Obama's 170 degrees (going on 180) on Torture is a sad and scary spectacle

[woo me with science]

51. "the judicial system is starting to overturn local initiatives."

The tentacles are everywhere.

Yeah, keep working at community level, while also trying to educate nationally and everywhere we can. I don't know. Teach beyond DU. Call out the propaganda and the lies and amplify the messages of the few who are telling the truth for as long as possible....for as long as the PTB have to allow them to speak for the illusion of democracy. Make explicit every corporate lie and diversion and partisan manipulation, because people start to get it when they realize they can predict how they will be screwed...

I think that's what Bernie keeps trying to tell us. Our only hope is educating and growing a movement, and it has to happen well beyond DU. The PTB won't let Bernie or any other real representative of the people through, and we will continue to get the same corporate policies that are destroying us for the enrichment of plutocrats. At the very least, we can use the process to teach this time. This election will be a powerful teaching tool. It's a powerful thing when people start to see the patterns and realize they are being lied to, propagandized, deliberately manipulated by those who pretend to represent them but are really knifing them in the back. IMO that's when they start to organize.

Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another's hands. For a moment they were both tugging, and then the handle came off. Winston watched them disgustedly. and yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Unitl they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

That, he reflected, might almost have been a transcription from one of the Party textbooks.

-Orwell, 1984