GOOD CITIZENSHIP by David Podvin

[BrklynLiberal]

The government of the United States is once again considering deploying death squads, this time to pacify uncooperative Iraqis. Such moral turpitude reinforces an obvious fact that most Americans are absolutely determined to ignore: the military/industrial complex governing our nation is run by barbarians who will do anything to get their way.

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Other indications of elitist depravity are unproven yet glaring. Between November 22, 1963 and June 5, 1968, the entire liberal leadership of this country was slaughtered. In less than five years, the dominant political force in American politics had been dismembered as the only liberals feared by the right wing were eliminated. On the evening that Robert F. Kennedy joined his brother John and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in martyrdom, the Democratic Party dominated the three branches of the federal government. Since losing its giants, the liberal movement has been in headlong retreat, surrendering all power as the timid dwarves who now ostensibly oppose the Republicans opt to cower rather than fight.

Had such a sequence played out in a Third World nation – one of those pathetic little banana republics where unelected leaders rig elections and then start wars using false pretenses – it would be easy for Americans to recognize what had occurred. But when people accept the premise that “it can’t happen here”, any series of events can be blithely dismissed as coincidental, and all deviations from the party line must ridiculed as conspiracy theories.
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