Reply #10: You don't think so? [View All]

I wish I lived in your sheltered dream world.

While I do not believe there is a conspiracy of a small number of rich guys pulling every string, the domonant trends and power in society have been a massive sell out of the public interest to the elite.

Yes trade is a good thing. We need more of it. But the WTO/NAFTA version of "free trade" has nothing to do with free trade. It's about dismantling government to allow the corporate sector to do whatever it wants whereever it wants.

Do you really believe the corporate media are ethical purveyors of the truth?

Do you really want all biological forms of life to become the "intellectual property" owned by Monsanto?

Do you really believe that Enron was a better purveyor of public power than a highly regulated quasi-public utility company?

I could go on but I won't.

Except to say that I am at heart a moderate, not an ideological fire-breather. But we are not living in a moderate society. If you look behind the curtains you will see that Bushism is nothing more than the latest symptom of this.