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Edited on Tue Apr-27-04 12:55 PM by JohnOneillsMemory
(From my own rant archives after studying history for years)
Around 50% still think Bush* is trustworthy! Given that everything he's said publicly for years has been a lie, why is this?
Unfortunately, Americans have been subjected to scientifically applied propaganda by an alliance of corporate-dominated government agencies and corporate-dominated media outlets, especially TV, to successfully hijack control of the biggest arsenal on the planet, the US government. .
Religion is the deepest imbedded cultural system that promotes rejecting logic for irrational emotion. Television is a close second for filling the collective American mind with manipulative fearmongering. Combined, they are a 24/7 Nuremberg rally of adrenalin and endorphins, a daily drip of red-white-and-blue indoctri-Nation-alism.
This isn't just leftist rhetoric. It is real science developed by behavioral scientists, neurologists, sociologists, linguists, and historians.
And the diagnosis for conservative America is an ‘Authoritarian Personality’ which is a precursor to a pathological behavior called FASCISM.
After WWII, psychologists turned their studies to figuring out what personality traits led to large populations accepting the inhumane fascism of Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler. What they discovered was something they termed 'The Authoritarian Personality' which, in a nutshell, is fearful and prone to seeking security through pack identity (virulent nationalism), attacking other identity groups (like Jews, blacks, gypsys, gays, Muslims, etc.), and revering cruel dictators (the strong father as Fuhrer).
All that ugly behavior results from intentionally exaggerating people's fears in order to inflame a part of the brain called the amygdala that is vigilant against possible threats. Millions of years ago, the amygdala was the most important part of our brain that kept us from getting eaten by other animals. We have since evolved more sophisticated brain systems that allows us to be social and rationally discern who wants to harm us and who just wants to have the next dance. The amygdala responds quickly without using the rational left-brain thought process that people such as 'liberal elitists' might use to think for themselves instead of blindly accepting the things they are told by authority figures and the media. Since vision has been the most important tool for identifying friend from foe, television has been a brainwasher's dream tool for instilling propaganda into the American psyche.
Consequently, Americans have been raised to erroneously believe that they:
1) live in a democracy where their government represents them.
2) compete in free markets.
3) share equal opportunity for all.
4) see their government spreading democracy and protecting the innocent around the world.
5) inherited the status of Best in Show Among Humans in 1776, 1945, 1991 and 2003 by winning the Revolutionary War, WWII, and both Iraq Wars I and II. (Korea is forgotten and Vietnam is used for blaming.)
These are all lies taught to American children in school and then reinforced every day in movies and on TV for the rest of their lives. There is a well defined historical narrative that describes America as the strongest and most virtuous moral force in the world ever. So surely the President of these United States must embody all that is good about our country.
I call this Superman-Jesus-in-a-Cowboy-Hat Syndrome. Ronald Reagan fit this movie-role-as-national-identity perfectly for many Americans who didn't realize that he was a senile figurehead for a cabal of murderers who successfully portrayed the poor as lazy thieves and secretly armed terrorists against foreign governments in the name of Christian compassion and democracy.
Here is how Americans have been led down the path to a Master Race group-think that accepts as both inevitable and just that domestic policy should be eugenics and foreign policy, imperialism:
Ever since the US lost the Vietnam War, the social atmosphere here has been very similar to post-WWI Germany. The hyper-nationalist German people were told in the summer of 1918 that they were winning World War I. But in the fall, they were suddenly informed that they had lost. They were stunned and angry as the victorious Allies raped them economically and their orderly society imploded into chaos. They looked around to find who among them had betrayed them and robbed them of their much-deserved victory over their inferiors. They demonized, assaulted, and killed Jews, labor unionists, socialists, Gypsys, and homosexuals.
The same scapegoating atmosphere bloomed in the US after Nixon was disgraced and the Vietnam War was revealed to be a quagmire of atrocities which had also ruined the economy. The Republicans have cleverly exploited this petulant atmosphere of entitlement denied to bring us to where we are today, mired in a culture war against liberals, feminists, blacks, homosexuals, and dangerous Middle Eastern foreigners, pretty much the same targets as the Nazis.
Ever wonder why 'liberal' became a swear word? Now you know. It is the American power structure’s synonym for ‘Jew.’
In fact, there is a name for this late 20th century fascist movement brought into the early 21st century:
Dominionism.
Dominionism is an alliance between Christian fundamentalists, Cold Warrior Fascists, and the Military Industrial Oil Complex, just like the rise of the German Nazis who, by remarkable coincidence, were also financed and supplied in their day by many US corporations, including George W. Bush's financier grandfather, Prescott Bush.
A coup against president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was organized by some of the largest US corporations in 1934 to prevent his New Deal from tempering capitalism and warding off mass poverty and starvation. The coup was prevented at the last minute by General Smedley Butler who played along with the plot when he was asked to help until blowing the whistle on those enemies of the Constitution. The Senate held a brief and embarassing investigation into their own financial backers and then quietly buried the matter. After years of ever more influence and control of the US government, the drug, oil, and weapons industries finally succeeded in the coup of 2000 with the court appointment of the general election's loser, George W. Bush.
It all rather makes sense, doesn't it? Military and financial powers work hand in hand to reinforce and protect each other by keeping people starving and fighting each other over worthless things like flags and uniforms. Meanwhile, the powerful swell up like ticks on the blood of the people they fool into doing the fighting and reward them with not much more than parades, ribbons, plaques, and brass bands.
Because this is the key to understanding politics-
Power protects power and gives not a whit for morality. Hence the pathological amorality of corporations. And nation states behave as corporations, not as the sum total of the words to their national anthems.
Power has a vested interest in keeping people divided, fearful, and ignorant using all those -isms we've become wary of.
Some Americans see through this and have evolved past nationalism and racism but lately it seems that a majority have not. And there is an alliance of media corporateers and fascist politicians who are determined to prevent Americans from finding out how this scam works. If you have figured out anything about life in America, consider sharing it with your fellow Americans so we can all evolve a little faster.
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