The people-powered movement is positioned for significant wins in the first quarter of the year. This week FCC commissioners expressed support for Title II; Big Energy is facing a veto of the Keystone XL pipeline; and the large movement of movements against corporate trade is rallying to stop fast track trade authority.
The democracy crisis grows deeper. Analysis of the mid-term elections shows voting levels lower than the era of Andrew Jackson, when the requirement of owning property to vote was removed. People are rejecting both political parties as 42% of Americans are registered independents compared to 30% Democrats and 25% Republicans.
Nozomi Hayase writes people are breaking the spell of the corporate state, recognizing the elites who govern are not smarter than the rest of us, that they fit the characteristics of psychopaths for their endless war, debt-ponzi schemes and that the ongoing financial crisis exposes their agenda of hoarding wealth for themselves. At the same time Hayase writes: “Civil disobedience against the corporate state demands that we disobey their commands and instead begin listening to our hearts that know what is right and wrong.”
This week the FCC indicated it is going to reclassify the Internet under Title II of the Federal Communications Act as a common carrier where net neutrality rules can be put in place. Chairman Tom Wheeler spoke at a major tech conference, sending a clear message —the Internet as a common carrier is on the way. It seems the FCC will put in place rules that the vast majority of Americans want to see. Whether they are Republicans, Democrats or independents people know an Internet without discrimination is essential to our economic and political future.