Through a constitutional amendment. Our generation is the only one that has never overturned an amendment. Go to wolf-pac.com for more information. It CAN be done, but people have to get off their asses and push for it.
Victor Droid You "Earn" your money, but Bernie supports don't? The FDR "New Deal" made the Country that is held as a gold standard. My parents would tell me that they could quit one job and find another one on the same day. I have never seen that in my life thanks to Reagan..
Put on your seat belts people. Get ready to fight to the best of your ability. As for those who voted for this mess.....well, I can only hope you learn something quickly. I don't see how you can't.
austinbeige exactly they are tired of the nicety of bribery etc....it is a gasp last breath of the oligarghs to seize control from the educated masses sick of the capitalist stanglehold on our society ... we lower their taxes and deregulate as they say they need to create jobs ... then they rape the economy ...
They mention new rules that would impede workers from organizing, environmental protections, etc., etc. You do realize people, that you don't have to follow those rules. The founders of this nation ignored the rules of their government at the time (as a colony of England). We can do the same.
I'm happy Lee Fang is so young. In the coming months and years, he will have a great impact in journalism. Naomi Klein already reached the top of that mountain a long time ago. And may Amy Goodman get millions of new subscribers. We're going to need all of them to help us wade through the swamp and keep sane.
Cooperate coup d'etat happened many years ago, sorry. The argument she brings to the table is really nothing which describes this administration in particular.
I'd seen this on the site but watched it for the second time and leraned more! Very deep and informative as a piece of good journalism should be. Thanks Amy Goodman and all good fells in democracynow!
Basically, yes. Got rid of the politicians, the middle men, the buffer, that were owned by special interests, and just put those special interests directly in power.
On a side note from listening to a young lad who is a dweeb . My dog had puppies today . She is doing well and 8 wiskery woofers are doing fine . Thats the news folks .
I live in England, I wish that the POTUS had no affect on me, but it does. I hope you americans realise you have unleashed a megolomanic on the rest of the world, its like WTF. Brexit pfffff hold my beer and watch this.
As Trump himself said about Tillerson, "...he goes in and takes a countries oil, then moves onto the next one.", proud and excited, "What a great guy."
If We as Democrats are not mobilized and motivated NOW for 2018 midterms, then I'm afraid we might deserve what we get...there's a lot of seats up and everything CAN CHANGE
Those young people are pushing back with all the have inciting violence, breaking windows of businesses, starting fires and burning cars, throwing bricks and rocks and bottles at cops. Did you tell them to give up their lives for this fight, that you know they can't win?
apropo0 I was talkinn about best selling author Naomi Klein. Does she even know the meaning of Coup d' etat? My guess is that, she being a member of a liberal democracy, has no point of comparison.
HEhe... perhaps not a coup in the literal sense. Certainly nothing like what happened to the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Perhaps Klein used the term figuratively or metaphorically. What would her party affiliation or political bent have to do with frame of reference w/r/t a coup? Are you familiar with any of Klein's writing?
apropo0 Im familiar with the biased and incomplete writings of The Shock Doctrine, and realize ahe is just part of a huge industry of academic/entertainment industry. Just like Mike Moore is.
Naomi Klein is one of my heroes. I have said for years that we are experiencing a slow, insidious, bloodless coup on the part of oligarchs and their minions in government. I stand by all of that except for the slow part!
This energy *must* be channeled to form alliances on the local level, that formulate policies and win elections on the local and state level. By focusing on the presidency we forget what got him there - voter dissatisfaction on the local level.
I know. How scared could they be? It's not like one of Puzder's workers being scared that they won't make rent or worried that they'll be able to start a family or whatever dire situation they could get into. He'll still be rich! What a pussy!
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How important, to this election, was gerrymandering, and voters' registration rules?
Trump's upset now about his crowd at the inauguration-- meager attendance as compared with Obama's. Why is Trump worried about that? And... as Amy said here: Trump's inauguration balls/ celebration concert that night--- total of approx. 10K attended, as contrasted with Obama's 400+K attendees at his first inauguration celebrations, galas, balls.
We were so focused on stopping TPP- the global corporate coup- but they had Plan B. I agree with Naomi though- this is a panicked last gasp (I'd add, of patriarchy) and we will fight it with everything we have.
Every one of these panelists was exactly right about what was about to happen - every single point. It was right there in front of us, laid out Like a roadmap. Amazing that so many working class Americans STILL fell for this long con game - and continue to back this president.
