134. โอบามารอบสอง...ชาวอเมริกัน 99% ดิ้นรนปลดแอกจากทุนละโมบ 1% ที่เผาผลาญถลุงโลก
Now
the Work of Movements Begins
ตอนนี้ งานขับเคลื่อนเริ่มต้น
โดย
เอมี่ กู๊ดแมน
The election is over, and President
Barack Obama will continue as the 44th president of the United States. There
will be much attention paid by the pundit class to the mechanics of the
campaigns, to the techniques of microtargeting potential voters, the effectiveness
of get-out-the-vote efforts. The media analysts will fill the hours on the
cable news networks, proffering post-election chestnuts about the accuracy of
polls, or about either candidate’s success with one demographic or another.
Missed by the mainstream media, but churning at the heart of our democracy, are
social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been
re-elected.
การเลือกตั้งได้จบแล้ว,
และประธานาธิบดีบารัค โอบามา จะอยู่ต่อเป็นประธานาธิบดีคนที่ 44 ของสหรัฐฯ. ชนชั้นนักทฤษฎีจะให้ความสนใจกับกลไกของการรณรงค์,
เทคนิคของการเจาะกลุ่มผู้ออกเสียงในระดับจุลภาค, และประสิทธิผลของความพยายามในการดึงคะแนน. นักวิเคราะห์สื่อจะเติมเต็มในชั่วโมงออกอากาศข่าวผ่านโครงข่ายเคเบิล,
พ่นเม็ดเกาลัดหลังเลือกตั้งเกี่ยวกับความแม่นยำของการสุ่มเสียง, หรือเกี่ยวกับความสำเร็จของผู้ท้าชิงคนหนึ่งคนใดขึ้นกับประชากรกลุ่มหนึ่งหรือกลุ่มอื่น.
สิ่งที่สื่อกระแสหลักมองข้าม,
แต่ปั่นป่วนในหัวใจของประชาธิปไตยของเรา, คือการขับเคลื่อนทางสังคม,
การขับเคลื่อนที่หากไม่มี ประธานาธิบดีโอบามา คงไม่ได้รับเลือกใหม่.
ประธานาธิบดีโอบามา
เป็นอดีตนักจัดองค์กรชุมชนเอง. อะไรจะเกิดขึ้นเมื่อหัวหน้านักจัดองค์กรชุมชนกลายเป็นผู้บัญชาการ?
แล้วใครจะทำหน้าที่จัดองค์กรชุมชน? น่าสนใจ, เขาเสนอคำแนะนำเมื่อพูดที่งานรณรงค์เล็กๆ
ในนิวเจอร์ซี เมื่อเขาลงแข่งชิงตำแหน่งเป็นครั้งแรก. คนหนึ่งถามเขาว่า เขาจะทำอะไรกับตะวันออกกลาง. เขาตอบด้วยการเล่านิทานเรื่องหนึ่ง เกี่ยวกับ
เอ.ฟิลิป แรนดอล์ฟ นักจัดองค์กรที่เป็นตำนานในศตวรรษที่ 20 เมื่อเขาพบกับประธานาธิบดี แฟรงกลิน เดลาโน รูซเวลต์ (FDR). แรนดอล์ฟ
ได้บรรยายให้ FDR ฟังถึงสภาวะของคนผิวดำในอเมริกา,
และสภาวะของแรงงาน. ตามรายงาน, FDR ฟังอย่างจดจ่อตั้งใจ, แล้วก็ตอบว่า: “ผมเห็นด้วยกับทุกสิ่งที่คุณพูด.
เอาล่ะ, ทำให้ผมเดินเรื่องนี้.” นั่นคือสาระที่โอบามาพูดซ้ำอีก.
There you have it. Make him do it.
You’ve got an invitation from the president himself.
นั่นแหละ คุณมีอยู่ในมือแล้ว. ทำให้เขาเดินเรื่องนั้นซิ. คุณได้รับคำเชื้อเชิญจากประธานาธิบดีด้วยตัวท่านเองแล้ว.
For years during the Bush
administration, people felt they were hitting their heads against a brick wall.
With the first election of President Obama, the wall had become a door, but it
was only open a crack. The question was, Would it be kicked open or slammed
shut? That is not up to that one person in the White House, no matter how
powerful. That is the work of movements.
