I have a few questions for you:

1. How do you know what motivates me?

2. How do you know what is my purpose?

3. Where did I say that my vision of capitalism was “the meaty goal of nirvana”?

4. What is your source for the 7 million innocents murdered in the name of freedom?

5. How do you conclude that I am blinded by greed and profit from capitalism’s slaves? Do you know what I do for a living?

6. Who are my “handlers”?

7. Who exactly are my distortion mongers?

8. Is James Madison your real name?

It’s misleading to frame the choice of system of production as between capitalism on the one hand and “socialism” (I would argue that North Korea and the old East Germany are forms of state capitalism, not socialism, but thats another story) from above on the other. There is a third way, socialism from below (the dictatorship of the proletariat, the working class organized as the ruling class, etc.), which your false dichotomy completely ignores. Maybe this is what Sullivan advocates by his call for us to “organize,” or maybe it isn’t…it’s unclear what he’s calling for, but I doubt from the tone of his article that he’s advocating a Stalinist dictatorship.

Anyways, let’s look where people are trying to escape and where they’re trying to go. Capitalism has settled pretty much everywhere by this point. Most migration is between capitalism countries. However, there is a concentration of capital in places like Western Europe, the United States, and Japan (the “Triad”), as a result of the transfer of wealth from the rest of the world. Capitalists from the Triad nations loot the rest of the world (as well as workers within the Triad nations) and benefit from the vicious exploitation of workers and the environment. So people from other countries go to Triad nations in an attempt to acquire a portion of the wealth that’s been stolen from their homeland.

the MSM is symptom, not cause.

ij , you need to read.
free online/in entirety
j.t. gatto’s
underground history of american education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

does more than an ample job of explaining the true scope/goal of the systemically designed class war/assault on reason America has currently engaged in for a very long time.

snip from chap 8: Plato’s Guardians
… As long as such a pump existed to spew limitless numbers of independent, self-reliant, resourceful, and ambitious minds onto the scene, who could predict what risk to capital might strike next? To minds capable of thinking cosmically like Carnegie’s, Rockefeller’s, Rothschild’s, Morgan’s, or Cecil Rhodes’, real scientific control of overproduction must rest ultimately on the power to constrain the production of intellect. Here was a task worthy of immortals. Coal provided capital to finance it.

Through the dependence of the all on the few, an instrument of management and of elite association would be created far beyond anything ever seen in the past. This powerful promise was, however, fragilely balanced atop the need to homogenize the population and all its descendant generations.1 A mass production economy can neither be created nor sustained without a leveled population, one conditioned to mass habits, mass tastes, mass enthusiasms, predictable mass behaviors. The will of both maker and purchaser had to give way to the predestinated output of machinery with a one-track mind.

Nothing posed a more formidable obstacle than the American family. Traditionally, a self-sufficient production unit for which the marketplace played only an incidental role, the American family grew and produced its own food, cooked and served it; made its own soap and clothing. And provided its own transportation, entertainment, health care, and old age assistance. It entered freely into cooperative associations with neighbors, not with corporations. If that way of life had continued successfully—as it has for the modern Amish—it would have spelled curtains for corporate society.

Why do people continue to cry that capitalism – system for buying and selling – has a problem with democracy – the rule of the people. The two go well hand in hand – the freedom to buy and sell.

For Democracy to work – and it was known from the beginning – you must have an informed public. If the media sold out to corporate influence and corporate influence buys politicians, then you have a bad system – and the founding fathers pointed that out.

What is really bad for democracy is that no one has morals, values, or ethics. Democracy is government by the people, so bad people = bad government. There’s a saying – “People get the government they deserve.”

Anyhow, I have to figure out what “somehow” means and then tell Charlie.