'The land of the free'

 

I am deeply sad, angry and (partially) discouraged.

 

One of my relatives wrote to me,

saying, 

'I am not up on all these world wide politics, but it seems to me that we are already at war. China is trying to take over African countries. Russia is killing its own people. We are doomed!'

 

I wrote back, 

' I think you have it all upside down - just as the corporate elites want. The more confusion in the minds of the American people - the more of their tax dollars they allow to be shoveled into endless war.'

 

I am also disgusted

with some of my 'peace peers'

who do understand what is going on,

but keep their heads down,

to cover their arses.

 

The so-called 'progressive

movements' have swallowed

more of capitalist ethics 

than they'd ever like to admit.

 

Dog-eat-dog, keep your nose clean,

climb the ladder (academic, NGO, corporate,

it's all virtually the same game)

 

The US-American

is generally (with some noble exceptions)

greedy and self-centered.

How can you not be growing up in this

rag-a-muffin nation spending a lifetime

ingesting corporate TV BS?

 

A friend just had his YouTube channel

deleted for having dared

tell the truth as he best knew it. 

 

Used to be called 'freedom of speech',

but these days under corporate fascism,

one will be labeled a Putinista or Red-Chinese.

 

New enemies are being 

daily demonized

and fear is being spread,

like manure in a pig pen.

 

This is where we are at.

 

America is going down hard.

 

I'm tired of urging, pleading,

begging my peers to speak up.

 

Obviously comfort trumps

anything else - including the kids and grandkids future.

 

But oh well, 

this is why they call it

the 'land of the free',

right?

 

The only way, 

the west can stay

king-of-the-hill

is to lie, cheat, steal, kill,

and then lie some more.

 

Even its own citizens

must have their minds

colonized.

 

It's a deep and evil sickness.

It's so sad.

Bruce

“The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar world order are taking shape. An increasing number of countries and peoples are choosing a path of free and sovereign development based on their own distinct identity, traditions and values.”
~Vladimir Putin

"The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders."
~Patrick Lawrence (Journalist)