Over at Stinque they're speaking truth to power - although on DU we can wail about the perversion of America that's been perpetrated for the last three decades plus, the plain fact is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are getting exactly what they want:

...we’re having a hard time, almost thirty years on, getting worked up by Thursday’s Supreme Court decision granting corporations unlimited free-speech rights. We having a hard time taking seriously the cries that the ruling will undermine the sanctity of our government. We’re having a hard time accepting the notion that unrestrained corporate political spending makes a difference.

Nothing prevents Americans — or a decisive majority of Americans — from seeing things as they are. All the advertising in the world couldn’t sell New Coke. Nothing forces Americans to watch Fox News. Or listen to Rush. Or read Palin. Or swallow their lies.

We as a nation, as a people, are willingly, happily, aggressively ignorant.

By choice.

But go ahead, fight the good fight. Just don’t expect Americans to thank you for saving their sorry asses. They don’t want to know about it.

Read the rest at: http://www.stinque.com/2010/01/22/the-gove...

In his latest post on World News Trust Joe Bageant nails the health care debate with his “Oh my god! I’ll have to give up my $1,100 a month insurance bill, which only pays 80 percent of my insurance costs AFTER I pay the initial $5,000 of those costs! If that ain’t Joe Stalin all over again, I don’t know what is!"

Read the rest at http://worldnewstrust.com/commentary/3591-...

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo posted a letter from a reader that points out that firearms aren't being carried to rallies for self defense. Rather:

This is about intimidation - visibly carrying a firearm - especially one designed specifically for killing human beings is a not-at-all veiled threat, and is meant to silence opposition.

Read the entire post at talkingpointsmemo.com