I suspect it would have happened with any corporate funded candidate. Any non corporate candidate may well have been in danger or used as a figurehead but held powerless. This has probably been a long time in the making.
Correction - Trump didn't win, Hillary didn't lose, The American People have lost. It is important to note that the American People would have lost regardless of whether Hillary or Trump took office. As it was once said, " I don't care who gets to vote, as long as I get to pick the candidates"
Corporate coup d'Etat pretty much sums it up, all right. The question now is whether the 99% can ever turn things back around. Maybe this is where capitalism goes. I just regret that I wasn't born in a Scandinavian country. Do I sound "unpatriotic?" Tough shit.
Isn't Tillerson one of the more pragmatic--and less ideological--candidates for Sec State? I am under the impression that if it's not him, it'll be someone much worse.
When both sides realize that Goldman Sachs does not care which side is in and the people then decide to act together against the real problem we will continue to be at each other's throats, and letting the real culprits off the hook. We need a people's party, neither party is in truth that entity. Both sides have weakness and both sides have strength, the most glaring weakness common to both sides is the willingness to waste so much energy denigrating the other side and ignoring the true problem.
Very good info, balls sponsors should be reported, and also private meeting, who are the swamp rats?
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and the GOP has proven for decades that they know how to FUCK America in the ass and still get enough idiots to keep voting for them. These MORONS continue to fail to notice that the GOP basically shut down Obama's last 6 years and that all the GOPtards who think things are bad are the ones who made it bad: the GOP had the house for 18 of the past 22 years, the senate 14 of those years and held both and the presidency all at once 6 of those years (the Dems only for 2 measly years) and need I mention that before the most recent generation of screwing over America, that they had Reagan & Bush #1 for 12 years in a row. The GOP voter couldn't be any stupider!
It's worth noting that a teensy tinesy minuscule amount of people have the absolutely final say on who becomes POTUS. But we shouldn't hold those people accountable, right? It's a lot easier to just pin it ALL on one person.
The Democratic party need to get their acts together, every time I heard them diagnose the situation, they fail measurable. We tend to be reactionaries at time. Republicans have a strategy, which is divide and concur, and financial gain- it works for them. But that won't work for us, because democrats are intelligent, we analyze everything, we care about issues confronted the entire world, while worry about the other side understand us, that's difficult stuff to Juggle. But we need to maintain focus, not so easily derailed , I can't believe we buy into the idea of Hillary's crookedness, preferred Bernie over Hillary, and that democrats voted for Trump instead of Hillary, to me that's crazy. Many of the Bernie's fans were republicans skimming to change the outcome, republicans are good car salesmen, they know how to skim to get at what they want.
I dislike this, not because I'm an astroturfer working for Donald Drumpf, but because I'm an American who has been fooled by an astroturfer working for Donald Drumpf.
PS: NOT a Trump fan here. Not by a loooong shot. Trump as POTUS is frightening, perhaps even more frightening than Hillary as POTUS. But there's also complexity here. The mainstream anti-Trump narrative does not cut it.
I just got a scary prediction of Trumps "advisers" whispering him to go full military complex and when eventually most of US's allies turn against them and their enemies get closer he goes ape shit on the red button and then goodbye world. ugh
Open request to DN: Do a story on who is repaying the campaign loans that DT made to himself. It appears as though even though he funded his own campaign and should be beholden to no one, it appears as if he is beholden to the exact same interests as anyone would be, and I assume this is because Wall Street, oil, etc., they are paying off his campaign loans.
Companies and lobbyists, just like prior administrations . These parties are both the same and deplorable to the voters , thus , both parties lost . College based regressives lost .
ONE GOOD IDEA. ONE POWERFUL TACTIC. Here's the major problem why political reforms don't happen in USA, the core reason 3rd parties fail in the USA, is our 'winner take all' voting vs. proportional representation. Alternative Voting is a good 'keyword' to find out more about this. We need to change to election process so alternative voice, smaller voices can start to get a share of political power. Winner-take-all voting is like a gambler thinking he can beat the odds in Las Vegas; but the only steady winner in Las Vegas is the casinos. --- NEITHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO ‘SAVE US,’ FROM THEIR OWN MANIPULATIONS AND MALFEASANCE --- So the tactic I recommend is Radical*Voting, meaning Vote out all incumbents, repeatedly, again and again until news laws passed, laws passed that reduce the influence of cash, term limits, limits on length of campaigns, and some method of ALTERNATIVE VOTING that does give all the power only to those who can get 51%. In some ways no more radical that voter enforced term limits, but in another way a mist dramatic challenge to business as usual. We've had no success in changing our politics by waving signs, by large crowds, nor by breaking windows. Change comes, as it's been often repeated, "by the bullet or the ballot." (And revolution or civil war doomed to destroy more than it saves)
Trump will do the opposite. Empty at inauguration, and ball too. Looks like rooms in Washington for protesters is needed. Somebody contribute to pay for their rooms. please.thanks.
