This is Peta Lindsay. She's a real socialist, which is why you haven't been told about her by the corporate media. This interview is from 2012: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQb9su47RUg
This is Michael Prysner, a veteran, a multimovement activist, and brilliant war abolitionist. He's a socialist, not a fake socialist like Sanders. The establishment isn't going to tell you about Prysner because he's actually a threat to the ruling class. The establishment ain't afraid of Sanders, which is why you've been sold the lie that Sanders is a Savior. https://youtube.com/watch?v=f-rwFpY1EGA
"Those captive to images cast ballots based on how candidates make them feel. They vote for a slogan, a smile, perceived sincerity, and attractiveness, along with a carefully crafted personal narrative of the candidate. It is style and story, not content and fact, that inform mass politics. Politicians have learned that to get votes they must replicate the faux intimacy established between celebrities and the public. There has to be a sense, created through artful theatrical staging and scripting by political spin machines, that the politician is "one of us." The politician, like the celebrity, has to give voters the impression that he or she, as Bill Clinton used to say, feels their pain. We have to be able to see ourselves in them. If this connection, invariably a product of extremely sophisticated artifice, is not established, no politician can get any traction in a celebrity culture."
- Chris Hedges
The 1% isn't afraid of Sanders. The 1% is confident that Sanders can deliver millions of people to the Democratic party, which will ensure perpetuation of the Empire. The 1% isn't threatened by Sanders' candidacy. What, are voters going to read and learn about socialism, when Sanders himself is not a socialist? Are people who vote for Sanders going to commit time to study capitalism, militarism, racism, and imperialism--something that Sanders himself doesn't advocate? Are Sanders proponents going to find ways to fight the Israel lobby and combat Islamophobia? Are Sanders' supporters and cheerleaders going to do anything to dismantle the Empire after they cast ballots for their fake-socialist Great Hope? No. The ruling class knows that once people think that Sanders will save them, once enough people can be duped into thinking that he's some kind of savior, they'll stay pacified and demobilized, erroneously thinking that "Bernie's got it".
"Serious politicians"? "Serious" meaning what: legitimate, respected, establishment-approved? Democratic and Republican politicians, the Beltway media propagandists, and the pro-empire intellectual class are our class enemies. They're not looking out for us. We shouldn't dignify them or give them legitimacy. They're trying to devour the 99%.
The POTUS is not a public servant. The POTUS serves the ruling class, the capitalist class, the 1%. The POTUS is an enemy of the 99%. Does it make any sense to ask that the POTUS who has illegally escalated the terrorism, clandestine operations, and wars by the US is going to make GW/CC the center of his agenda? He's revealing through his war crimes, his criminal defense of the Bush administration officials, and Washington's disregard for law, what the agenda is: world domination. Look: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-day-syria-7th-country-bombed-obama/
Why care what the liar in the WH says? Presidents are not change agents who bring about improvements in living and working conditions. Social movements, mass action, class struggle is.
Recall your Howard Zinn:
"The result of having our history dominated by presidents and generals, and other ‘important’ people, is to create a passive citizenry; not knowing its own powers, always waiting for some savior on high, God or the next president, to bring peace and justice."
This is Peta Lindsay. She's a real socialist, which is why you haven't been told about her by the corporate media. This interview is from 2012: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQb9su47RUg
This is Michael Prysner, a veteran, a multimovement activist, and brilliant war abolitionist. He's a socialist, not a fake socialist like Sanders. The establishment isn't going to tell you about Prysner because he's actually a threat to the ruling class. The establishment ain't afraid of Sanders, which is why you've been sold the lie that Sanders is a Savior. https://youtube.com/watch?v=f-rwFpY1EGA
"Those captive to images cast ballots based on how candidates make them feel. They vote for a slogan, a smile, perceived sincerity, and attractiveness, along with a carefully crafted personal narrative of the candidate. It is style and story, not content and fact, that inform mass politics. Politicians have learned that to get votes they must replicate the faux intimacy established between celebrities and the public. There has to be a sense, created through artful theatrical staging and scripting by political spin machines, that the politician is "one of us." The politician, like the celebrity, has to give voters the impression that he or she, as Bill Clinton used to say, feels their pain. We have to be able to see ourselves in them. If this connection, invariably a product of extremely sophisticated artifice, is not established, no politician can get any traction in a celebrity culture."
- Chris Hedges
The 1% isn't afraid of Sanders. The 1% is confident that Sanders can deliver millions of people to the Democratic party, which will ensure perpetuation of the Empire. The 1% isn't threatened by Sanders' candidacy. What, are voters going to read and learn about socialism, when Sanders himself is not a socialist? Are people who vote for Sanders going to commit time to study capitalism, militarism, racism, and imperialism--something that Sanders himself doesn't advocate? Are Sanders proponents going to find ways to fight the Israel lobby and combat Islamophobia? Are Sanders' supporters and cheerleaders going to do anything to dismantle the Empire after they cast ballots for their fake-socialist Great Hope? No. The ruling class knows that once people think that Sanders will save them, once enough people can be duped into thinking that he's some kind of savior, they'll stay pacified and demobilized, erroneously thinking that "Bernie's got it".
You folks have learned nothing in the past 6 years.
read:
Buying Brand Obama
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090503_buying_brand_obama
"Serious politicians"? "Serious" meaning what: legitimate, respected, establishment-approved? Democratic and Republican politicians, the Beltway media propagandists, and the pro-empire intellectual class are our class enemies. They're not looking out for us. We shouldn't dignify them or give them legitimacy. They're trying to devour the 99%.
The POTUS is not a public servant. The POTUS serves the ruling class, the capitalist class, the 1%. The POTUS is an enemy of the 99%. Does it make any sense to ask that the POTUS who has illegally escalated the terrorism, clandestine operations, and wars by the US is going to make GW/CC the center of his agenda? He's revealing through his war crimes, his criminal defense of the Bush administration officials, and Washington's disregard for law, what the agenda is: world domination. Look: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-day-syria-7th-country-bombed-obama/
Why care what the liar in the WH says? Presidents are not change agents who bring about improvements in living and working conditions. Social movements, mass action, class struggle is.
Recall your Howard Zinn:
"The result of having our history dominated by presidents and generals, and other ‘important’ people, is to create a passive citizenry; not knowing its own powers, always waiting for some savior on high, God or the next president, to bring peace and justice."