America

[stardust2003]

I think a lot of people envied the Americans in the post World War 2 era.... ie the 50s.
They seemed to be getting all the consumer goodies, cars, colour TVs luxurious, spacious homes.... their vast farmlands providing abundant crops to fill the supermarket shelves.
The Americans had it good in the 50s and 60s.

Americans had won the war, they had defeated the fascist bullies in Germany, Italy and Japan,
now they were settling down to an endless era of peace and prosperity.

What was the declaration of independence ?

......" certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...."

Of course they worded it wrong, what they meant was
......................".Life, Liberty and the pursuit of .... Pleasure !"

But wot happened ? with my ear to the ground I sense an increasing unease in America, a rising anger and frustration.

Many Americans seem to feel that they are already living in a fascist state.... as though that by dismantling the Nazi fascist states in Europe , the American Government and the CIA had learned all the fascist tricks................ concentration camps, mind control etc... and the state is ready to use them on the American population.

Americans see their jobs being exported to the low wage economies of the third world,
they see the only growth industry left in America being military spending as the American military deals out death and destruction in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Meanwhile at home the Waco massacre is only one example of how ruthless the American state can be against its own people....
Add to that ..... lethal taser guns are now in daily use against the American population and causing
a considerable number of deaths.

The easy going, laid back American cop seems to be morphing into a masked member of a military style swot team.......... surveillance cameras are going up in every city and town in America.
Homeland Security imposes endless rules and restrictions on the freedom of the individual.

I wonder, is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ?