We need congressional term limits.

We need big business regulations.

We need to ban PACs and lobbyists.

We need an educated populace.

We need to stop taxing household incomes less than 6 figures – folks pay plenty of tax on everything they buy, eat, drink, wear, register, drive, etc.

We need to stop making “heroes” out of political and celebrity assholes and find a hero in our own family.

We need to turn off televisions and plant something.

We need to stop pretending and call a spade a spade and keep it real, no whutam sayin’.

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It may be a bit twisted like you said as I drew the conclusion from listening to Noam drone on for 40 years about the evils of US policy and his optimism for organic anarchy. Also I think it was Justin Raimondo over at Antiwar a few years back who wrote of Chomsky stating the US should cede authority to a world body to conduct an investigation, I believe into 9/11. A step in my opinion to having a “world body” govern the world.

But still, Noam is a gnome, manufacturing dissent.

hmmmm…

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For decades he’s been on PBS and BookTV, and other places, but I suppose you mean he’s not on CNN or Fox or CBS? His tapes and videos have been on sale for years. His books have been #1 a few times on the NYT list. For years he has traveled everywhere to lecture.

I don’t think there has ever been a lack of access to anyone who wanted to hear Chomsky. Just recently the Chomsky book Chavez held up a the UN sent sales through the roof, from a 2 second sound byte.

He’s mendacious – spouting anti-US policy rhetoric and about profit hungry corporations but never mentions a global overclass that pulls the strings. He pooh-poohs theories from JFK to 9/11 – they happened the way you’re told they happened.

His solution to world problems? World government under something like the UN (that global ruling class he never mentions).

Chomsky is to the left what William Buckley was to the right – an iconic bloviator.

If this crowd who has bought Obama’s BS truly wanted legitimate positive change, they would not be swooning over pro-war, pro-corporate Obama, instead they would be supporting Nader/Gonzalez or Cynthia McKinney who are true/real progressives. But these Obama sheep are not about to do that, because Nader and McKinney don’t have a D behind their name. And that’s what it’s all about. That D (which translates to an R in reality).

The problem getting people to see the political reality—as opposed to their wishful-thinking and false hope—is that most people are so blinded by that partisan “D” which they want so hard to believe in it at all costs regardless of the political reality. The partisan D (and R) has been programmed in most people from early on so it’s very difficult to deprogramme. Most people can’t do it or don’t want to do it. So they will vote for the status quo (Obama or McCain), and then wonder why nothing changes for the positive afterwards.

Obama is moving farther and farther to the “right.” Anyone surprised? One most recent example:

Obama to expand Bush’s faith based programs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_el_pr/obama_faith

Some of Obama’s gullible followers are disappointed and surprised by his move farther to the “right” while others give him unconditional, blind support. Typical.

2) Okay, I’ll bite. How is Chomsky a “manufactured mendacious mouthpiece” or whatever of the American left? Assuming that there is such a thing as the “American left” of course.

3) I’m not sure what this “intense desire for change” is supposed to be. In a country where most people would rather go hungry than cut off their cable, change seems more like a wistful fantasy than an intense desire. Or are Americans ready to drop simulacrum politics and get back out on the street?

4) My contribution to T.S. Eliot Tuesday.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

(The Hollow Men)

Two parties in name only, of course.

And I just read an AP article that talks about Obama’s desire to expand Bush’s faith-based programs. Sweet Jesus.

i second that. though peanut gallery protesteth.

I say you’re a little biased. you’re not doing your “volk” any favors by being biased and refusing to see the truth. yes, the first sentence WAS true — a million years ago. they’re pulling israel’s strings, now? what proof hath thou? israel’s candidates are coming to europe and america paying fealty to both instead of to israel? they’re speaking before 5th column organizations in their country? they come to fight in our wars? they wink when we bomb their ships?

the facts that are “well known” are not known by me, so please elucidate me, that’s what this forum is about. if they’re so well known and obvious, then it shouldn’t take so much effort, like you claim; would take less effort than what took to write that paragraph of yours.