" Bertrand Russell's America " sadly relevant today

A while back I read through the whole book : " Bertrand Russell's America ". It is painful for me to think how well it describes " OUR democracy " today . How false is our self-congratulatory view of FREEDOM in the United States, of the RULE OF LAW in the United States.

 How brainless is our acceptance of the miltary's " crackpot realism " and the vast waste of resources that is the military industrial complex.

Most certainly the " liberal Democrats " are not a counter force against the Orwellian National Security State which daily makes a mockery of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.

Lord Russell also wrote a book titled : " The Wisdom of the West ". Has that wisdom " Gone with the Wind " ?

The Pentagon War Crimes Machine needs a credible enemy . Too bad it does not have COMMUNIST Russia and " godless communism " to antagonize anymore.

To be sure Soviet era " godless atheism " has conquered the soul of the American ruling class. But this New American Atheism sings with an Ayn Rand " Virtue of Selfishness " chorus. To which the American working class turns a deaf ear .