So, you thought that slavery was ended with the Civil War. Well, that war did end one form of slavery, but there is now a new form of slavery that is currently running rampant in the US. It has been creeping up on the vast majority of us in such an insidious fashion that you probably haven't noticed it enough to put a name to it. In fact, most of you younger citizens are not old enough to have experienced the slow change from citizen to slave; you have only known being a slave.
The old form of slavery, pre Civil War, provided A quite powerful labor force for the South. In fact, that form of slavery was the primary economic engine for the South. However, that model had some flaws. Beyond being excessively cruel and morally depraved, it also required an excessive amount of direct management involvement and had extremely negative psychological ramifications for all participants. Additionally, on an international level at that time in history, it was rapidly falling out of vogue.
Now the Nazis experimented with an updated, hybrid variation of slavery during their reign. They declared that certain members of their population were unfit to join their Master Race and quite actively went about converting certain segments of their population into slaves. However, one of the economic drawbacks to all slavery soon became evident, that being the capital expense necessary for slave maintenance. During the latter part of WWII, when too much money for the war effort was being diverted to keeping the slave labor alive, it became more expedient to just kill the excess.
However, the Nazi foray into the slave industry did produce some valuable insights for future slave owners. These realizations began to congeal after WWII and were subtlety, and quite covertly, infused into the US through its rather open and receptive political, economic, legal, military, intelligence and propagandizing media systems.
By catering to the general population's sense of national ego, while simultaneously stoking their national fears and distrust among themselves, the new slave owners began to convert the most powerful democratic country in the history of the world into a nation of slaves. This became most evident when the first President of the US who was born in the 20th Century -- and had an overly Progressive vision of the direction that the US should take -- was assassinated in broad daylight, in 1963.
The murder of JFK was preceded by Eisenhower's dark warning to beware of the growth of the "Military/Industrial/Congressional* Complex" and was the first in a long list of "hints" as to the direction that the country was going.
A partial, and more obvious short list, includes events like LBJ's escalation of the Viet Nam War, Ford's pardoning of Nixon for unindicted crimes, the releasing of the Iran Hostages on the very day that Reagan was sworn in to replace Jimmy Carter as President, Reagan's initializing the destruction of the unions, the flatlining of labor's wages since the seventies -- in spite of enormous productivity gains, effectively conducting non-ending wars since WWII, the Supreme Court's selection of George W. Bush for President in 2000, the political assassination of Senator Paul Wellstone, Bush's wars of aggression and torture, the corrupt 2004 election for President, the financial crash of 2008, a Supreme Court that permits unfettered political bribery, secret assassination of unindicted US citizens, etc.
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