Threat to National Security??
Racism, Apartheid, Anti-Semitism, Communism, Fascism; all of these are forms and faces of Totalitarianism, or Authoritarianism, practiced during my lifetime. They all had large impacts on my life (WW II, Cold War and Vietnam Era military service, etc.) Vestiges of each are still in practice, and are being combined to pursue domestic politics. Most of these have been, and are still, cloaked in religion. Check out the anti-abortion cartoon depicting the new baby and the dead slave in Heaven. http://photobucket.com/images/abortion+cartoon/#/images/abortion+cartoon/?page=1&_suid=136405908976801786062823566738
We know that Democracy, when it declines, tends toward Facism. We also know that excessive participation in war by nation-states have caused the loss of empires and the weakening, or disappearance, of those states.
We're now several months past a national election in the United States, where one of our two major parties, the GOP, refuses to fully acknowledge the will of the voters in that election. The other Party appears confused and aimless. GOP dysfunction grows daily as they stubbornly refuse to permit our government to function properly. Were it not for the Federal Reserve, which their Libertarian wing despises, we may not have survived 2008!
The Founders of our Constitution did not provide for political parties; in fact the Founders warned us against "Factions" in the Federalist Papers. While the non-white part of this country is more interested in "buck-jumpin' and having fun", and the white part would rather watch football and ignore most of everything else (except for their religion), we drift more and more toward collapse.
Not a pretty picture. Our current President, likened to The Devil by a segment of the GOP, is returning from a triumphal tour to the Middle East, where he positively moved the region toward resolution of its horrific issues. He has slightly less than 4 years left on his second term. Will we significantly correct our drift and head off our slide into AUTHORITARIANISM while we can?
Stay Vigilant! Save our Democracy!!
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