Post by midcan5 on Jun 11, 2016 19:48:17 GMT -5
Americans live in Lalaland, money rules America today and working people are part of the problem when they fail to support fair wages, higher taxes, unions, infrastructure repair, less defense, and affordable healthcare. When they fail to support each other there is no need to worry about walls, immigrants, taxes, trade deals, it really is simple but will it happen? Support each other.
'A Debasing Spectacle: Behind and Beyond the Latest Quadrennial Carnival'
"It’s a f___king joke (I’m sorry but I don’t know any other way to honestly put it). Seven years ago, the left scholars Edward S. Herman and David Peterson noted in passing that “an unelected dictatorship of money vets the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties, reducing the options available to U.S. citizens to two candidates, neither of whom can change the foreign or domestic priorities of the imperial U.S. regime.” A year before that, the incisive Left historian Laurence Shoup explained things well in Z Magazine."
www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/10/a-debasing-spectacle-behind-and-beyond-the-latest-quadrennial-carnival/
"You also won’t see mainstream U.S. authorities and experts admit that democracy is essentially impossible under capitalism. You won’t hear them quote the great American philosopher John Dewey prophesizing 85 years ago that U.S. politics would remain “the shadow cast on society by big business” as long as power resided in “business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the press, press agents, and other means of propaganda.”" from above link
www.electricpolitics.com/2009/07/riding_the_green_wave_at_the_c.html
www.rdwolff.com/content/there-alternative-capitalist-economics-and-politics-richard-wolff-says-yes
and this: 'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism' Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
'A Debasing Spectacle: Behind and Beyond the Latest Quadrennial Carnival'
"It’s a f___king joke (I’m sorry but I don’t know any other way to honestly put it). Seven years ago, the left scholars Edward S. Herman and David Peterson noted in passing that “an unelected dictatorship of money vets the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties, reducing the options available to U.S. citizens to two candidates, neither of whom can change the foreign or domestic priorities of the imperial U.S. regime.” A year before that, the incisive Left historian Laurence Shoup explained things well in Z Magazine."
www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/10/a-debasing-spectacle-behind-and-beyond-the-latest-quadrennial-carnival/
"You also won’t see mainstream U.S. authorities and experts admit that democracy is essentially impossible under capitalism. You won’t hear them quote the great American philosopher John Dewey prophesizing 85 years ago that U.S. politics would remain “the shadow cast on society by big business” as long as power resided in “business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the press, press agents, and other means of propaganda.”" from above link
www.electricpolitics.com/2009/07/riding_the_green_wave_at_the_c.html
www.rdwolff.com/content/there-alternative-capitalist-economics-and-politics-richard-wolff-says-yes
and this: 'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism' Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein