The political environment is so corrupt and evil, it's almost headache-making hearing them chanting. It's all a simple thing, really, as William Randolph Hearst said, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
Welcome to yellow journalism, the only kind remaining in America. It's nothing but propaganda and / or outright bullshit and hence the disenchantment. All anyone really wants is honesty and we're not fucking getting it.
The article on Manifest Destiny is not something I want to write but it was necessary when people are not aware of it. Yevette was heartsick and still is to some extent over discovering what Lockheed Martin really does and this created enormous guilt in her. I can't absolve her of her guilt but it's easily understandable when she has been bombarded with the propaganda all her life. Now she sees F-15s bombing Yemeni wedding parties and she's mortified by it. She helped build them.
The article on Manifest Destiny is exactly what happened but without the sugarcoating used to pass it off as righteousness. Just for the sake of a little melodrama, America was the ISIS of the 19th Century although the article notes Abraham Lincoln and other greats were opposed to the imperialism of it.
When Bernie Sanders couldn't swing these heathens from their murderous ways, it's ludicrous to think I can do it so proselytizing isn't just insulting but pointless.
America could make so much more of itself and it's such a damn shame it doesn't. It's hamstrung by centuries old perversions such as Manifest Destiny and far-right extremists refuse to let any of it go. Manifest Destiny didn't make America greater, it only made it bigger. We make America great and the military hardly ever adds anything to that. In my lifetime, it never did.
On a much better note, how about a pic of my ol' Mother in China from just about a hundred years ago.
The Brits were imperialist pigs too but they used the Divine Right of Kings from which Manifest Destiny was copied. You see England now as it rapidly disintegrates as all empires fall eventually and the big ones fall the hardest. The question is whether you're building an empire or a civilization and we see the failure of anywhere which chose empire.
Welcome to yellow journalism, the only kind remaining in America. It's nothing but propaganda and / or outright bullshit and hence the disenchantment. All anyone really wants is honesty and we're not fucking getting it.
The article on Manifest Destiny is not something I want to write but it was necessary when people are not aware of it. Yevette was heartsick and still is to some extent over discovering what Lockheed Martin really does and this created enormous guilt in her. I can't absolve her of her guilt but it's easily understandable when she has been bombarded with the propaganda all her life. Now she sees F-15s bombing Yemeni wedding parties and she's mortified by it. She helped build them.
The article on Manifest Destiny is exactly what happened but without the sugarcoating used to pass it off as righteousness. Just for the sake of a little melodrama, America was the ISIS of the 19th Century although the article notes Abraham Lincoln and other greats were opposed to the imperialism of it.
When Bernie Sanders couldn't swing these heathens from their murderous ways, it's ludicrous to think I can do it so proselytizing isn't just insulting but pointless.
America could make so much more of itself and it's such a damn shame it doesn't. It's hamstrung by centuries old perversions such as Manifest Destiny and far-right extremists refuse to let any of it go. Manifest Destiny didn't make America greater, it only made it bigger. We make America great and the military hardly ever adds anything to that. In my lifetime, it never did.
On a much better note, how about a pic of my ol' Mother in China from just about a hundred years ago.
The Brits were imperialist pigs too but they used the Divine Right of Kings from which Manifest Destiny was copied. You see England now as it rapidly disintegrates as all empires fall eventually and the big ones fall the hardest. The question is whether you're building an empire or a civilization and we see the failure of anywhere which chose empire.
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