John, I respectfully ask that you do the same thing you told randy to do, “Get your head out of the sand....”.
It would take many pages, even hours, if it is even possible, to summarize what it has taken many scholars, historians, and *learned* political analysts (not dime store pundits) to say, in order for you to understand what randy is saying (and what i, and many others, agree with). You, we, must take the time required to educate ourselves (and we will not get this education in schools) so that we can have a informed & fruitful conversations with our friends & neighbors, in order to develop a strategy (or join the already strong coalitions in our countries) to wake up and take back our power.
In a capitalist world, one way to do this is to be aware of what we purchase, who sacrificed what for us to have it, whether we’re buying it because the media (owned by corporations now) say that we need to have it, or whether we can grow or produce it locally, or do without it altogether. Other countries grow food to export to the USA and starve their own, because we demand to consume these things!
We (who consume 90% of the world’s products) can act in many ways to make clear political & social statements, and literally change the world in may ways, and one very powerful way is to change how and what we buy! That alone will speak loudly to corporate america to change its ways. “Supply & Demand” can be played both ways.
We must first educate ourselves to what is behind all of this, rather than targeting others, engaging in another tactic - “Divide & Conquer” - used by those in power to keep our eyes off the real problem and from focusing on solutions, we have in our power to use, to change the course of history!
There’s so much more to say, but here is not the place to say it.