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Brian A. Graham's avatar

I used to teach history both in the Illinois correctional system and at local colleges. Several years ago, one of my students gave an oral presentation trying to reconcile Americans' bicentennial celebration with the very common beliefs that American society was unraveling during the 1970s. The one point I made to the conversation was that America was extremely prosperous.

I grew up in a society that defeated polio and would very soon land a man on the moon. America was both the largest creditor nation and the world's number one manufacturing nation. America created the largest, wealthiest middle class society the world had ever seen. "Made in U.S.A" was a sign of quality. I told my students that someone with only a high school education could get a good paying job. They would be married with a home and a new car. They would have a home and a new car. After a few years, they would have two new cars, because no one kept a car for a decade or more back then, and they bought a bigger house to house their young kids. Perhaps, the husband liked to fish, they might have a boat in the drive and perhaps a cabin in Wisconsin or Minnesota. They might vacation in Florida every summer. When the kids grew up, they could be like me and attend a fine public college like I did for less than $400 a year tuition. Californians attended public schools for free until Reagan was elected governor. Compare that America with our current situation.

That life was stolen from your and yours.

Democratic partisans wish to pin this transformation on good old Ronnie Reagan, and yes, that ignorant, evil man certainly deserves much of the blame along with the neoliberal Carter, CLinton, and Obama. Let's not ignore how Frederick Dutton, in his Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970s argued that Democrats should abandon the working class in the New Deal coalition in favor of a coalition of the highly educated professionals, students, women, and minorities. Tony Coelho, hat in hand started tapping those affluent sectors for campaign cash. Never again would the Democrats be forced into begging for money on a telethon to pay off campaign debt. Thomas Frank's Listen Liberal is a great primer for understanding the transformation of the Democratic Party from the party of FDR and LBJ to the party of Clinton and Obama.

Labor was crushed by Reagan and then Clinton who with Secretary Robert Reich stood by and did nothing such as when Staley Starch illegally locked out union workers in favor of placating the bond market.

The Chinese man is right we need a revolution. Unfortunately, I fear Americans are too conditioned to believe in its necessity.

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LT Robert Powell's avatar

Wondering what happened to Stalin, Mao, and the other side of the fence you speak over? Couple of items WE the public were unaware of:

- 1892 - Departments in Univ. of Chicago, Columbia Univ., Univ. of Wisconsin with E.A. Ross

who has career full of Socio-communist relations. Ross’s book “Social Control” (1901) is the

textbook teaching how a few can gain control over Society. Albin W. Small, first Chair, taught

Sociology as History, Economics, and Political Science. This Department and Albin W. Small

were funded by Rockefeller Foundation.

- 1913 - Roscoe Pound, Saint-Simon. Socialized Law substitutes appointed

Administrators for judicial Law. This to adjust social interests over the individual rights.

Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter spoke about “ throughgoing overturning” of society. It must

be done from the outside and translated by those in office.

- 1913 - Or, as the old Red dictum goes, "Communism must be built with non-

Communist hands." To engage the non-Communist dupes in these endeavors, though,

requires rhetorical camouflage and deception. A prime example of this rhetorical treachery can be found in the judicial revolution launched in 1913 with the Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy organized by Fabian Socialists Harold Laski, John Dewey, Morris Cohen, and Roscoe Pound. Cohen's son, Felix, later boasted that it is from this conference that "much of the social and philosophical consciousness of modern American jurisprudence derives." Felix Cohen openly proclaimed; It is impossible to attempt overthrow of Capitalism as an economic system without at the same time attacking the substance of capitalist law. As well, Federal Reserve pushed through Congress. Wilson hired, to effect this. Taft had to be defeated to elect this. Rockefeller & Morgan bought up 159 News Corporations, while J.P. Morgan financed the Roosevelt “Bull Moose” vote splitting campaign.

