A hopelessly decadent American ruling class

As a citizen of the United States and a democratic Socialist I am aware of this odious art of "spin doctoring" news embarrassing to our ruling class. Many of our capitalist politicians are just corrupt , bought- and sold- lawyers. They went to ELITE colleges- like Harvard, Yale, Princeton- to learn how to champion a rotten cause: the interests of the American plutocracy-in the majestic halls of Congress. All that expensive Ivy League education devoted not to a dedicated search for TRUTH but to the devil's trade of clever lying.

These vile "leaders of the people" are ever ready with mere sound- bite words and phrases which only serve to stupefy public opinion: FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, the AMERICAN WAY of LIFE , OUR MERITOCRACY, the WISDOM of the MARKET, a SOCIETY of LAW, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY to SUCCEED.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United 

States. Democrat, he was elected four times and served from March 1933 
to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events 

during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time 
of worldwide economic depression and total war. A dominant leader the 

Democratic Party, he built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American 

politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic policies defined American 

liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century. (Wikipedia)

Of course, if you do not succeed by bourgeois, philistine values, you have no one to blame but yourself. Even a modest liberal effort to check the greed of the American capital!

The Evil Face  the American plutocracy shows the world in its invasion and occupation of foreign nations (for example, the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq) it now shows to angry Afro-Americans protesting police brutality here in the streets of the nation, most recently in the streets of Washington, D.C.

I would love to see 
a President like FDR come to power to deal with all this unacceptable inequality and injustice. But it just may be that our ruling class is now hopelessly decadent.

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Under his administration, 
the Russian Empire was replaced by the Soviet Union;

all wealth including land, industry and business was 

nationalized. Based in Marxism, his political theories are 

known as Leninism. (Wikipedia)

A study of history points to the Great French Revolution of 1789. To the much maligned Russian Revolution of 1917. Read the front pages of the New York Times covering that momentous uprising in Czarist Russia. The bourgeois journalists had to admit that Lenin "was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of all time."

That HOPE for a better world did not collapse with the fall of the old Soviet Union.

( WATCHING AMERICA ,
"Spin Doctoring Torture", published in Al-Watan, Oman on Dec.15, 2014 by Haitham
al-Aidy)