Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Help Kickstart World War III!

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, September 20, 2013

Help Kickstart World War III!

Click here if you wish to access the source of this video created and posted by The Second City Network.

This is political parody at its best, and produced by a comedy theater group that has its roots in Chicago's Second City Theater. When I lived in Madison, Wisconsin during the Vietnam War years, I occasionally drove to Chicago to enjoy their wonderful satire directed against the US war machine.

Obama, even more so than Bush, Jr., deserves this kind of parody because he has been packaged and sold to liberal Americans as an alternative to the ruling class's other puppets who more obviously have served their interests.