Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Stephan: When I read this it took me back to when I was spending a great deal of time in the Soviet Union helping those who were finally able to bring the Communist system down, and Samizdat -- self-published typewritten essays -- circulated amongst the population. I never thought I would read such an assessment of America, but I agree with much it.
Bruce E. Levine is a clinical psychologist and author of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011).
Thanks to Deborah Admiral.
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.
Young Americans-even more so than older Americans-appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans ‘Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?
