And the deal set us up for worse to come.
When
the GOP loses
Nothing so enhances the power of Republican propaganda, which relies heavily on endless, meaningless bullshit about freedom, as the lies told by both major parties and virtually all the media about the role of our military today, throughout the last century, and from the day after the Civil War.
That is where the endless bullshit about freedom begins.
Apart from the Cold War, none of all that was about defending our freedom.
So far as that goes, even the Cold War was that only in the minds of people delusional enough to think the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, or North Vietnamese were ever going to invade the US.
Those would be the same buffoons who think Hitler wanted to conquer the world, along with the Kaiser.
Or anyone with a bumper sticker that says something like "Land of the free, thanks to the brave."
If you believe any of that silly drivel you're a sure thing to believe Obama is a Muslim and Obamacare is a communist plot to impose tyranny on America.
Which, by the way, is exactly what Ronald Reagan said about Medicare when LBJ proposed it and the Congress was considering it.
And Barry Goldwater, of course.
Heck.
The John Birch society thought, or said they thought, Eisenhower was a red.
The conservatives are not one whit crazier or more full of shit now than they were 50 years ago.
Just a lot more unscrupulous about the "collateral damage" they inflict to get their way.
Well, maybe not.
In large part, the Cold War was just rich people sending the children of their wage slaves to die in the defense of their property.
And in part it made their endless horror propaganda about communism seem more credible, making it easier for them to insure that of all the world's rich nations we had the least social democracy.
Nothing so enhances the power of Republican propaganda, which relies heavily on endless, meaningless bullshit about freedom, as the lies told by both major parties and virtually all the media about the role of our military today, throughout the last century, and from the day after the Civil War.
That is where the endless bullshit about freedom begins.
Apart from the Cold War, none of all that was about defending our freedom.
So far as that goes, even the Cold War was that only in the minds of people delusional enough to think the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, or North Vietnamese were ever going to invade the US.
Those would be the same buffoons who think Hitler wanted to conquer the world, along with the Kaiser.
Or anyone with a bumper sticker that says something like "Land of the free, thanks to the brave."
If you believe any of that silly drivel you're a sure thing to believe Obama is a Muslim and Obamacare is a communist plot to impose tyranny on America.
Which, by the way, is exactly what Ronald Reagan said about Medicare when LBJ proposed it and the Congress was considering it.
And Barry Goldwater, of course.
Heck.
The John Birch society thought, or said they thought, Eisenhower was a red.
The conservatives are not one whit crazier or more full of shit now than they were 50 years ago.
Just a lot more unscrupulous about the "collateral damage" they inflict to get their way.
Well, maybe not.
In large part, the Cold War was just rich people sending the children of their wage slaves to die in the defense of their property.
And in part it made their endless horror propaganda about communism seem more credible, making it easier for them to insure that of all the world's rich nations we had the least social democracy.
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