This reminds me of the Buy N Large Pixar theory. (Buy N Large is a fictional company seen in the background of most Pixar films, and BNL eventually appears to gradually and quietly take over society across all the films.) Capitalism is great, but it needs a healthy balance of socialism to last. Without social values to keep it in check, you end up with a society of people (like in Wall-E) who are alive merely to buy and consume the goods marketed by the governing corporation.
It seems that we are seeing the evolution of capitalism. Behind Henry Ford and other great industrialists, our country boomed under capitalism. Workers had to fight to get fair wages and safe working conditions, a battle that was won but not by all. Then, to bring things under corporate control again, republicans have successfully convinced the average American unions are bad. The average teacher's retirement is 48,000/year whereas a senator's is $175,000 with full health coverage. The average 30 yr military career is $38,000! Most of us unfortunately get pushed out before we get to the maximums. We have seen the steady decline of union influence over the years. Then, we struggled with global competition and outsourcing. Corporations slashed employee numbers while rewarding consultants who figured out how to steal from the original contributions by the workers. Senators are calling social security a benefit and want it privitized..read - controlled and eventually taken. Now, we are seeing the wiping out of checks and balances against corporations by appointing the most influential CEOs to government positions: A corporate Coup d'Etat.
God, I am tired of hearing the "POPULAR VOTE" argument....If it was the lay of the land, then I would understand....But when it goes against you, whay, whay whay!!!! - There is no Popular Vote - if you win by lose the popular vote by 1 vote or 4 millioin votes, it DOES NOT MATTER! - Get over it!
Well, Wall Street financially backed Hillary almost exclusively. So, I think that speaks volumes.
Igaluit And Trump fills his cabinet with billionaires, Goldman Sachs boys and the head of Exxon Mobile.
John Moran That we first overturn Citizens United and elect Bernie or someone like him that actually represents Americans.
Through a constitutional amendment. Our generation is the only one that has never overturned an amendment. Go to wolf-pac.com for more information. It CAN be done, but people have to get off their asses and push for it.
Victor Droid You "Earn" your money, but Bernie supports don't? The FDR "New Deal" made the Country that is held as a gold standard. My parents would tell me that they could quit one job and find another one on the same day. I have never seen that in my life thanks to Reagan..
Which socialist country did you grow up in?
Corporations have been writing legislation for most of my 38 years of life, and THIS is the coup? At least the title is worth a good laugh.
Does anyone else feel that Amy Goodman's eyes show not just kindness, but wisdom as well? Seriously, that's my immediate impression.
And if Clinton had won! Do you think the corporations would be out? Give me a break.
How totally true it sounds after 5 years!
The merging of corporate interests with a government is one of the definitions of Fascism
Progressives stay strong.
O gee.....let's break out the harps and violins on that one.
Trump implemented their plan.
Press dropped the ball by not focussing on Trump's shortcomings.
yes, and by focussing on made-up stuff like him being racist.
Are you serious? The press that ignored Obama's Marxist connections, gave Hillary a free pass for a year, Colluded to rig the debates.... Wow.
Democracy Now is Soros funded, who also funded $hillarys campaign.
mr magoo Source?
Mette C5, it's listed on the democracy now's home page. Just scroll to the bottom of the page.
like an elder told me once, the fool always reveals him/her self in the end.
It was the polls saying Hillery had the win,so people said good and stayed home in key states.
Put on your seat belts people. Get ready to fight to the best of your ability. As for those who voted for this mess.....well, I can only hope you learn something quickly. I don't see how you can't.
Not so much a Coup d'Etat, rather a ramping up.
austinbeige exactly they are tired of the nicety of bribery etc....it is a gasp last breath of the oligarghs to seize control from the educated masses sick of the capitalist stanglehold on our society ... we lower their taxes and deregulate as they say they need to create jobs ... then they rape the economy ...
No Logo by Naomi Klein changed my life. It's old now but gold.
Great report - thanks again for posting
Could ve said that about the bank bailout in 2008..
