by
Girard Newkirk
The United
States has historically been
viewed, especially among
intellectual elites in America,
as the model democratic
structure or the paradigm for
other less democratically
viable countries to emulate.
Ostensibly, this assertion has
some legitimacy with regards to
the founding principles of the
United States. Most Americans
do enjoy the luxury of going to
the polls and voting for the
candidate of their choice
without the worry of being
gunned down or beaten. In
regards to rights, the U.S. has
a wealth of inalienable rights
legitimized by the architects
of the Constitution which allow
most Americans to enjoy
unparalleled freedoms.
However, upon closer social and
political examination the myth
of democracy faces formidable
challenges from the opponent
which is reality.
Over the last two decades, in
particular during the Reagan years and the last two with George W, the
United States is looking less like a democracy and more like a highly
evolved fascist creature. Devoid of the idiosyncrasies and shortcomings
of its progenitors, this form of Fascism has a propaganda machine that is
unarguably the most efficient the world has ever seen. The Bush
administration and its primary accomplice, the profit-driven corporate
media, have successfully created an alternative reality that they sell to
the majority of the American public. For example, roughly 85 percent of
the world was opposed to the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. Yet the American
propaganda machine somehow convinced 60 percent of Americans that a
pathetically weak country 7000 miles away was at any minute going to
destroy the United States. Here is the fascist twist. In a normally
functioning democracy it would seem that even speculation of a preemptive
war would elicit a spectacle of public debate on the implications of such
a drastic shift in policy. However, in the United States
internal dissenting voices were castigated and characterized as being
unpatriotic. The French were stripped of the honorable distinction of
being the adjective used to describe America's favorite fast
food. Hollywood actors and actresses were blacklisted and reprimanded by
studio bosses for being outspoken about their views on the
war. This doesn't sound like the model democracy that is so highly
espoused in American political science journals.
Alexis de Tocqueville said, "in
the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of
ready-made opinions for the use of individual, who are thus relieved from
the necessity of forming opinions of their own." He came to this
conclusion after visiting the United States in the heyday of Jacksonian
Democracy. This has particular relevance today during this climate of
fascism that is rapidly becoming epidemic in the United States. I am
defining fascism as the convergence of military and economic power
on behalf of a highly nationalist ideology which views dissenting voices
as its enemies. The most potent aspect of the Bush administration is its
ability to manipulate the masses. This war was obviously a geopolitical
move for U.S. and other multi-national oil and industrial elites to
increase their supply of oil to keep those profit margins widening. Of
course this aspect of the war only benefits a marginal percentage of the
global population, but the Bush administration disguise their real
interests under the auspices of liberating Iraq. Never mind the U.S.
single-handedly destroyed any real opportunity that Iraq had at freedom by
undermining attempts by the Iraqi democratic opposition to topple Saddam.
The impact of Bush led U.S. Fascism can
be seen over the entire globe. The gap in the distribution of wealth
continues to widen and its obvious that combustible energy fed by
(non-renewable energy sources) is going to run out. The time is now for
those who are a bit more informed about the real motives of this
multi-national form of global fascism to take action and disseminate the
truth.
Mr. Girard Newkirk contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN)
from North Carolina, USA. He writes on most of the
issues regarding the Middle East, religion and its tremendous impact on the
world as a Political Theorist.
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