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I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore
Fourteen Songs To Break The Ideological Lockstep
In the town square everybody says they are anti-war.
Even the weapons manufacturers.
And yet, when The War Racket goes into full swing, somehow the vast majority assent to various positions of support.
The Comfortables of the USofA, rarely having to face the bloodshed and death at their door, always add their voices as if it were another grand sporting event.
The government learned a half century ago to avoid the demands of a compulsory military draft—which actually puts people’s sons and daughters lives at risk— because that kicks in a self-preserving type of critical thinking and the next thing you know they’re questioning what the hell this cause is that they’re supposed to kill and die for.
Manipulations of the economy are always reliable to create different kinds of desperation which will fill the need for troops.
(Over 30,177 service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have committed suicide — over four times as many as have died in combat.)
Today the USofA does most of the dirty work of its military-industrial complex via drones. Having another country do the fighting in…
