Funk and Wagnalls def. “n. 1. A one party system in which the individual is subordinated to the state<\/p>\n
and control is maintained by military force, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental<\/p>\n
regimentation of\u00a0industry and finance.”<\/p>\n
I would alter the last line of that definition to read “industry and finance’s control of the government.”<\/p>\n
Shall we consider the above vis-a-vis this country? Let’s.<\/p>\n
“A one party system”?, that’s a given. Who believes for a moment that there are two distinct\u00a0 parties<\/p>\n
in this country when both are given over to power, greed, and corruption.<\/p>\n
God, how sick I am of listening to them spout the phrase “the American people” as if they know who<\/p>\n
the American people are or give a rat’s ass, which they don’t.<\/p>\n
Are you “subordinate to the state”?, of course.<\/p>\n
“Control is maintained by military force”. Forget the army for the moment, though they lurk in the<\/p>\n
background, no need for them yet as there is a para-military force called\u00a0“the police” ready and willing<\/p>\n
to crush dissent, as anyone who attended an Occupy event can attest to.<\/p>\n
“Secret police”?; there is more than one government agency qualified for that position, indeed they fight<\/p>\n
among themselves for eminence.<\/p>\n
“Censorship”?, yes sir, but what agency is employed? I give you the Fourth Estate. Censorship means<\/p>\n
not to disclose. Propaganda is a form of censorship. The public is constantly fed fluff for substance<\/p>\n
until it comes to believe that fluff is substance, shades of Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n
As for “Industry and Finance”, as I said earlier, they make all of the above possible.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n
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