Another great read Paul. Hope the New Year keeps your voice on the air. No way around this not being a dark, depressing Holiday Season. Santa's sleigh will not be stopping on Biden's roof as Isreal drops 2000 lb bombs on the roofs in Gaza. Merry Christmas from Biden/Bibi. The ethnic cleansing Netanyaho and Biden are doing to Palestinians would make Hitler proud.
One of the first things I learned in political science is that voting is one of the weakest contributions an individual can make in a "democracy." That is why it is put forth in such high esteem by propagandists for the ruling class. Speaking, writing, organizing, protesting, offering new solutions and planning around them, working for a political organization or party, or starting one (!), getting people on your side and getting THEM to vote in a certain way is exponentially more participatory and impactful than your one single vote, which is why that kind of activity is not widely encouraged, and in fact is utterly unimaginable to almost everyone in the US. Vote for what you are told to vote for by the ruling class, and shut up, is the basic model. Everyone is so proud of their sacred "vote," when if that is all they do to the exclusion of other forms of understanding and participation they are simply ratifying the status quo? Which, in our case, is fatally corrupt. When you say "national origin, al, gender" I am at a loss as to what "al" is. Please, am I missing something or is this a typo? I enjoy your work very much Paul.
I said in the post I would put some past pieces up in the comments. I've got dozens on the topics in question. Here are two decent ones:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/20/on-true-democracy/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/11/the-envy-of-the-world-still-no-functioning-democracy-here/
Another great read Paul. Hope the New Year keeps your voice on the air. No way around this not being a dark, depressing Holiday Season. Santa's sleigh will not be stopping on Biden's roof as Isreal drops 2000 lb bombs on the roofs in Gaza. Merry Christmas from Biden/Bibi. The ethnic cleansing Netanyaho and Biden are doing to Palestinians would make Hitler proud.
Yeah. BTW yesterday in Iowa Trump said he had brought back the phrase "Merry Christmas," which has been stolen by "the radical Left."
Thank you, Paul, for this excellent piece, for telling it like it very sadly is. 🙏
You are welcome/thanks. I must say though that I am always enlivened by confronting the truth, head on.
One of the first things I learned in political science is that voting is one of the weakest contributions an individual can make in a "democracy." That is why it is put forth in such high esteem by propagandists for the ruling class. Speaking, writing, organizing, protesting, offering new solutions and planning around them, working for a political organization or party, or starting one (!), getting people on your side and getting THEM to vote in a certain way is exponentially more participatory and impactful than your one single vote, which is why that kind of activity is not widely encouraged, and in fact is utterly unimaginable to almost everyone in the US. Vote for what you are told to vote for by the ruling class, and shut up, is the basic model. Everyone is so proud of their sacred "vote," when if that is all they do to the exclusion of other forms of understanding and participation they are simply ratifying the status quo? Which, in our case, is fatally corrupt. When you say "national origin, al, gender" I am at a loss as to what "al" is. Please, am I missing something or is this a typo? I enjoy your work very much Paul.