When we were young, we felt so sorry for the Russian people whom we felt were lied to 100% of the time, at risk of being killed by the state

Beverly Spicer: It used to be like that here, Don Harder. When we were young, we felt so sorry for the Russian people whom we felt were lied to 100% of the time, at risk of being killed by the state, and didn’t even have enough to eat, while we enjoyed a feeling of pride, patriotism and trust because we had “help save the free world” and our science, education, medicine, and leaders were the finest in the world, a beacon of hope for the entire world. Well that doesn’t exist here anymore and it is remarkable how it has changed — the first blow being JFK’s assassination, then the devastation of the Vietnam War, then the horrors we couldn’t perceive when Reagan was president with the stealth dismantling, covert wars, illegal drug and arms trade to finance them, and hidden perversity and immorality on the rise with unspeakable acts staged to entrap and compromise leaders, conducted initially by Reagan’s V.P. GWH Bush of the CIA who next became president and staged the opening acts of completely destroying the Middle East. We have seen our art, music, literature, academics, law enforcement, legal system, military, medicine, food, healthcare air, water, environment and sociopolitical aspects of our society undergo a systematic dismantling and destruction in slow motion right under our noses, and now with this “pandemic,” there goes the rest — the economy, any tranquility or peace of mind, rational thinking, and they’ve divided us to the point where the people despise each other and disagree on what reality even is. All this, while the people of Russia built character and a better society out of the ashes of their extended hardship. So what happened in Russia, what happened in Germany and China and South America, it seems it’s our turn now. My feeling is that if we cannot see it clearly, we now qualify as blind or in denial.

7-16-2020