Reply #10: Break up corporate media first and the rest might have a chance to be fixed...

[warren pease]

Until people hear the unspun truth, they'll continue to be oblivious as to how and why this country fell apart so quickly, how to eliminate the causes, and what alternatives are in practice all over the world that work where this system of unregulated zero-sum capitalism has failed so completely and destructively.

They have no idea that the US ranks 37th in the World Health Org's study of 191 countries' health care systems. They have no idea that an estimated 22,000 people die in the US each year solely because they don't have medical insurance and therefore don't have access to this hideous for-profit medical scam.

Scary thing is, after 30 years of listening to ignorant bigots on radio and TV advocating for the pathological Ayn Rand version of human relations, I'm not sure they'd even give a shit as long as their needs were met. But that's again a function of corporate media pitching competition and dissing cooperation.

As a society, we may be too far gone to reclaim our decency and humanity. However, if it's worth at least making the effort, people have got to start hearing the truth about what's been done to them, who's doing it and how to make it stop.

Then they need to be exposed to how other countries handle these issues, the EU democratic socialist model the most egalitarian and successful IMO, so they can see that America is rapidly devolving into a third world banana republic while billions of better educated Europeans live longer, healthier, more rewarding lives.

It's a fact that the US is no longer interested in promoting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now it's all about helping our corporate massuhs extract maximum profits by cheating their third-world suppliers and driving labor costs as close to zero as possible. Slavery would be best of all, but sweat shops will have to do for the time being.

That model is incompatible with basic humanity, which is why there are so many sociopathic bastards running major corporations while the relatively sane end up getting screwed by the madmen.

Anyway, before I ramble on for another 1,000 words, if we continue to allow corporate America to decide what's suitable for general consumption and what must be suppressed, we'll continue as the world's leader in dysfunctional dumbshits per capita.

Which means we'll continue to put up with a government so thoroughly corrupted by corporate money that, if it existed in any country not called America, our Codpiece in Chief and most of congress would be calling for the UN to impose sanctions.

Did I mention we also lead the world in hypocrisy?


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