Lizzie Borden: Since the Reagan Revolution, weve become the land of kings, warlords and theocrats. As Thomas Jefferson pointed out, from the founding of Samaria 7000 years ago until 1776, one of three types of people and groups ruled everyone else. They were the hereditary kings, violent warlords or theocrats. They justified these forms of tyranny by saying that the people could not rule themselves, and instead had to be ruled by somebody else. Prosperity theology teaches that you are rich because God made you that way. The logical flip-side of this is that if you are poor, God made you that way. The military industrial complex takes up nearly half of the entire U.S. budget each year, with much of it being privatized and its profits going to the billionaires (a.k.a the hereditary kings), and their defense corporations. The Founding Fathers never envisioned this return to the brutal and dictatorial power structure that dominated the globe for thousands of years, and stripped rights from the people. More importantly, its fundamentally undemocratic.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:18:43 +0000
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