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Egypt and Tunisia Refresh the Tree of Liberty

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Bizarre though it may sound, Americans prefer to lash out at those least fortunate, as if they are the cause for the bankers taking their money, businesses shipping their jobs overseas, or the military illegally invading other countries. While the rich take more wealth per person than ever in history, Americans blame the poor for their malaise. While the military sends the young poor and minorities overseas to die in battles that don't concern the US, Americans condemn those in the ranks who speak out. While businesses continue to shut down their factories and send them overseas, Americans lash out at those who dare stay on US soil, such as the auto makers.

In the crazy, upside down world of Americana that exists today, where war in Iraq and Afghanistan means peace, where the biggest earnings in history for the banks and oil companies means the conquest of capitalism, and where increased joblessness is seen as positive because the US productivity rate only increases, it is easy to imagine what a protest against the establishment would look like.

There would be thousands dead within a week. There would be entire towns set on fire, whole groups would be stalked and gunned down, and the violence among the American citizenry would be horrendous, In fact, it would probably take the US government, the National Guard, the coast guard and all four branches of the military to keep one side of America from killing the others. But there would probably be little attack on the government. Americans have been told that the poor, the infirm and the minorities are the ones to go after, not the banks, the military and the government.

One can only hope that that day doesn't arrive. But with all the vitriol and hatred spouted by the right-wing, with their tacit wink and nod as to who "the real enemy is," it is sad to say that we could very well be only one Mohamed Bouazizi away from such a scenario. This would truly be the end of the United States as we know it, destroyed from within, as our forefathers predicted long ago.

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