เป็นเวลาหลายปีในรัฐบาลบุ๊ช,
ประชาชนรู้สึกเหมือนพวกเขากำลังโขกหัวชนกำแพงอิฐ. การเลือกตั้ง
ประธานาธิบดีโอบามาครั้งแรก,
กำแพงนั้นได้เริ่มกลายเป็นประตู, แต่มันเพียงแง้มเปิดนิดเดียว. คำถามคือ, มันจะถูกเตะให้มันอ้าเปิด หรือ
ปิดกระแทก? นั่นไม่ใช่ขึ้นกับใครคนหนึ่งในทำเนียบขาว,
ไม่ว่าเขาจะมีอำนาจแค่ไหน. นั่นเป็นงานของการขับเคลื่อน.
Ben Jealous is a serious organizer
with a long list of accomplishments, and a longer list of things to get done,
as the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. 2013, he notes, is a year of significant anniversaries, among
them the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation, the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on
Washington, as well as the 50th anniversaries of the assassination
of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that killed four young
African-American girls. President Obama’s 2013 Inauguration will occur on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Jealous told me on election night, as Mitt Romney
was about to give his concession speech, “We have to stay in movement mode.”
เบน
เจลัส เป็นนักจัดองค์กรที่เอาจริงเอาจังที่มีประสบการณ์/ผลงานเป็นหางว่าย, และก็มีรายการหางว่ายที่บาวกว่าในสิ่งที่จะต้องทำ,
ในฐานะประธานและ ซีอีโอ ของสมาคมเพื่อความก้าวหน้าของคนผิงสีแห่งชาติ. เขากล่าวว่า ปี 2013 เป็นปีฉลองครบรอบที่มีนัยสำคัญยิ่ง,
ในบรรดาปีครบรอบ คือ ครบรอบ 150 ปีของการประกาศเลิกทาสโดยประธานาธิบดี
อับราฮัม ลินคอล์น, ครบรอบ 50 ปีของการเดินขบวนสู่วอชิงตันในปี 1963, ตลอดจน ครบปีที่
50 ของการลอบสังหาร เมดการ์ เอเวอร์ส และ
การวางระเบิดที่โบสถ์ในเมืองเบอร์มิงแฮม, รัฐอลาบามา, ที่ปลิดชีวิตเด็กหญิงอาฟริกัน-อเมริกันสี่คน.
พิธีเข้ารับตำแหน่งของประธานาธิบดีโอบามาในปี
2013
จะกระทำกันในวันรำลึก มาร์ติน ลูเธอร์ คิง จูเนียร์. เจลัสบอกฉันในคืนเลือกตั้ง, ในขณะที่ มิตต
รอมนีย์ ใกล้จะกล่าวสุนทรพจน์ยอมแพ้, “เราจะต้องอยู่ในภาวะขับเคลื่อน”.
Young immigrants are doing just
that. Undocumented students, getting arrested in sit-ins in politicians’
offices, are the modern-day civil-rights movement. There are other
vibrant movements as well, like Occupy Wall Street, like the fight for marriage
equality, which won four out of four statewide initiatives on Election Day. In
the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, and despite the enormous resources expended
by the fossil-fuel industry to cloud the issue, climate change and what to do
about it is now a topic that President Obama hints he will address, saying, in
his victory address in election night, “Democracy in a nation of 300 million can
be noisy and messy and complicated. ... We want our children to live in an
America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that
isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”
หนุ่มสาวที่ย้ายถิ่นเข้ามาก็กำลังทำเช่นนั้น.
นักศึกษาที่ไม่มีบัตร, ถูกจับในขณะนั่งประท้วงที่ออฟฟิศของนักการเมือง,
เป็นการขับเคลื่อนสิทธิพลเมืองในยุคใหม่. ยังมีการเคลื่อนไหวที่เจิดจ้าอื่นๆ ด้วย,
เช่น การยึดวอลล์สตรีท, การต่อสู้เพื่อความเท่าเทียมในการสมรส,
ที่สี่รัฐได้รับชัยชนะในบรรดาสี่รัฐที่มีการลงคะแนนประเด็นนี้ด้วยในวันเลือกตั้ง. หลังจากซุปเปอร์พายุแซนดี้ได้ผ่านไป,
และแม้อุตสาหกรรมเชื้อเพลิงซากดึกดำบรรพ์จะทุ่มทุนมหาศาลเพียงใดเพื่อกลบเกลื่อนประเด็นนี้,
ภูมิอากาศเปลี่ยน และ จะต้องรับมือกับมันอย่างไร ขณะนี่ เป็นหัวข้อที่ประธานาธิบดีเกริ่นไว้ว่าเขาจะแก้ไข
ที่กล่าวในสุนทรพจน์ชัยชนะในคืนวันเลือกตั้ง, “ประชาธิปไตยในประเทศของประชาชน 300 ล้าน ก็คงต้องมีเสียงเอะอะ และยุ่งเหยิง และซับซ้อน...
