I have found other writers besides me
who also see the same government abuses run wild since the end of and because
of the cold war. Jon Wiener and Tom Dispatch
have written
8 Ways America Was Better Off During the Cold War. Instead of “We won the Cold War” and “communism as an ideology
is dead,” They write about the abuses US civilian and military leaders commit
today that they would not commit today. They also write about US abuse of
unions.
-SJ Otto
From Alternet:
At a book festival in Los
Angeles recently, some writers (myself included) were making the usual
arguments about the problems with American politics in the 1950s -- until one
panelist shocked the audience by declaring, “God, I miss the Cold War.” His
grandmother, he said, had come to California from Oklahoma with a grade-school
education, but found a job in an aerospace factory in L.A. during World War II,
joined the union, got healthcare and retirement benefits, and prospered in the
Cold War years. She ended up owning a house in the suburbs and sending
her kids to UCLA.
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