It's interesting to read that the ad agency for the fake-liberal astroturf group "Stop Too Big Too Fail" is the same one used by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth back in 2004.
Uncomfortable as that is, it's even more discomfiting to consider the bigger picture: Americans are so damn apathetic they need an "astroturf group" to care about banks destroying the entire national economy when they collapse under the weight of their own malfeasance.
Isn't this something real people with jobs and pension plans should be concerned about for free? If they need to pay PR firms to tackle this, rather than rely on common-sense people pressure, it starts to look scarily like we don't give a sh*t about anything anymore.
Can you see a future where we just loll around apathetically like slack-jawed manatees ceding control of everything we used to care about to high-dollar corporations and lobbying groups? "Hey... my house is on fire. Which lobbyist should I pay to worry about it?"
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Hi R.N. My first time here. I'm not convinced Americans are all that apathetic. The big corporations and lobby groups arrange for free transportation to a lot of "rallies", that are heavily advertised on Fake News outlets. Hannity crossed the line of journalism (whoops, he ain't really a journalist, he's a PR man for the Far Right) did a great job of mobilizing the early Tea Party events and speaking at them.
ReplyDeleteGeography works heavily against Americans mobilizing; there's something about the local malls not being appealing for protests, and there's never good parking at "Town Hall". The local statiums are owned by big corporations who aren't interested in leasing out their time for rallies. It's like we're too spread out, and usually don't hear about the kind of protest ordinary people might attend until after the fact.
And then there's money and time. You're either short on one or the other to go to these things because you're broke and counting your change, or working two part time jobs and exhausted.
Well, nice site, I'll be back.
Hi Kit
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by! You make good reasoned points but... when you think about the people in places like Tibet and Burma who risk their lives getting up and demanding their rights, I think inconvenience is really no excuse for apathy.
In my opinion, we have a problem inasmuch as American working/middle class people have been brainwashed so much over the years that they truly believe standing up for their own interests is tantamount to communism. Europeans aren't subjected to the same fake news/pro-corporate propaganda so they have no problem demanding their rights and expecting their governments to represent them ahead of corporate interests. But here? Nope.