| I see it different, and to the comment one level up...we have the illusion of democracy, which takes the oppression of opposition to a whole new level. In fact, this episode of Freakanomics talks about The Politics Industrial Complex and how The Media is on the inside of that bubble. In short, without a healthy and objective Fourth Estate there is no democracy. Add in the duopoly one-party choices and it gets even worse. There's more to democracy than getting to vote. What we're living is the Orwellian defintion of democracy. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/ I also heard it said on another reputable podcast - I think it was "How I built this" - that the top corporate guest of the Obama WH was Google. I'm trying to verify that. This looks close enough. It's odd that a POTUS who sold hope would be so closely aligned with a surveillance company. https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close... See also: "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" for a look behind Google's public facing narrative. The Pentagon keeps failing its audits, to the tune of trillions of dollars, and the people are silent. Trillions? If it walks like corruption and talks like corruption...well we all should see where this is going. Yet, zero opposition to this? That's enough for now. |