เราต้องการให้ลูกหลานของเราอาศัยอยู่ในอเมริกาที่ไม่ได้ถูกภาระหนี้ทับถม,
ที่ไม่ถูกกัดกร่อนด้วยความไม่เท่าเทียม,
ที่ไม่ถูกคุกคามด้วยพลังทำลายล้างของภาวะโลกร้อน”.
It was pressure from grass-roots
activists protesting in front of the White House that pushed Obama to delay a
decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to run from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico. More than 1,200 people were arrested at a series of
protests at the White House one year ago. Now a group is blocking the
construction of the southern leg of that pipeline, risking arrest and even
injury, with direct-action blockades in tree-sits and tripods in Winnsboro,
Texas, two hours east of Dallas.
มันเป็นแรงกดดันจากนักกิจกรรมรากหญ้า
ที่ประท้วงหน้าทำเนียบขาว ที่ผลักดันให้โอบามา
ชะลอการตัดสินใจกดไฟเขียวให้เดินหน้าโครงการที่มีความขัดแย้งในตัว
ท่อส่งทรายน้ำมัน Keystone XL pipeline,
ที่เสนอว่าจะเดินท่อจากแคนาดาสู่อ่าวเม็กซิโก. ประชาชนกว่า 1,200 คน
ถูกจับในการประท้วงต่อเนื่องกันที่ทำเนียบขาว เมื่อหนึ่งปีที่แล้ว. ขณะนี้ ผู้ประท้วงกลุ่มหนึ่ง กำลังกีดขวางการก่อสร้างท่อส่งในส่วนใต้,
ยอมเสี่ยงต่อการถูกจับรวมทั้งอาจบาดเจ็บได้,
ด้วยปฏิบัติการตรงนั่งประท้วงบนต้นไม้และเก้าอี้สามขาในวินน์สะโบโร, รัฐเท็กซัส,
ซึ่งอยู่ห่างจากเมืองหลวงดัลลัสไปสองชั่วโมง.
When those who are used to having
the president’s ear whisper their demands to him in the Oval Office, if he
can’t point out the window and say, “If I do as you ask, they will storm the
Bastille,” if there is no one out there, then he is in big trouble. That’s when
he agrees with you. What about when he doesn’t?
เมื่อไหร่ที่
เหล่าคนที่คุ้นเคยกับการกระซิบความต้องการของพวกเขาใส่หูของท่านประธานาธิบดีในห้องทำงานวงรี,
หากเขาไม่สามารถชี้ไปที่หน้าต่างและบอกว่า, “ถ้าผมทำอย่างที่คุณขอ, พวกเขาจะบุกยึด
Bastille (เปรียบเปรยกับประวัติศาสตร์การต่อสู้เพื่อประชาธิปไตยในฝรั่งเศส
Bastille เป็นคุกและป้อมปราการที่ขังนักโทษการเมืองในกรุงปารีส
และถูกพวกกบฏยึดเมื่อวันที่ 14 กรกฎาคม ค.ศ. 1789)”, แต่ถ้าไม่มีใครอยู่ข้างนอก,
เขาก็จะต้องตกที่นั่งลำบากยิ่ง. นั่นเป็นเวลาที่เขาจะเห็นด้วยกับคุณ.
แต่ถ้าเขาไม่เห็นด้วยล่ะ จะทำอย่างไร?
The president of the United States
is the most powerful person on Earth. But there is a force more powerful:
People organized around this country, fighting for a more just, sustainable
world. Now the real work begins.
ประธานาธิบดีแห่งสหรัฐฯ
เป็นบุคคลที่มีอำนาจสูงสุดคนหนึ่งในโลก. แต่ยังมีพลังที่มีอำนาจมากกว่า: ประชาชนจัดเรียงตัวเป็นกระบวนทั่วประเทศนี้, ต่อสู้เพื่อโลกที่มีเป็นธรรมและยั่งยืนกว่านี้.
ตอนนี้แหละ ที่งานแท้จริงเริ่มต้น.
