D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/13/d-is-for-a-dictatorship-disguised-as-a-democracy/
Date Written:  2019-05-13
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23653

American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.

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What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing....

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.