
• Systematic suppression of dissent.
• Systematic use of intimidation to control the electoral process at every level of government.
• Seamless coordination with military and “internationalist” groups to prepare for mass internment of sectors of the population, numbering in the millions.
• Coordinated use of full military power including but not limited to bombing, strafing, heavy artillery and summary executions, the same methods Israel uses on a daily basis.
• Even more control of the press, based on the Israeli model, with two ‘controlled’ views, on pro-government and the second, `controlled opposition.’”
In an interview given to Press TV that appeared in November 2013, Jim Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth Movement, commented on US Senate Intelligence Committee’s proposed measures to allow the continuation of surveillance of US citizens in the following words [16]:
“It is completely unconstitutional and it cannot be justified on the basis of domestic terrorism. The very same Committee that is considering this legislation released a report on October 3, 2012 based upon its review of 680 fusion center reports or fusion centers’ merged Federal State and local anti-terrorism efforts gathered between 2009 and 2010 and in that 680 reports distributed all over the country they found not a single instance, -not one, zero, zilch, naught, none- of domestic terrorist activity.
So, this is clearly not directed at domestic terrorist activities; instead it is directed at opponents of the National Security State. Dianne Feinstein, I am sorry to say, is a stooge of Israel. She is one of many.”
Commenting on domestic spying and foreign espionage Jim Fetzer stated:
“It is worldwide and massive. They are vacuuming up everyone’s electronic communications, are vacuuming up everyone’s email, cell phones, any form of communication, financial and medical.
Chancellor Merkel was well alarmed because she grew up and born in East Germany which was dominated by the Stasi, the most effective secret organization ever conceived by the mind of man and it turns out at last that our own Department of Homeland Security was modeled after the Stasi in combination with the NSA the HS is seeking to dominate the United States or try to disarm Americans so they cannot stand up and oppose the imposition of tyranny by this administration.
It is a very serious situation. I am very profoundly troubled and the whole world ought to be disturbed by what is going on here.”
And what is being done to the people of USA will be followed in the advanced world and elsewhere. People are being perpetually duped, confused and fed with lies and distortions. The public is not being given the respite and time to think, by design. As pointed out by Werner de Gruijter, Arnout Ktediet and Sven Jense [17]:
“Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic who construct an image of toughness – tough on crime, on terrorism, on humanistic-inspired idealism etc – are tapping into a sensitive spot that blocks critical thought among the public. Obama’s brute and harsh reaction on Edward Snowden’s revelations is just another example. Somehow it seems like “We the people ..” lost track of ourselves. …
Many countries in the West, like Britain, France, Spain, the US and the Netherlands have experienced in recent years an exponential increase in technological surveillance and a resolute decline in parliamentary and judicial control over state police and secret service.
Issues like ban on torture, the possibility of detention without charge, privacy and freedom of speech were in public debates reframed in favor of state control. And everybody accepted it. To be fair there was some opposition – but it lacked intensity.
This cultural shift towards perhaps a more authoritarian future for the West is no coincidence of nature. It is man-made.”
LanceFreeman
Mayor
Folks, do yourselves a favor and spend some time reading this article, in its entirety, by Professor Kamran. [Foreigners have the advantage of looking at our country from an objective vantage point, outside of the fog of media propaganda]. It is extremely important that our citizens come to understand what's being planned for them by their rulers, and what's coming down the pike. If they do not wake up soon to the skullduggery going on behind their backs in Washington, it is possible they will be unwittingly dragged into a Third World War, or, failing that, having to endure a massive terrorist act in one of our major cities that will make it possible for our Elites to suspend the Constitution, declare Martial Law, and begin interning citizens.
The last thing you want to do now is continue doing what you have always done, without at least some mental preparation, or a plan that will ensure your family's safety, in the event these things come to pass. Better still, be sure that you remind your senators and congressmen that you are not as dumb as they think you are. An e-mail, or note, or phone call from you, should alert them to this.
The article brings to mind J. Edgar Hoover's comment that: "The average citizen is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists."
[The article is a bit lengthy, but well-worth your time]
The last thing you want to do now is continue doing what you have always done, without at least some mental preparation, or a plan that will ensure your family's safety, in the event these things come to pass. Better still, be sure that you remind your senators and congressmen that you are not as dumb as they think you are. An e-mail, or note, or phone call from you, should alert them to this.