Denis Moynihan contributed research
to this column.
© 2012 Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!,"
a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 1,100 stations in North
America. She was awarded the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed the
“Alternative Nobel” prize, and received the award in the Swedish Parliament in
December.
Four words, Amy: He. Sells. You.
Out. "Make Me Do It"--really, Amy? With all you've been through, all
around the world, you can't see the massive cop-out behind those words? Get
used to this, Amy: "Sure I gave away Social Security, you didn't make me
NOT give it away, so it's YOUR fault I killed it". "Now, Make Me Do
It" is nothing more than the bleating of an amoral politician, a man
without principles, a screen for him to hide behind. Amy, back when Ombomber
STILL HAD to answer to the voters, his and his staff's reply to those who
actually expected him to live up to his promises was...very well documented.
Why would you expect differently now that he is unaccountable to the
electorate?
I
don't think this article is intended for people like us... it reads like she is
speaking softly to a reluctant child... She has a huge progressive audience...
I think she is just trying to nudge ardent obama supporters into becoming
comfortable with being adversarial with Obama... saying "it's okay, it's
not betrayal, this what he expects us to do". They will need to hear this
over and over again from people they trust, or at least people they have not
developed a hateful relationship with (namely, the Left) if the deprogramming
is going to take... JMHO...
One
thing is certain, shaming them has not worked...
you
both proved nothing
Real
politics has become too complex, yet you know what? Many also believe in the
force of "skill/conscience" no matter how hard!
In
the not-too-distant past, Barack Obama would have been a moderate Republican,
or a conservative Democrat. All candidates have to be vetted by the corporate
media. In today's world, The President has people to answer to who are more
powerful than he is. "You can't understand 21st Century American Politics
with an 18th Century mind!"
"Missed by the mainstream
media, but churning at the heart of our
democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected."
democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected."
Any "movements" supporting
Obama (which ones were these exactly?) must have been either delusional or
deceitful. The reality of the second term will be more drones and more
austerity. What's actually missing from the media is that Obama received about
9 million votes FEWER than in 2008. Working people deserted him in droves, and
it's mostly because the Republicans nominated such a clunker that they failed
to win back the White House.
I don't think decent people can
implement change at the national level because the 1% has purchased all the
players. But as this election showed, hard work at the state level can effect
real change. 4 states legalized gay marriage. 2 legalized pot. 2 passed
anti-corporate personhood laws. In two years maybe we can add 2 or 3 states to
each of those issues, or even more. And add more issues to the mix. It will take years, but it can work (if we
don't all die from AGW).
And
when they send spies to meager meetings of peace churches I guess that is okay
so someone should turn you in for being what? This is the cracking point
America is a police state get it through your head if it is the very last thing
I write and you are a fool to believe otherwise.
I don't know... maybe she is just
saying for people to not expect the system to change itself. That is what I got
from it... I mean think about it womens rights.... gay marriage.... civil
rights... these would have NEVER happened had it not been for the coming
together of people, united in their beliefs of a better world. I mean I don't
know... if it wasn't for a certain group of people coming together and agreeing
that it was time to be an independent nation, we might still be just broken up
continent with the names England, France, and Spain stamped all over it...
hmmmm.... interesting what can start out as an idea can become a reality isn't
it? Maybe I am a dreamer, but thats how most good ideas start out. America was
just that at one point. The dream of women voting and having the choice over
her body is now a reality. The dream of having equal rights, no matter the
color of your skin, is now a reality. The dream of being able to be married is
now available to all persons in a relationship, no matter their gender... and
that is happening now. I am not naive, and I do not think we have all of these
things perfectly, but we are still a far cry away from where we were 50 years
ago... I don't know... maybe I am wrong.
You
are making a lot of sense. And don't worry about being wrong; there are no
wrong answers on CD. But I must admit I do get tired of all the negative
comments about Obama; it's getting so predictable.
There already are and have been
activist 'movements'. I missed where they 'made' BO do anything (except
occasionally retaliate and excoriate). The
"serious organizer"'s NAACP came out against GMO labeling in CA. They
evidently like the 'serious' funding they receive from BigAg. [BAR] Casual references
to hyperboles such as 'the most powerful man on earth' don't help either.
Thanks
dus7 for the link. This explains a lot about why Prop 37 went down.
So which is better, being in
movement mode or making negative comments? Our city in Colorado just passed a
ban on fracking within the city limits. How do you think we got that done. And
no, it's not over. It will never be over. Get with it or get out of the way.
