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If The Russians Did This To Us, We'd Kill 'Em
By David Michael Green (about the author)
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The upshot is that today American voters have two choices. They can have the party that represents the maximal plundering of America, at the maximal speed. Or they can have the party that represents nearly the same crime at almost the same velocity.
Either way, the United States has ceased in any meaningful way to be owned by citizens. Its voters vote, but their representatives in Congress and in the administration are beholden to economic elites, and act entirely accordingly. The country's institutions, infrastructure, and social relations are all being dismantled piece by piece and either relocated elsewhere or sold off in order to wring yet another drop of wealth out of the hides of working Americans, so that those who are already wealthy beyond belief can be even further enriched.
If some other country did this to us -- if the Russians invaded and took all our resources, and enslaved us and our children to work in dismal jobs when we could find any work at all sufficient to maintaining a rapidly sinking middle class livelihood -- if those things happened and the perpetrator was a foreign power, we'd rise up and go to war and we'd kill every last one of "em.
But we're not doing any of that, even though a very real enemy has invaded this country and stripped it bare.
In fact, this society is pretty busy making sure that we don't even notice who that enemy is.
Become a Fan (41 fans) -- Page 3 of 3 page(s)
Either way, the United States has ceased in any meaningful way to be owned by citizens. Its voters vote, but their representatives in Congress and in the administration are beholden to economic elites, and act entirely accordingly. The country's institutions, infrastructure, and social relations are all being dismantled piece by piece and either relocated elsewhere or sold off in order to wring yet another drop of wealth out of the hides of working Americans, so that those who are already wealthy beyond belief can be even further enriched.
If some other country did this to us -- if the Russians invaded and took all our resources, and enslaved us and our children to work in dismal jobs when we could find any work at all sufficient to maintaining a rapidly sinking middle class livelihood -- if those things happened and the perpetrator was a foreign power, we'd rise up and go to war and we'd kill every last one of "em.
But we're not doing any of that, even though a very real enemy has invaded this country and stripped it bare.
In fact, this society is pretty busy making sure that we don't even notice who that enemy is.
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Good analogy
by Davey Jones on Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:32:03 PM
The Russian Analogy is actually devastatingly accurate
by hommedespoir on Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:42:06 AM
The Russian Analogy is actually devastatingly accurate
by hommedespoir on Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:38:27 AM
Citizens have to be deaf, dumb and blind........
by Ernest on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:18:42 AM
You have to be carefully taught
by P. Orin Zack on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:34:14 PM
Off with their heads!
by daveys on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:56:03 PM
Good Democrats from Bad
by Perry Logan on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:40:06 AM
Deliberately Dumbed Down America
by Walter L. Bradley Jr. on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:41:56 PM