General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Discussion- ending militarization of police, police brutality and gov sanctioned murder by LEO. [View all]Dan de Lyons
(52 posts)Leadership is needed. Revolutionary leaders who understand public administration. Global leadership of the labor movement. Labor organizers.
The strikes of the fast food workers and the call for increases in the minimum wage suggest a growing polarization along classical class lines. After decades of dumping on 'world government', the corporatist class is now out to create its own quasi-government that trumps national governments. This may not turn out as they planned.
Outing the TPP simply has to happen - the information vacuum is building. How will TPP affect the tar-sands pipeline? There are so many questions to be asked.
The increasing visibility of 'the way things are' works much more in our favor than in theirs. The internet is a patient inquisitor, and the daily unpacking of story after story, layer by layer, should send a shudder through those whose trail is tainted.
Dinosaurs became monstrously large before they died out. There can be some defects to gigantism. The Earth is round, growth is finite, and Ayn Rand's vision of perpetual expansion is a candle near the end of its wick.