We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, October 30, 2015

U.S. Democracy Recalled

by cartoonist Jen Sorensen from her website

This illustrates how most people in the US have been thoroughly indoctrinated in beliefs about the existence of "democracy" in the US. Here they sense that it is flawed, but they fail to realize how fake it actually is, and has always been--except to a lesser degree.