Guest Host RUSSELL DOBULAR and the panel—including Jimmy Dore— examine why most corporate comics sell out, often using the same meme across their platforms. Careerism explains much of their conformity, of course, a label they would probably furiously reject if called out on their behaviour. Others are simply mediocre.
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JIMMY DORE and his guests expose the Democrat-endorsed “wokeness” movement as a corporate plot to keep Americans divided. “Wokeness” is the ruling class’ trick to distract Americans from their serious economic and political troubles and the badly needed unity they need to advance their class struggle.
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EDITOR—From the all-white 1950s/60s TV to the all-BUT-white programming in the age of wokery, the propaganda pendulum has swung 100%, and the stupid and shameless manipulators expect us to swallow this repulsive switch. As usual, just like in the “Eisenhower years”, when everyone was white and middle class, to our new age in which whites are hard to find even in TV commercials, and everyone is blissfully “diverse”, the pretension is that America is a model of fairness and the world’s foremost bastion of human rights. Garland is justifiably nauseated by the hypocrisy, the relentless virtue signalling, while the same influential crowd seems deaf and blind to the sickening depravity of Israeli crimes in Gaza and the proliferation of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine and beyond, not to mention the US-led global slide toward nuclear war.
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ANDREA LOBO—While claiming to oppose the corrupt oligarchy, Bukele’s policies have all been tailored to serve its interests and those of its imperialist paymasters on Wall Street. The same handful of inbred families of the local aristocracy have long used the state for one purpose: to protect their wealth and power against the oppressed classes. The ruling elite used it to enslave the indigenous population into semi-feudal estates and armies in the early 1800s. Toward the end of the century, they expropriated peasants to exploit them in the rapidly expanding coffee plantations.
Throughout the 20th century US imperialism and its junior partners in the coffee oligarchy crushed all opposition by installing a series of military dictators and set up death squads that massacred over 100,000 workers, peasants and youth between 1932 and 1992.
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RUSSELL DOBULAR—In the end, the arts scene as it exists today and the institutions that support it may have simply become too sclerotic, out of touch, and irrelevant for saving. The future is with activist-artists grown naturally from their communities, using new technologies and platforms to draw attention to concerns and realities that no gatekeeping clique of PMC’s will ever understand or think to explore.
