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Struggling for words
I'm having a difficult time articulating how angry, sad, and frightened I am by today's SCOTUS verdict on Citizens United v. FEC. We've just seen the US handed over to the corporations. We were mostly heading toward a plutocracy anyway, and this just cleared the way and put up the barricades behind its march. Or now it's more of a stroll.
I feel like we've just walked into a piece of fiction. Something along the lines of 1984 or V for Vendetta or maybe Brazil. Corporations are now individuals. War is peace. Socialism=fascism=communism. Language is hostage to political cant.
I love America. I know its faults, and I believe in its possibilities. I used to, anyway. After these past few months, I'm feeling despondent. I know people who believe the lies that the likes of Glenn Beck spread. They take it at face value. They're fertile ground for the big glossy ad campaigns that the insurance companies and the energy companies will be spinning. I'm sure that they're ramping up as I write this.
Air America, the progressive radio station, filed for bankruptcy today. They just couldn't find the big funding necessary to keep them afloat. Not many progressive multi-millionaires out there. I'm waiting for Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann to be muzzled by their corporate owner, GE.
I was an activist for a lot of years. Up the people and all that. We meant it. We worked for it. And for a while we achieved it. I don't even know if that's possible anymore.
As I said . . . despondent.
I feel like we've just walked into a piece of fiction. Something along the lines of 1984 or V for Vendetta or maybe Brazil. Corporations are now individuals. War is peace. Socialism=fascism=communism. Language is hostage to political cant.
I love America. I know its faults, and I believe in its possibilities. I used to, anyway. After these past few months, I'm feeling despondent. I know people who believe the lies that the likes of Glenn Beck spread. They take it at face value. They're fertile ground for the big glossy ad campaigns that the insurance companies and the energy companies will be spinning. I'm sure that they're ramping up as I write this.
Air America, the progressive radio station, filed for bankruptcy today. They just couldn't find the big funding necessary to keep them afloat. Not many progressive multi-millionaires out there. I'm waiting for Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann to be muzzled by their corporate owner, GE.
I was an activist for a lot of years. Up the people and all that. We meant it. We worked for it. And for a while we achieved it. I don't even know if that's possible anymore.
As I said . . . despondent.