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Trickle Down Cruelty
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Trickle Down Cruelty
http://www.truth-out.org/trickle-down-cr...1310134880

Quote:But there is more at stake than an increase in the hard currency of human suffering and the theater of trickle-down cruelty; there are also disturbing signs that US society is moving toward an authoritarian state largely controlled by corporations and a grotesquely irresponsible financial elite.(30) A market-driven society is not synonymous with democracy and the privileges of the rich and the corporate elite do more to crush democracy than uplift society as a whole. Any society that allows the market to constitute the axis and framing mechanisms for all social interactions has not just lost its sense of morality and responsibility; it is given up its claim on any vestige of a democratic future. Market fundamentalism along with its structure of extreme inequality and machinery of cruelty has proven to be a death sentence on democracy. The time has come to not only demystify the authoritarianism inherent in casino capitalism and the political and institutions that mimic its policies, practices and values, but to rethink not only what a real democracy might look like, but also what it will take to actually organize to make it happen.


And fully half of the American electorate will gladly follow these corporate cocksuckers because the thought that the president is black is more important to them than the red-white-and-blue dick which is being shoved up their assholes.
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Trickle Down Cruelty - by Minimalist - July 11, 2011 at 4:05 pm
RE: Trickle Down Cruelty - by Faith No More - July 11, 2011 at 4:16 pm
RE: Trickle Down Cruelty - by The Grand Nudger - July 11, 2011 at 4:40 pm
RE: Trickle Down Cruelty - by Faith No More - July 11, 2011 at 4:42 pm
RE: Trickle Down Cruelty - by Autumnlicious - July 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm
RE: Trickle Down Cruelty - by reverendjeremiah - July 11, 2011 at 6:32 pm

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