The irony of this article appearing in the English edition of Pravda (Russian on-line newspaper)  defies description.  Why can a Russian newspaper print the following yet  the American media can't/won't see it?

  
American Capitalism Gone Without A Whimper  

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American  descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back  drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.      True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the  past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds  was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians  would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how  much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American  populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their  elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down  through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture,  rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas  than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for  their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than  for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about  our rights and about our "democracy".  Pride blind the foolish.  
  
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches,  all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the  most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top  protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and  flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or  another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on  the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes  for earthly power.  Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously  liberalized in America .
  
The final collapse has come with the  election of Barack Obama.  His speed in the past three months has been  truly impressive.  His spending and money printing has been a record  setting, not just in America 's short history but in the world.  If this  keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not,  America at best will resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.  
  
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of  all.  First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American  Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their  thefts, losses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars.  These  make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in  comparison.  Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear  volumes.  Should we congratulate them?
  
These men, of  course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the  very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on  trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another.  They are  also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress  (parliament).  Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to  their masters.
  
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's  (General Motors) president step down from leadership of his company.   That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American  president now has the power, the self-given power, to fire CEOs and we can  assume other employees of private companies, at will.  Come hither, go  dither, the centurion commands his minions.
  
So it should be no  surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move  of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now  redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of  automobile policies.  I am sure that if given the chance, they would  happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister  Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK 's Blair, not to follow  the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster.  Apparently, even though  we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing,  as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the  folly of their own pride.
  
Again, the American public has taken  this with barely a whimper...but a "free man" whimper.
  
So,  should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled  Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the  American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries,  evaluate performance, and control how private companies give out pay raises  and bonuses?  Senator Barney Frank, a social pervert basking in his  homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal  norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a  looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his  Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort.  He stresses that this only  affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and  taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that  has ever received a tax break or incentive.
  
The Russian owners  of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the  option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as  fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.  

The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest, and  proclaiming to the world, how free he really is.  The world will only  snicker.
  
Stanislav Mishin© 1999-2009.. PRAVDA.Ru. When  reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should  be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the  point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.