Like fish who are unaware that they swim in water, most USans are willfully unaware that they live in such a murderous, evil system because it is their "normality". Every part of our culture, but especially "news" and entertainment media, confirms this perverse, violent "normality".
To pull oneself out of it and see it clearly seems like extremism, exaggeration, and hysteria to most people I know. I realize I am considered by some to be such an "extremist" for seeing things as I do, but 45 years of intense thought and grappling with these basic questions of morality have resulted in my current perspective.
As an "extremist", I now realize that a "moderate" is someone who quietly supports the murderous U.S. global Empire abroad and the corporate state at home which redistributes income from the poor and middle class to the Ruling Class, while saying she or he supports "civil rights" such as women's rights and gay rights. One who truly champions global economic justice and the abolition of war, and especially of nuclear weapons, is considered an "extremist". Sanity is "extreme". U.S. imperialism is "moderate" and "sensible", "practical and "pragmatic", provided you are not one of its tens of millions of victims worldwide.
As a result, I will no longer willingly participate in this system of officially authorized murder and destructive exploitation of people and our only planet, and its continuing preparations for mass murder by the most powerful arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in history. I will no longer contribute to this evil system's undeserved legitimacy by voting in its sham elections and faux "democracy".
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