The Shrine

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"It Can Happen Here."</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Excellent article! Extremely well written. "They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest."</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Now that was eerie. What happened with this Wallace? Sounds like a very intelligent guy.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The truth is (on the topic of economics) a lot of poorer American's are too dumb to think for themselves, they don't realize that due to the economic system they actually have very little freedom in their lives. In countries like Sweden and Norway, you can do almost anything you want with your life at any time. In the US (and Canada as well, but to a lesser extent), you are forced to invest a lot of time and money into something to get anywhere, and the only people who really benefit from this system are the people at the very top of the economic pyramid. The way I see it, if you haven't been on a good vacation in the last year (and I'm not talking from Lost Angelis to San Fransisco or something, I'm talking a real vacation), then that is a very clear sign that you are far down the pyramid. The US has some of the wealthiest people in the western world, unfortunately it also has a very large portion of the poorest people in the western world. Some people (like Flip) have argued that it doesn't matter to the poorer people that they're poor, just as long as the wealthy people are very wealthy; there were similar arguments among people back in the middle ages, even among the poor, who would argue the same thing: that the only thing that matters is that the Nobles are rich and powerful. Then there was the whole argument some Nobles used about divine right, but no one actually bought that except for the VERY ignorant. I'm sorry, but the very wealthy people in the country are of no benefit to the poor, the only thing that is of benefit to the poor in western society is the dollar in their pockets.

Another feature of fascism is the exploitation of cheap labour in foreign countries, that is something that most large corporations are guilty of; especially Japanese and US ones.</div>