Well-read Red: The Spectacular President's Role in Electoral Theater

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Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:00am
Well-read Red

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, comments on the spectacle of electoral politics, the presidency itself, and how voting is over-rated as a form of social action when so much that matters is decided, when addressed at all, by other means and to other ends. The presidential election is a reality TV-show as irrelevant to our lives as the gossip on Jersey Shore, Chris Hedges argues and Clayton reads, while the debates fomented by the Occupy movment about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security/surveillance state are the only ones that matters right now. Clayton goes a step further though, and argues that the inequality Occupy protests is not reducible to the greed of the 1% or corporations, as if the rich needed a moral awakening, but arises from "the legal construct known as private property" and the constraints it puts on us all .

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