They mention new rules that would impede workers from organizing, environmental protections, etc., etc. You do realize people, that you don't have to follow those rules. The founders of this nation ignored the rules of their government at the time (as a colony of England). We can do the same.
I'm happy Lee Fang is so young. In the coming months and years, he will have a great impact in journalism. Naomi Klein already reached the top of that mountain a long time ago. And may Amy Goodman get millions of new subscribers. We're going to need all of them to help us wade through the swamp and keep sane.
Cooperate coup d'etat happened many years ago, sorry. The argument she brings to the table is really nothing which describes this administration in particular.
I'd seen this on the site but watched it for the second time and leraned more!
Very deep and informative as a piece of good journalism should be.
Thanks Amy Goodman and all good fells in democracynow!
Naomi, I hope you are well and stay well- we need YOU! Take care of yourself.
Basically, yes. Got rid of the politicians, the middle men, the buffer, that were owned by special interests, and just put those special interests directly in power.
God bless Naomi
Communism Now!
The next 100 days will be very interesting and revealing. I mean the 100 days starting on Monday because Trump doesn't work on Weekends.
On a side note from listening to a young lad who is a dweeb .
My dog had puppies today .
She is doing well and 8 wiskery woofers are doing fine .
Thats the news folks .
Trust me it's just a question on time.Trump will FAIL and FALL.
"The harder they come the harder they fall"! (Jimmy Cliff)
RESIST AND PROTEST...........RESIST AND PROTEST.......................RESIST AND PROTEST...........RESIST AND PROTEST....
You damn right, Naomi.
Wow, Lee Fang! What an impressive young man. Great job, keep it up!!
I live in England, I wish that the POTUS had no affect on me, but it does. I hope you americans realise you have unleashed a megolomanic on the rest of the world, its like WTF. Brexit pfffff hold my beer and watch this.
As Trump himself said about Tillerson, "...he goes in and takes a countries oil, then moves onto the next one.", proud and excited, "What a great guy."
+1 Democracy Now ...
If We as Democrats are not mobilized and motivated NOW for 2018 midterms, then I'm afraid we might deserve what we get...there's a lot of seats up and everything CAN CHANGE
I saw the Right Wing power grab 26 years ago!
She hit the nail on the head with her 'cutting out the middlemen' remark.
You win the "Coconut Chanel," Award!
Love Lee. Please have him on your show more often!!
great to see the Intercept and DN hooking up
She's still get it.
Well,I'm just going to have to agree with everybody and with everything everybody said. I'm with you all the way,folks,count me in.
Those young people are pushing back with all the have inciting violence, breaking windows of businesses, starting fires and burning cars, throwing bricks and rocks and bottles at cops. Did you tell them to give up their lives for this fight, that you know they can't win?
This woman would come up with the most ridiculous interpretations of phenoma just to sell books.
Which specific interpretation(s)? Were her Tillerson comments unfounded?
apropo0 I was talkinn about best selling author Naomi Klein. Does she even know the meaning of Coup d' etat? My guess is that, she being a member of a liberal democracy, has no point of comparison.
HEhe... perhaps not a coup in the literal sense. Certainly nothing like what happened to the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Perhaps Klein used the term figuratively or metaphorically.
What would her party affiliation or political bent have to do with frame of reference w/r/t a coup? Are you familiar with any of Klein's writing?
apropo0 Im familiar with the biased and incomplete writings of The Shock Doctrine, and realize ahe is just part of a huge industry of academic/entertainment industry. Just like Mike Moore is.
I grok it.
this young fellow Lee Fang sure nailed it 100% too
Naomi Klein is one of my heroes. I have said for years that we are experiencing a slow, insidious, bloodless coup on the part of oligarchs and their minions in government. I stand by all of that except for the slow part!
This energy *must* be channeled to form alliances on the local level, that formulate policies and win elections on the local and state level. By focusing on the presidency we forget what got him there - voter dissatisfaction on the local level.
Seizing power on the local level is the best way, perhaps the only way, to neutralize corporate power.
A panic against Bernie Sanders. It really made them scared that Bernie would make them pay taxes.
I know. How scared could they be? It's not like one of Puzder's workers being scared that they won't make rent or worried that they'll be able to start a family or whatever dire situation they could get into. He'll still be rich! What a pussy!
How important, to this election, was gerrymandering, and voters' registration rules?
Trump's upset now about his crowd at the inauguration-- meager attendance as compared with Obama's. Why is Trump worried about that? And... as Amy said here:
Trump's inauguration balls/ celebration concert that night--- total of approx. 10K attended, as contrasted with Obama's 400+K attendees at his first inauguration celebrations, galas, balls.
