Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

RiverLover, thanks for the above.

My role in the blogosphere has felt more and more like an iconoclast -- or to go back to that old metaphor the little child calling out the nakedness of the emperor to the hordes of deniers and minimizers making it crazymaking for the child as messenger to have something so seemingly obvious be surreally pushed back at. WTF????

I know there are many of us who are not being acknowledged by the mainstream media who are courageous and informed. It is not that hard though the bastards of the universe will make it harder and harder. The internet has given us a window for consciousness raising though propaganda especially in the US is gobsmackingly powerful, especially with the "lesser evilism" cronyism going on. Apathy, cynicism, cronyism, personality over character celebrity, etc.

I worked for GP Jill Stein in 2012 and was astonished that after getting arrested three times to protest especially the exclusion of herself and other important voices from the presidential debates (even hand-cuffed to a folding chair 8 hours for the last one) she received NO ATTENTION AND ACKNOWLEGDGEMENT from the mainstream media. She wanted to forgive student loans, said that if the banks could be bailed out why not America's students to a serious degree, and when the NewsHour did a story on campaign promises re student debt they NEVER included mention of her or her platform. Et tu NewsHour??? You betcha!!!!

When I encouraged people to vote for her they denied ever hearing of her and that discredited her. I told them she didn't want corporate money in democracy so corporate media would keep her existence blocked from the citizenry. This did not help convince the people I was trying to communicate with. If she can't win with no publicity, why vote for a non-winner they said. I said we had to grass roots it against mainstream media. They did not have my clarity on propaganda.

We definitely need grass-roots against the corporate money bullhorns. Bullshit horns.

The war mongering neocons now hooked up with the faux-humanitarian neo-lib war mongerers don't want the so-called Vietnam syndrome (negatively labelled but it was a good thing) to return, that is, the conscience against war, in America. I can't believe that my fellow Boomers (I was an activist during the Vietnam years like so many) and so many young people are myopically bobbling their heads at the coverage of the imperial bloodbaths under both Bush and Obama and not insanely angry at the waste of human lives using our tax dollars making us accessories to mass murder, to genocides!!! And are not hopping bitter over the Clinton deregulation sellout. Enough said for now. Thanks!

best, libby