That separation was an article of the Constitution before Bush Junior's appointment by a court so corrupt it was necessary for its highly partisan justices to invoke new law to install an immoral half-wit to the presidency. The imbecile Bush, just as in Orwell's perpetual war between Eurasia and Oceana, warned Americans that the war in Iraq would be without end.
The corporate state, in the interests of cheaper labor, has exported the U.S. manufacturing base out of the country. American workers are no longer able to produce the products the rest of the world recognizes as valuable. The collapse of the housing industry will be shortly followed by the collapse of the health care industry. The U.S. Congress, a corporate entity in its own right, intends doing nothing whatsoever towards controlling the ever spiraling costs of corporative health care. The appointment of Bush Junior to the presidency vastly escalated the diminishment of the U.S. as a responsible member of the world community. Today the government, fronting for the corporate state, must borrow ever increasing sums from foreign lenders as the government's money machine runs 24/7 printing dollars - all in a futile effort to sustain an unsustainable economy.
Bush Junior's wars were necessary Americans are told endlessly, just as Obama's continuation of them are. They have primarily served as another nail the United State's economic coffin. The wars are needed to keep the corporate defense department working while the U.S. dollar loses its status as the world's fiat currency. Even Zimbabwe, that tiny South African Nation, has replaced the dollar with the South African Rand. Russia, China, India and many other nations have taken steps to distance themselves from the U.S. dollar, and are increasingly refusing to acknowledge it as the world's reserve currency.
Back at the loony bin, media clowns distort the meaning of the Constitution, and lie with complete impunity for the express purpose of exciting the crowd. It is not possible to argue with Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, or their devoted audiences. Their language is couched in the simple cadences of emotional hysteria. No reasoned, thoughtful appeal can hope to penetrate the crowd's mind, that would only see such appeal as a tedious trial upon its extremely limited attention. The crowd desires, needs, the copious outpouring of extremity in the form of hate, slander and abuse. They need a tangible victim for their pain, and liberals serve admirably in that capacity. Their intransient ignorance permits them to believe that a liberal media dominates, and all the abundant evidence to the contrary will not sway them from believing it.
This is corporate crowd control at its best. It not only isolates the corporate detractors, but serves a further purpose - the erosion of language as a communication tool that has the power to sway and influence with logical and thoughtful debate. Newt Gingrich introduced a studied incivility to Congress during his climb to power. He developed a list of code words with which to slander his opponents. "betray, corrupt, shame, sick, steal, liar, thief and traitor were a few such words that Gingrich urged his republican colleagues to surreptitiously use against democrats. Ironically, those words applied very specifically to Newt himself when he was charged, as House Speaker, of no less than 84 ethics violations. Any tyrant knows that an attack against a nation's language must be one of the first steps to absolute control.
The president is a man who wants to please the powerful to the extent he will abandon his base to do so. Obama caught the progressive community in a weak moment. After Bush, anyone at all who wasn't a Washington fixture, seemed an ideal candidate. Hillary Clinton, in retrospect, would have been a far more assertive and effective president. If she comes back in 2012 she'll win the election going away. As the corporations continue consolidating power the common men and women will find themselves increasingly helpless. They can't fight back because they have little money, and forcing change onto the corporate structure is a very expensive proposition. Lacking the dollars is exacerbated by the millions of Americans who consider any government program that benefits Americans as socialist, even though it was socialism that saved the capitalist banks from themselves. The corporations, with their network media, make certain that a large number of Americans are kept believing such nonsense. Orwell's insight into the future was uncannily accurate.
The polarization of the two major U.S. political parties has resulted, as it was meant to, in an angry and resentful south and mid-west. Progressives in the northeast and far west futilely attempt bringing some kind of sanity to a nation gone mad. For their efforts they are rewarded with cries of derision and hate by the conservatives. The end result, if nothing changes, will most likely be the realization of Orwell's dystopian vision.
The corporate monsters, who are directly responsible for destroying so much that Americans once held dear, will go undetected and unpunished. In fact they will very likely continue stealing America's minerals, forest products and other natural resources. Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and the many other hate radio and television loonies have done their work well. Americans are polarized into two camps, and the corporate monster is giddy over its success. Giving personhood to the corporate entity was the nation's undoing. It was only a matter of time until Congress was bought, and Americans lost their representative government. When the banks helped themselves to multiple trillions of the public's money, all argument that government is still representative became superfluous even for those who still clung to the illusion they were living in a representative democracy. "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. --- George Orwell
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