georgephillip
Senator
"Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/trump-symptom-not-disease
Chris Hedges argues demagogues rise in failed states that destroy their own democratic institutions and the rule of law.
Sound familiar?
"Forget the firing of James Comey.
"Forget the paralysis in Congress.
"Forget the idiocy of a press that covers our descent into tyranny as if it were a sports contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats or a reality show starring our maniacal president and the idiots that surround him.
"Forget the noise.
"The crisis we face is not embodied in the public images of the politicians that run our dysfunctional government.
"The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup that has rendered the citizen impotent, left us without any authentic democratic institutions and allowed corporate and military power to become omnipotent.
"This crisis has spawned a corrupt electoral system of legalized bribery and empowered those public figures that master the arts of entertainment and artifice.
"And if we do not overthrow the neoliberal, corporate forces that have destroyed our democracy we will continue to vomit up more monstrosities as dangerous as Donald Trump.
"Trump is the symptom, not the disease."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/trump-symptom-not-disease
Chris Hedges argues demagogues rise in failed states that destroy their own democratic institutions and the rule of law.
Sound familiar?
"Forget the firing of James Comey.
"Forget the paralysis in Congress.
"Forget the idiocy of a press that covers our descent into tyranny as if it were a sports contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats or a reality show starring our maniacal president and the idiots that surround him.
"Forget the noise.
"The crisis we face is not embodied in the public images of the politicians that run our dysfunctional government.
"The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup that has rendered the citizen impotent, left us without any authentic democratic institutions and allowed corporate and military power to become omnipotent.
"This crisis has spawned a corrupt electoral system of legalized bribery and empowered those public figures that master the arts of entertainment and artifice.
"And if we do not overthrow the neoliberal, corporate forces that have destroyed our democracy we will continue to vomit up more monstrosities as dangerous as Donald Trump.
"Trump is the symptom, not the disease."
