To anyone
unencumbered by a closed mind and willing to examine the evidence without bias,
the facts are clear. Unfortunately the facts are not what the "news"
feeds us. The Corporate owned and controlled media that use the people's
airwaves (given to them for a mere pittance by their own insiders in
"our" government) have turned the Network News and Newspapers into a
medium of propaganda.
This is not a right-wing, left-wing issue. A bird cannot
fly on wings that disagree on direction. The two party system has become a
farce. The right and the left appear to despise each other, while behind closed
doors they divvy up the spoils.
President Bill Clinton was in the process of instigating the
privatization of Social Security when his little tryst with Monica Lewinski
came to light. In order to save his Presidency he had to turn to his base of
organized labor etc., groups that were strong supporters of protecting Social
Security. Had it not been for the infamous stained dress, good old liberal Bill
would have added the privatization of SS to his other Middle Class destroying
acts like the Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the passage of NAFTA with the help
of Rahm Emanuel, , President Obama's current sidekick.
On the face of it, the White
house is a Democrat bastion with Obama residing there. From 1993 to 2001, Bill
Clinton -- a supposed liberal -- occupied the White House. In truth, we haven't had a
Democrat in the White House since Jimmy Carter, and his expulsion via the tactics of
Karl Rove's teacher Lee Atwater have reduced him to an incompetent fool in the eyes
of much of the American public.
The Neocon plan for America has indeed been
well thought out and displays a certain brilliance despite a complete lack of
Christian or Democratic principles. I use the term NeoCon because the Republican
leadership isn't Republican. We haven't had a REAL Republican in the White
house since 1961, when Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous speech on the danger
of the Military Industrial Complex to the future of Democracy in America.
Unfortunately -- famous or not -- it seems to have been forgotten and certainly isn't
part of our public school system's curriculum, which currently is exchanging
items like the civil rights movement for the ideological rants of folks like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. When Eisenhower left office he took the true Republican ideal with
him and since then no politician near his caliber has managed to survive in
public office.
The Neocons have no more use for a real Republican than they do for a
real Democrat. The man who likened the Democrats and the Republicans to the Gambinos
and the Genovese called it like it is. Organized crime wasn't wiped out in America,
it just elevated itself to a higher position.
And now having already wrecked the economy, picked the middle class' pockets and sent our children to the other side of the world to rob it of its riches at the point of WMDs, their never-ending quest for more, more, more has them plotting to steal the pennies from the eyes of the corpse. Social Security and Medicare are Next.
