Reply #17: The 1950s were not the first time Americans have lived in "tyranny" at home. [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

In the 1920s the KKK had massive numbers of members all across the country and they would terrorize Catholics, Jews, Blacks, Immigrants and anyone else they damn well pleased. During WWI, they enacted laws that took away civil liberties and used them to jail political people and union leaders. They broke up the Wobblies that way. Political prosecutions were the norm all through the pre FDR years. If you were a communist or a union leader or a socialist, you could expect to be rounded up and charged with all manner of crimes.

And lynchings happened from the end of the Civil War all the way up until the start of WWII when suddenly the feds needed Blacks in the Army, so they had to do something to protect them. If you were Black you lived in legal tyranny all the way up until the mid nineteen sixties. Look at what they did to Jack Johnson.

Native Americans still haven't received justice.

What about the tyranny of the attempted coup on FDR by the richest families in the country?

What about the tyranny of all the foreign countries whose elected leaders we have overthrown and for whom we have selected despotic dictators and condemned the people to lives of suffering and hardship in our lust for oil and other mineral resources?

Look at what CBS did to Dan Rather. And look at the FEMA trailers.

So yeah, we have always lived in tyranny, at least since the start of industrialization. Engels said that the reason we could not win the revolution is because the bosses were too successful at exploiting our ethnic differences. They were too good at playing divide and conquer.

They are sure doing a good job of it this primary season.