Fascism- when did you realize that America was a lie? [View All]

[RainDog]

Obviously some people will respond deny that is our reality.
Go ahead and deny all you want. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything.

I'm sort of coming to terms with the reality that is America, and has been America, apparently, since the turn of last century. I've been reading Kevin Phillips' highly informative book, American Dynasty, and it's not simply an indictment of the Bush family. Whether he knew it or not, Phillips has written an indictment of our entire power structure as it has developed with the founding of Standard Oil.

Fascism is the govt of and industrial age. In post-industrial America, hopefully fascism will fall...but no doubt it will take many Americans with it.

Our government is fascist, and it's not limited to the right wing of our government, although they are the most blatant practicioners, and resort to jingoism the most readily.

Harriman, Dulles, the Rockefellers.

The DuPonts, Herbert Walker, Prescott Bush

Both democrats and republicans aided and abetted Hilter and bore no consequence for their acts of greed when they armed Hitler and helped to kill two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe.

And during this time, Americans were starving through a horrible depression brought on by the very greed of these financiers of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Spain.

The fear of communism was the boogeyman before. Fear of terrorism is the boogeyman now.

Funny how American citizens always pay for the treasonous acts of the powerful in this country, like the Bush family's alliance with the House of Saud, or the massive armament programs to the mujahadeen and the Taliban. or the selling of weapons to Iraq.

Right now, I still believe in ABB, but I am no longer so willing to think that any democrat will make any changes that really matter.

I'd like to be surprised, but I'm not expecting to be surprised.

Congress has the power to appoint a committee to investigate the lies about the Iraq war...yet Bush appoints every single member of that investigative committee.

Congress has the power to declare war, yet they gave Bush the right to invade any other nation at will, and without a threat of invasion to us. Congress voted to approve a war when they knew Bush was lying before the invasion.

Congress okays a deficit which will bankrupt the programs which were put into place to create democracy in America, because you do not have democracy in a nation with huge disparities in privlege and power between a small extremely wealthy elite and the rest of the nation.

Congress approves a tax cut for the wealthiest in this land, while forcing concessions from unions.

The majority in Congress, in the Republican party and with some democrats as well, pours scorn on the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, on the very foundations for our reason for being as a nation...

we were founded as an experiment, by people who thought that humans could rationally govern themselves and could create laws which would reflect an evolution in democracy, rather than the revolutions which were the norm in that day.

I do not know how to restore that democractic experiment in America. As it stands, it will not happen with a continuance of the status quo, and it seems that anyone who opposes the status quo is doomed to failure with a compliant media.

I feel like I am in mourning today after reading portions of American Dynasty.