What's the saying, "if you ignore history you are doomed to repeat it?" Americans right now are not only ignoring history but constantly trying to re-write it. There is this longing desire among the right wing to take us back to our tarnished past. Back to the good old days of union busting, racism, and second class personhood for women. The government official who used to serve all the electorate now only serves the rich. Billionaires are now treated like little monarchs reigning over the serfs. They have the money to trumpet their agenda constantly with television and radio hosts that have convinced the intellectually lazy American that it is the patriotic thing to vote against their own self interests and embrace their prejudices. The days of we are all created equal are over. Now corporations are people, my friend. Yes they are. Big oil and gas can now destroy million year old water aquifers with impunity. State legislatures can pass laws throwing out local elections and appoint their own ideological minded managers. The EPA, an agency started by Richard Nixon, is now considered a job killing efete staffed, unnecessary beuracracy. Wait til this next election. When the zealots take total control again, the death spiral of democracy will be complete and we will be the United Corporations of America.
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