The reconfiguring of American society into an oligarchy and the collapse of our democratic institutions have left most of the population disempowered. ... Ruleless-ness means the norms that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function.
Now, the time of a new democratic rebellion is upon us again, for We the People are suddenly in the grip of a brutish level of monopolistic power.
Expressed differently, the United States has not won a major conflict since 1945; has a trillion-dollar national security budget; has had 17 military commanders in the last 17 years in Afghanistan, a country plagued by 23,744 “security incidents” (the most ever recorded) in 2017 alone; has spent around $3 trillion, primarily on that war and the rest of the war on terror...
U.S. coups d'é·tat. US interventions
It is not clear how insane U.S. policy can get under Trump’s leadership, or that of his warhawk advisors.
“We’re in surplus production in almost every area. But there is a terrible distribution system where people around the globe suffer and die from starvation.
Donald Trump would have been inconceivable as president without those disastrous wars, those trillions squandered on them and on the military that’s fought them, and that certainly qualifies as “impact” enough.
Donald Trump would have been inconceivable as president without those disastrous wars, those trillions squandered on them and on the military that’s fought them, and that certainly qualifies as “impact” enough.
We must dare to speak out in support of those American war resisters, the real military heros...
We must dare to speak out in support of those American war resisters, the real military heros...
]Racism, [Du Bois] saw, was not only endemic to capitalism and imperialism but deformed historical narratives, the stories that got told and those that did not.
Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy.
