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In reply to the discussion: Chime in if you remember how the "press" in this country pushed for war [View all]Stevepol
(4,234 posts)It was as if half the country was either going crazy or already crazy and everybody who was in the media or any kd of public position of importance was too afraid to do or say anything at all about it. I lost faith in NPR, PBS etc. at that moment, not because they gave voice to the warmongers. They would have to do that since warmongers were in power in Washington, but because they would not let those spaek who were opposed to the war. Reason and common sense, morality, just the minimal levels of human kindness went out the window. I watched Byrd from WV give some great speeches in Congress and cheered him on. I cheered for Howard Dean when he spoke out. They were among the very few with enough courage to speak out.
Maybe the conservative agenda had so corrupted the country by then there just weren't enough voices there to speak out.
It finally convinced me that there's really nothing that the real "moral majority" can do when the dogs of war are unleashed and the time is right (maybe it's just some astrological influence or other) but just speak out as much as you can when you can and hunker down in a bunker somewhere until enough countries and people have been destroyed and people slowly come to their senses again.
I'm firmly convinced that, even though we're in a good period right now, there will come a time when the dogs will be unleashed again and the US will march into more than one country to make war and most of what we think of as western civilization will be destroyed. And I think there's really nothing anybody can do about it. If that sounds like fatalism,then I guess that's what it is.
I see it this way. I personally don't have to be corrupted or poisoned by the lies and distortions. I guess it's just the realization that the US is no better than ancient Rome or any other civilization that gained power. Power, because the world is not developed enough spiritually or morally, will just naturally by subtle processes of change gradually become corrupt and lead to wholesale slaughter and almost total evil. After every war, like WWI or WWII or the Vietnam War or not the Iraq War, people always say "Never again." But it's meaningless. No single person has enough power to control these national and international events.