Taibbi: Banks are buying up heavy industry

[Winehole23]

dumbing down schools, eg TX SBOE with their pure bull fairy tale school books, taxpayer-supported charter schools for profit and ty education, taxpayer-supported for-profit "colleges", journalism enfeebled, coopted, MSM coopted by the need for corporate ad $Bs, etc, etc. will keep people dumb, ignorant, uneducated, manipulable, isolated.

arguably true in the aggregate, but in practice individuals decide what to read, believe and agitate for themselves.

we're not all helpless dupes. power doesn't dictate our daily to do list or prevent us from reading whatever we please at the public library.

[Winehole23]

Dems ain't got the balls to save anyone, not even themselves.

amen, brother

[boutons_deux]

arguably true in the aggregate, but in practice individuals decide what to read, believe and agitate for themselves.

we're not all helpless dupes. power doesn't dictate our daily to do list or prevent us from reading whatever we please at the public library.

You don't have to be a duped to be helpless.

agitate? how do serious people agitate to get enough Congress assholes to regulate the financial sector back into a box?

to get the SEC and Fed and Treasury to QUIT being enabler/protector of the financial sector?

how to undo Citizens United and generally shutdown the oligarchy from buying politicians, regualatory agencies, all of govt?

How to re-establish the VRA? how to stop voter suppression?

how to remove districting from politicians hands?

how to make the dysfunctional, anti-democratic, arcane Senate a proportionally representative body?

etc etc etc ad nauseam

America is ed and un able.

[Winehole23]

agitate? how do serious people agitate to get enough Congress assholes to regulate the financial sector back into a box?

to get the SEC and Fed and Treasury to QUIT being enabler/protector of the financial sector?

ongoing criminal inquiries, feeble though they may be, may not consequence free for the targets or the industry at large. at the very least, the regulators seem to be a little concerned about the optics ... until recently, the whole topic was avoided by US officials

how to undo Citizens United and generally shutdown the oligarchy from buying politicians, regualatory agencies, all of govt?

people agitate for that everyday. future changes at the state and federal level are not impossible, as you suggest.

How to re-establish the VRA? how to stop voter suppression?

this issue is very much alive. in some places it will be stopped.

how to remove districting from politicians hands?

already the case in Nebraska. why should it be impossible everywhere else?

America is ed and un able.

Bull .

America isn't forever. The status quo isn't forever. We may not write history just as we please, but neither do the rich and powerful.