- 1926 - Communist Psychopolitics - The description of a course taught at the “Lenin

Institute” to Americans sent by John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller was member of the CFR

- This course still exists. What is “Psychopolitics? The art & science of asserting and

maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of Individuals, Officers, bureaus, and

Masses and the effecting of the conquest of enemy Nations through “Mental Healing”.

Psychopolitics, is a less known oblique to Geo-politics, dealing with molding the highest

strata of the “Mental Healing” arena - through this effecting of the conquest of enemy

nations through “mental Healing”. Objective, conquest through social chaos. Beria,

Mass Murderer of entire villages in the Russian conquests, was the Professor of the 2 year

course.

- Authors note: Beria was the longest-surviving and the most influential of Stalin's secret

police chiefs of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The responsibility of

the NKVD was to ensure the internal security of the Soviet Union and it systematically did so

through massive political repression, authorized murders of many hundreds of

thousands of people.

By 1934, ( L.I.D. ) League for Industrial Democracy had student groups in 150 colleges and

today, the number is about 97% of the Colleges.

So in fact, you were serripticiously fed the line, and it appears in your work. Before you point the finger at us, reflect on the agitprop you absorbed before opining. A Participation Certificate, is not education.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Bill Clinton and NAFTA.

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LT Robert Powell's avatar

Al Gore, Maurice Strong, and the hidden UN Treaty that morphed into "Commission On Sustainable Development"

United Nations // Not want you to Know: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/38199716

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

If only I could find the photograph of an outdoor market in Quetta, Pakistan. The attendees were thin. No mistaking these people for Americans even if they were donned in Dockers.

We are steeped in the myth of our exceptionalism. The slow drip of continuous propaganda alleging our well-being begins in elementary school. This assist from our public schools obviously needs to be stemmed.

What will wake people up?

A military calamity such as the sinking of an aircraft carrier with survivors drowning because the carrier groups now lack support ships? Wildfires and earthquakes hitting the left coast simultaneously? Ferocious tornadoes arriving without warning? A similar lack of notice for hurricane trajectories? An absence of fresh water?

And lastly in material matters, hospitals with most staff out sick from the same pandemic for which we need treatment?

It seems that the first and fourth amendments are quite quaint artifacts of a fledgling republic.

I do not see any way out of this other than respective state secession.

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Thomas Neuburger's avatar

"I do not see any way out of this other than respective state secession."

From your lips...

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Brook Hines's avatar

Since Reagan and especially accelerated during Clinton/Obama, the US has been stripped down to the nails and sold off. We’re hollowed out like Toys R Us. We found out about the Closeout Sales when we got our walking papers, with the handy tip to “learn to code,” which a few us did, and now that’s also been outsourced.

Right under our noses, they did to the US what the US did to Russia. That’s how billionaires were made.

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LT Robert Powell's avatar

This socio-communist march began in about 1840. History is the engine of the future, and the Elite, Rockefeller, Morgan, Baruch etc. were perps. Moving to just one later date: - 1892 - Departments in Univ. of Chicago, Columbia Univ., Univ. of Wisconsin with E.A. Ross who has career full of Socio-communist relations. Ross’s book “Social Control” (1901) is the textbook teaching how a few can gain control over Society. Albin W. Small, first Chair, taught Sociology as History, Economics, and Political Science. This Department and Albin W. Small were funded by Rockefeller Foundation.

As to Russia, we built them, Ford Truck factories, Countless other projects, and "Wall Street" gave 22 Million dollars to aid the Russian Revolution, ( Communism )and personally started a Bank. In WW2 lend lease we provided massive amounts of material. So what did we do to Russia?

The Educational process was corrupted from Traditional Founding Principles by 1850.

One can say that there are no experts, as the system was corrupt well before most

pontificators were born.

Recognize that there are in effect three sets of rules to follow: The right, the left, snd the Founding Documents. To help: https://publiushuldah.wordpress.com

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J. Matson Heininger's avatar

Thank you appreciate it

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Thomas Neuburger's avatar

You're welcome. It's truly my pleasure.

Thomas

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