Casey’s train runs off the track with his over-generalization of events such as the Japanese Americans were put into “concentration camps”. They were “internment camps”, not the real killing camps of the Nazis and the Communists.
There are good people in govt and bad people. The “bad” ones are in control because their leaders have been able to bamboozle the masses, even the educated ones. They have played the race card very effectively, lied, performed massive cover-ups, and schemed. Some are communists, marxists and racists, and unfortunately they are in control.
However, there are others in govt (or who have now been forced out of govt) who oppose this totalitarian group/trend and are speaking up at grave risk to their jobs and reputations.
It is bad out there (I’m in the heart of the beast), but there is also hope and light (i.e. the Tea Party movement, Alan West, Michele Malkin, etc).
Casey knows nothing about the so-called “McCarthyism” period. If he did, he would have shut up before even referring to it.
Take his rant as “interesting” and then read something serious such as “Ameritopia” or “Liberty and Tyranny.”
I tend to agree with you. There have always been people in power with anti-social intentions and there always will be. The very position of being able to exert power and authority attracts sociopaths to some extent even in our alleged Republic.
I wish not to throw the core sentiment of what Casey writes out with the bathwater, however. I think that we have entered an era where fantastic rewards have been passed out to flagrant criminals with a frequency never before contemplated nor experienced. I am referring to the banking crisis and the fact that practically zero prosecutions have occurred in that realm despite the horrific societal damage that has been done. And, I find it hard to be equivocal about it because I find it society-wide. It’s illustrated at the bottom with the “taker” and “entitlement” mentality, and at the top with the bankster looting of society and de facto takeover of the government itself. And I think that a pan-societal example has been set that prosecution need not be feared as long as the crime is brazen enough and widespread enough. Though Casey goes a little overboard as you say, it’s a formula for societal and national breakdown and it’s beyond an intellectual construct; it’s reality. Many times I get the feeling that a flock of vultures is attacking a still-breathing but soon-to-be-dead animal in the form of our society; lest there be nothing left unless whatever can be scammed is scammed while the scamming is good.
And far too many, as Casey has pointed out quite tellingly, are just garden variety sociopaths. I work for the government, and I've seen them first hand. These sociopaths use the other things you've described, marxism, communism, and racism as further camouflage to obscure their true nature.
He is eminently correct in his assessment that they are drawn to government for one reason, and one reason alone. They seek out the capability to dominate others with complete impunity, and get paid for it as a side benefit. No nation can survive this for long.
*YOU* are likewise eminently correct in your statement that there are others in government who oppose this. I count myself as one of them. That said, the stark reality is that the barbarians, the sociopaths, are in the ascendancy. I see this, I recognize this, hell, I *live* this every day.
My time in government is drawing to a close, and I will be glad to leave, for I've seen far too much that is just flat out wrong, and am in no position to remedy. I've grown weary of trying to stand in the gap, to hold the sociopaths at bay...
the infowarrior