there is no way to vote against the interests of goldman sachs or exxonmobil or raytheon. we've lost our privacy. we've seen, under obama, an assault against civil liberties that has outstripped what george w. bush carried out. we've seen the executive branch misinterpret the 2001 authorization to use military force act as giving itself the right to assassinate american citizens, including children. i speak of anwar al-awlaki's 16-year-old son. we have bailed out the banks, pushed through programs of austerity. this has been a bipartisan effort, because they've both been captured by corporate power. we have undergone what john ralston saul correctly calls a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion, and it's over. i just came back from poland, which is a kind of case study of how neoliberal poison destroys a society and creates figures like trump. poland has gone, i think we can argue, into a neofascism. first, it dislocated the working class, de-industrialized the country. then in the name of austerity, it destroyed public institutions, education, public broadcasting. and then