Staff Report

Watch for the warning signs

The American version of fascism has always been around which covertly allowed minorities to control the majority. That was done with slavery, but the outrage grew and prevailed and the South lost the war. Then it converted itself in society allowing a race to rule with Jim Crow laws, and economically by allowing robber-barons of the gilded age free market reign. The gilded age implosion (The Great Depression) and the legislative stifling of Jim Crow prejudices heralded better equality. But, the cycle of attempted domination and control by hatred and greed has risen again in the form of Draco-II, the oligarchs of military might and technology and money, the sycophants who grab the coattails those in power, the racists who never openly agreed to equality, and the rest of us who put all of them in power: they appealed to our lesser nature and won.

If you were born in the United States of America, you have already won the lottery of life.

Does anyone know U.S. history well enough to remember Joseph McCarthy? He was a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. He is best known for his campaign against communism in America, alleging communists, Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated many institutions within America, even claiming he had a list of 200 communist spies and sympathizers within the U.S. State Department. The McCarthyism era died when, in court, Boston lawyer Joseph Welch finally proclaimed “You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?” With that proclamation McCarthy’s career effectively ended and McCarthyism faded away. His claims were simply lies.