By Paul Edwards
July 04, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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All rise! It is the anniversary
of this conflicted, sclerotic, blind,
self-destructive country. There will be
celebrations. Glitzy extravaganzas of
flash and fireworks providing the
shimmering eye candy to camouflage the
corpse of the myth that is centerpiece
and theme our national shivaree.
A nation
built on genocide and slavery, with a
Constitution launched with sanctimonious
pieties never meant to be honored,
ranking property over people, with
blood-and-guts Capitalism--wealth and
privilege--enthroned to rule an
emasculated citizenry concussed by
propaganda: this is the “exceptional”
America we swarm on this day to extol.
From
infancy we are indoctrinated with the
fairy tale of our own magnificence;
inoculated with the toxic serum of race
arrogance; infected with the poisonous
virus of violence.
And what noble wonders has America wrought behind its hero story? We’re told we won two World Wars. In fact, we barely showed in the First, after Europe cannibalized itself; and we stalled until Russia, at staggering human cost, pulverized the Wehrmacht to win the Second. We made the world safe, not for Democracy but for Wall Street Capitalism, which made a killing on both bloodbaths, and on destroying and nukeing Bushido-addled fascist Japan.
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