The article brings to mind J. Edgar Hoover's comment that: "The average citizen is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists."
[The article is a bit lengthy, but well-worth your time]
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AIL
Jet fuel that's a good one.
The Great majority of the public don't know they are being manipulated .
Edward Bernays Documentary The century of Self should be mandatory viewing .
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
If only someone like Oliver Stone would redo this 2002 BBC documentary and make it more contemporary by adding the Abuse of power by the NSA. and how the public was manipulated on this war on terror .
The new documentary would Keep all of the background about how Edward Bernays the master of propaganda (The creator of Public Relations ) tricked, fooled and persuaded public opinion and changed attitudes and habits by simple manipulation of information.
Edward Bernays methods were and are still being used by USA Government and by all USA corporations to control the public opinion and thinking about products and government policies..
Add to that the people the 1% of the 1% that fund the buying of the Whitehouse
and the lobbies ...
THE PUBLIC has to realize they have been screwed by the elites for a long long time at least 5/6 generations.
LanceFreeman
Mayor
Yes, I believe Edward Bernays wrote his book 'Propaganda' in 1927, and it changed the way America does business and politics. People don't realize that Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, took a lot out of that book and applied its principles to Nazi methodologies in Germany. Another agitator who learned a lot from that book was Saul Akinsky.
I have to congratulate you, AIL, on being, not only a free thinker, but a revolutionary activist inside an Orwellian system that has our society in a vice grip. You have chosen a thankless task, because few will pay you any attention, or come out in support of what you say, but I, for one, thank you for the effort you are making. And yes, your greatest enemy in this endeavor to stir people out of their slumber is propaganda. Propaganda has whittled down their capacity for thought, narrowed their vision, and made slaves and sheep of the American people.
Your other enemy in this Orwellian World is the ubiquitous disinformation agent, with his persuasive tongue, and deflective counter-argument. He is always on the lookout for people like you, and setting up barriers to your progress. Such agents are all over the Internet, for example, doing the dirty work for their Luciferian masters. You have a big challenge ahead of you, but I believe you are up to it.
AIL
Jet fuel that's a good one.
You are doing a better job then me in trying to enlighten the public. But we are a minority a few among are capable of logical thinking.
The great majority have no logic or common sense. . They only repeat the lies they hear but they have no understanding nor any idea that they are listening to lies and propaganda .
We need a revolution to have true change and the only way that happens is when people are desperate.
A good example was the French revolution people have to be starving to realized they have been screwed by then it will be too late....
Maybe its because my back ground was science. You have to have logic in order to replicate some simple experiment in a laboratory .
Other than that I can not understand the lack of logic by most of the posters on this site . Trivial Gossip becomes the topic and real issues are not discussed because its not understood. Critical Thinking is hard work people are to lazy to think.
So I post hoping that maybe I can explain one or two real issues/problems with valid arguments/discussions .
Thanks for your support.
LanceFreeman
Mayor
You do a great job. Your stuff is always on the mark.
Btw, after the recent exposure of Barack Obama’s Department of Defense Directive 3025.18, we now know that since at least 2010, the White House has been setting the stage for the use of military force against “domestic threats.” That is to say, for at least the past four years, our government has been quietly maneuvering toward martial law. The deliberate destruction of our society is unfolding before our very eyes, as exemplified by the relentless invasion ocross our borders, and all people can talk about is 2-party trivia, and how great Obamacare is.
It seems to me (and all those with a brain in their head), that time is growing short. As tyrants (like Obama and his ilk) become more bold, so too must the citizenry; otherwise, we shrivel up and die. Here's another interesting link:
Click here: Innocent Citizens Pulled Over At Gunpoint | Independent Living News
AIL
Jet fuel that's a good one.
Cops are influenced by cop shows they are all acting like swat teams even when it is not necessary. There was a story about cops entering a grammar school with swat teams for some miner problem.
There was a time when police officers in London did not have guns . They handled the situation with outer use of force .
Now cops get scared use pepper spray and stun guns at will and many police officers are over reacting to any minor incident.. Shot first, second and third and then forget about talking no one is around to talk..
