I have said many times on Mudcat that the American people can save humanity from itself. They have retained the bravery and naivety to challenge the political elite without becoming cowed.

We don't need to become "cowed", because we are brainwashed. We still talk a lot about being a "freedom loving nation", but it's incredibly easy to fool us into thinking that the system we have now, which is far from being free (being highly controlled, as it is, by the corporatocracy) is the most free in the world, and that it's only the people who oppose the corporatocracy and its agendas who are trying to take away our freedoms. There is no separation between the policial elite in this country and the corporatocracy. They are the same people under different titles. As long as the corporatocracy together with the political elite are able to continue to brainwash us in this way, we will not even be able to save our own selves (just look how difficult it is for us to even get universal access to health care, something which all other developed nations already have), much less the rest of humanity.