In the long-form documentary "Requiem for the American Dream" (73 minutes) Noam Chomsky "exposes with searing clarity the forces and policies behind the coordinated campaign to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a select few" [from package blurb]. (More commentary under Movies to see.)
His commentary on American elections — on selling the juice without the fruit, so to speak — is particularly relevant in the current environment.
Does this strike a chord?
The majority (70%) of the population has no way of influencing public policy and it knows it. "What it's led to is a population that's angry, frustrated, hates institutions. It's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. There is popular mobilization and activism, but in very self-destructive directions. It's taking the form of unfocused anger, attacks on one another, and on vulnerable targets. That's what happens in cases like this. It is corrosive of social relations, but that's the point. The point is to make people hate and fear each other, and look out only for themselves, and don't do anything for anyone else."
