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If you kill off your middle class, and any hope of coming up in the middle class for most peopole, then you got just very poor and rich.. And an rebellion will be the result.. History show us again and again, when hope for a better life down the road are not there anymore, peopole tend to be angry, and fight back.. This is 101 for anyone with some knowlegde about history the last 1000 year or so.. As long as people have hope for a better life, to at least do as their parents, or better, then they can hold out most missery.. As long as they are not plundred and telled to just "take it"... The last big revolution here in Europe, in the Eastern Europe in 1989, was mostly becouse the leadership in the country we are talking about, lost control, and trust from the population as a whole.. When they lost the support, and the regimes was not seen as a treath anymore, it was just time when they was loosing controll. But for the most part, the cold war ended rather peacefully, or at least with an controlled overtrown of the government, and many of the old guards, did got a comeback in the 1990s when they had re-invented themselfs, and even admitted they had screwed up some of the time.. The hardliners was either retired or was just told to shut up. It was just in Romania, where the government had been most repressive, that it ended with the excuting of the leaders and his wife, and then most of the anger who had been building up for a decade or two was over.. And even 20 year after Romania is far from recovered from the last decade of communist rule.. Its still a poor country, rift with corruption and so one.. And if you leave the big City's its like traveling back 40-50 year in time.. Rather scary if you ask me...
USA and americans have been blessed in a way no other country have been.. No dictatorship, no tyranic leaders, and your constitution have been a gold mine for the rest of the world.. Today with the Patriot Act The MCA, and the rest of the "EXTAS" THE US are not what they once was.. The fact that TSA can opperate as they do, more or less without protest from the general public is a telling tale about what US today is all about.. If anyone had told, this 20 year or so before, you would be told to contact your doctor for some mental medication.. I have just lived the last 34 year or so, but since 2001 USA have changed a lot in what they accept of misuse from your government.. It just pure luck US today are not a full blown dictatorship, that must be becouse of your robust contitution who at least for the moment are saving you from a full blown dictatorship.. But how about next election, if enough americans deside to wote in some of your more "collourfull" politicans into the White House, a dictatorship of sorts are not that long away.. That combined with a theocracy that even the Ayatollahs in Iran could not match.. And with the belife that the end is near, and they might even deside to "help it along a bit".. That scares the hell out of me, even tho I am member of a later conservtive church myself.. The nuttcases use the Bible the same way the Devil are using the Bible, reading into verses what they want it to be, regardness of what really is in the bible...
That is also a point, that the gurdians of the machines that are on the airports for the most part is controlled by officers who are paid little and have little knowlegde about how to opperate the things.. They migth tell us, that the systems is all green, and that they are checked regulary to ensure they are safe when it came to radiation.. and so one.. But we all know, that both the TSA, and the machines are just smokescreens.. If a terrorist WANT to blow up airliners, and to harm americans, they wil manage to go true the security barriers and do their job.. It wil just take some more time to do it.. And as my foster mother can tell, the TSA officers she experienced was rude and not excactly polite, even tho the old little grayheaded woman had all the right paper in order. And even had get a new pasport so it could be read eletronic - but the airport in New Orleans had not the right eqipment to read it, so they was stuck in a room for 4 hour, before given a green light.. We have experience with the "other side" in the cold war, in Bulgaria in late 1980s.. and he meant that the Bulgarian border guards of that age was fare more polite and decent in their habits than TSA in 2007.. They did have this ugly AK47 all over the airports, but at least they was some discreete about it all.. And it was a dictatorship, not a democratic country like most americans still belive United States of America to be... And you know you are in deep ship, when border guards in a dictatorship is more polite and profesional, than TSA are in US in 2011...
I aslo hoped for it, that The Patriot Act, and the other "provisional acts" was history as fast as the democratic party got control of the Congress and Senate. And specially after they got control of the White House (I was suprised, and pleased that Obama was elected president in 2008) this nightmarish lawschangings could be part of the history. But mr Obama have not used the opportunity to really do history, by really do away with the 8 year with the nightmare... But Obama was not what I hoped him to be. But at least he try... But he IS fighting against extremely hard odds.. And he have to do his duties as President too..
I hope he wil change, and that if he got a second time, really is showing what he really are.. And is fighting as hell for the common man.. You really need some in the White House who can..
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