Shorting Hope in our Alleged Political System

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks for me here:

MTG: “You cannot vote your way out of this.”

“The House and the Senate, both parties, are controlled by the richest donors in our country.”

“No matter who is in charge … they fund the military-industrial complex.”

“They fund Big Pharma.”

“This is the world that everyone has gotten a peak look into through the Epstein files.”

“There’s only a rare few that are actually … trying to do the right thing, and those are the people that the entire Washington establishment destroys.”

When I read MTG’s comments, I thought of George Carlin. Carlin, who died in 2008, spoke truth to power better than most:

My first rule: never believe anything anyone in authority says. None of them. Government, police, clergy, the corporate criminals. None of them. And neither do I believe anything I am told by the media, who, in the case of the Gulf War, function as little more than unpaid employees of the Defense Department, and who, most of the time, operate as the unofficial public-relations agency for government and industry. I don’t believe in any of them. And I have to tell you, folks, I don’t really believe very much in my country either. I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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