the title of this opinion by mr. whitehead is clear: american idocracy fifty years later;
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”—Rod Serling
Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of
The Twilight Zone?
Only instead of Rod Serling’s imaginary “land of both shadow and
substance, of things and ideas,” we’re trapped in a topsy-turvy,
all-too-real land of corruption, brutality and lies, where freedom,
justice and integrity play second fiddle to political ambition,
corporate greed, and bureaucratic tyranny.
It’s not merely that life in the American Police State is more
brutal, or more unjust, or even more corrupt. It’s getting more idiotic,
more perverse, and more outlandish by the day.
Somewhere over the course of the past 240-plus years, democracy has given way to
idiocracy, and representative government has given way to a
kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a
kakistocracy (a
government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and
thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little
regard for the rights of American citizens).
Examples abound.
In Georgia,
political organizers posted a “Black Media Only” sign outside a Baptist Church, barring white reporters from attending a meeting about an upcoming mayoral election.
In Arizona,
a SWAT team raided a family’s home in the middle of the night on the say-so of Child Protective Services,
which sounded the alarm after the parents determined that their
2-year-old—who had been suffering a 100-degree fever—was feeling better
and didn’t need to be admitted to the hospital............
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