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Why Defense Cuts Are Nothing to Fear
The United States could substantially cut its defense budget and still spend more money on our military than every country that even plausibly threatens us combined. Can someone explain why that isn’t enough?
Read more at The Atlantic
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zuky:
poundoflogic: Demonstrators blocking the entrance to the House of Representatives in Washington D.C. as part of the May Day protests against the Vietnam War, 1971
what happened to us?
MTV? The internet? The constant refrain from professional pundits that “protests never solve anything.”
The US political-corporate establishment has been incredibly successful since the 1970s at fracturing, demoralizing, and demobilizing grassroots mass action, to the point that these days popular “progressives” deride the effectiveness of protest. Meanwhile, labor unions are attacked and vilified, the Tea Party is portrayed as grassroots populism (which to some extent is true but it’s only one small slice of the whole picture), and anti-war movements are completely ignored, marginalized, and steamrolled.
