"They have, with the backing of hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate money, gained tremendous power. They peddle pseudoscience such as “Intelligent Design” in our schools. They keep us locked into endless and futile wars of imperialism. They mount bigoted crusades against gays, immigrants, liberals and Muslims. They turn our judiciary, in the name of conservative values, over to corporations. They have transformed our liberal class into hand puppets for corporate power. And we remain meek and supine.
The huge amount of taxpayer money doled out to Wall Street, investment banks, the oil and natural gas industry and the defense industry, along with the dismantling of our manufacturing sector, is why we are impoverished."
This is but a small part of one of the best written expose's of the truth of our social peril that I have come across ... please read the entire article and comment ...
"There will be no swastikas this time but seas of red, white and blue flags and Christian crosses. There will be no stiff-armed salutes, but recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance." By Chris Hedges ... ( http://www.alternet.org/story/148467/how_radical_christian_conservatives_may_succeed_in_destroying_democracy?page=entire )
(original at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978604626 where there are many active links to related material)
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