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Boltlady
Governor
Folks would stand a better chance of being able to open their minds beyond the programming that Bernays taught the gov'ts to use, except that it's not the only means being used. Aside from the fact that the programming begins in early childhood so that it becomes part of the generally accepted belief systems, our food and water are being doctored to both lower IQs and dull senses so that people are more complacent. In short, people are being manipulated in a variety of ways from a variety of directions.
Fortunately there are still those who are able to think beyond what they're supposed to think. Hopefully enough of those will surface who also happen to have leadership abilities that will allow them to gain followers. If enough of those types step forward, the numbers of followers will grow, and we'll win. There is still that hope.
AIL
Jet fuel that's a good one.
Schools are the first place where propaganda begins by whitewashing history.
Early settlers were the good people the local Indians were savages. History classes don't tell the truth about the abuse of power by white Steelers and how blacks people were abused and oppressed. American expansion by invading other countries and coups are not covered all> US imperialism and interventions are presented as a positive thing.
Protect American interest is the mantra on MSM but by protecting American interests American punishes ALL the local peoples in nations that America interferes or supports. You can not have both protect your interests and protect local people the local people will always lose to American interests all the time. Everywhere Americans sticks in nose the local lose but no MSM will ever bring this up .
The solution is simple. America has to learn to mind its own business.
Leave other nations, its customs, its religion, its political system and their traditions alone . It's none of your business what other nations do and how they do it; be it communism or a theocracy . Israel a theocracy a country for Jews only (some religious fanatics are in the Israeli parliament ) that's OK for America but the Muslims theocracies are not OK. It's non of your business.
If it is illegal for a foreign country to interfere in US political process why is America compelled to interfere in other nations internal affairs?
Boltlady
Governor
What you say is true except for the solution being simple. It's not easy to convince people that they've been lied to and have lived a lie their whole lives.
It took me quite a few years to 'see' what's been going on. I spent years in a very bad marriage, spent more years struggling to feed and house 4 kids without much help, then spent even more years busting a gut building a business from scratch. I really was not paying a lot of attention or understanding the true situation during those years. The only 'news' that I was familiar with was the little blurbs from the MSM that I heard occasionally. In that respect, the same would apply to a lot of people.
In my case I tend to be open to learning so I've been able to move beyond the propaganda that I was fed all my life. I'm also able to step back and look at the big picture. That ability allowed me to build a business to start with. Not that many people are open to such a thing. They find it easier to accept their manufactured beliefs rather than learning truth. Besides, one has to be able to deal with the blow to their self esteem in finding out how wrong they've been.
So you see, my friend, the solution is not simple. It's actually a rather large task that can only be conquered with perseverance.
LanceFreeman
Mayor
Sometimes it takes hardship to open one's eyes, BL. Deprivation is a mighty teacher. Since WW2, the vast majority of Americans have had an easy time of it, in a material sense. Things have always been available. They have never really had to think seriously about their politics, their condition, the massive waste of resources, the outright thievery, the deceptions, the condition (plight) of others, or the direction their country was taking. They were perfectly happy to let others make their decisions for them politically and economically. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, but they find they are not capable of grappling with the problems that plague the Ship of State. They simply don't know how, nor are they capable of understanding real solutions when presented to them outside of the box.
I haven't read the entire thread yet but want to comment. Forgive me if I am being redundant.
The direction this country is going is the same direction we have been going for quite a long time. It is not a good direction, but I believe that we are either just past the point or coming up to the point of no return. I understand that I might be optimistic with that thought. It's possible that we passed the point of no return further back than I realize.
I see no way to change it. I don't know exactly what the future holds going this way; the things that come to my mind are bad enough that I don't want to write them. Maybe someone on this thread has written possibilities that we all can live with and I hope that's the case because what I see is very a very hopeless state of affairs.
The direction this country is going is the same direction we have been going for quite a long time. It is not a good direction, but I believe that we are either just past the point or coming up to the point of no return. I understand that I might be optimistic with that thought. It's possible that we passed the point of no return further back than I realize.
I see no way to change it. I don't know exactly what the future holds going this way; the things that come to my mind are bad enough that I don't want to write them. Maybe someone on this thread has written possibilities that we all can live with and I hope that's the case because what I see is very a very hopeless state of affairs.
