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America 2004: A Power But Not Super

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What happened in the recent Bush administration to leave Americans from the middle and lower classes feeling such increasing distance from their rulers? John Stanton, a professional in the national security arena who writes for a host of publications dealing with American politics, places the answers to this very inquiry before us in America 2004. William Godwin set forth in his enquiry concerning political justice a workable system of anarchy. Not violence, but the slow disintegration of governmental, political and economic institutions with a gradual erosion of the policies of competition, dominance, and accumulation became the outline. To eliminate freedom, the mobility of thought and action must be curtailed and a dash of theatrical and compulsive showmanship hosted by our leadership has proven to be the sugar making the medicine more palatable. Leading us through our nation's changes with the decrease of American business, its personnel cuts and subsequent outsourced jobs, our country's failing infrastructure, and to the disbelief and numbness felt by citizens with the loss of the popular vote while winning the presidential election in the Bush campaign, we find ourselves questioning our very core beliefs in America. Recent history shows funding promotions only for the military-industrial complex, law enforcement, and homeland security functions taking precedence. In addition, US troops scheduled to return home have those orders aborted as tours go extended because the "war wasn't planned right." As the U.S. seems to mock the Geneva Convention with the ordained use of torture tactics, striving to remove prisoners from the ranks of humanity, we are slowly viewing the route of leaders becoming unaccountable while their methods go unchallenged. Artists and thinkers promote truth as Zinn notes, "war has always diminished our freedom. When our freedom has expanded, it has not come as a result of war or of anything the government has done, but as a result of what citizens have done."