Paine would not be surprised to see that, in their lust for power, they have monopolized and controlled all means of communication to prevent the free flow of truth and ideas.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, in their fear, they instituted great armies of secret police and sleeper cells, to do the bidding of multinational corporations.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, in their hubris, they have created artificial intelligence and digital surveillance of the population.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, in their greed, they have made the manufacturing and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, for their profit, they have polluted the air, the rivers, and the seas.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, in their impotence, they have glorified murder and violence in their mass media.
Paine would not be surprised to see that, in the government compromise to corporate corruption, and Wall Street banks, they have equated money with free speech, and destroyed nations' economies.
Paine, unrecognized and appreciated by the ruling elites of his day, would not be surprised to see that the arrogant oligarchs of today never admit a mistake, from modern fascism's first step with Reagan in 1981 and regressive taxation.
Paine would not be surprised to see the craven strategies of population reduction and genetically engineered crops that were part of the broad strategy of genocide and the systematic elimination of entire population groups, promulgated under the name of solving the world hunger problem.
Paine would not be surprised to see the emergence of Recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology, the procedure for "cutting" and "splicing" DNA to make new combinations of genes.
Paine would not be surprised to see the development of terminator Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTS), a "technology protection system" developed by Cargill and Big Agriculture, that disallows farmers from using their own seeds.
Paine would not be surprised to see the lack of good judgment that now exists in our digitized computer economy, and the fraudulent digital electoral system that has vomited up the loutish likes of George Bush and Donald Trump.
Thomas Paine would not be surprised to see that the forty years of regressive taxation, the neocons' neo-liberal supply-side agenda, has failed dismally and ruined the economies of the freedom-loving world.
Paine would not be surprised to see the response by the ruling oligarchs to the Covid 19, in handing trillions to the Wall Street speculators, while tossing crumbs from their gilded carriages to the despised masses.
Paine would not be surprised to see that the fake-democracy color-revolution regime changes brought forth by the soft-power machinations of the CIA non-government organizations (NGOs), like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), have all miserably failed beginning with the regime against Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia-Serbia Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Montenegro in 1999.
Paine would not be surprised to see that the so-called "human rights" NGOs, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, the International Republican Institute (IRI), Amnesty International USA, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the United States Agency for Development (USAID), the International Crisis Groups (ICG), and the Syrian White Helmets, were to become the primary Washington weapons for regime change of "fake democracy" to transform newly independent states of formerly communist Eastern Europe and Russia.
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