A short while ago I read a fairly uninteresting piece with a very interesting premise: Is corporate America trying to distract us from our dismal economic situation with their support for social issues (specifically gay rights)? The answer, not surprisingly, was yes.
I've been thinking about this premise over the past few days as any number of the Liberal websites I visit regularly have been overrun with pieces (a good one here) discussing what our role--mostly against any role--should be in Syria (the uproar on those same sites about the NSA revelations brought out the same thought). Not so much that corporate America has orchestrated either of them, but that all the while Liberals are discussing Syria and the NSA, we're not discussing the piss poor state of our economy and American corporations can continue their survival of the richest campaign unabated.
For the record, mostly because of our abysmal record in the Middle East, I am against any kind of action in Syria. But regardless of what Congress decides on the President's call to arms (and I'll give President Obama his deserved props for not acting unilaterally as has become the precedent), whether we drop bombs or not, when it's all over the ever increasing gap in income inequality will not have been whittled one iota, wage stagnation will have remained constant, one in six Americans will still live in poverty, one in five Americans will still have not had enough money to buy food, the number of poor Americans will continue to grow, and the middle class will continue to shrink.
And for the life of me, I don't know why the average American should give two shits about what Congress decides to do concerning the use of chemical weapons in a country thousands of miles away.
Peace,
emaycee
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