Could It Happen Here?
Peter Schultz
“Slowly at
first, but then with gathering momentum, the ……. public began to discover how
deeply it had been misled – not only about the accident and its consequences
but also about the ideology and identity upon which their society was founded.
The accident and the government’s inability to protect the population….finally
shattered the illusion that the…..was a global superpower armed with technology
that led the world. And, as the state’s attempts to conceal the truth….even the
most faithful citizens….faced the realization that their leaders were corrupt
and that the…..dream was a sham.”
This is a
description of a process of discovery that overtook one nation as its people
realized that their elites were imposters and that the ideology upon which the
state was based was defective, as defective as the nuclear reactors this nation
had built to usher in nirvana. Yup, the nation in question was the USSR and it
was the “accident” at Chernobyl that led to their “awakening.”
In the US,
it would seem that the elites have more staying power than those in the USSR.
After all, the debacle in Vietnam didn’t awaken the people, 9/11 didn’t awaken
the people, the economic collapse of 2008 didn’t awaken the people, a war in
Iraq built on lies didn’t awaken the people, the inhuman treatment of POWs and
others didn’t awaken the people, and Trump apparently hasn’t awakened the
people to the facts that “their leaders [are] corrupt and that the [capitalist]
dream [is] a sham.” So what will it take? Perhaps an accident on the scale of
Chernobyl would do it. But even then I suspect our elites would find a way to
cover over the disaster, the deaths of thousands of people, and contamination
of huge areas and prevail, or even be fortified. But until people are awakened,
the endless wars will continue, the wealthier will get wealthier as the not-wealthy
get less wealthy, mass incarceration will be necessary, and the police state
will be strengthened.
But as the
people did awaken in the USSR, it would be unpersuasive to say it can’t happen
here.
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