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In reply to the discussion: Time for Realism and Common Sense on Ukraine [View all]cprise
(8,445 posts)...of anyone involved in the Kent State massacre.
The CIA now operates with impunity here at home, and the drug war has put our prison population within a hairs breadth of what the Soviet Union had under Stalin.
The difference here is that the Pentagon claims military dominion over the *entire* globe excluding Russia and China. What they've written about South America alone is really quite...bracing. Yet, I'm supposed to be quaking in my boots over Russian devils (and especially Putin) like they were out to get me personally.
The bottom line in these discussions is that many of us on DU don't buy into the attitudes of American Exceptionalism, or jingoism, or a corporate aristocracy that runs the government for its own purposes. We try to read current events from the perspective of a Howard Zinn or a Noam Chomsky. So when you describe DUers who are sceptical of the infotainment story-telling like that, consider that your rhetoric might line up with those people in DU's past who accused us of loving Saddam Hussein.
Thuggery takes linguistic forms, too.