Where were you 40 years ago this evening when President Richard M. Nixon resigned?

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85. Yep. The ones I spoke to about it were completely blown away.

We forget how extraordinary some countries' people find it that we can actually remove people from powerful offices without a bloody revolution.

Of course, with black box voting, legalized bribery, unrestrained surveillance, voter restrictions, and pervasive corporate/MIC control of our government and economy (and of that of the entire world in many ways), our ability to influence our government and to remove the worst actors from power is steadily decreasing.

JFK was right when he warned that making peaceful dissent impossible makes violent revolution inevitable. Thankfully we are not at that point yet, but I fear for the future. The novel 1984 wasn't "wrong"--it was just premature. Now, 30 years later than 1984, we are almost as surveilled by BIG Brothers (not just *one*!) as Orwell feared, and the tools of pervasive and brutal state control are being put in place and used in trial runs.

Eisenhower's warning about the MIC should be continually pushed into public awareness, and books and movies about J. Edgar Hoover's abuse of FBI intelligence should be continually produced and heavily marketed, as should works reminding people about the lies and war crimes of the Iraq invasion and the servile complicity of the MSM.

Unfortunately, though, that won't happen. What Americans will get instead is a steady diet of bread and circuses, interspersed with constant, pervasive war propaganda and jingoistic indoctrination.