...hence pass a law that makes voting mandatory like taxes not voluntary...
Klein: "cutting out the middle men", ie government, so big business can basically control the world. ARE YOU AWAKE?
if you didn't think globalisation was a corporate take-over you haven't been paying attention
Get him Ladies.
To quote a favorite saying..."Come the revolution..."
We are currently at 1.6° with 2° locked in. Time people wake up to the climate crises
She's talking like this is a new issue... The Coup d'etat has been active for at least the last 4 Presidents.
The USA is a corporation. Look at the gold fringe around flags at any political broadcast.
America only has 1 political party - the property party - and it has 2 right wings.
Gore Vidal
We were so focused on stopping TPP- the global corporate coup- but they had Plan B. I agree with Naomi though- this is a panicked last gasp (I'd add, of patriarchy) and we will fight it with everything we have.
Aligators don't want to see the swamp dried! ....obviously
Every one of these panelists was exactly right about what was about to happen - every single point. It was right there in front of us, laid out Like a roadmap. Amazing that so many working class Americans STILL fell for this long con game - and continue to back this president.
" No Logo" became an international bestseller, selling over one million copies in over 28 languages"
lets talk corporate and hypocrisy.
shock and awe budget ... they will cut everything that doesnt line their pockets
and the first opportunity we have to manifest our unconformity we separate people by gender...sad!
I suspect it would have happened with any corporate funded candidate. Any non corporate candidate may well have been in danger or used as a figurehead but held powerless. This has probably been a long time in the making.
spot on, the low turnout started in 2012 after the lousy obombercare
Correction - Trump didn't win, Hillary didn't lose, The American People have lost. It is important to note that the American People would have lost regardless of whether Hillary or Trump took office. As it was once said, " I don't care who gets to vote, as long as I get to pick the candidates"
Corporate Coup d'etat is Chris Hedges favorite phrase
Corporate coup d'Etat pretty much sums it up, all right. The question now is whether the 99% can ever turn things back around. Maybe this is where capitalism goes. I just regret that I wasn't born in a Scandinavian country. Do I sound "unpatriotic?" Tough shit.
Isn't Tillerson one of the more pragmatic--and less ideological--candidates for Sec State? I am under the impression that if it's not him, it'll be someone much worse.
And in just about 16:24 minutes of news story and interview and this/was uploaded on January 20,2017.
When both sides realize that Goldman Sachs does not care which side is in and the people then decide to act together against the real problem we will continue to be at each other's throats, and letting the real culprits off the hook. We need a people's party, neither party is in truth that entity. Both sides have weakness and both sides have strength, the most glaring weakness common to both sides is the willingness to waste so much energy denigrating the other side and ignoring the true problem.
Very good info, balls sponsors should be reported, and also private meeting, who are the swamp rats?
and the GOP has proven for decades that they know how to FUCK America in the ass and still get enough idiots to keep voting for them. These MORONS continue to fail to notice that the GOP basically shut down Obama's last 6 years and that all the GOPtards who think things are bad are the ones who made it bad: the GOP had the house for 18 of the past 22 years, the senate 14 of those years and held both and the presidency all at once 6 of those years (the Dems only for 2 measly years) and need I mention that before the most recent generation of screwing over America, that they had Reagan & Bush #1 for 12 years in a row. The GOP voter couldn't be any stupider!
I love Naomi Klein
Go Naomi!
Naomi Klein for president.
*****
Ahh. Too bad. She is very bright.
I knew that the Donald was going to be a TRILLIONAIRE x 10! lol
It's worth noting that a teensy tinesy minuscule amount of people have the absolutely final say on who becomes POTUS. But we shouldn't hold those people accountable, right? It's a lot easier to just pin it ALL on one person.
The Democratic party need to get their acts together, every time I heard them diagnose the situation, they fail measurable. We tend to be reactionaries at time. Republicans have a strategy, which is divide and concur, and financial gain- it works for them. But that won't work for us, because democrats are intelligent, we analyze everything, we care about issues confronted the entire world, while worry about the other side understand us, that's difficult stuff to Juggle. But we need to maintain focus, not so easily derailed , I can't believe we buy into the idea of Hillary's crookedness, preferred Bernie over Hillary, and that democrats voted for Trump instead of Hillary, to me that's crazy. Many of the Bernie's fans were republicans skimming to change the outcome, republicans are good car salesmen, they know how to skim to get at what they want.
I like Klein . A lot.
