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Related: About this forumRussell Brand (Breathlessly) Tells David Letterman Why He Wants A Revolution
When asked by Letterman to explain what 'the revolution' is about, Brand compared the state of his hometown of Grays (in Essex) to that of New Jersey - and went on to give a breathless rant about wealth inequality and why politicians are failing to talk about the issue.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/14/russell-brand-david-letterman_n_5981288.html?1413280100
heaven05
(18,124 posts)don't understand how someone like this can represent people suffering the inequality of the 99% vs 1%.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)about! He talks about how we are thrown crumbs of freedom such as gay marriage, while our rights are eroding elsewhere. He is big on the inequality issue and the fact that both of our parties are owned/controlled by the corporations. He believes voting gets us nowhere when we are voting for only corporate candidates, but if we all joined together we could restore true Democracy. All true, just not likely to happen because too many believe our politics are real.
I guess I have to ignore his delivery and (really) look into his story-history. I agree with those points you mentioned. Thanks, sorry book by it's cover syndrome. Which IS wrong of me.
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)I wrote my reply before I saw your response heaven 05.. I really admire people who can admit when they speak too soon, the world needs more of you. My apologies if it seemed a little harsh
heaven05
(18,124 posts)here. Speaking truth to power is the only way out of this morass 'we the people' are currently living in.
And we're all in this together!!
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)benches and feeding crumbs to the pigeons. Republicans are the old men in their back yards shooting pigeons.
We deserve more than crumbs but certainly don't want to be shot at!
mother earth
(6,002 posts)raindaddy
(1,370 posts)The guy's funny, brilliant and willing to talk to the media about the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy in human history....
The question we all should be asking is, why aren't more of the so called Representatives in the Democratic party hammering this issue? Because if they really represented our interests and cared about our plundered Democracy they would muster up at least half of the passion that you just heard from Russel Brand and we'd hear a unified resounding, deafening chorus from what is supposed to be the party of the people. And we keep hearing it until the oligarchy built over the last thirty years is replaced with a representative Democracy
Until that happens I'll embrace Brand and anyone else willing to do speak truth to power...
FailureToCommunicate
(14,006 posts)joanbarnes
(1,721 posts)americannightmare
(322 posts)Brand could just collect his big paychecks and keep his mouth shut. Instead he's out there mixing it up and speaking the truth!
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Former Sex Pistol John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, tells Polly Toynbee that comedian Russell Brand's call for people not to vote is ignorant, flippant and liable to 'make you all homeless'. Lydon also explains why he'd never vote Conservative, labels Ukip 'morons' and calls anarchy a 'mind game for the middle classes'
valerief
(53,235 posts)he got bad press a few years ago. Now, it makes sense. He's speaking out against the PTB.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)"That [widely reported] story," says Connolly evenly, "is a total invention. A complete fabrication. It's total bollocks. It never happened. Russell was very well-behaved, and I found him very interesting." Did he find him funny? "Oh aye. I really enjoyed his company. I liked his vocabulary, and his stance. He poses and stances around all the time, and I like that."
Where's the truth? I suppose we'll never know.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Everything else is praise for his pseudo-visionary act. The truth is probably none of the above.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)Russell speaks for me.