The Rise of Communism In America

Never consciously had I disliked North Carolina, until my graduation day from UNC- Chapel Hill.  I just completed the most rigorous, taxing, and enlightening four years of my life completing a Bachelor of Music Education degree.  When I stepped off the stage I was offered $17,500.00 a year to teach in North Carolina's public schools.  Nothing has changed.  Our state is one of the nation's bottom five for the lowest teacher's salaries.  Why would I consider this token job in 1985, after spending four years in one of the countries best universities?  I was insulted.  Consequently never have I taught in the North Carolina public school system.  Both of my parents did, and as Baby Boomers their chosen teaching careers were rewarded greatly.  America was different then.  We all know that.  It is drastic how much America has changed.  It is politics, not the American Dream, American stamina, American spirit, or our Founding Fathers.  Politics, the system of negotiation our elected officials use to govern our nation, has failed.  It has failed, because the lobbying industry has become so strong they either bully, coerce, tempt, or bribe our elected officials with money.  Lobbying from corporate America in our private sector governs America in complete abandonment of how the Founding Fathers intended.  Does this corporate-controlled government adhere to the United States Constitution?  They could not continue to govern if they did not, but rest assured the allegiance to our nation's charters is not what it once was.  Times have changed, our economy has changed, and our priorities have changed.  Whether they abide by our Constitution is not the foremost issue.  The foremost issue is that our elected officials, including the President elected by an Electoral College, do not represent the interests of America's citizens.  While close, three million Americans chose Hillary Clinton to be our new President?  How was Donald Trump elected?  This question never has been raised.  What is an Electoral College, and who are these individuals?  Why do they get to make the decision who is the President of the United States?  What good is a popular vote if it is not used to choose the President?  George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in the Florida court system.  I do not think he won, but Al Gore choose to concede thinking he was doing the appropriate thing.  He had too much dignity to continue the fight.  Consequently since George W. Bush's election, the country drastically has declined in every way possible.  It is almost as if God is baiting the American people to revolt.  Both Russia and France revolted against their governments.  Will we?  Since the Bush family inhabited our White House, things have gone awry.  Oil men it would seem have no interest in representing the interests of common Americans.  They are interested in making money from oil.  Dick Cheney would not allow a Muslim dictator to control a large percentage of the world's oil market, and now we have America's longest war.  We are still attempting to clean up the Bush mess.  Not many months ago our Congress created an eight hundred billion dollar slush fund for America's military.  This was not part of Donald Trumps fiscal budget, which he recently submitted.  Since 9/11what have we seen our military do?  They are attempting to clean up the Bush mess.  We attacked a foreign country under false pretenses, utterly destroyed their country by bombing their infrastructure, and left our military equipment there to fuel the formation of the most deadly terrorist cell in American history.  ISIS was created by George W. Bush, and today our American military is employed not to serve us, but to clean up W.'s mess.  If we were to utilize our military, a well-paid, in shape, trained fighting force to rebuild America's infrastructure, we would be smart.  Instead as America often has done, we spend America's money on War Economy.  This is what we have today.  There is no other economy, because Bill Clinton forged the path of Globalization at the behest of Corporate America and Wall Street.  Globalization is what wounded America, and we will not recover.  Never will America's economy recover when corporations will pay foreign labor forces a fraction of the needed salary to live in America.  Americans have been forced into poverty, and it will not be long before we are back in slavery again.  Since the day I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, that is what is has felt like to me.  There is a simple remedy.  Cow tow to the man, submit, don't make waves and they will hire you.  Be American, free, strong, and independent, and you will be unemployed.  In my four strenuous years at UNC I never learned this.  No one ever told me that you had to be subservient to be employed in America.  No one ever told me that I had to live in the "little black box," the box held by the rich, the mafia, corporate America, and now our government.  I was naive enough to think that if you adhered to Christian principals, abided by the Ten Commandment, and worked hard you would be rewarded.  The way America has rewarded me is by making my chosen vocation irrelevant.  In recent years our great American values, values which built and grew this nation, have been discarded.  The grassroots professions, skills, and services that built America no longer are deemed valuable.  Agriculture, textiles, furniture, the arts, and other humanity-based professions have been become extinct en lieu of cheap foreign-made crap.  My profession, the professional music industry, is thought should be free.  An industry which was an integral component of the twentieth century, the music industry and its appreciation of quality music, has been deemed unimportant.  Thus the values associated with quality music, a quality life, have been usurped.  Instead we rely upon instant gratification from addictive technology allowing Americans to be controlled like drones.  I tried Distro Kid.  I posted five of my original music projects in internet stores.  What all ready has been understood by mainstream musical artists was true.  Spotify, Rhapsody, Apple Music, and the rest think that our music is worth only a minute fraction of what it should be.  They want to play our music for their own gain for free.  Musical artists other than the small handful of produced bought-and-paid-for pop stars have no opportunity ever to see financial gain from their craft.  That is what I see each day when I wake, a nation, a state, that wants to pay me nothing to teach our young people, and an economy which thinks my artistic renderings should be free sacrifices to the graven images of the modern American economy.  Then there is this NRA.  There are special interest groups, but this NRA defies any logic.  The same groups of grassroot Americans who believe in militias and prepare for the end are not represented by this special interest group.  It is a ruse.  There is no logic to a "civil rights" organization that feels military weaponry should be made available to common people.  What kind of training has the populace received to be able to handle assault rifles?  When I try to discern who this group is, this NRA, I have no answer.  In light of mass shooting after shooting after shooting on our home soil, still a civil rights organization thinks military weaponry should be available to the populace.  Are any of these people, the elite businessmen who created and fund the NRA going to pick up a weapon and hold a post?  Are they going to sit on that wall?  The answer is "No."  The availability of assault weapons is not a literal right.  It is a figurative right, a right that extremists use to fight abstract, propagandistic, wars of attrition.  It is a small group of weak, afraid, Caucasian men who want to rule the world at all cost.  They are Hitler, they are Lenin and Stalin, and they are Mussolini.  As I have reiterated time and time again, extreme terrorism all ready has been in mainstream America for years.  It has become our American government.  Our military is a private paid fighting force used to secure the interests of these men.  These interests are the natural resources of the Middle East.  That is why we still are fighting America's longest war.