During
WWII did the resistance petition Hitler to stop the pollution coming from the
smoke of concentration camps? You Greens one day will be seen for what your
opportunistic crooked agent hearts are SELLOUTS! Sure the Greens in Germany mad
a deal with Angela Merkel so she agreed to end Nuclear Energy Plants what was
the cost they agreed to support use of German Troops overseas in NATO!
Third party debates are a huge step
forward in gaining back our democracy as well as first rate alternative media
outlets. We must encourage these debates like our lives depend on them because
they do. Even if you vote for the Duopoly, they must be forced to listen to
other voices other than their own.
Why do the Greenies continue to take
the abuse from BHO? He will torment you by stating that "The other side is
worse". So what, why can not he set the standard of excellence? Take my
pet peeve... his War on Wildlife. He, Salizar, and Vilsak are attempting to
exterminate the wolf, the coyote, the prairie dog, the sea lion, etc, etc in
order to satisfy greedy GOP Western ranchers and fishermen. He is doing it in
the most diabolical sadistic ways using the stooges in the US Fish and Wildlife
service. One could reasonably conclude that he lacks any ethics and/or
morality. And, he has prosecuted more Federal whistle blowers than any other
President!
Are you awake? What she's saying is
that we have to participate in our government, not just wait for the
politicians to do it all themselves. That's not the way it works. That's not
the way it has EVER worked. Americans are basically complacent. Sorry, but
that's the way it is. We have given away our power and we have to take it back.
What
do you propose people do to take it back?
Listen
to what you say it is a police state where they do what they like and you agree
it seems that we should legitimize that police state because "What she's
saying is that we have to participate in our government, not just wait for the
politicians to do it all themselves". You know what even if they did not
have the power to read every dirty email you write, analysis every secret
thought you have even though I do not have the power to resist actively that
police state I still will not contribute as you suggest for to di so is to
consent to every torture consent to every murder and to consent to every
innocent person who gets killed in what you both should be ashamed.
A desperate attempt for HOPE, which
we ran out of, now NDAA, back to reality, election fantasies are over, wishful
thinking left at the welcome matt, rest, is history. THE SUFFERING NOW BEGINS,
freezing cold weather grips the purse strings, money for heat, but no eat.
movement? Day after the election a
whole 3 people showed up for our antidrone weekly protest. Usually we have 20
or so! wtf! I guess the folks in our group did vote for him, he and they
claimed victory, I don't know if they feel it would be a betrayal to protest
his kill list now, or what. I feel that these folks have become delusional, in
their thinking that this term "HE WILL Listen to us."
Hitler
had a lot of support also problem is they all lost for some very good reasons.
Power corrupt absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Obama police state is
absolute power.
Guess y'all didn't notice the group
of good young Progressive Democrats elected to the Senate, many of them women.
Does it ever occur to you that with the demographic winds blowing your way
across the county, rather than just creating more fringe parties and movements,
that go nowhere, and only last a few years at best, you might just get down to
the long hard gruelling process of taking over the only Political Party in this
that has actually achieved important components of the Progressive Agenda over
the last 80 years?
Another
claim without a shred of backing.
I
hope you're right about the young supposed progressives. You're sure not about
the old ones.
I
hope he really means it when he says that he's gone for good.
Do
you also share your hot and cold running insults with the "smart and
sober" team players, or are those just reserved for us?
You're
right, I edited it. But maybe you could point out what get ideas fringe parties
have contributed in the last 50 years?
"In
1997, the US Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, issued a
controversial ruling against reinstating fusion in all states, for the first
time justifying barriers to third parties on the grounds of protecting the
"stability" of the two-party system.
Third parties coming from the left once had significant power. During the 1930s and 1940s, parties like the Progressive Party, Socialist Party, and the American Labor Party cross-endorsed candidates, and at the same time pushed the Democrats to the left on issues of labor and civil rights. For its part, the Liberal Party was formed in 1944 by people who felt the American Labor Party was too socialist. It was pivotal in the elections of FDR and JFK for president, and, later, in the fusion mayoral success of Republican John Lindsay. The ability of third parties to wield influence in a fusion system should not be underestimated, because fusion can get rid of the "spoiler" problem, in which voting for any party other than the Democrats or Republicans is perceived as a throwaway vote."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/20...
