The public's getting upset: Wage inequality is worse than its been in modern history. Bailed-out bankers are still paying themselves huge bonuses with taxpayer money. Our corporate politicians always know what to do in a tight spot like that: Kill another black man and change the subject. That's how Troy Davis fits into the demonstrators' "one demand."
Why is "American imperialism" on the list? Because politicians in both parties are determined to cut Social Security and Medicare, even as they support military bases around the world and prosecute two unnecessary wars. Those bases and those wars enrich the corporations that serve the Defense Department." Those wars are a symptom of democracy hijacked by corporations.
Why is "corporate censorship" on the list? Because in both a literal and metaphorical sense, certain information is marginalized or blacklisted in our social media and our traditional media. A majority of Republican voters -- not Democratic voters, Republicans -- want to protect Social Security benefits and close tax loopholes. A vast majority of Americans want the government to create jobs more than it wants deficits to be cut...
But try finding a news report about the budget that doesn't treat these ideas as marginal, extreme, "lefty," and impractical. See how hard it is? That's corporate censorship.
In every voice, in every ban,
the mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
William Blake
Here's how insane this country has become. You can find "liberal" pundits and leaders from both parties on every channel who will condemn American homeowners as morally bankrupt and unworthy of help. But the banks they trusted, who sold them mortgages on the false promise that real estate values would rise forever, and who then when on a crime spree, walked away free. And their CEOs are broadcast and quoted as if they were legitimate, mainstream American voices.
That's insane.
While the middle class dies and the ranks of the poor swell, this country is talking about cutting the government's spending. While one home in four is underwater, this country's worried about the financial health of banks. While we fight two unnecessary wars, war criminals like Dick Cheney are given television platforms as if they were simply representing a different political point of view.
That's insane.
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