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Democracy in America: The World’s Greatest Hoax |
By Stephen Lendman |
| Democracy in America is pure fantasy. None exists. Money-controlled
duopoly power runs things. Voters have no say whatever. America is a one-party state with two wings, in lockstep on major issues mattering most. Elections mock legitimacy, farcical by any standard. Candidates are bought like toothpaste, cardboard cookie cut-outs of each, distinguishable by their rhetoric alone, promising one thing, delivering another. Each electoral cycle has the same outcome. Dirty business as usual wins every time. Police state tyranny substitutes for constitutionally guaranteed rights. Fascist governance runs things, wrapped in the American flag. Voting Republican or Democrat is like choosing between death by hanging or firing squad. Americans are the most out-of-touch, uninformed people anywhere, easy marks to be manipulated, deceived and betrayed. All duopoly candidates are pro-business, pro-war, anti-populist, anti-labor, anti-governance serving everyone equitably and fairly. All exclusively support wealth, power and privilege, the public interest be damned. The evidence speaks for itself. Post-9/11, fundamental freedoms were lost, tyranny replacing them, heading toward becoming full-blown. America’s criminal class is bipartisan, waging endless wars on humanity at home and abroad, responsible for the greatest wealth transfer to the privileged few at the expense of all others. Social justice is being systematically eliminated, constitutional rights practically gone, international law entirely ignored. America was never beautiful. No nation in world history ever more greatly threatened humanity’s survival. The possibility of cataclysmic nuclear war should scare everyone. It doesn’t matter who’s president or in Congress. America’s imperial agenda remains unchanged - reckless, ruthless, lawless. Voters believing elections can change things are living in a fantasy world. The entire process is rigged and corrupted, independents entirely shut out. Billionaires like Ross Perot and Michael Bloomberg, if he runs for president, are the exceptions proving the rule. Anyone outside the duopoly system is marginalized and ignored, media scoundrels giving them no coverage. The system is rigged to assure continuity. Names and faces change. Policies stay the same - too corrupted to fix, money-controlled gangsterism, a bipartisan criminal class running things. The business of America is endless wars of aggression, corporate favoritism, elitism at the expense of equity and justice, stealing from the poor for the rich, eliminating the bedrock middle class, transforming the nation into a ruler-serf society - unsafe and unfit to live in, pursuing reckless policies risking humanity’s survival. Tuesday headlines feature results from Monday’s Iowa caucuses, a meaningless exercise in theater, no “cornfield crucible,” The NYT’s duplicitous characterization, relishing Cruz beating Trump, subdued about Sanders in a virtual tie with Clinton. A long, agonizing primary season lies ahead, dominating mainstream news (sic) reporting, most people getting it on television. Before it became the dominant medium, a prescient observer said if it caught on, we’d have a nation of morons. Americans are an easily manipulated populace, what journalist Walter Lippmann once called “the bewildered herd.” Ordinary people are spectators, not participants in policymaking, unaware how duopoly power harms their welfare, indifferent about doing anything about it - why America is the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. |
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