Third parties coming from the left once had significant power. During the 1930s and 1940s, parties like the Progressive Party, Socialist Party, and the American Labor Party cross-endorsed candidates, and at the same time pushed the Democrats to the left on issues of labor and civil rights. For its part, the Liberal Party was formed in 1944 by people who felt the American Labor Party was too socialist. It was pivotal in the elections of FDR and JFK for president, and, later, in the fusion mayoral success of Republican John Lindsay. The ability of third parties to wield influence in a fusion system should not be underestimated, because fusion can get rid of the "spoiler" problem, in which voting for any party other than the Democrats or Republicans is perceived as a throwaway vote."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/20...
Nader
and the Greens brought forward the issues of consumer protections, the
environment and creeping corporatism.
Perot
and the Reform party pointed out one sided trade deals.
Libertarians
smaller government and State's rights.
I
don't think you can ignore the impact the teaparty has had.
Tea
Party isn't really a party though, at all, but a fully owned and funded
subsidiary of the Koch Brothers Empire. And they started it because they
realized running as Libertarians was a waste of money and counter productive.
But they are capturing the RP rather than splitting the Right. I'll bet they
don't get to put forward Senate candidates after this years fiasco.
As
to what third parties have contributed to the Progressive cause in the last 50
years, I still can't think of one thing. Democrats have led the way on Global
Warming, the Environment, Civil and Women's Rights, Equal pay for equal work,
Test Ban Treaty, ... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I see no positive
contribution by the far left in 50 years. Ross Perot certainly contributed to
the Progressive cause by helping elect Bill Clinton, but then Ralph Nader
returned the favor in 2000 by helping elect W, with Right Wing money behind
him.
And
of course the irony is that it was Al Gore that held the first hearings on
Global Warming as a very young Congressman and was a leader in Congress on the
issue long before Nader and the Greens came along. So Nader and the Greens
helped defeat him in 2000, fueled by Right Wing oil money.
I
really don't feel inclined to do your homework for you, but you could start by
reading up on the careers of Robert LaFollette and Alice Paul. Both used 3rd
Parties as vehicles to champion "fringe" causes that are just a
normal part of the socio-political landscape today.
I
said last 50 years because I don't know the history of the Depression years.
I'm curious, because I can't think of a single one.
I
wonder what the implication is of being referred to as "whacky?"
Is
it a back-handed oxy-moronic compliment?
Beats
me. It is, however, issued forth from somebody who knows squat about the
history of his own party-- or about how many of its core issues owe their
existence to those "whacky" 3rd Parties he despises so much.
Of
course, thanks to Obama & Friends, those same issues are now on life
support and destined to have their plugs pulled, but... :/
Really, Amy, the movements are going
to wake up NOW? And you think they'll have some impact on Obama v.2? LOL!
The
fraudulent presidential election of the controlled One Percent monopoly
couldn't be stopped at this point. But as people turn off MSM and become less
and less influenced by propaganda we will pull back the voice of the people
from the grip of thkis media monopoly controlled by the One Percent.
As
People are more inclined to vote for the third party, we can expect change. The
next presidential election will a fight to end the theft of the presidential
race by the oligarchy. This will be front and center for activists. People know
that this is key and will start right now to end this theft .
I'm so surprised and disappointed by
how much Amy is supporting Obama. The victory celebration WBAI the night of the
election was disgusting. While Amy did allow third party candidates on her
show, it is clear who she supports, and that is not what someone who is
supposed to be objectionable as a journalist should do. Does she really think
Obama will listen to the people, when he's a part of the corporate system.
I
think these days the biggest employer of the left in America is the government
and the most popular position they fill is snitch, agent, and sellout.
An appallingly supine article from
Goodman. My god, is this what the Left has become in the US?
She seems to assume that Obama is
broadly speaking on the side of the great majority of American citizens; when
the truth is that this President is a warmonger and has deserted the working
class in the most brazen manner possible. He has handed billions of dollars to
Wall Street (with no strings attached) and continues to murder foreign citizens
by conducting anonymous drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The man is a
moral vacuum, an empty suit, and amoral cipher. How Goodman can appease his
plutocratic and blood-spattered policy agenda is truly beyond me.
guess we'll just see how all this
"movement" stuff plays out over the next four years.
Yes--let's make him find his moral
compass and present him with a list of demands while agitating, agitating and
agitating.
Moral
compass? That's so old fashioned. What Obama's got is a Moral GPS. There's a
copy of it built into the guidance system of every drone.
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