Such a set-up requires a credible foe. The Communists played the admirable adversary for forty years, but even they did the fighting by proxy. The North Vietnamese stepped up in class when they defeated the USA. Since then the Afghans and Iraqis have found extraordinary strategies to win against the major powers. They have exposed the weakness behind them. Intelligent people trump so-called sophisticated weaponry.
America can't be free until she dumps the military/industrial complex. As it stands, a small number of people call the shots. Whether they are military, financiers or industrialists they command at base the national security apparatus. They have run the country for three generations, so long that few people even think about their power let alone question it.
The citizens are so dummied down they police themselves. They already are crushed and squeezed. It's no trick for the FBI to bottle them for cold storage.
More shocking, the information control and strong arm tactics extend far up the social order. We began with the 177 Republican and 11 Democratic Congressmen who voted against the stimulus program. All of us find reason to object to some of its components, but the naysayers didn't bother to offer new alternatives. The leadership is afraid to challenge the status quo of fear and repression. They just repeated the old discredited bromides aged 40 or 50 years that have brought us to Depression and chaos.
The power elite always favor a knavish population ready to chant slogans that drown out all reason. Life imitates a pounding aspirin commercial. If they beat us on the head long enough, we will become groggy and anxious for sleep.
Sleepers never agitate for their rights. They rarely voice complaints about the leaders. Little lambs march stolidly to the slaughter.
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