I can hear the outraged protest from Establishment media disclaiming what is being said, but as our grandparents were fond of saying, "the proof is in the pudding," meaning what goes into the recipe is what comes out! And what we are today as individuals, and as a nation, is the direct consequence of American ruling class priorities, prejudices, and desires riding roughshod over the massive ignorance and timidity of common working citizens.

Some of us Americans understand what's been happening to our country during the past 60 years, and we know a lot of things about the U.S. of A. today that aren't very nice—or very promising for the future of our children and grandchildren. It's why we want to change things for the better.

OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS ANTI-COMMONER

We know the economic system of the country favors people with lots of money and penalizes citizens who have little, or none.

We know comparatively few wealthy families and groups own or control most of the republic's land, raw materials, food, essential industrial resources, and the use of communications, transportation, and energy technologies. We know they control the republic's money supply, its major sources of credit, and millions of jobs. We know this power allows them to deliberately create economic inflation or depression. We know this power makes them the true rulers of the United States—the "American Establishment."

We know "business" is government in the United States of America. It's why there is always public money for the cause of profit, but never enough to improve social conditions for working commoners.

We know millions of American farmers have been reduced to serfdom on giant corporate farms, as most small farmers in oppressive societies throughout time have been forced into serfdom on estates of the wealthy. We know these giant corporations export American food crops to other nations and charge Americans artificially high food prices, as Mother England has done to the natives of her colonies for centuries.

We know all of these truths.

OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS ANTI-COMMONER

We know that after the Republican takeover of the federal government in 1981, the men of the Establishment intensified their attacks upon the laws and policies initiated by the New Deal president—laws giving common workers minimal protection against the abuses of privileged employers.

To confuse commoners, and to lend respectability to its myopic philosophies and economic plundering, we know the Establishment has woven a complex web of public interest organizations, think tanks, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV talk shows, all of which advocate the desirability of capitalism and attack those who disagree with its dogma.

We know the right to privacy in the U.S. is fiction. We know Establishment spy agencies regularly perform unlawful search and seizure, forge public documents, plant false stories in newspapers, deliberately stage incidents, incite riots, interfere in the affairs of other nations, and spy upon those who criticize the American System.

Despite professed policies of "peace," we know the United States government spends humongous amounts of money and human effort to develop the science of killing, and is a prime producer of armaments and promoter of war. During the latter half of the 20th century, American merchants of death profited handsomely from wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Libya, Panama, Iraq, Somalia, and Bosnia. And now, Afghanistan and Iraq.

We know all of these truths

OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS ANTI-COMMONER

We know people who believe capitalism isn't good for common workers, are considered "outsiders" to the American System. We know females, poor people, black people, people of ethnic minorities, and the men and women of the scientific and academic communities who seek knowledge and truth, rather than profit and power, are also outsiders. And because they're outsiders, these and many more millions of Americans are considered outsiders to our judicial subsystem, which often punishes them merely for being outsiders.

We know American prisons bulge with poor, illiterate, young males, many of whom have black skins. And we know, although many of us won't admit it, it's not because the poor are less honest than the rich, or the uneducated less honest than the educated, or blacks less honest than whites, or the young less honest than the elderly, or males less honest than females, but because many of the nation's laws are deliberately written to trap and punish these specific outsiders.

We know most businessmen who regularly steal from the public with overpriced wares and services are rarely punished, for their type of dishonesty isn't "illegal" in the U.S. republic. Businessmen and politicians who have stolen from the people and been clumsy enough to get caught are normally given minor punishment.

We know the cruel, frightening ways of some government agencies, are often highlighted via movies and television strongly implying that it is the government which is the enemy of commoners, totally ignoring the truth it is the demands of wealthy Americans and their influential corporate lobbyists, who have molded the characters of oppressive government agencies.

We know all of these truths.

OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS ANTI-COMMONER

We know divorced parents spend less time with their children, causing many bitter and resentful young Americans to develop self-destructive attitudes, and refrain from meaningful relationships with others. A Senate subcommittee study has revealed more than 10-million American children of divorced couples suffer serious emotional problems, reducing their ability and desire to learn, children who annually are treated by psychiatrists or mental health clinics. It is believed millions of other Americans depend upon tranquilizers, sedatives, and other easily obtainable "legal" drugs to retain a semblance of stability.

We know the greatest threat to female health in the United States—as it undoubtedly has been for females everywhere since prehistoric times—is a beating by a male.

We know the high cost of medical care has placed a cruel burden on millions of Americans and, in this era of longer life expectancy, the financial strain of attending elderly parents has bankrupted many families.

We know together, alcohol and tobacco addiction are the greatest threat to human life in the United States. Yet both drugs are publicly advertised and openly sold to the public, which doesn't really surprise anyone, for both industries are owned by powerful Establishment families.

We know the workplace in the United States is a hazard. Independent surveys indicate more workers die annually of workplace related diseases and injuries than die in car accidents.

We know serving in the peacetime military forces of the U.S. is considerably more dangerous to human life and health than ever before, for with each Establishment induced war, young Americans invariably—and unnecessarily—die.

We know all of these truths.

OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS ANTI-COMMONER

We know public education in the United States today is a farce, for it's objectives are not to produce knowledgeable, responsible citizens, capable of meeting the needs of a true democracy, but to produce obedient employees, trained to fulfill the needs of the corporate world. We know the acquisition of knowledge for the sake of wisdom is considered an impractical reason for attending college. We know thousands of young Americans, unable to meet even the minimal demands of today's fifty, varied, and impractical state public education systems drop out of public school every year.

And we know much, much more than this about the pseudo-democratic United States. But you will have to read The Democracy That Never Was to discover what we know—and what you should know.

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