As an outsider, it appears to me that the US is the victim of a bloodless coup in which Christian fanatics, Zionists, Big Oil, the Banks and the Military-Industrial-Complex have taken control.
That's a fair assessment of where America stands in 2004. There is a strong alliance between conservative evangelical Christains who hold a lot of sway in the conservative southern U.S. and big business interests in the rest of the U.S. It's not really an alliance that makes much sense on a practical level, except for the fact that they aren't liberals, so they have that in common. It's not like big business does poor conservative southern Christain folks any favors either. One of the reasons why the living standards in the southern U.S. are so bad is because big business has run roughshod over them at every opportunity (sending jobs overseas, lowering wages and working conditions), which makes this whole alliance rather odd, but it has held together and even grown over the decades since the 1960s.
I'd actually argue that all those groups that you cited from Christains to big business have always controlled the U.S. in one way or another. The Democratic party was once the southern Dixiecrat party, and despite their populist tendancies, the Dems have always supported the interests of American capital to one degree or another. If there has been a coup in the U.S., it has been a silent one that has taken decades of social conditioning to achieve. The culmination of this effort was the 1994 Republican takeover of the House (which was done fairly and squarely in a democractic fashion) and the 2000 election of George W. Bush in which Bush won Florida in dubious fashion, with help from his brother purging the election rolls. Now these neocons are in over their heads in Iraq with a war that serves both the intersts of Christains and big business. The problem with America is that for far too long, we've focused our energy outwards, and neglected domestic priorities. Iraq is just another in a long line of foreign adventurism that has squandered American resources both human and financial. |
