coup Q a masterful cope 000920 ... god soup before crope 011107 ... birdmad listening to the Circle jerks d'etat! 011107 ... unhinged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOTTF_njvU 'this culture of destruction was launched four decades ago by corporate forces. the corporate elites terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s built and funded counterinstitutions to delegitimize and marginalize critics of corporate capitalism and imperialism. they bought the allegiances of the two main political parties. they imposed obedience to the neoliberal ideology within academia and the press. this campaign laid out by louis powell in his 1971 memorandum titled 'attack on american free enterprise system' was the blueprint for the creeping corporate coup d'etat that forty five years later is largely complete.' 'the coup destroyed our two party system. labor unions are a spent force. the press is corporatized. universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars who criticize neoliberalism and decry the decay of democratic institutions.' no wonder chris hedges can't find a job in america 171120 ... unhinged 'this coup destroyed more than our democratic institutions. it destroyed the very credibility of liberal democracy. self_identified liberals such as the clintons and obama mouthed the words of liberal democratic values while making war on those values in the service of corporate power. the revolt we see rippling across the united states and much of the globe is a revolt not only against a corporate system that has betrayed workers but also for many the ideas and values espoused by a bankrupt liberal class. this is very dangerous. the discrediting of liberal democracy will allow the radical right to cement into place in america and much of europe and other parts of the globe a form of fascism. ' damn right_on scary_but_true 171120 ... unhinged one more: 'when a tiny cabal seizes power, monarchist, communist, fascist, or corporate, it creates a mafia economy and a mafia state. trump is NOT an anomaly. he is the grotesque visage of our collapsed democracy. trump and his coterie of billionaires, generals, half wits, christian fascists, criminals, racists and deviants play the role of the snopes clan in some of faulkner's novels. Snopes filled the power vacuum of the decayed south and ruthlessly seized control from the degenerated former slave holding aristocratic elites. flem snopes and his extended family are fictional representations of the scum now elevated to the highest levels of the federal government' - chris hedges 171120 what's it to you? who go blather from