American's Misconceptions of America

by

      George Sontag

      In a country where information is right at our fingertips,no one has more misconceptions about America than Americans. Most people think they know what is going on around them but most of us don't have time to do a lot of actual thinking.  Quietly, the Left has so warped our public education system that no child, taking American history, ever gets past the Battle of Gettysburg. For-generations, 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.

   

 We are saddled with a media who believe their primary function is entertainment. The media believe that the few real news stories should be in an entertaining format. So consequently, Americans are full of wrong ideas about their country that they believe are truths.

      For example, most young Americans think 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. The Democratic party has used the idea of "free" money to expand their base for decades.

       Many people think the American government is against communism, another misconception. We need an enemy to keep our war machine factories rolling and Communism, being the opposite of our system of government, is the "perfect" enemy. Every time communism has gotten itself into a real trouble, the American government has stepped in to save it (until Ronald Reagan). 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 served to justify a global foreign policy

that our forefathers warned us against. Whenever the powers-that-be wish to meddle in the internal affairs of another country, the intervention - which is for economic reasons - is justified on the basis of our being against Communism. Today, our government doesn't use the word communism, it has replaced that word with "Russia", which serves it just as well.

       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 are funded by the very rich elites whose goal is profit at the expense of the rest of us.

       There's not much difference between Republicans and Democrats. Both support the Federal Reserve. Both support a tax system with variations based mainly on having different constituencies to reward. Both support a Global foreign policy of continued warfare. N They have impressed war into our psyche. Everything in this country is a "war", the "war" on drugs, the "war" on crime, the "war" on poverty. We have been set up to accept perpetual war. The only differences in the two parties are on details and in the degree of competence of their leaders in carrying out the same policy.

      We no longer have the Republic that our Founders envisioned for us, nor do we have a democracy that they warned us about. What we have 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, as long as the money holds out.