This new realignment, became evident in the 1980's when Corporations used Constitutional rights such as the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments in legal cases to belligerently proclaim protection in disputes concerning Free Speech, Search and Seizure and Double Jeopardy. As the new reality dawned and legal challenges esculated from within the business community , States followed the lead of the Federal government removing many of the past commerce constraints making industries virtually self regulating.
In the aftermath, our Nation has changed. Domestic and foreign policies have been altered to serve the interests of business donors who generously contribute to political campaigns. Half - truths such as those about Jessica Lynch or WMD's are floated as patriotic empathy by elected leaders and circulated through a complicit media driven by the same acquisitive desire of the false gods they serve. Moral phrases such as, "In God We Trust," have become nothing more than meaningless political slogans invoked by empty faces devoid of the values they purport to represent. Think tanks are recruited to devise sales pitches to disarm our reservations about whatever happens to be the latest plan in vogue.
The modern United States we are witnessing has chosen the path of a deregulated business society, adept at using the media, legal system, political power and money to achieve its ends. This combination of influences is the antithesis to the meaning of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. An extreme, amoral philosophy has been christened and elevated to the top of a ethical society.
Persons are free to disagree but only to the extent it doesn't conflict with the desired goals of the artificial bodies who control the agenda. Dissent, a form of reasoning, is met with increased monitoring of your lifestyle. Corporate immunity as opposed to human freedom appears to have become the leading objective, whatever the costs either monetarily or socially. Good conduct doesn't seem to be a motivating factor within the realms of this altered, reconditioned environment.
Our Founding Fathers sought to defend this Country from the excesses of a material society by establishing as its cornerstone protection of human dignity above institutions. This rule no longer exists. Our Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness haven't been extinguished but redefined to mean principles of politically correct behavior. As long as we stay within that parameter, we are free to enjoy the independence dictated to us by the new revisionists. Is it a receipe for tyranny ?
While eating your barbecue this Fourth of July, consider the words of current DNC chairman and former Presidental candidate Howard Dean while on the campaign trail in 2004:
"The Americans I have met love their country. They believe deeply in its promise, our values and our principles but they know something is wrong and want to take action."
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