Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Obstructiongate!

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

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Obstructiongate!

Click here to access article by C. J. Hopkins from The Unz Review. (The following commentary is intentionally load with sarcasm.)

I’m really sorry about all that stuff I wrote about the corporate media. Rest assured, that won’t happen again. Admittedly, I blew the Russiagate thing, but I promise to do better with Obstructiongate, or Tax-Returnsgate, or Whatevergate. It doesn’t really matter what we call it, right? The important thing is to teach the masses what happens when they vote for unauthorized candidates. We’re only halfway through that lesson. Stay tuned … there’s much, much more to come!

I am so pleased that Hopkins, America's number one satirist, has written an abject apology for being so skeptical after the Mueller report was issued and his many sarcastic comments about it. Yes, Mueller uncovered attempts by Trump to obstruct justice to prevent Mueller from finding that Trump actually colluded with Putin to rig the 2016 elections! Well, maybe he did ... then again, maybe he didn't--I don't know. I had to look up the word "hermeneutics" to make sense of Hopkins' apology, but I'm still a bit confused. Anyway, Hopkins apologized for being skeptical, and that's good enough for me. We should always trust our media corporations to do the right thing. After all, if we can't trust them, who can we trust?