Seven Corporate Rip Offs that our Political Discourse Always Ignores

Seven Corporate Rip Offs that our Political Discourse Always Ignores

By

David Gottfried

Today, I am going to raise issues that are important to all of us.   My video, which immediately precedes this essay, recounts 7 truly egregious corporate rips offs that neither the major parties, nor the mainstream media, ever discuss.   By rip offs, I am referring to injuries inflicted on most Americans by corporations and the medical industrial complex.  

For the past couple of months, I have not discussed such down to earth stuff as the concrete, economic “Micro-aggressions” we suffer every day in the marketplace.    I discussed the war in Ukraine, but although it is vitally important, many people are not interested in this; if they can’t hear the gunfire, they easily put it out of their mind.  I have spoken of lesbian mothers and male to female transgendered children, but most people are not Lesbian Mothers with transsexual children.   I have also conceded that I have a tendency toward angry, blistering rhetoric, but  perhaps people don’t find the specter of me on a soap box, salivating with rage, quite their cup of tea.   

Actually, I thought my infusion of an extra dose of affect, in the form of blistering blitzkriegs of argumentation, made me sound as sophisticated and entertaining as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor tearing each other to pieces in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”    What can I tell you, when I grew up, the writers I loved were always on the verge of apoplexy:

i) Rimbaud, in “The Illuminations,” said, “I expect to become a very vicious madman.”

ii) Norman Mailer, in “The American Dream,” recounts raping his maid.

iii) Jill Johnson, a radical lesbian feminist, used to write for the Village Voice and routinely talked about killing men.

iv) HL Mencken routinely disparaged his fellow Americans.  He particularly despised church-going folk and his material was downright savage.  

But since elegant verbal fisticuffs may have gone out of style (Now, when they attack one another, the simpletons of Facebook etc. simply attack their opponents’ gender or sex or challenge their right to live)  I will just give you  a straightforward discussion re 7 economic harms.  I may sound somewhat angry, but one would have to be stoned on Thorazine or Quaaludes to be completely at ease about the issues discussed in the accompanying video.