i should say said andy union sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies in their respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a lawn and very violent labor history is how society. had been very strong by the 1920 s. . period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. buried.

her. by the mincer is a beacon to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. you last definition number 11 a and i. which many say

3 people were being gradually a regular man in angeles. probably feel. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of a combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial folky directive as. they were industrial action as they were to sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this better sales. and business was told you read the business press say in the late thirties they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd

world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and test partly act. to restart many quality and labor management relation. to mccarthyism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to be legally break urbanizing efforts in strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within $48.00 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof and now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect

is that the usual counter force to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution and ignited states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well that was a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege it's good

to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force

too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party's in many countries women start to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists there stand blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate a want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say 920 s. it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like

fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. you find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual photo but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy and wishes for you is exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers. and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last

known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is which actually seemed to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon we'll go walking in a shopping mall. the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe now you in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of

a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs a football hero you know an actress in the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same institutions p.r.

. system runs elections they do it the same way. they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational choices often against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas takes place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything but it's mostly

illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of poesy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on poesy is surely disconnected from what the 2 portie leadership and their financial backers want. post even more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. it was a public being marginalized. it's a chair economy there is to cater for worlds that unless that exist in america sound if i go into a big bank and bank of america citibank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow 100 $1000.00 and i want you to charge me is 0 percent interest rate on that and then i want the cause of that $100000.00 that your bank and i want you to pay me 5

percent on and i want to therefore collect all that income i get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back can do that. this is a put it a sort of. swallow fist 1st but if. somebody would need it it was and i go to the. moon is its ability. to get enough of him you know that all you want to go to the banana state is that. enough well that was pretty good way to listen to. what you say to him which could be oh i would only be done when i come. here do you mean you're learning. you know did you know still on the lead here on my look down the road subash i did in the courage your country scenario going to be

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a secure and prosperous and democratic. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . one of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and the wood moment see what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. the

amount as will be and some other country. and the population knows. what its lead to is a population that angry frustrated hates institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on the april 15th. april 15th is a kind of

a measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be bettered that station celebrated another way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can be keep. doing. that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not her attractive picture.

be. the tendencies that we've been describing within american society and those there are reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so of their debut to a sport in which they're going driven out. that society is so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect

the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and that lead to maximize personal gain at the expense of others any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can. ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're

all under participatory democratic control who we will not have a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. that's centrally true. where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves if they can't we ought to

be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice but dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. and one of the real achievements of american society is for. in the world in that it's not the bill of rights it's time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was

a case of going civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing to back down and in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes a women's right women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism in that doesn't show up publicly but you know. terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects flaws in error. which are going to have to be corrected by operating outright that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find ways. that the activists are people who

have created the rights that we enjoy. in the area carrying out proces based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separate process. to try to do things you learn you learn that with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's huge opportunity it is a very free society still the freest world. government has very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mecca. so there's a lot to be done if people are going to struggle for the right susan has done in the past and can win many victories commune.

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