I freely admit that for years I used the phrase "Busheviks" to describe the near totalitarian control the Republican Party exerted over it's members, sometimes turning a blind eye to similar tendencies that a significant number of Democrats hold toward their Democratic Party.
The Republicans have used a warrior version of the Jesus worshipers to pretty much subvert the American political public to the point that most critics are mute, or as in the case of this article written by a clinical psychologist, abused to the point of a pimp-whipped prostitute, a habitually dominated spouse or even an addict chemically chained to his pushers.
Now I am beginning to agree with Dr. Levine and think that most members of the amnesiac American public may well be muted and bowed to a similar syndrome.
It doesn't take a George Will to point out, as he did today on ABC's "This Week" Sunday talking head show, that "independents" now outnumber both political parties.
I can't for the life of me understand how democratic radicals or social-progressives in Kansas can keep from dumping the neo-liberal's glass coffee tables in the Kansas Democratic Party.
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Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
Can anything be done to turn this around? ...
Read more, maybe there is some answer in his article, click here.
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