[] “We lived through an inside job on the World Trade Center, an Iraqi War, & finally an utter breakdown of the financial system—the *Great Recession* of W. Bush—resulting in the greatest depression in America since the Great Depression.” []
[] “That term, *lie*, for the first time in my lifetime began being used for what [Republicans] do. They were being discovered to be who they are & what they have been doing all those years began being told.” []
[] “…as [Republicans] consistently switch the blame for the consequences for their mismanagement so as to confuse the other-than-wealthy & thus keep them vulnerable & ripe for more picking in their next round.” []
[] “…U.S. media in the Nineties, with a Democrat at the helm of government giving Democrats a louder voice than otherwise, was more likely than afterward to bring accurate information.” []
[] “Such reporting pulled aside the curtain, revealing the concerted Republican campaign to enrich themselves. Hillary Clinton at the time alluded to this collusion of the wealthy in proclaiming a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”” []
[] “It became ever more apparent that the aim of the Right was to apply comprehensive pressure—akin to the Class War it was—on government & social policy at all levels of society to increase their already bloated wealth.” []
[] “Their intentions are no less than those nobles of old, to keep people in servitude & serfdom, essentially to bring people into compliance with their totalitarian will.” []
[] “[Republicans] were so obviously not caring...not even putting up a pretense of being for the American people, who they were supposed to be representing & who they were claiming to be on the side of.” []
[]“We find the economic collapse of 2007-2008 resulted from Republicans under George W. Bush, taking away regulations people & good thinking Democrats etc had instituted to protect people from having their life savings taken away from them.”[
[] “The rich people...they went crazy, they went amok. Even at the end they took 700 billion dollars out of the American Treasury, & got away scot free.” []
[] “Barrack Obama’s origins have nothing in common with those of, say, a Romney...or a Bush. He wasn’t cradled in wealth, & his family had no ties with Nazis like the Bushes.” []
[] “…that is what the Republicans & the right-wing-nuts do. They will find one example of anything. Always just one example will they be able to come up with, but they will use that to make their crazy “truth.” []
[]“Biden grew up in the unassuming city of Scranton, in the center of the one-time Pennsylvania coal region, only 10 miles from where I was raised. Biden was one of the least moneyed if not the actual poorest of any of those in the Senate.”[]
[] “…by the time of the 2008 election & after a sorry eight years of the reign of a foolish Bush, these “obvious truths”—such as that you give money to the rich & it’s gonna create prosperity—well, they were falling.” []
[] “However, Barrack Obama’s election was naturally not enough to throw off the vines of tyranny that had grown over America during a full fifty years of ‘obvious truths.’” []
]“Nevertheless, within a matter of only 2 yrs of his election,by 2010 & continuing into '12, these revelations of the ways ppl worldwide had been managed like house pets for the gains of the super-rich caught the headwind of an Arab Spring.”[
[] “Not only did the throngs of demonstrators mirror, perhaps surpass, the numbers that rose up in the Sixties; but the movement this time was world-wide;” []
[] “the cause—which was rich folks screwing everyone else to benefit only themselves—was the same everywhere in the world. A Global Awakening had begun.” []
[] “The wealthy have you thinking after a while about this scapegoated group the way they think of you. They do not think you are as human, as deserving of a nice life as them.” []
[] “[The wealthy] want you thinking that there is some group...Jews, blacks, Hispanics, gays...who are responsible for your problems & who are not as deserving, are not as American as you.” []
[] “Thence [the Filthy Rich] create all kinds of lies so you’ve got someone to blame who is not them, who are not the actual perpetrators of these things.” []
[] “We see through [the Filthy Rich’s & the Republicans’] bombardment of inanities & lies, yet they have desperately stepped up their assault...as frightened actors can be expected to do. This proves we are winning.” []
]“Nonetheless, [the wealthy elite] incr thr control of the dialogue in America w a virtual media monopoly, spinning thr line, thr narrative almost exclusively & leaving the internet the only unconquered land outside thr broadcast hegemony.”[
[] “Americans were starting to know again what is really important during the Obama years. Pushing against the media tides, they were connecting outside the public limelight.” []
[] “They were using the Internet to exchange views. They were learning & taking action, gathering by the hundreds of thousands in rallies for change & to speak out against what was continuing to be imposed on them to benefit the well-off.” []
[] “They were doing this despite being ignored by the media, the media continuing its policy of trying to make some realities to go away while blowing up the ridiculous & the insignificant into matters of great & pressing portent.” []
[] “If only the sanity arising in the ppl were not so drowned out by the overwhelming amounts of money being poured into all media—the Internet, social media now, too, where Russian bots prevail to shout down every sliver of intelligence…”[]
[] “…[the Internet where Russian bots shout down every sliver of intelligence] & awareness tweeted or posted. It is the corporations, with the Filthy Rich, Putin, & global oligarchs, that is the monster behind the events of nations, now.” []
*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*
was written as a primer on history & current events, as a lead up to the crucial Midterm elections of November 2022.
I guarantee you. If Democrats don't win MASSIVELY the Ukraine war will not be limited there, for we will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, when the party working for him, Republicans, get power.
[*Chapter 18 text begins:*] This is the second of three sections detailing the history of the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly fifty-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth..."
“…[the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly 50-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth] for their benefactors, the corporations & the Filthy Rich, through totally concocted untruths.”
[Quotes/highlights:] “I can say I feel fortunate to have lived many years in an America quite different from what most people in America being younger than me have been growing up with.”[]
[*Chapter 17 text begins:*] “With corporations firmly backing Republicans, the Democrats in every election that I can recall—especially in the presidential elections—always were way underfunded.”
“*The Money Changing Everything—The Planting of Lies*
“Meanwhile the GOP is consistently overfunded because the Rich-publicans are carrying the wishes of those corporations into the board rooms of Congress along w their huge amounts of money.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “It’s just natural that if you don’t hear anything to counter something, you’re going to believe that the only thing being said is the truth.
“& that certainly has increased over time...through the years.” []
“[*Chapter 16 text begins:*] In the last sixty years, Americans have experienced unprecedented changes in their lives, their lifestyles, in what it means to be alive & human in America in these times.”
“Rarely have societies experienced this kind of change. What is even more astounding is the way the changes send us shooting dramatically in one way & then in the other direction.”