The American Crisis: The Degeneration Of Democracy Into Government

Trend forecaster Gerald Celente has spoken again. Celente calls the current political system in the United States not communism, or socialism, but pure facism. Which is a merger of  corporate and government powers. State controlled capitalism is called facism, according to Celente.

“Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary… does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal.” - Benito Mussolini

Celente says that the people really don’t have a choice. The obvious two choices are Democrat and Republican. And both parties have become embedded in corporate structured systems, which Celente refers to as mafia. The citizen does not have a third option. This is where the “Tea Party” has originated from. Historically third parties have not fared well in elections.

Citizens in the United States are very angry for many reasons. The so called ruling class has strangled any shred of democracy left in America. Shouting at Congress members has become almost acceptable behavior. Why? Folks simply feel as if there is no one listening anymore. Congress is too big to fail.

Mike Sola, a Michigan resident, literally screamed at Representative John D. Dingell at a meeting in Romulus, Michigan, on August 6, 2009. “I have a question”, was repeatedly shouted by Sola. After criticizing the Obama health care plan, he was politely asked to leave by local police. If you listen closely to the video, the crowd actually takes up for Dingell.

But then again, justice is not always served. Mr. Sola was even harrassed in the middle of the night by opposition. Sola simply wanted to be heard. His son had major health problems. He exercised his right of free speech. He may not have been tactful as some would have preferred, but those “some” didn’t share his burdens.

Please listen to one, out of of many, eloquent speeches delivered by Representative Ron Paul. Ron Paul titles this speech as Current Conditions Or Just A Bad Dream.

Ron Paul’s sobering synopsis:  ”A grand absurdity. A great deception. Grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponzi and Madoff. A government out of control. We have broken from reality. A psychotic nation. Deficits of trillions of dollars spent on a failed welfare warfare system. We police our world empire with troops on 700 bases and in 130 countries around the world. The status quo can not be maintained considering the current conditions. Violence and lost liberty will result without revolutionary thinking.”

History teaches us that if people are miserable and desperate enough they will search a leader that will deliver them out of peril. History also teaches us that bad economic and political conditions make a country ripe for violent protesting. In 1923 Germany was in such a state that Adolph Hitler, a ruthless dictator in the making, took advantage of the times. The rise to political power is well documented in a book written by William L. Shirer. The book is titled The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

Those desperate economic times mirror the condition that we currently face in America. Factories have closed down. The dollar keeps shrinking. Familiy savings have vanished. Families we constantly see on television, living in automobiles and not by choice, or out of some evil crime they have committed. An innocent matter of circumstance. Frozen in time, and written off by their government.

Are we in the midst of a political revolution? Or, is it that while we avert political revolution, we unwittingly forfeit our precious freedoms? Is the United States already facist? Are we there yet? Some suggest that we’re already there.

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”  – Benjamin Franklin