What Is Important, Is Now Being Lost

by

       Zeno Potas

     

       Probably no one has more misunderstandings about America than Americans. This has been deliberately brought about by the government designing our public education system that no child, taking American history, ever gets past the Battle of Gettysburg. For decades now, American children wondered what happened in that gap between Gettysburg and their birth, but after a while, since no one they knew ever knew either, they stopped being curious.

       Consequently, Americans are full of wrong ideas about their own

country. 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, figuring that democracies self destruct as soon as people learn to loot the public treasury with their votes. They did not allow everyone to vote and thought future generations would not allow it either.

       Another example is that many people think the American government is against communism, another misconception. Every time communism has gotten itself into a real trouble, the American government, a.k.a. the elite, 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.

       Communism has served the elitists in order to justify the current global foreign policy. Our forefathers warned us against entanglements but whenever the powers-that-be wish to meddle in the internal affairs of another country or finance a coup, the intervention, which is always for economic reasons, is justified on the basis of our being against communism.

       The last generation of Americans were too busy and the media was
too entertaining to wonder how it is possible we could fight communism
in Vietnam, guarantee it's , preservation in Cuba, and trade with it in communist Eastern Europe, all at the same time. Today, the mainstream media is still the main source of information for a great many Americans. They can name every member of the Kardashian family, but they don’t know who their Member of Congress is. What was important, has now been lost. 

       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. Both support slightly different forms of a socialistic future for this country. Both parties support the Federal Reserve using it as a “war for profit” tool. Both support the tax system with variations based mainly on having different constituencies to reward. Both support a vigorous hostel global foreign policy favoring weapons manufacturers of the military industrial complex. Their differences are on details and in the degree of competence of their leaders in carrying out the same policies.

 

      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 or use their restlessness to their advantage socially and politically.