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Welcome to 1984\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Protester Bob Bowes, of Somerville, Mass., displays an American flag featuring corporate logos outside a meeting of U.S. elites in Boston.\u00a0(Steven Senne \/ AP)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about\u2014unless we act quickly\u2014to get ugly.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur political system is decaying,\u201d said\u00a0Ralph Nader<\/a>\u00a0when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. \u201cIt\u2019s on the way to gangrene. It\u2019s reaching a critical mass of citizen revolt.\u201d<\/p>\n

This moment in American history is what\u00a0Antonio Gramsci<\/a>\u00a0called the \u201cinterregnum\u201d\u2014the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction.<\/p>\n

This vision will only be obtained through mass acts of civic mobilization and civil disobedience across the country. Nader, who sees this period in American history as crucial, perhaps the last opportunity to save us from tyranny, is planning to rally the left for three days, from May 23 to May 26 at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., in what he is calling\u00a0\u201cBreaking Through Power\u201d<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cCitizen\u2019s Revolutionary Week.\u201d He is bringing to the capital scores of activists and community leaders to speak, organize and attempt to mobilize to halt our slide into despotism.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe two parties can implode politically,\u201d Nader said. \u201cThey can be divided by different candidates and super PACs. But this doesn\u2019t implode their paymasters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Welcome to 1984\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Protester Bob Bowes, of Somerville, Mass., displays an American flag featuring corporate logos outside a meeting of U.S. elites in Boston.\u00a0(Steven Senne \/ AP) The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1212,9035,657,9581,685,8738,1492,865],"class_list":["post-20664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-chris-hedges","tag-protests","tag-ralph-nader","tag-revolution","tag-truthdig","tag-tyranny","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20665,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions\/20665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}