Michael Parenti’s Masterful Understanding of World Politics
I’ll never forget my first exposure to American political scientist Michael Parenti. I was in my late teens, and my education up to that point had been fairly neutral in terms of the United States’ position in the geopolitical world. I believe I had come across this very speech (linked above), which completely knocked me off my feet.
If you check out this short excerpt, you’ll see why.
I chuckle when I hear Trump supporters asserting that the U.S. is a socialist nation, or is at least headed in that direction. Want to see what socialism actually looks like? Look no further.
This from a reader:
When we think about the “Hollywood elites,” DiCaprio might be the very first to come to mind. And here he is, doing his damndest to convert this great nation to socialism.
This is from former director of the 
This is about what anyone who knows anything about clean energy would have predicted about 
chemistry beyond what they learned in high school half a century ago.
Plato then went on to write, “
It wasn’t that long ago that stupidity was a bad thing, and that unintelligent people were at a distinct disadvantage in life. That’s no longer the case.
American history features centuries of slavery followed by 170 years of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and systematic exclusion of blacks from the affairs of the wealthy white society. 
