Is the USA now a fascist state?

[Prophet 451]

56. Um, because I'm afraid teh system is rigged

Warren and Sanders are great pols. I mean that, I think the two of them are among the best of a generally motley crew (which sounds like damning with faint praise but wasn't meant to be). And I'd love to believe that they'll make a difference. But...

Warren and Sanders are portrayed by the media (which is entirely corporate) as wild-eyed extremists. I'm British and my view of the US is necessarily through your media and I don't think even American liberals understand quite how right-wing your media is. Sanders would be a centreist here and Warren is well within mainstream leftie politics. But your corporate media portrays them as something akin to Trotsky. Even the supposedly liberal MSNBC has three fucking hours of Joe Scarbrough every morning. And Maddow, Satan's Name, she's great but she's one woman with five hours a week and struggling to keep up with the endless tide of bullshit the right throws out. And she's struggling within a corporate structure at MSNBC.

The SCOTUS has been entirely politicised, the most radical and most conservative court in US history and I fully expect them to just let the rich give as much as they like to politicians the se3cond they get a case that they can twist to cover that. And they're just going to strike down any law that conservatives dislike. I'm half-expecting a 5-4 ruling that conservatives get their own way on everything.

So the SCOTUS is now just teh legal arm of teh GOP, the GOP is just the political arm of big business and too many of teh Democrats are compromised. Because getting elected these days takes a massive amount of money and that money will likely come from corporate donors, especially now that our only real way to counter that (the internet) has been handed over to the corporations to do as they like with (I'm talking about the FCC's total cave on net neutrality).

Meanwhile, the Democratic president proposed what was essentially a Republican health plan, birthed by teh Heritage Foundation. He's proposing cap-and-trade, a Republican plan that does virtually nothing about teh problem at a time when we need to be imposing hard limits on carbon emissions and jailing CEOs who break them. I don't know as much about the drone war as I should but what I do know isn't encouraging. The Democrats too often try and be fascism-lite.