For those of us on the receiving end of the looks and gasps of stupefaction (or anger!) when mentioning the almost overwhelming bias exhibited by the main-stream-media, (lame-stream?) a statement such as this one in the media, brings a refreshing I-told-you-so moment to the argument:
"What I admire about the anti-capitalist left is their ability to present their ideas as somehow "unorthodox" and "anti-mainstream", when they are clearly nothing of the sort. Go to any high street bookstore, and you will find that the politics section consists of little else but the tomes of Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Russell Brand, Owen Jones, Ha-Joon Chang, George Monbiot and the other usual suspects. If that is a "neoliberal hegemony", I dread to think what a left-wing hegemony would look like."
This approach is like a reverse psychology ploy of Saul Alinsky's first rule for radicals:
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. [or not]” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people [nowadays; the media]. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
[Square brackets my inclusions]
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