There's no doubt about it, America has taken a turn for the worst. Since the end of the cold war when America was left as the single super power we have taken every step possible, politically and militarily, to insure that we remain king of the hill. Those of our citizens that recognize the sounds of Americas nails screeching as we slide down speak out, and are drowned out by a machine that pumps out propaganda and advertisements at a rate only Hitler would have been proud of, while our citizens, by in large, passively wait for the next commercial. We allow our private government to manufacture consent through our news and entertainment to the extent that the average American worker, who works ten hours a day, believes that the average CEO makes ten million a year because they work hard. Then we turn our heads to the fact that they invest billions of dollars a year to influence politics including advancement of globalization and manipulation of the taxation system and then employ......
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