If those goals and those leaders appear, I'll go marching. I am not optimistic. They've spent the last 20 years laying the framework for preventing precisely that sort of leadership. In three ways, first is control of the media limiting what information the public can see and the questions that are asked. The second is control of social media, consolidating power in ever fewer hands and restricting the flow of information between individuals. We've all seen what happens when you try to make your own site that questions their narratives. Finally is identifying and tracking individuals dangerous to the state. Remember prism? Or any number of surveillance programs that track american activity for dangerous thought. Or the two massive multi billion dollar nsa data centers built during the obama administration to process all this information? The moment potential leadership arises it can be silenced or removed, no need to black bag people or imprison them on false charges when getting fired is enough to derail the capacity for activism in most people, and if there is potential the public will notice they are immediately vilified in the media to warn others away. In fact the very concepts that lead to it have gone from being basic civics instruction to "right wing extremism" which is now taught to be terrorist thought. I fear economic collapse might be the only way out
> If those goals and those leaders appear, I'll go marching.
I am not optimistic. They've spent the last 20 years laying the framework for preventing precisely that sort of leadership. In three ways, first is control of the media limiting what information the public can see and the questions that are asked. The second is control of social media, consolidating power in ever fewer hands and restricting the flow of information between individuals. We've all seen what happens when you try to make your own site that questions their narratives. Finally is identifying and tracking individuals dangerous to the state. Remember prism? Or any number of surveillance programs that track american activity for dangerous thought. Or the two massive multi billion dollar nsa data centers built during the obama administration to process all this information? The moment potential leadership arises it can be silenced or removed, no need to black bag people or imprison them on false charges when getting fired is enough to derail the capacity for activism in most people, and if there is potential the public will notice they are immediately vilified in the media to warn others away. In fact the very concepts that lead to it have gone from being basic civics instruction to "right wing extremism" which is now taught to be terrorist thought. I fear economic collapse might be the only way out
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