Snowden Is No Traitor. What He EXPOSED Is What's TREASON.

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180. Peace and prosperity where?

Not to be flippant - because I know what you mean. Yes, we used to have a "workers" party that protected unions and high-paying jobs for American citizens. Food packers and construction workers once had good wages and benefits - but now live hand-to-mouth. That was before the Elites bought-out the "workers" political party, using the vehicle of the DLC - a Koch Bros funded operation with then-Governor Bill Clinton as its first director (whose wife was on the Wal Mart board of directors). American manufacturing has since been gutted by Transnationals with no allegiance to any nation's people - or ANY people - except their shareholders - a tiny fraction of 1%.

But during those good-years, even before Reagan (when wages stagnated as corporate profits continued to rise), there were endless wars being waged to protect the sources of raw-resources which the USA was processing into finished goods. The USA was playing the same game the British had played, installing puppet governments, running death-squads and "coups" of any popular governments who attempted to distribute the wealth of their nations to their people and, in general trying to prevent foreign nations from becoming manufacturers of finished goods to supply their own people (not to be confused with the "globalization" model). And during that time - American workers were paid off, and allowed it to happen - buying into the fallacy of "the spread of communism."

I believe a more honest assessment, is that we allowed it for the very reason G.H.W. Bush would later use to justify the first Gulf War - at a point when the American middle-class was still clinging to life, and willing to do anything to preserve their 'privilege': "To protect our way of life."
He left out, and we conveniently failed to fill in, "... at the expense of millions of 'other' people 'somewhere else' in the world."

Our unions were never 'peacenik' types - google "AFL-CIA" if you have any doubts about that; they were a stop-gap to actual democratic workplaces and full-control of our natural resources. But they did 'deliver' a good living to American workers, for awhile.

No disrespect is intended for the vocal and passionate faction of Dems who consistently advocated against wars and for their victims; but let's face it - we saw how they were treated by the party in 1968, and it only got worse from there.