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By active and loud anti-corporate voices do you mean the pro-corporate liberal party, the pro-corporate conservative party, the corporate-owned TV media or the
by wfo 9y ago
By active and loud anti-corporate voices do you mean the pro-corporate liberal party, the pro-corporate conservative party, the corporate-owned TV media or the pro-corporate mainstream newspapers? There are anti corporate voices like e.g. Chomsky, Sanders, and they all have a couple of characteristics in common: they are ignored by the powers that be. They are without platforms, and they are without power.
- marlokk 9y agoOr are serving as an Emmanuel Goldstein from 1984.
- hsod 9y agoIf you aren't loudly hearing anti-corporate voices in the modern American political conversation, you aren't listening.
- dkonofalski 9y agoThey're making noise but they're not being heard. No one with any ability to instigate change is listening to them. Just because they're talking doesn't mean anyone is taking them seriously. For the record, I definitely think they should be taken seriously.
- taheca 9y agoI strongly believe that the people listening to them right now, will be the future leaders of America. I hope to be one of them.
- hsod 9y agoBernie Sanders (who is currently a United States Senator) nearly won the Dem nomination in the last election.
- plussed_reader 9y agoSomething, something....horseshoes....hand grenades....
- louithethrid 9y agoThe trick is to narrow the circle of actually "acceptable, reasonable" opinion down to near nothing,and declaring that inside sane- and all other outside free (aka nuts). Both of the partys even tryied that trick upon one another.
- PaulHoule 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
- fish_fan 9y ago> There are anti corporate voices like e.g. Chomsky, Sanders, and they all have a couple of characteristics in common: they are ignored by the powers that be. They are without platforms, and they are without power. Thankfully in the US the people have a lot of power, and Sanders is active in politics no matter how much the "powers that be" attempt to dismiss him. Warren is also anti-corporate, though I'll admit I don't know the extent, and I think she is easier to see as a mainstream democrat than Sanders is. My point being Sanders may not be accepted by the mainstream, but this is an unprecedented (since the 50s) level of acceptance of a class perspective. I'm not sure why you would explicitly ignore this change of events.
- thejynxed 9y agoIt's easy to ignore because even Sanders proved himself a sellout in the end, and the people who control the purse strings similarly don't pay him or his ilk any real attention, because they have the power to stop him or anyone like him from doing anything substantial.