More underestimation of the Russians ' effect on the 2016 US election and government

[jody2.718]

In your ranting I think you misquoted me. I said doomed not "screwed" and I certainly didn't say "too bad." And I doubt that the "power players" are banking on me. If so, "they"  have made a poor investment. Be that as it may, the system is as dependent on "high paid individuals and managers," as it is, on a distracted population, addicted to unnecessary consumption and profligate waste of irreplaceable resources. Wars, mining, fossil fuels, toxic waste, and the rest of your litany are obviously not forced on an unwilling populous, at least not in the U.S., and will not go away by changing leaders. It's a cultural problem, You can rant about bogey men forever and things won't change until the culture changes. And, by the way, I'm not swallowing any "lame excuses for a sick empire." I just think the revolution should start at home.

jody

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Joseph:

I’m sorry but that is just hocus bogus and flat out wrong. Authoritarian structures headed by high power, high paid  individuals and managers are real and dominate  economies and politics.  Yes people are deeply complicit in this arrangement but it is just exactly the attitude of 'we are probably screwed, too bad' that the power players bank on. Your haughty view of the minuscule effects of wars and mining, oil powered transport, dumping of toxics, clear cutting of forests, murder of journalists, erosion of topsoil by heavy machinery fossi fuel agriculture etc. is hard to stomach.  There are humans in many places and whole countries who are choosing a different path while you swallow these lame excuses for a sick empire that is the only place where you or I have any say.