Another Enlightened Revolutionary Speaks Up

    POSTED ON DECEMBER 13 2010- WRITTEN BY CHRIS HEDGES-WWW.TRUTHDIG.COM

     "We may feel in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored by a media that caters to the needs and profits of corporations, chips away at corporate power. Any act of rebellion keeps alive the embers for larger movements that follow us. It passes on another narrative. It will, as the rot of the state consumes itself, attract wider and wider numbers. Perhaps this will not happen in our lifetimes. But if we persist, we will keep this possibility alive. If we do not, it will die.
  All energy directed toward reforming political and state structures is useless. All efforts to  push through a "progressive" agenda within the corridors of power are naive. Trust in the reformation of our corporate state reflects a failure to  recognize that those who govern, including Barack Obama, are as deaf to public demands and suffering as those in the old Communist regimes. We cannot rely on any systems of power, including the pillars of the liberal establishment- the press, liberal religious institutions, universities, labor, culture and the Democratic Party. They have been weakened to the point of anemia or work directly for the corporations that dominate our existence. We can rely now on only ourselves, on each other."
     It's always nice to know others feel as you do and, think what you think and, are as articulate as Chris Hedges. Matt Taibi at Rolling Stone is, too. Fuck the government. No one for president. Thank you, Julian.