There has never been any pretence at serious democracy, but America once provided decent standards of living for its populace and didn't try to police the world. I guess that is the kind of America Celente is nostalgic about. At one time America seemed to be moving towards some kind of progress both economically and in terms of equal rights. Housing was affordable, raising a child was affordable, education was affordable, healthcare was affordable, retiring was affordable and so on and so on. Nowadays it has all been stripped away and whereas once America was happy just stripping the independance of sovereign countries for resources, it then started to chip away at its own populace too when Wall Street simply had to have more. The middle class which expanded throughout much of the 20th century has been steadly gouged away and it is shrinking alarmingly. There is a great lecture on the decline of the America middle class by Elizabeth Warren which is available on You Tube.

I think GB is harsh on Celente who is doing nothing more than presenting the truth albeit in a bombastic manner. If there is a fault in what he is saying then it should be picked upon, but on the whole Celente is fairly consistent and I have no issues with him making a living by it as a whole lot more in the mainstream media are making a lot more money by basically misinforming the American people and creating people like Lyle. A media that gives airtime to Dick Cheney to ruminate on 'harm to national security', which constantly updates you on stock markets despite most of us living ordinary lives without any stocks and shares, which ignores 3rd party candidates et al et al is a whole lot worse than the likes of Celente saying that life was better before and things are going down the shitter. He is telling the truth and it is observable to any half awake pug.

All media is self serving to some degree or another and there is an obvious reason for that. The British Royal family is a case in point. You are told that a Royal Birth is significant and should pay attention, you are told this must be true as the media is telling you it is. To any of those half awake pugs, they can see through the manipulation and deception. Celente would simply tell it as it is and use a witty line and an expletive to say it. The mainstream media is complicit in a whole lot more than Celente is. The mainstream media has sold wars based upon lies to the public just because the politicians told them to do so.

It's easy to criticise the likes of Celente when they try to tell the truth about the systems that indoctrinate from the off. The indoctrinated are the vast bulk of people and people who shake the shackles off and tell it straight should be commended. Alex Jones annoys me somewhat, but I like Celente a lot more. He seems more intelligent and there aren't really any holes in what he is saying factually.