If you were to hold up a mirror to the ideology that surrounds the White House, the reflection would be too much to bear for the administration. Despite US failure to acknowledge communism as a legitimate style of governing the people, through McCarthy's scare mongering, sanctions placed on Cuba, the Cold War, support for any dictators that oppose the doctrine of Communism (Pinochet, Khmer Rouge, Mobutu etc), this is exactly the form of government they cravenly desire. George II was even caught on film saying a Dictatorship would be a whole lot easier.
Where and when did the bastions of progressive democracy become their worst nightmare? At which stage did the personal freedoms of the populous become secondary to the centralised control of the state, all be it at the wheel of a free market 4x4? The truth is this was always the case. From the very first Hollywood witch-hunts, the fear of communism was espoused to a society in an attempt to render it petrified and thus subject to the enslavement of ideas, liberties and ownership of humans as commodities.
The reason the US has become so insular is a direct result of the promotion of such a media. Should Americans be subject to observing real democracy in action such as in France or, ironically Germany they would rightly ask why the US is different? Furthermore the nightmare scenarios that were put forth in 50s and ever since regarding communism failed to tell the public anything about this phenomenon that was sweeping eastern Europe, new independent Africa and South America, anything factual that is. Communism was presented as some lizard from the planet Marx, in the galaxy of Lenin. If Americans were taught what Communism really was, they would have realised much sooner the creeping centralising of everything in the US under a guise of privatisation and capitalism.
The dichotomy of US communism however equates to two, rather than one class of people. The communist structure is reserved for the poorest people, where social mobility has been obliterated and where each person must help the next for all to survive. The golden ouvre of democracy, that shining torch which the US has deemed itself worthy of defending, regardless of whether it is in danger or not, is reserved for the richest members of society. The ones that benefit from the free market, from capitalism, from inflation, from stock markets, from ultimately, democracy, are the ones that have always benefited from staying out of a system where the each man lives for the next. To stay a member of the upper class, you must always have a lower.
So liberties and freedoms will continue to be eroded in favour of democracy by name, while a badly organised and ill-treated communism will continue to emerge for the poorest people. Perhaps it's time to give the Statue of Liberty back to France?
