• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    They don’t teach them this because it would lead them to believe we have been a fascist country since the creation of the military industrial complex. That is not exactly what we want our students learning.

    Much like we whitewash all of history to make ourselves out to be the good guys and not the genocidal death cult maniacs we are.

    It is not like we have not been warned for several decades now what has been happening.

    https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address

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      10 hours ago

      The Military Industrial Congressional complex (Congress was removed from the speech before Ike gave it) was created after fascism was defeated in Europe. I would suggest we had people attempting to instill it since the 1900s but they only just got through.

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        7 hours ago

        Indeed there have been instances of business trying to do this decades before his speech.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

        As I alluded to we have always been flirting or in recent times outright embracing fascism.

        When you realize we were a country founded by the wealthy for the wealthy you begin to understand why we have these issues.