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Since the media and intelligence agencies are great at vilifying any dissent (see "Capitol Riot" and how difficult it is for them to even get representation), t

Since the media and intelligence agencies are great at vilifying any dissent (see "Capitol Riot" and how difficult it is for them to even get representation), there is no hope. The US is not going to get better as corruption is rampant and most are in the dark or powerless. Politicians like Bernie Sanders give hope, but they are few and far between, and muzzled. Perhaps the migration away from centralized news sources that are filtered by advertisers & intelligence agencies (see Manufacture of Consent) could help move us towards actually having information in the mainstream so that we can have a say, since our election system is rigged by the two right-wing parties, but there are too many decision makers still reading NYT and WSJ. Social media is clamping down on "fake news". The majority in the House/Senate are trying to push censorship for this reason, and now they are even trying to change the judicial branch to suit their whims.

chrisco255 5y ago
> the two right-wing parties They are neither left nor right. There is a middle elite group that exploits politics on either side of the aisle to maintain power. And that's all it is. And they get filthy rich, but so too does the CCP which is left-wing. Taking advantage of power for personal gain is not an exclusive domain of one wing or the other. At any rate these oversimplified analogies break down among many lines upon closer inspection. There are elite insiders and then there's the rest of us.
cassepipe 5y ago
Well the Capitol riots were not just any dissent. They were the gathering of a mob of people with crazy conspiracy theories (that very probably would not even agree with each other) as part of mediatic stunt (just not "the media") to give legitimacy to the claim the election had been stolen so the Republican party could suck up more money from its base for "the cause". I have myself much respect for Bernie Sanders and people fighting for more democracy and more equality please, please don't put them in the same bag than people being manipulated into giving time and money for imaginary causes.

chrisco255 5y ago

> the two right-wing parties They are neither left nor right. There is a middle elite group that exploits politics on either side of the aisle to maintain power. And that's all it is. And they get filthy rich, but so too does the CCP which is left-wing. Taking advantage of power for personal gain is not an exclusive domain of one wing or the other. At any rate these oversimplified analogies break down among many lines upon closer inspection. There are elite insiders and then there's the rest of us.

cassepipe 5y ago

Well the Capitol riots were not just any dissent. They were the gathering of a mob of people with crazy conspiracy theories (that very probably would not even agree with each other) as part of mediatic stunt (just not "the media") to give legitimacy to the claim the election had been stolen so the Republican party could suck up more money from its base for "the cause". I have myself much respect for Bernie Sanders and people fighting for more democracy and more equality please, please don't put them in the same bag than people being manipulated into giving time and money for imaginary causes.