It seems as if the American people have lost more than their historic values. They seem to have lost their way in life and forgotten who they are and what history has expected them to be.

There is great confusion in the republic: confusion about the recession, the loss of jobs that might never come back, and the loss of sustenance for millions of working American families. Why have these things happened?

There is confusion about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their homes due to greedy bankers and manipulative Wall Street gamblers. There is confusion about whether or not the President of the United States is an honest man, or merely another forked tongue politician. There is confusion about the proposed healthcare program and whether or not it is good for the republic despite its huge costs. Why are these things so?

Most surprising of all, as the Republican party is traditionally the political party representing the wealth of the republic it's difficult to imagine working Americans ever voting Republican. But they do. Why? Jobs? Poppycock! It's wealthy American employers, both Republicans and Democrats, who have moved their factories to countries where labor is cheaper than in the U.S.

I believe much of the confusion is caused by ignorance of current American generations who don't know American history—or at least a more realistic version of the republic's true history;

.....ignorance that we have "representative" democracy, and not true democracy–because the Founding Fathers feared and deliberately rejected government rule by ordinary citizens;

.....ignorance that the Constitution of the United States, was written by wealthy elite Americans for wealthy elite Americans, and that these elites have waged one-sided war against working Americans for more than two hundred years, verified by the history of American labor and labor unions;

.....ignorance of the 1935 discovery by a House Committee of a plot by some of these wealthy elites to overthrow the government of the United States for fear that President Roosevelt's New Deal was spending too much public money on the welfare of "ordinary" Americans;

.....ignorance that some of these wealthy Americans aided the Nazis during WWII by financial support, by building factories in Germany that produced war vehicles, by supplying German submarines with fuel from their South American oil corporations, and probably, other subversive services;

.....ignorance that these wealthy American elites helped hundreds, if not thousands, of Nazis to escape punishment by aiding their flight to South America or to the U.S. where they gave them jobs in their American factories and helped them to become American citizens;

.....ignorance of the "Cuban Crisis" and that in 1961, U.S. strategists created plots designed to gain approval of the U.S. public for the invasion of Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba. One of the plots, suggested by some of the highest ranked Americans in government and approved by a Joint Chiefs of Staff at a National Security Agency meeting–but rejected by Congress–was the bombing of a U.S. city, with total disregard of the possible death toll. Don't ever believe American rulers won't deliberately sacrifice American lives in an incident like the 2001 World Trade Center horror, if it gains the objectives they want;

.....ignorance that despite the outbursts against big government and big public debt the Republicans are just as guilty–if not more guilty–than Democrats for puffing up government and spending the American people into poverty. In all of American history the public debt was not allowed to go anywhere near $1-trillion. Yet, in 1980, at the end of Democratic president Jimmy Carter's term the federal debt was $930-billion, very close to the $1-trillion mark;

After Republican president Ronald Reagan's second term, in 1988, the federal debt was more than $2-trillion. During the next four years of Republican George Herbert Walker Bush's term the federal rose to more than $4-trillion. In 2000, after eight years of Democratic governance by Bill Clinton, the federal debt was past $5½-trillion. In 2008, after eight years of Republican president George W. Bush and his contrived "Wars on Terror" the public debt rose to almost $6½-trillion.

The immediate point being made is that the loudmouth Americans who never stop denouncing big government and large public debt are barking up the wrong tree. Republicans are no less guilty–if not more guilty–of irresponsible spending and increasing the size of government than the Democrats. Politicians are politicians and politics is politics and both political parties are comprised of liars, cheaters, and the lowest forms of dishonest humanity. The only difference between the two parties is that Republicans throw money at defense companies and other large corporations while the Democrats try to spend money on the welfare of ordinary Americans. After all, the Constitution of the United States does claim that one of the reasons for its existence is to "promote the general welfare."

I've stressed this point before and I'll probably stress it many times again in the future.

Capitalists, like everyone else, need role models and in 1949, four years after the end of WWII, the English writer, George Orwell published his book, 1984." Elitist Americans couldn't possibly have ignored the book as it contained many strategies that could give them tighter control of Americans. Much of the American confusion is caused by ignorance of the relation between Orwell's book and many of the strategies adopted from it by the American government and American media after the war–both areas heavily influenced by these wealthy Americans.

Orwell's fictional country of "Oceania" was divided into three groups. The largest group was the Proles: the workers of the country situated at the bottom of the social ladder. Approximately 2 percent of the population comprised the Inner Party: the wealthy elites at the top of the social ladder. Believing that wealth and privilege are more easily defended when jointly controlled rather than by individual or single family, they ruled as an oligopoly. This party didn't exist for the Proles; it was invisible; buried by the activities of the larger "Outer Party" comprised of the upper middle-class employees who operated the corporations and the government, and performed all the other functions of society that kept the wheels of "progress" turning.

Rulers of Oceania believed that the power to manipulate information and knowledge was their primary tool of control. They firmly believed that whoever controlled the flow of information in the present controlled the past, and whoever controlled the past controls the future.

Truth in Oceania was Establishment truth and all information and news fed to the Proles were censored to guarantee that Proles received only Establishment versions of truth. The official language of Oceania was a blend of meaningless words exemplified by government slogans "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength."

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Are any bells ringing? Well, they should. Before WWII American employers were about the tightest, money-grubbing creatures alive, resisting any, and all, attempts by employees to gain a more livable return for their labor. They hired bullies and Pinkertons to break up labor meetings or attempts to unionize. Who knows how many Americans were murdered or beaten so some rich people wouldn't have to share their wealth with the workers who created it.

But after the war American employers voluntarily created jobs that produced little measurable profit for the company–very odd behavior for penny-pinching businessmen. This new, "middle-management" comprised of "executives" "jr. executives, economists, and other pencil pushers who made little contribution to the production of factory goods and contributed less to corporate profits, but they were better paid than American employees had ever been paid before, had little to complain about, and were able to afford many of the things rolling off factory assembly lines. Best of all, they were kept off the unemployment lines of angry workers and they didn't try to join labor unions.

Moreover, as the social activities of wealthy Americans were deliberately, and quietly, removed from the front pages of newspapers, America's extremely wealthy families became invisible to all new American generations whose attention was now focused on activities of the new upper middle-class–the new "Outer Party."

If you haven't noticed, as with Oceania's cynical slogans, the U.S. "Defense" Department wages war, the republic's fifty-one "Justice" Departments produce injustice, and its fifty state Public "Education" Systems produce ignorance. Also, all information to the American public is tightly controlled by a handful of corporations and their wealthy board members.

But nothing will change for them unless they deliberately make the change. Change of political parties will not do. Changing the American System will. The book, "The Democracy That Never Was," available only from the Institute webstore, offers a plan for change and many additional reasons for attempting change.

I close this article with three simple truths. First: a small country needs only a small government and a small budget, but a large nation needs a large government and a larger budget. Second: A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. Third: No government can ever be as fair to all citizen as a government in which all citizens participate in making the laws and values of their society.

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