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In reply to the discussion: "US worse than the USSR"? American Amnesia of the worst sort [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)An alternative to Amazon, by the way, is Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. At least for books, it's just great.
I haven't been in a fast food place since the early 2000s, maybe 2003 or 2004 when I ate something from a fast food place and became very ill.
No one with a small kitchen (mine is tiny) needs to or should eat in a fast food restaurant. Take a lunch and be done with it. Sorry to be so judgmental but you are so correct except that we need to turn around or we will end up like Russia.
Get a Republican, Tea-Bagger, fundamentalist Congress and president and we are done for.
The scaffolding, that is the surveillance system, the private prisons, the putting-prisoners-to-work-for-private-companies-and-private-profit framework is in place. Very few Americans own any property. But corporations do. At this time, corporations have free reign to influence elections. And those with money are doing just that. They are also buying up property very rapidly. With a system of corporate landlords instead of homeownership, what do you think will happen to those who do not cooperate?
We are really headed in a wrong direction. And we need to turn around.
If you think I am paranoid, think about the people who are spending so much money to collect my e-mails. I am an old lady. I remember recent history. I know about the Soviet Union and NAZI Germany. We are not there yet, but we need to preserve and protect our freedom because we have put in place a lot of programs that lend themselves easily to repression.
I'm hoping that Obama will look critically at some of these programs like surveillance and go to the people and get some changes made.
My neighborhood is a wonderful place to live, yet we have gang killings not that far from my street. There has to be a solution other than massive surveillance and the gulag mentality.