Ripples Into Riptides | Emanuele E. Corso

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Emanuele E. Corso -- World News Trust

Feb. 18, 2015

John Adams once wrote: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

The unrelenting war on all forms and manifestations of a democratic social contract has led to bloody revolutions in every era, on every continent, and in virtually every culture. They all begin as slight disturbances, ripples on the surface of daily events, minor perturbations in the status quo that eventually take on a destructive life of their own not unlike the early gentle rumblings of an earthquake.

History clearly demonstrates political Democracy and Capitalism are not compatible ideologies, they are contentious and contradictory belief systems. Capitalism has, at bottom, become a quasi-religion as much as an economic system.

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We are, in the 21st Century, engaged in a new round of Democracy versus Capitalism. We must question. We must challenge -- each of us.

Time is running out on what’s left of this Democracy and what is left of a civil society because we are avoiding truth. We must tell truth to power and demand truth from them lest the ripples turn into waves and the waves into riptides of destruction.

Truth is a virtue not an inconvenience, there can be no justice without it.

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