Steve's barking: Is the US becoming the new USSR?

No the US is not becoming communist, nor even socialist. It just that some characteristics that the Soviet Union had when it collapsed and just after it appear to be taking place in the good old US of A.
Our  infrastructure is collapsing. Were afraid to try something new. (New sources of energy for example).
Few people run the country and the same tired faces seem to appear with the same tired ideas.Same as the Soviet Union. The old Soviets use to call every one that didn't agree with them a fascist and we like to call those who disagree communist or socialist. The best way to get a good job in the US is to know some one just as in the old Soviet Union. The old Soviet Union news was propaganda TV and Newspapers, just as Fox news tends to be a propaganda arm of the Republican party and MS NBC tends to be the propaganda arm of the Democrats. The health care system of both the collapsing Soviet Union deteriorated just as the US is deteriorating.( The US is closing hospitals right and left. For every 2 doctors that retires only 1 and 1/2 doctors replace the retired one). The collapsed Soviet Union had a hard time paying it's veterans, think of the US VA. The old Soviet propaganda machine would tell the same lies over and over again that the people became to believe that the lies were the truth. Think of the NRA, the Tea Party, the Cato institute (I could go on and on including left leaning groups). Aren't they the same kind  propaganda machines as the old Soviet system? When the Soviet System collapse didn't it fall into an rich oligarchy  type of system just as we are falling into now?



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