I dislike this, not because I'm an astroturfer working for Donald Drumpf, but because I'm an American who has been fooled by an astroturfer working for Donald Drumpf.
accept it and go on
Wait and see. No one has a crystal ball.
boeing and at&t are government subsidized. wth?
One day Lee Fang will just be another corporatist, unlike Naomi.
This changes everything: Trump abandons TPP by executive order. Most important progressive victory against global corporatism in many years.
PS: NOT a Trump fan here. Not by a loooong shot. Trump as POTUS is frightening, perhaps even more frightening than Hillary as POTUS. But there's also complexity here. The mainstream anti-Trump narrative does not cut it.
I just got a scary prediction of Trumps "advisers" whispering him to go full military complex and when eventually most of US's allies turn against them and their enemies get closer he goes ape shit on the red button and then goodbye world. ugh
Open request to DN: Do a story on who is repaying the campaign loans that DT made to himself. It appears as though even though he funded his own campaign and should be beholden to no one, it appears as if he is beholden to the exact same interests as anyone would be, and I assume this is because Wall Street, oil, etc., they are paying off his campaign loans.
They are going to take the money and run.
LAST GASP! Hell yes...
Companies and lobbyists, just like prior administrations . These parties are both the same and deplorable to the voters , thus , both parties lost . College based regressives lost .
ONE GOOD IDEA. ONE POWERFUL TACTIC. Here's the major problem why political reforms don't happen in USA, the core reason 3rd parties fail in the USA, is our 'winner take all' voting vs. proportional representation. Alternative Voting is a good 'keyword' to find out more about this. We need to change to election process so alternative voice, smaller voices can start to get a share of political power.
Winner-take-all voting is like a gambler thinking he can beat the odds in Las Vegas; but the only steady winner in Las Vegas is the casinos. --- NEITHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO ‘SAVE US,’ FROM THEIR OWN MANIPULATIONS AND MALFEASANCE --- So the tactic I recommend is Radical*Voting, meaning Vote out all incumbents, repeatedly, again and again until news laws passed, laws passed that reduce the influence of cash, term limits, limits on length of campaigns, and some method of ALTERNATIVE VOTING that does give all the power only to those who can get 51%.
In some ways no more radical that voter enforced term limits, but in another way a mist dramatic challenge to business as usual. We've had no success in changing our politics by waving signs, by large crowds, nor by breaking windows. Change comes, as it's been often repeated, "by the bullet or the ballot." (And revolution or civil war doomed to destroy more than it saves)
WHO paid for Pres. Obama's Inauguration and all previous Presidents?
somebody PLEASE SHAPE THIS WOMANS EYEBROWS
Trump will do the opposite. Empty at inauguration, and ball too. Looks like rooms in Washington for protesters is needed. Somebody contribute to pay for their rooms. please.thanks.
This reminds me of the Buy N Large Pixar theory. (Buy N Large is a fictional company seen in the background of most Pixar films, and BNL eventually appears to gradually and quietly take over society across all the films.) Capitalism is great, but it needs a healthy balance of socialism to last. Without social values to keep it in check, you end up with a society of people (like in Wall-E) who are alive merely to buy and consume the goods marketed by the governing corporation.
It seems that we are seeing the evolution of capitalism. Behind Henry Ford and other great industrialists, our country boomed under capitalism. Workers had to fight to get fair wages and safe working conditions, a battle that was won but not by all. Then, to bring things under corporate control again, republicans have successfully convinced the average American unions are bad. The average teacher's retirement is 48,000/year whereas a senator's is $175,000 with full health coverage. The average 30 yr military career is $38,000! Most of us unfortunately get pushed out before we get to the maximums. We have seen the steady decline of union influence over the years. Then, we struggled with global competition and outsourcing. Corporations slashed employee numbers while rewarding consultants who figured out how to steal from the original contributions by the workers. Senators are calling social security a benefit and want it privitized..read - controlled and eventually taken. Now, we are seeing the wiping out of checks and balances against corporations by appointing the most influential CEOs to government positions: A corporate Coup d'Etat.
Omg. Can this women just talk .. ummm ummmm .. aaaaa. Great discussion on what's really happening
it's a much more peaceful version of the earth....with a Trump victory.
God, I am tired of hearing the "POPULAR VOTE" argument....If it was the lay of the land, then I would understand....But when it goes against you, whay, whay whay!!!! - There is no Popular Vote - if you win by lose the popular vote by 1 vote or 4 millioin votes, it DOES NOT MATTER! - Get over it!