(crossposted from the frontpage of MyLeftWing)
Our nation, culture, and political system are all steeped in lies, contradictions, distortions, and propaganda – in other words, bullshit! It has taken me much of my life to shed the misconceptions and outright lies that have been drilled into me from birth, to develop and fine-tune my bullshit detectors, to learn to see anything with any clarity at all.
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The government has powerful tools with which to manipulate our views, circumscribe our information, and mold our opinions (including the MSM and all the propaganda arms of the government itself) – and they use them with great zeal. The full extent to which the ruling class wants to hoodwink the rest of us cannot be overestimated. Their worst fear is that we will learn the truth.
"If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us."
~ George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon
My personal view is that only the truth finally matters, and that only the truth can set us free.
I’ll just touch on some highlights to make my point. Please feel free to add any bullshit I overlook to the pile.
Slavery was bullshit.
Manifest Destiny was bullshit.
Union busting was (and remains) bullshit.
Segregation and racism was (and remains) bullshit.
Duck and Cover was bullshit.
MKULTRA was bullshit.
Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s.[1][2] There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of electronic signals to alter brain functioning.[3]
It was first brought to wide public attention by the U.S. Congress (in the form of the Church Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller Commission) (see Revelation below) and also to the U.S. Senate.
On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:
The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities.
The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.[4]
(Any lingering doubts as to MKULTRA’s bovine excertia bonifieds can be dispelled here in our own testvet’s dkos diary, Rumsfeld's new Billion dollar waste and MKULTRA lives.)
The murders of JFK, RFK, and MLK were bullshit.
Abraham, Martin, and John
Sung by: Dion
Words and Music by Richard Holler
Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
You know I just looked around and he's gone
Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, it's gonna be one day
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was bullshit.
The entire Vietnam War was bullshit.
The Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968 was bullshit.
The massacre at Kent State was bullshit.
Watergate was bullshit.
The Reagan Presidency was bullshit.
Iran/Contra was bullshit.
The reign of Bush I was bullshit.
The stolen election of 2000 was bullshit.
9/11 was bullshit.
Invading Iraq was bullshit.
Tax cuts for billionaires was bullshit.
The joining of church and state was bullshit.
The trashing of our environment is bullshit.
Healthcare in America is bullshit.
Corporate ownership of our politics is bullshit.
The stolen election of 2004 was bullshit.
The Drug War is bullshit.
Screaming ‘Support our troops’ while cutting funds to veterans’ programs and sending them into harm’s way for bogus reasons is bullshit.
The fascist takeover of America is bullshit.
The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism –the Movie
We’ve all been lied to, to the point of absurdity. These days, there is almost nothing true in what we are told. It saddens me, it humiliates me, and it angers me.
I am sad that we do not have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people as we were meant to have.
I am humiliated that the world knows America as a bully, an imperialist, and a torturer – and that after all that has been done; we may never salvage our national reputation again in my lifetime.
I am angry that our government represents the wealthy, the greedy, and the special interests – and that virtually no one represents the best interest of the American people – and that the lip service given to same always seems to boil down to the same old thing – bullshit.
I am heartsick that our founding fathers tried so hard to bequeath us a great nation, but because of greedy, immoral bastards like the Bushes, what we got instead was bullshit.