Reply #66: According to Lisa Duggan, it's because big business got organized... [View All]

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...and figured out how to play each group off the other.

Corporations get their people on the boards of NGOs and charities and then used their influence to tweak messages so that they were mutually incompatible, or so that they distracted people from the real issues (like when those whales got caught in the ice and some corporate ice cutter freed them, but meanwhile there was some serious shit going down with foreign policy which the media conveniently avoided while spending most of their coverage on the trapped whales).

So, tell me more about why you think the fucking Cuyahoga River catching on fire should have marked the break-down of the progressive coalition of labor, environmentalists, et al? Do you think labor wanted that river to burn? Do you think that environmentalits couldn't have pushed for any set of policies that wouldn't have freaked out labor? Did that even happen? I think it might have marked a moment when big business realized they needed to get better control over people's perception of reality since reality wasn't looking so good for them.