True enough on plastics though I'm sure iam thinks so.
This is not true:
MacCruiskeen » Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:49 pm wrote:*
except, of course, in the imperial Homeland, where the Trump Derangement continues unabated, and a TV-entranced populace continues to seek its salvation in the corporate media, the CIA, the Democratic Party, and a more fetching figurehead to take nominal charge of those 7,000 nukes.
Don't confuse reality with the TV image of the populace, or with the demographic who post a lot about the Putin-Trump psyop, or with the faces who get on TV. I submit the populace is no more TV-entranced than has been average in the last 50 years. Remember, I came of age with "America Held Hostage." The popular hold of the current imperialist permanent-state military-entertainment complex propaganda is far less than then. The main problem for now remains ignorance of the world and lack of a common set of terms (so that the resort to whatever is being blah-blahed tubeside is easier).
There are big and growing movements not taking their cues from the TV or the Democrats. Compare the size and vigor of Black Lives Matter, NoDAPL and the immigrant solidarity actions nationwide with that ludicrous politician-led Russia "Truth" demo of a couple of weeks back. Consider the Chicago teachers' union strikes.
As an example of which I have first-hand knowledge, I know a lot of young people who have gone into the leftish Democratic Socialists (DSA) which has ballooned in New York. You'd believe from the TV that this population group (young, educated, left-liberal, urban, "millennial" meaning economically precarious) is motivated by Trump-Putin. Before you criticize DSA, correctly, that is not remotely the case, I guarantee you, e.g., people actually remember who Comey has always been, for example what he did before the election, and they regard it as a show, as you do. They're all in despair about the direction of the Democrats other than Sanders. (Debate away about the latter. And Sanders is it. People have seen through Warren.) The new people are also now by far the majority in DSA and what it will become is open. Their primary issue focuses are single-payer and protecting public education, student debt and the like. No need to exaggerate or have false hopes, but the movements are here and generally not deluded.
If I vest hope currently, it's in the UK developments, the possibility of Labour coming to power there under Corbyn and the effects on the U.S. If populist (in the best sense) developments in any other country can open a sense of possibilities and influence and motivate movements in the U.S., it would be the UK. (Conceivably also Anglo-Canada or Mexico via the Spanish-speaking population, but far less likely. For whatever set of historical reasons, UK is better followed and comprehended.)
We do lack a meaningful politically effective structure that allows entry and can be flooded with a new majority, as happened with Labour.
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