We’re beginning to look a lot like a police state, and they did it not through force, but by winning hearts and minds, by taking a marketable message and feeding it to the masses.
By Aaron Baldwin | Activate the Mechanism!
It seems like these guys (the extreme right, the heads of big business, the ultra wealthy, fundamentalist) have just progressively gotten more and more brazen over the years. They are at a point now where it’s like they seriously don’t give a fuck any more, they just do what ever the fuck they want and half of the US just looks the other way because they live in the Fox News universe and think that everyone is picking on the rich people and want free handouts.
Meanwhile the ones who don’t live in Fox’s alternate reality are labeled socialists, terrorists, hippies, or what ever other scary buzzword is popular at the time. They have managed to damn near completely divide the public with this bullshit and now get away with damn near anything they want because everyone is too busy arguing about wedge issues or religious “moral” bullshit.
Stories like this one (The AIG CEO who is suing the government for more taxpayer money) aren’t even widely or accurately reported in the media, it’s the type of stuff you have to go hunting for, shit like this happens and everyone is too busy screaming about how taxing the rich at a higher rate is some kind of class warfare.
An uninformed public is VERY easy to control, as evident by all the posts around the internet I’ve seen lately either cheering the police for using excessive force on the protesters or telling the people getting the excessive force used on them that it’s their own damn fault for protesting.
They’ve actually managed to instill in a lot of Americans that any kind of dissent is grounds to get you ass kicked, pepper-sprayed, or shot with rubber bullets, like the government is supposed to be our authoritarian daddy, that sure as hell doesn’t sound like freedom to me.
We’re beginning to look a lot like a police state, and they did it not through force, but by winning hearts and minds, by taking a marketable message and feeding it to the masses.
“When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross”
