Whatever you may think about Noam Chomsky, he is absolutely right in this interview with Democracy Now: America is no longer a democracy, not when corporations can simply buy politicians, buy most advertising for elections, and buy goons to enforce their vision of neo-fascism.
I don't really have much patience anymore for longer, well-formed diaries (but I really appreciate those who do!) however I thought this was interesting enough to share in its brevity. Politics has gotten so nasty, sock-puppety, and corrupted by corporate astroturf that I'm really just ready to take to the streets of New York City and shut down Wall Street until the corporate thugs give back the money they stole. Perhaps DC as well. I don't have much desire to discuss this with corporate oligarchs or their DC puppetmasters anymore. They've stolen democracy in America. All they will respect is projection of power. Let's do it just as Martin Luther King Jr. did it: peacefully.
Video and transcript here.
And I was—it was heartening to see that there are tens of thousands of people protesting in Madison day after day, in fact. I mean, that’s the beginning, maybe, of what we really need here: a democracy uprising. Democracy has almost been eviscerated. Take a look at the front-page headlines today, this morning, Financial Times at least. They predict—the big headline, the big story—that the next election is going to break all campaign spending records, and they predict $2 billion of campaign spending.