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In reply to the discussion: My family and I are in Holland on a visit [View all]PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)society?
I trace it all back to the Powell memo to the US Chamber of Commerce in 1971, followed by the 1987 death (thanks Reagan!) of the Fairness Doctrine. Basically, these things helped big corporations create a massive, sophisticated and well-funded network of right wing propaganda outlets that have, in effect, brainwashed a sizeable number of Americans.
Because I'll tell you - back in 08 when the bottom fell out, the first thing Jamie Diamon and the rest of the Wall Street Lizards did was seek a bailout from the government.
This business of being rugged individualists having to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, by golly, is nothing more than corporate bullshit.
Or, more precisely, corporate propaganda designed to trick us into letting go of the safety nets our parents, grandparents and great grandparents bled for so that money can be funnelled into corporate profits. It is a raping of our treasury.
This is why I always ask why we can't use OUR tax dollars that WE pay in to OUR government, which is supposedly of, by and for US, the PEOPLE, for stuff that actually benefits US, like Single Payer healthcare, as opposed to bullshit like the F35 fighter which STILL can't fly. Or the GIANT domestic spying building the NSA has in Utah. And why do we need an NSA when we have a CIA, an FBI, a DEA and an ATF? Don't you think that's TOO many cops? How does that make our lives better?