tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post4219560246225170277..comments2023-11-22T04:27:07.521-06:00Comments on glen brown: Ken Burns' Speech on America, Social Media, Our Political Future and Donald Trump (Stanford's 125th Commencement Ceremony)gbrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-44624861360682045922018-06-30T14:56:46.046-05:002018-06-30T14:56:46.046-05:00With today's revelation that Justice Kennedy&#...With today's revelation that Justice Kennedy's son approved a billion dollar loan to a Trump corporation via Deutch Bank when other Banks refused the loan, the thoroughness of the corruption that is America is evident. Kennedy's timed retirement, the extreme profitability of the Clinton Foundation, the role of JB Pritzker as the pro-choice, pro-union, progressive, the Pence-Ryan-McConnell trifecta, the judicial reversal of a jury's decision about the guilt and financial punishment of a Chicago cop who shot a teenager five times in the back, the continued bipartisan attacks on unions and their pension funds, the bipartisan approval of profitable charter schools and voucher programs that profit corporations, the profitable and unjust caging of refugee children by ICE thugs, Nancy Pelosi's dismissal of a social democrat's victory over an entrenched machine Dem, the extreme wealth gained by both Democratic and Republican office holders while being paid modest salaries, and so much more are all signs of a system indifferent implosion of its own country/empire. <br />Corruption as government is, by definition, self-destructive. America is destroying Americans on the weekend prior to the Fourth of July. Flag waving is compulsory, kneeling is condemned as we explode fireworks and implode in clouds of smoke and inglorious glory.Ken Previtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513924091013990654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-83876529989441522762016-06-14T18:13:36.130-05:002016-06-14T18:13:36.130-05:00Ken Burns is wrong. He waves the flag and makes Tr...Ken Burns is wrong. He waves the flag and makes Trump a bogeyman. Cruz, Rubio, Ryan, McConnell, Rauner, Scott, Rahm Emanuel (D), Dannel Malloy (D) and many other elected officials are in complete agreement with Trump's issues and platform. Burns is simply playing the part of a patriot who believes that America would be fine with a little tweak or two - or even a vote for Hillary or the Wall St. billionaire who will step in to take Trump's place prior to the election.<br />What is the real issue? Corporatism.<br />"Our corporate masters know what is coming. They know that as the ecosystem breaks down, as financial dislocations create new global financial meltdowns, as natural resources are poisoned or exhausted, despair will give way to panic and rage."<br />"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, of course, will do nothing to halt the corporate assault. There will be no reform. Totalitarian systems are not rational. There will only be harsher forms of repression and more pervasive systems of indoctrination and propaganda. The voices of dissenters, now marginalized, will be silenced.<br />It is time to step outside of the establishment. This means organizing groups, including political parties, that are independent of the corporate political machines that control the Republicans and Democrats."<br />Chris Hedges, who knows that Trump is a mere bogeyman, puts it all together as he looks at historical patterns. <br />http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_must_understand_corporate_power_to_fight_it_20160612<br />Ken Previtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513924091013990654noreply@blogger.com