Ron De Torre

Illusionists, Elitists, and Shamans Ron De Torre

Picture the United States where the income gap equals the gap experienced before the Great Depression in the era of Robber Barons. It is a country where national treasures are callously sold to developers. In George OrwellÕs nightmare novel, 1984, its New Speak says: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is strength. In this America, thanks to labelers and spin doctors: Common courtesy and respect is Political Correctness, Protection of Constitutional rights is Big Government, Hypocrisy and Paranoia disguise themselves as Patriotism, Inconvenient Truth is Humanist Hysteria. It is a country where homeless camps are reminiscent of the hobo camps of the 1930s. It is a country where it is forbidden for federal agencies to use words objectionable to campaign contributors. The FBI has been instructed to end investigations of white supremacists while any minority that dares protest injustice is demonized as the Jews and Poles were by Nazi Germany.