Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Why Eric Holder’s new job is an insult to the American public

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

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Why Eric Holder’s new job is an insult to the American public

Click here to access article by David Dayen from Salon.

The former Attorney General who made "too big to jail" a national joke now re-joins his old corporate law firm

This is what passes for left capitalist criticism (often referred to as "liberal") in the USA. Dripping with moral outrage, such critical articles in the end serve the ruling capitalist class by implying that Holder's return to his firm, which defends and supports major banking interests, was an immoral exception to the way things really are in this country. Of course, this in essence is a denial of the revolving door phenomenon which is the way capitalists rule in the US, it's the way they have always ruled when they could get away with it; and now with the consolidation of wealth and power through private ownership of everything of value, it is completely commonplace.