State collapse is inevitable when a society’s leaders are insulated from the negative consequences of their bad decisions.
Mike Shelby
I remember well when this happened. I was in college at the time. Senator Kennedy had, just a day or two before the California Primary, spoken to a huge crowd on my campus (San Fernando Valley State College). The one thing which stuck in my mind which I remember to this day is he stated the Viet Nam War was costing America eighteen thousand dollars a minute.
TPTB knew he would win the nomination. LBJ had already announced he would not run again. Those making endless streams of money off of the blood of military draftees my age, would see their golden spigots turned off. He had to be eliminated. The other tragedy behind this assassination, as with the Senator’s brother in 1963, is the ignorant, stupid, naive, pathetic American public refused to see the truth. And those who were intelligent enough to see through the lies and obfuscations, were vilified and ridiculed.
H.L. Mencken, one of America’s last real journalists, wrote no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. He was right. I witnessed shouting matches among relatives and co-workers for years afterward over the JFK and RFK assassinations. There were still fools my age and older who could not comprehend an America which was not John Wayne, Mom, Apple Pie, Honest Abe, and Old Glory. They had imbibed the government school and (((Hollywood))) propaganda. Sad.
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