Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolution was a failure. It enabled the "founding plutocrats" to substitute a new home grown corpocracy for that of King George instead of collaborating with the Native Americans to craft a new and democratic nation.
Later, dishonest Abe, wanting to preserve the union so as to ward off foreign invasions and to continue the corpocracy's rapacious appetite for more control including more land pitted Americans against Americans, causing the unnecessary deaths of some 750,000 people. The Civil War was a disaster and an abject failure. Injustice to people of color subsequently turned even worse (e.g., the lynching of thousands of African Americans following the Civil War and the current brutality of police actions against people of color).
Coupled with the eventual growth of a fascist and militarized police state, the lesson to be learned from those two wars not on foreign soil is that the corpocracy will not hesitate to quash a rebellion or revolution against it. When he said it Thomas Jefferson surely was jesting that there should be a revolution every ten years.
Anti Corpocracy Movements
The Civil Rights movement against the corpocracy's injustices to people of color led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that in turn, however, led to an outbreak of violence in the South, and certainly did not end the need for the movement.12 The act did lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and to affirmative action programs but the former has been weakened by passive state and local law enforcement and the latter's effectiveness in removing racial barriers to school admissions and jobs is debatable at best.
Endless warring is a perpetual habit of America's corpocracy.13 Its goal is not to end wars because that would end the need for the profitable war machine so there will always be war in some form or another and anti war protests and movements ebbing and flowing.
The penultimate antiwar movement was that protesting the Vietnam War. The movement was basically a failure in that it was not directly responsible for ending that war. The Nixon administration finally realized the war was a lost cause.14 Afterwards, Congress defused the potential of all future antiwar movements by ending the draft. What replaced it as a source for war recruits was the corpocracy's shrinkage of job opportunities for young Americans. "Go to war for us and you will have a job."
In the late 1990s there was a huge international, anti globalization movement of "tens of thousands of well-organized militant protesters" of two of the prime drivers of globalization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.15 Nothing much ever came of it.
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