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Bush: Ruining The American Dream

 

I believe Americans will look back later this century to the rise

of Bush Republicanism to explain why the American Dream became

the American Nightmare and why the great American Democratic

Experiment started by the Founding Fathers failed. The names of

Bush, Cheney, Delay, Frist, Rove, Rice, Harris, Scalia, Thomas

and Blackwell will be linked forever with the decline of United

States. Corporate America will be the institutional power blamed

for the political rise of Bush Republicanism and the resulting

destruction of America’s greatness!

 

America was a great nation long before it was a world-class

military or economic power. America was great based on the ideas

advanced by our Founding Fathers. We were to have a government of

and by the people. We were to be a nation of laws. Wealth and

power were to play a role in government but not be the

government. The power of the elite was to be curbed by

principles. The set of principles advanced by our Founding

Fathers defined America. They were the American Dream. They began

the great American Democratic Experiment! For the next two

hundred years, American history was the story of making the

American Dream a reality and the great American Democratic

Experiment a success.

 

These struggles were not easy. Elite elements constantly

struggled against both the American Dream and our expanding

Democracy. We had to overcome slavery, expand voting rights to

include the poor and women, struggle to devise an economic system

that would permit the American middle class to grow and prosper

and fight to curb tendencies toward racism and religious

intolerance.

 

Excessive concentrations of wealth were always threatening to

undo the good work of millions of Americans accumulated over

generations.

 

Only in the last few decades of the 20th Century did America

start to suffer the excesses of success. The working classes and

middle classes made America great in economic and military terms

by strictly supporting the great American Democratic Experiment.

The American Dream had for most Americans become a reality. Most

Americans took this situation for granted and did not see that

threats to it were always going to exist.

 

The seeds of disaster were being nurtured by the increasingly

bitter, resentful economic elite. The idea had grown among these

elements that their wealth should give them the right to rule

over the American nation. They systematically gathered their

forces and set out to undermine our system of government and

politics.

 

Billions of dollars were eventually expended to distort the

political processes and corrupt both political discussion and

government. Rules concerning both elections and economic monopoly

power slowly were assaulted until they were no longer obstacles

blocking the elite from ruling the nation basically unchecked.

 

Politics became nasty to discourage the average citizen from

getting involved. Media fell almost exclusively under Corporate

control to keep citizens in ignorance of their declining

political and economic role in America’s future. The economy was

opened to foreign wealthy elements to increase the collective

power of the elite and put pressure on America’s working classes

and middle classes. The poor and minorities became the popular

scapegoats because the wealthy financed these efforts to shift

the blame from themselves for their policies. Tax burdens fell

for the wealthiest and Corporations while rising for others. The

wealthiest and Corporations created a national debt and profited

by financing that debt collecting interest. The standard of

living of the average Americans began to decline. They started

wars to make themselves profits.

 

Other nations created very successful systems of national

healthcare for all citizens. In America, wealthy political

figures like Bill Frist, Tom Delay and George Bush stopped this

from happening. Millions of Americans suffered ill health and

premature deaths because of their actions. The Corporate Media

abetted this horrible political policy crime against the American

Dream.

 

Our system of free elections fell under the control of private,

Republican connected corporations. The voting counting systems

became both private and secret. They could no longer be trusted.

Government actors like Ken Blackwell and Katherine Harris seemed

to act to promote Republican victory instead of honest counting.

Supreme Court Justices like Scalia and Thomas ignored

long-standing judicial precedents and conflict of interest

standards for federal judges to secure election victories for

Bush Republicans. Americans lost faith in our election processes.

Corporate elites rejoiced.

 

Dick Cheney held private meetings with oil industry executives to

set government policy in government offices with government

staff. Many believe that these meeting included detailed plans

where American oil companies were dividing up Iraq’s oil fields

in a post invasion plan long before the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

Many believe that the current high oil prices were planned at

these same meetings. Cheney refuses to release the details to the

American taxpayer. Scalia and Thomas expanded executive privilege

power to protect Cheney and deny American knowledge about their

government’s actions.

 

George Bush started appointing federal judges holding radically

elitist, anti-democratic views and pro-Corporate political

philosophies at every opportunity. Judges were appointed who held

views like " Social Security is a communist idea " and " government

has not power to regulate pollution " and " money is free speech "

to life-long positions of power in the federal courts. Bill Frist

threatened to change the rules of the US Senate and thwart the

intentions of our Founding Fathers just to get these radical

judges into positions of power.

 

Failing a serious political revolt and a shake-up in our current

political system, I fear the future for the American nation and

the American Dream is extremely bleak. I think Bush Republicanism

may finally have killed the great American Democratic Experiment.

I will spend the rest of my life fighting to rekindle the flames

of both the American Dream and American Democracy but I am unsure

of victory. I am just one little guy and relatively unimportant.

To my fellow citizens, I ask one question " Are you with me? "

 

Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio

_http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com_

 

Mail: 7A Planville Drive, Fayetteville, TN 37334.

Email: _midsouthcm_ (midsouthcm) .

 

 

 

Mark Hull-Richter, U.S. Citizen & Patriot

U.S.A. - From democracy to kakistocracy in one fell coup.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0416-01.htm

http://verifiedvoting.org http://blackboxvoting.org

 

 

 

 

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