In the Second World War, the United States of America came to the rescue of the antifascists, after it had most willingly supported the movements in both Italy and Germany with great admiration for Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, the man who was going to gobble up Europe under the sign of 'the pure Aryan race'. Italy was a questionable ally of convenience. Then, with the help of the Japanese who were declared honorary Aryans, the unbeatable Germans, die Übermenschen, were going to conquer the entire world. The rest of the story is well known. The U.S. had to get its house in order fast, build war planes, submarines, tanks and guns and together with the rest of the European Allies they managed to once again beat the Germans to pulp. In doing so, the Unites States pulled itself out of the Great Depression.
But Washington's lust for ever-increasing power would not let the country stand back and concentrate on the well-being of its people. Another kind of war made the U.S. merry-go-round continue its masquerade of bringing 'civilization' to the world, making the world one huge playground for the power-hungry corporations. The West continued their propaganda about fighting for the free world, as if it were still World War II. And millions and millions of people still believe in this age-old myth the U.S. is standing up for freedom and democracy.
Imperial war on the people
The greed of the U.S. leaders would not let them pay any attention to the well-being of its people, and the visible consequences of this neglect were going to increase with each new administration, in particular with Ronald Reagan and onwards, under Republican and Democratic presidents alike. Conditions for the home population became increasingly filled with hardship to ultimately end up with the long-planned neocon policy which surfaced with George W. Bush: the people had no rights whatsoever and the only thing that mattered was complete power over the planet. This was the one and only goal and the people were to be the slaves to help bring this about. This ridiculously incompetent president was obviously chosen as the candidate for the Republican Party in order to let the mentally sick men and women behind the stage pull their strings unhampered by any realistic and humane obstacles.
'The tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free' are now huddled into ghettos and slums and are no more even dreaming of breathing free. U.S. citizens have been sold out by the ego-maniac rulers to the funding of wars that will empower only the powerful and destroy the lives of the poor. Those who don't get killed in the wars or get more or less bodily or mentally damaged for the rest of their lives, survive in the utmost misery and insecurity, unable to get healthcare when they are seriously ill, unable to get a valid education in the most prosperous of all countries on earth, deprived of any kind of security that most civilized nations take for granted, unable to climb out of the miserable poverty they have either grown up in or recently sunk into because of the enormous costs of unending wars. While the CEOs are getting obscenely wealthy, the wars are obviously paid for by the people. Cutting back taxes for the super-rich means of course that essential social services for the rest of the population are cut back so drastically as to place the majority of the population in an impasse where they live and die unheeded, uneducated and unaided even concerning vitally important needs.
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