First published in Blasting News:
America has lost its way, it has become a land of the
oppressed where billionaires own our government and nothing is owed to the
working poor.
War is possible because we wage it against people we don’t
know or understand. Our children are sent to kill people in lands where we do
not speak the language or understand the culture. We are hermetically sealed in our own brutal capitalist
culture of dog-eat-dog. If you are not privileged you have no value
and the privileged shall not contribute to the greater good of the country. America has lost its way, it is run by the offspring
of the elite who advance the interests of the oligarchs.
The war against working poor
The billionaire owned media control the debate and the
message that is drilled into the American psyche twenty-four seven. We are told low wages are a reality and jobs
are not coming back to America. It is in
that atmosphere, that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have broken out of the
iron clad shell that has been constructed around our people. This week during Trump’s visit with Mexico’s
President Nieto he said “workers in both of our countries need a pay raise, very desperately. In the United
States, it’s been 18 years, 18 years wages are going down. Improving pay
standards and working conditions will create better results for all and all
workers in particular.”
Americanism not globalism
What a departure from what we’re told by our wealthy politicians
who have told Americans to “suck it up” low wages are the new reality. Later, Donald Trump speaking before the
American Legion said “the men and women of the American Legion represent the
best of America. Strength, courage, selfless devotion. Your organization, and
its members, have done so much to defend our country, our flag, and to advance
the cause of Americanism – not Globalism.”
Military pawns for neocon wars
Those words are in beautiful contrast to the outrage that
has taken over our wonderful country starting with the presidency of Harry
Truman. Congress usurped power from the President and unleashed the nuclear
bomb on Japan in an unprecedented act of horror that led to a new age American aggression against people of
the world. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger described the new attitude toward working Americans best when he said
“military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.”
Ugly Americanism was
ushered in with the Nixon presidency and escalated to new levels after the
American government was overthrown December 12, 2000 with the installation of
the world’s most ignorant leader, George W. Bush. The age of ignorance, bigotry and vicious
disregard for the working men and women became the new world order. It was advanced by both of the political
parties in America, for now the military industrial complex controlled our
government, our schools and our airwaves.
Trump and Putin promote enlightenment
And while Trump was pushing for a new American idealism and
worldly understanding, President Vladimir Putin was meeting with Eton school
boys from the UK. Putin has been
demonized along with Trump by the oligarchs who rely on an ignorant populous to
promote war.
Putin has repeatedly shown his mastery of the game of
politics. In agreeing to meet with the
students from Eton, Putin was investing in future relations between Russia and
the world. Nineteen of the UK’s prime ministers were educated at Eton so
meeting with the next generation can only promote peace in the world. While America’s pampered, war mongering
congress languishes on a much undeserved vacation, Putin and Trump sing the
working man’s blues.
By Patricia Baeten
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