How the plutocratic system manipulates Americans to support it even as it squashes them.

I think it is a mistake to equate "capitalism" with the plutocratic type of capitalism that we have now. There are various kinds of capitalism, and the one we had in 1970 worked tolerably well in the US. It coexisted with the public sphere and didn't propagandize that wealth was the measure of everything.

Public schools are the largest remaining sector that hasn't been turned into a business. Thus, the sect of the invisible hand wants to privatize it.

Americans' support for plutocracy is not complete, as many have come to see a conflict between the plutocratic system and Christianity.

Facebook snoops on surfers via disqus comments: when a page uses disqus for comments, the proprietary disqus software loads a Facebook software package into the browser of every anonymous visitor to the page, and makes the page's URL available to Facebook.

The US economy is worse for workers now than in 2008, for the bottom 50% of earners. They get no more pay, and more of them are in precarious work.

Meanwhile, in many cities their rents have gone up, and millions had their houses taken fraudulently by banksters.

Vicious right-wingers are attacking progressive organizations and artists' centers by getting them raided and shut down.

Right-wing organizations, often secretly funded by rich people, can afford to rent space that has no flaws.

The troll "accepts" the claim that Putin interfered in the election on his behalf, based on non-published evidence.

Based on this, I think I should accept it too. He would not have taken this stand if he thought he could deny it.

Craig Murray said that he received the first (DNC) leak material from an intermediary who said it was an insider leak.

I have confidence in what he says.

Perhaps Russians were involved in the phishing attack on John Podesta.