(archived from May 17, 2010)
by Scott Creighton
I was pleased to read about massive groups of people descending on the homes of bankers in D.C. to make their demands… then, unfortunately, I read a little more about it.
You see, that’s my problem. I should just look at the staged pictures, read the carefully worded headlines, and then consider myself “informed” as I move on to something else like Tiger Woods or something like that. But, alas… I read the articles.
And then, depression sets in.
There is no real dissent movement in America anymore; it has been co-opted by well-financed, flashy, astro-turfed neoliberal policy support machines. Sunday’s “grassroots” demonstration just proves that point.
The Huffington Post (never one to let a reasonably “populist-looking” event go unnoticed that could support the Clinton/Obama agenda) reported on Sunday’s exercise in fake dissent this way:
the HEADLINE: Class Warfare: Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers’ Houses In DC
the IMAGE:
the 'FACTS': “Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform.”