Reply #27: I agree w all you said; but I keep looking for an angle...

[arendt]

First - being ignored by the Corporate Media (or the CON/ME) is no longer a complete death sentence. The internet is a place you can raise money and make your points - at least until the corporatocracy stomps on net neutrality. That's how we met on this forum. Guestimates are that 25-40% of America thinks the Corporate News is crap; they use the Internet.

Second - Americans are sick of corporations. We need to draw their attention to the difference between a small business and a multi-national corporation that's in bed with the government. We need to be on the side of local (i.e., small) business.

Third - the lemonade I can make from the lemons of outsourcing is that about all America makes anymore is military crap. The corporate party is the War Party, the Police State Party, the Torture Party, the Repeal Habeus Corpus Party. The GOP is 100% War Party; the Dems are about 50% (DLC) War Party. What if we started pointing out that all America is, as a country, anymore is an armed gang of thugs, like the Soviet Union?

You would probably say this would alienate the vote of the military families. But, I think it would go the other way. The military families are sick of being used. They have seen their soldiers constantly sent back to the meat-grinder of Iraq/Afghanistan. They have seen Blackwater getting the better equipment. They have seen all kinds of non-citizens fighting these dirty wars.

Not only is it war on other countries. It is war on the environment. We continue to use Depleted Uranium munitions. We twist the Chinese to lower their pollution standards. We gut our own environmental laws. Even the evangelicals are starting to get this one. (The fundies are insane.)

And, of course, it is War on the Middle Class. They may not be using guns, but they are robbing the middle class of everything - their retirement, their health care, their kids education, their jobs. How can anyone vote for more of this? Only by turning politics into cheap television, into a bloody soap opera.

Maybe America is the new Rome. Maybe all the average American wants to do is sit in his HDTV Coliseum and watch American Gladiator until the international bankers cancel their credit cards and the environment seizes up.

But I do know that 25% of America, and 50% of the Democratic Party has an understanding of the stakes. The Chamber of Commerce has openly threatened the workers of America. Which Democrat will build his campaign on smashing these CoC bums?

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Well, it was nice dreaming. Looks like no one is reading this thread. Present company excepted.

arendt