American Democracy is a very sophisticated and disguised form of Fascism.  Our government, in truth, controls and owns all businesses and all people, except for the elite puppeteers who own the government itself.  The majority of American peons are over taxed, over regulated, or quite simply "over owned."  Like the Egyptian slaves of olden times, we are building pyramids for someone whose identity is highly classified and a guarded secret.  We are given sugar donuts on our breaks so we will be happy about being manipulated in our sweat.  The elite have in their employ, professional agitators; who in sharp fashion and brilliant style, pit one created group against the other to cover their masters' gluttonous appetite for wealth accumulation and strategic distribution.  These agitators have so-called "laborers" criticizing so-called "managers" and vice versa.  They have literally created a kind of class warfare.
    The agitators have also created protectionist societies to divide the drones; such as labor unions, business guilds, Lawyers Bar Associations, Doctors Medical Associations, etc., etc., etc.  Even fraternal orders specialize in seducing its saps into believing that the members are on the "inside" while everyone else is on the "outside".  This is the seductive indoctrination of all orders, associations, unions, secret societies, guilds or whatever colorful name the ventriloquists have had their dummies nail up over their club doors.
    People are sheep indeed and the big shearing season is just around the corner.  Americans have been swaying to this hallucinatory music for a long time now and the supplier is about to ask for full payment.  The sugar donuts are about to transform into their true form.  And if we can keep the flies off and put up with the odor, we can go right on eating them.  They (the ventriloquists) will probably just tell us we are eating "chocolate" donuts and we (the dummies) will continue to mouth the very words they give us to say.  As long as we each feel we are a part of a select brotherhood ourselves, we will continue to smile like possums.
    Once in a while, a dummy will arise who sees the whole show from above the stage, but when he tries to penetrate the other wooden heads with what he sees, they will simply show him their stockpile of sugar donuts, their membership cards and the extra space in their hollow heads.  Then they will mouth whatever the puppeteers have trained them to say at that particular moment.  To most dummies, their purpose in life is to, one day, have many other dummies gather around their dead little wooden shells and utter the words, "that dummy sure consumed a lot of donuts in his life!"
    It is true that "all the world's a stage and all the people are merely actors."  It is also true that it only takes one actor, who refuses to mouth the play writer's lines, to spoil the whole show for everyone else.  But as they say, "THE SHOW MUST GO ON!"
 

***  Comment from K. J. Wolf:  The above is the kind of writing that easily flows from the pen of a populist who totally distrusts the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to represent the average American Citizen.  It also could have been written by a conservative or a liberal; who was either angry at the time of writing it, or feels betrayed by either ideology.  The writing is included here to show the kind of rationale expressed by someone who thinks they see some truths that very few acknowledge existing.  It shows the frustration of one who is not able to influence others into their way of thinking.