If most of the American people were willing to read articles like this, we wouldn’t have a problem. The corporate agenda would be uncovered and the rule of law would be reinstated. Unfortunately, the attention of the American people has been diverted elsewhere. Al Qaeda, an organization that numbers according to what you read as less than 100,000, has been elevated to the status of the old Soviet Union that had well over 5,081,000 members in the late 1980s. The Soviet Union's Army was second only to China's in size. This huge force was deployed within all the major regions of the Soviet Union itself, as well as in the satellite nations of Eastern Europe. It had millions in it’s regular forces and triple that number in its reserves, armed with tens of thousands of nuclear and chemical and biological weapons. [3] We spend more money per soldier against al Qaeda than against any enemy the US has ever faced. We seem to make no progress in eliminating them as a world-wide threat. This is by design, not because of bad luck. We need this organization to justify our military expenditures. If al Qaeda were to cease to exist, we would invent an enemy. Sadly, this is how our military industrial complex operates.
I should include key words in this article like Brittany Spears. “Dancing with the Stars” and Brad Pitt so that people who would otherwise never read an article like this, might… for once in their lives, skim through it to find a reference to what they are really interested in. When people have no interest in their government or in the forces that control it, the very idea of actually removing the root causes of the insanity that has infiltrated it are marginal at best.
There is a way to fight back and change what is happening. People in this country know that something is wrong and they are getting more than a little concerned at watching their buying power and their economic status being threatened. The idea of starting a revolution in this country can be realized by putting a face on the enemy. Americans love to rally against an enemy, real or perceived. When that enemy is sticking their hands in their pockets and preventing them from living a lifestyle that they have enjoyed for years, getting them to join this cause should be no problem. The easiest way to fight a corporate enemy is to get the population to understand that the corporate “bottom line” is in direct competition with the American people’s ‘bottom line”.
The American people must come to realize that the mega-rich are getting richer at the expense of the Middle Class. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the empty malls and the throngs at Wal-Mart. It doesn’t take a course in socio-economics to understand that investment brokerage firms are not what my friends talk about during commercials on TV. We understand that most of our children will not be attending Harvard or Yale this year. We will continue to buy dangerous products from China at Wal-Mart, we consider ourselves lucky to pay our health insurance premiums instead of brokerage fees; our children will be attending community colleges and hope for a scholarship at a four-year institution and we will continue to pray that the company we work for won’t flee to a free-trade zone in Singapore.
All our politicians will likely as not have the same surnames as the politicians’ from the last decade, the Bush-Clinton White House more than likely will still be the Bush-Clinton White House, we won’t wonder why our government officials never leave the country on trips overseas (just because they have been indicted for War Crimes) and we will still cringe every time the IRS sends us another letter. It will be OK thanks to Goldman-Sachs and the other investment bankers that finance our General Elections. Our politicians will still be promising everything to everyone, Westinghouse and GE will still control the media that will tell us everything is going swimmingly, and when the soldier’s wife next door gives birth to a baby with no arms, we can be sure that the prosthetic device improvements made over the last few years by the VA will give her child a semblance at a normal life. Meanwhile Brittany Spears will have been replaced by some other tortured soul that we can feel morally superior too and nuclear weapons will still be on that same dusty table.
Sooner or later this will all come to an abrupt halt, either because some vet with radiation poisoning has decided that a rifle is more effective than a ballot box, or because people in general are tired of their children living much worse than they did at their age. This can all be diverted if Americans would just wake up and see where all of this is leading. I’m not the only one writing this kind of article. You are not the only one reading this type of article. We need a forum where people can exchange views, no matter how unpopular it is with the mass-destruction media. Everyone that makes just enough to live feels the same way. Don’t doubt it, we aren’t that unique. We need to become unafraid to speak out about how we feel. We don’t need a Ferrari in the driveway; we just want to find some security. It is unbelievable that the richest nation on Earth has 90% of its wealth in the hands of 15% of the population.
Grassroots organizations exist for just this purpose. A few are “Democracy Now!” Move-On, and a host of others. Get involved before it becomes illegal to do so. This is not the beginning of change; this is the end of change. This has been happening before our eyes for a long time. Unless we stop what is happening to this land we live in, we will have no rights and we will no longer know what the truth really is. The people in Washington are not your protectors, at least not most of them. We must protect ourselves, which is what we have done throughout our history. Stop the corporate control of this country. It may surprise you to know that not even the people behind this really know what they are doing. We are all walking around in the dark looking for someone with a candle. Maybe that someone is you.
That’s the way I see it.
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