Far more nauseating was the the ungodly orgy of military-masturbation (only the half-million dollars spent on the fly-by mentioned in this article) that was woven into every nook & cranny of the Super Bowl spectacle. From the ridiculous reading of the Declaration of Independence by the members of the various military branches while standing in front of their pathetic toys to the “shout-outs” to the 101st blah-blah squadron watching the game in one of the 130+ countries that we currently are meddling in, it was one disgusting, jingoistic, flag-waving display of arrested adolescence after another.

It depends what you mean by ‘capitalism’.  Marx, most leftist political theorists, and many other people have meant a social order dominated by the major owners of capital (hence the name) who live and maintain their social status by exploiting labor and other resources.  Usually they have organized their businesses as corporations.  The United States has been a good example of the form.  Does the ownership of the Green Bay Packers fit this definition?

I´m lost! I grew up with sports, put myself through
school on sports, Sports my passport around the
world, an athlete is accepted everywhere, on the
field, on the the court in the weight rooms of the
world I have always been welcomed and appreciated, we
are all one, SPORTSMANSHIP, courtesy, respect, hard
training, dignity, all this I learned without getting
paid not a single penny. WE DID IT FOR LOVE OF
Sports.
Those days are gone Amateur athletics is gone I lost
my respect for Olympics 1968 massacre Mexico city,
6000 kids slaughtered and the world a few months
later, came for the Olympics, held them on the MASS
graves of the youth! PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE NO MORE
SPORTSMANSHIP! SORTS IN AMERICA IS A WHORE!

DavidByron, February 11 at 5:23 pm:

Why does he devalue the word “socialism” by pretending that corporate theft is socialism?  What the fuck is that?

Odd, isn’t it?  He seems half-way intelligent some of the time, but then he lapses back into the very milieu of propaganda from which he is trying to escape.  The fact that he seems to have watched the Stupidbowl from end to end does not encourage hope.

Perhaps Mr Sirota needs to read the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/usc_sup_01_15_10_32.html

The NFL only exists by special privilege of government. That’s Mercantilism, not Socialism.

Sporting events, especially the Superbowl, are not the place where you’re likely to
hear any discussion of “socialism”. The former jocks who man the microphones
were mainly raised in an authoritarian atmosphere promoting the idea that
anything other than being number one is for losers. Bill Maher did a nice piece the
other day about how the NFL by sharing television revenue equally among the
teams is a version of socialism compared to other sports like baseball where the
New York Yankees can outspend their rivals by a factor of 4-1. HBO is running a
documentary on Reagan that is truly nauseating in the way the people interviewed
fawned over Reagan. They bought off on his bullshit hook line and sinker and all
he had to do was remember the lines taught to him by his right wing mentors at
GE. The irony today is that Reagan was less conservative than John McCain whom
the new conservative wing reviles.  Today would Reagan be called a RHINO?

The other main aspect of American culture that the Superbowl jammed together, which David forgot to mention, was that they did the entire spectacle while on grass!

Why does he devalue the word “socialism” by pretending that corporate theft is socialism?  What the fuck is that?

Quote (of a Big B):

“You are one of the crowd that still thinks democrats are liberal when nothing could be further from the truth.”
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No, I’m in total agreement with that truth, because democrats are not liberal. It is the corporate party’s Democrats who are liberal. That’s why the liberals vote for corporatism every chance they get; and it’s why liberals waged their vicious “wasted vote” campaign of voter suppression against democratic votes for natural person candidates. The ever reliable liberal support for corporate person candidates has nurtured the development of a most sustainable form of fascism. Liberals can Rightfully take pride in that accomplishment.

The “Principles” of Liberal Voters:

http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=491&Itemid=1

David J Cyr

Did a hippie kick you when you were a kid?

You have fallen hook, line, and sinker, like most other americans, for the relentless neo-con diatribe of the last 40 years that had but one goal (and has succeeded masterfully) in equating the word “liberal” with evil. You are one of the crowd that still thinks democrats are liberal when nothing could be further from the truth. Why do you think corporate contributions to dimmo politians have dramatically increased in the last few years? Coporations have succeeded in pushing the democratic party to the middle, and many to the right of an old guard Nixionian conservative.

The shame of american liberals can be found in their lack of influence in the 21st century democratic party. We have been marginalized by the influence of coporate money. Liberal causes have been beaten down by the alphabet soup of corporate funded neo-con think tanks and religious organizations whose sole purpose was to eliminate liberal influences among the working class and poor. It worked like a charm.

We have tried, really tried, to make conservative, libertarian, dog-eat-dog, supply side economics work in the US in the last 30 years. All this policy has accompliced is to move power and influence away from the masses, and back to the top 1%. (I think that was its purpose all along)

It has always been liberals that have come to the rescue of america in the past, reminding us of our creed. This time I fear we are too late, and have been weakened too much, to hop up on that white horse and lead us, once again, to better times. I fear things are going to get alot worse before they get better, if they can get better.

There is a name for upward-flowing, as opposed to the currently more common downward-flowing, socialism.
Actually, where common resources are pooled and transferred downward for the good of all, that’s Socialism. But when those resources are pooled and transferred upward to and for an oligarchy, it’s called feudalism.
Feudalism, thought by many to be somewhat (600 years?) out of date, is in fact alive and well in many dictatorships and Banana Republics. What’s relatively new is the presence of the US in that company.

QUOTE (David Sirota):

“the most important question facing our nation isn’t about accepting or rejecting socialism. We’ve already accepted it. Instead, the real question is about what specific type of socialism we want: the current kind that works only for those in the luxury box, or the kind that starts working for the rest of us?”
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Well, 99% of those who vote have been regularly voting for the corporate party to keep making the rich richer, by making everyone else poorer.

Half the people who could vote don’t vote, because liberals persuaded them that any vote for any good was a “wasted” vote.

In liberals having so successfully made it impossible for elections to nonviolently serve the useful purpose they could have and should have, now good can only possibly come from other means.

The Violence of “Nonviolence” :

http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=492&Itemid=1