I can't see where your optimism is coming from, Thom. Wish I could, but the few actual progressive websites I'm seeing (Jimmy Dore, Grayzone, Redacted, Useful Idiots, The Left Lens, Consortium News) and Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald have a very small audience and our corporate media censor or distort anything of real importance. The s…
I can't see where your optimism is coming from, Thom. Wish I could, but the few actual progressive websites I'm seeing (Jimmy Dore, Grayzone, Redacted, Useful Idiots, The Left Lens, Consortium News) and Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald have a very small audience and our corporate media censor or distort anything of real importance. The so-called progressives in government (funded at least in part by the same corporate interests as the so-called conservatives) have proven themselves impotent wimps and the oligarchs benefitting from the military/industrial/media complex are manning this Ship of Fools, waging wars and draining our commonwealth are getting stronger and fatter hourly.
All while the vast majority of citizens just want to live as sedated as possible.... because it's all so unbearably frightening to do otherwise.
I can't see where your optimism is coming from, Thom. Wish I could, but the few actual progressive websites I'm seeing (Jimmy Dore, Grayzone, Redacted, Useful Idiots, The Left Lens, Consortium News) and Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald have a very small audience and our corporate media censor or distort anything of real importance. The so-called progressives in government (funded at least in part by the same corporate interests as the so-called conservatives) have proven themselves impotent wimps and the oligarchs benefitting from the military/industrial/media complex are manning this Ship of Fools, waging wars and draining our commonwealth are getting stronger and fatter hourly.
All while the vast majority of citizens just want to live as sedated as possible.... because it's all so unbearably frightening to do otherwise.
That's what I'm seeing. And I'm paying attention.