Misconceptions Americans Have About America

by

       M. Richard Maxson 

      

       Americans are full of wrong ideas about their country. It happened because the government so designed our public education system that no child, taking American history ever gets past the Battle of Gettysburg. No modern history is taught in those classes. Most think, for example, that we are a democracy when in fact our Constitution was designed to create a republic. The authors of our Constitution were dead set against democracy and the Democratic ideals that champion it, figuring that democracies self destruct as soon as people learn to loot the public treasury with their votes.

      Many people think the American government is against communism, another misconception. Every time communism has gotten itself into a real trouble, the American government has stepped in to save it. We fed it after the Revolution' sold it

machinery during Lenin's New Economic Policy, gave it diplomatic recognition and credit during the economic hard times of 1933, helped Stalin industrialize, helped it defeat the Nazis.

 

       The elitists like Communism although they say the opposite. It serves to justify our global foreign policy that our forefathers warned us against. Whenever the powers-that-be wish to meddle in the internal affairs of another country, that intervention can be justified on the basis of our being against communism. Americans are too busy being entertained by our gadgets and programed by the controlled media and would never wonder why,  we had to fight communism in Vietnam, guarantee it's preservation in Cuba, and trade with it in Eastern Europe – all at the same time.

      

       Another misconception is that we have a strong two-party system in the United

States when in fact we have two parties, but they are not the ones people think. The two parties consist of them and us. Democrats and Republicans. are merely two sides of the same coin. There's not a dime's worth of difference between them. Both support the Federal Reserve; both support the tax system with variations based mainly on having different constituencies to reward; both support a Global foreign policy of intervention. Their differences are only on details in carrying out the same policies. If you put aside the rhetoric you'd be hard pressed to point out any significant differences between Republican and Democratic administrations going back many decades on key issues of monetary policy, taxation, and foreign policy.

Finally, just as the American government isn't really against communism it is not really for free enterprise. It is for a form of corporate capitalism, run by elites, with a welfare state - paid for by the working class - the purpose of which is to keep the masses relatively content and truly ignorant of the world both inside and outside their borders.