Present-DayAmerica Is Not Your Father’s Democracy

In itsbrief history, American democracy has endured its share of difficult moments.It’s most recent serious challenge to Constitutional Rights on a large scalewas during the 1950s witch hunting orchestrated by Eugene McCarthy.

Duringthis brief but painful era, Americans who were deemed “un-American” wereseverely punished if they didn’t support pro-government policies and ideologiesregardless of their right to protest and express a different opinion than thatof the government and big business.

Thispunishment was based often on nothing more than suspicion, hearsay andinnuendo, and unhesitatingly applied to sympathizers simply by “guilt byassociation”; in sum ostracization from American society.

Toprotect themselves and keep their jobs many Americans were coerced by theiremployers into signing a “loyalty oath”.

We’veentered another dark cycle in which similar policies are casting a far widernet over the American citizenry, thanks to high-tech, that compromises theirConstitutional right of free speech.

Millionsof sometimes unwitting minions, from America’s youth to mega-corporations, havebeen unofficially and politically deputized to cancel, fire, ostracize evenjail those who exercise their Constitutional First Amendment rights even forthe most frivolous comments.

AForeign Perspective

Perhapssome Americans may think that all this political drama during the past administrationshas been nothing more than “making a mountain out of a mole hill” with alarmistrantings by mainstream media, citizen journalists and social media in general.

However,according to the following polls, many foreigners globally have a far differentperspective of American democracy and that its erosion is real and a threat to personalfreedoms worldwide.

Thefollowing chart entitled US No Longer Seen as a ShiningExample of Democracyprovided by the Pew Research Center articulates those sentiments.

[Thecaveat to this poll is that only about 1,000 citizens from each country wereasked this question. However, alternate sources, often through informal comments,across the social media platform roughly supports these sentiments]. 

The Asian-SpecificPerspective

Thefollowing chart entitled US Image Deteriorates in Parts ofAsia, alsoprovided by the Pew Research Center polling about 1,000 citizens from eachcountry, gives the Asian-specific response to the state of US democracy.

Despitethe paucity of citizens queried in each country, the responses have beenconsistent from all of them lending greater credence that this deterioration ofdemocracy is not an illusion.

TotalitarianCreep

Thisbecomes concerning when multiple fuzzy, ill-defined red lines are crossednamely breaching Constitutional rights and other piecemeal legal incursionssuch as different interpretations of established laws.

This trendhas been made possible through quiet, progressive undermining stealth of 21^stcentury technology under the guise of so-called personal security for thecitizenry and convenience for the consumer.

DeepState Centurions

Increasingprivate/public collaboration combines two powerful forces to impose behaviormodification on the citizenry.

Mega-corporationscontrol the essential products & services. For this reason, their agendawith government, basically power & control, are closely aligned thusfacilitating close cooperation.

Thegovernment control legal and tax policies that support mega-corporations. Theyaccomplish this as follows:

• ·      The government shields privateentities from questionable business practices by reinterpreting present-daylaws.
• ·      The government provides generouslong-term tax incentives to private entities that support government interestsin remaking society.
• ·      The government raises taxes andaggressively enforces their collection from the citizenry.
• ·      To ensure that government doesn’tstray from their mutually agreed upon objectives, mega-corporations utilizetheir “shock troops” namely lobbyists who are the dark influencers.

TheNew Dominant Corporate Invasive Species

Governmenthas enabled several industries, notably Big Tech, Big Pharma, mainstream media,the de facto state media, serve an outsized influence not only in theirrespective industries, but on the American socio-political way of life.

The aforementionedmega-corporations operate broad & deep, intertwined and inter-dependent throughpolicy & practice cross-fertilization. They limit competition by creatinghigh barriers to entry through stifling regulations and taxation.

TheNew Dominant Human Invasive Species

Theinvasion of millions of illegal immigrants are the new GMO human seedlings whocome from brutal totalitarian regimes. Their self-interests are neatly alignedwith mega-corporations since their environment was created through brutal,non-democratic power & control. For this reason, the US is paradise.

Theillegal migrants represent the new future base of multi-generational obedientdrones, by default and/or design, unofficially deputized through permissive enforcementpolicies, to keep the American-born and legally naturalized “in line” withpublic/private policies by outvoting them in key areas of the country.

Theseillegal migrants represent the all-important counterweight to blunt anyorganized resistance to increasing public/private control of policies overresources. This influence will harden should they be granted naturalizationenabling them to work in varying sectors and displace the American-born, white &blue collar workers.

Thegrowing and near-future powerbase is in the hands of the illegal migrantchildren who, in 20 years, will be the loyal guardians of their public/privatemasters.

Conclusions& Takeaways

Regardlessof which candidate wins the upcoming presidential election, theanti-Constitutional elements, mega-corporations and newly arrived illegal humancapital, are already pre-positioned and embedded in the American business andsocial fabric to carry out any and all their desired policies to offset thedemocratic voting process.

For thisreason, America is already in an era of an illiberal democracy-lite, thecontrolling elements being distraction and misdirection encouraging theAmerican public to indulge in unabated consumerism and non-sensicalentertainment but restrictive free speech.

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