2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumthe new American way, imagine a nation where...
....Our president can advocate for torturers...our police officers can strangle people in the streets...our military can operate prisons that defy constitutional protections...our intelligence agencies spy on our own citizens...our troops can fly weaponized drones that kill on the other side of the world...our corporations are constitutionally more humanly equal than any nominal person...our religions declare themselves beyond control of any law other than their gods...our financial institutions destroy with impunity the middle classes monetary worth...our food industry can tell us we have no right to know what we put in our bodies is made of...our drug industry rig life saving drug prices...our insurance companies refuse to pay valid claims...our politicians take cash from the wealthy to insure that they not only stay wealthy but accrue greater wealth...our mainstream media covering for the corporate slaughter of innocent citizens every day through pollution, faulty products and theft of property and retirement savings and pensions...our elected leaders who refuse to accept basic science as an imperical bench upon which to build...our political parties refuse to act in the interests of the nation...our teachers are forced to teach objectively false concepts to meet a special interest agenda. Why should any human not engage in willfull anarchy, neighbor against neighbor, family against familly, friend against friend? destroy that which gets in the way of our preconceived notions, slaughter those with whom we disagree, subjugate them who will not bow, burn those who would hide, behead those who do not correctly believe, enslave those that resist...take property from whom you can, surrender property to whom you must...savage the defenseless and quiver before the powerful...I guess that's the plan going forward now that we know what kind of people and society we are choosing to be.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)nruthie
(466 posts)God bless America, etc,etc.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)I keep going off on tangents when I get to about 2 or 3 of them