Have we become what we hate?

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This passage is a good description of the Washington-based military-security complex:

" . . . a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned . . .”

It is actually John F. Kennedy’s description of the Soviet empire in 1961.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-watchnewspaper-publishers-association-19610427

Have we become what we once hated?

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Yes. It is inevitable.

Not “we.”

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Perhaps “we” in the sense of elements in the US government, not “we the people”.

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Of the people, by the people. Government is a reflection. It didn’t become what it is on its own. This isn’t an accident.

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That’s why we get the Government “WE deserve”.
If we could install robots with specificaly programed brains we’d get a Gov. we wish we’d have.

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Yes and we can thank all the elections fraud!

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Move the needle

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Professor Sachs provides a good summary of the state of the US government.

The security state, which includes the Pentagon and the CIA, determines US foreign policy and military policy. The White House has only a very limited input. Congress and American voters are irrelevant.

We have an unelected politburo running overseas wars and regime-change operations in the name of “defending democracy and freedom”. Stalin would be proud.