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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2185600" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>"</p><p>The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly.</p><p></p><p>“Our political system is decaying,” said <a href="https://nader.org/" target="_blank">Ralph Nader</a> when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. “It’s on the way to gangrene. It’s reaching a critical mass of citizen revolt.”</p><p></p><p>This moment in American history is what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci" target="_blank">Antonio Gramsci</a> called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction."</p><p></p><p>This vision will only be obtained through mass acts of civic mobilization and civil disobedience across the country. Nader, who sees this period in American history as crucial, perhaps the last opportunity to save us from tyranny,</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/welcome_to_1984_20160514" target="_blank">Welcome to 1984: Chris Hedges</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2185600, member: 56035"] " The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly. “Our political system is decaying,” said [URL='https://nader.org/']Ralph Nader[/URL] when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. “It’s on the way to gangrene. It’s reaching a critical mass of citizen revolt.” This moment in American history is what [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci']Antonio Gramsci[/URL] called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction." This vision will only be obtained through mass acts of civic mobilization and civil disobedience across the country. Nader, who sees this period in American history as crucial, perhaps the last opportunity to save us from tyranny, [URL="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/welcome_to_1984_20160514"]Welcome to 1984: Chris Hedges[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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