Fw: Do Americans simply love Fairy Tales, or what?

Subject: Do Americans simply love Fairy Tales, or what?

I'm still stuck on this recurring theme that America has an incompetent government. 

What disconnect is going on in American's minds?  Do we just like being schmoozed? 

Have our little brains been so conditioned by tales of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy that we believe any pretty lie that comes past our eyes and ears on the Tube? 

How do we reconcile our belief that government is incompetent, on the one hand, and so powerful that it can declare illegal wars and bomb the Hell out of nations not even at war with it, on the other?  This incompetent government has built the most frightening military machine ever known to the world.  Spies in every corner of the world.  Secret missions that never see the light of day.  Unrestrained murder of people huddled in villages, even hunting down American citizens to kill without a fair trial...or any sort of trial. 

This incompetent government has been able to destroy the great American Middle Class.  That's no small feat. 

This incompetent government has allowed the working folks to now face a significant decrease in their standard of living.  This incompetent government has supported the crushing of public unions, and is now supporting the end to the Postal Union and Postal Services which have served the American People for centuries.  This incompetent government is tearing down the public education system along with public health. 

And how is this incompetent government able to do all of this? 

Because, my Fairy Tale Believers, it is doing exactly what it has been paid to do.  There is no such thing as an Incompetent Government.  That is smoke being blown up your noses. 

Come on!  We've seen far less incompetent governments around the world crash and burn. 

This government is doing what it has been paid to do.  And we are sucked into believing that all the bright people we elected to office suddenly become stupid as soon as the enter Washington D.C.  Really?  We really believe this?  Now tell me just who the dumb ones are. 

But you see, we've been conditioned to believe in Fairy Tales. 

 

Carl Jarvis
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Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves. --Eugene Victor Debs
1855-1926

 

"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence."
Eugene Victor Debs 

 

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Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves. --Eugene Victor Debs
1855-1926