[Peace-discuss] Republican City Opens Gov. Run Grocery Store

[J.B. Nicholson]

David Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Must watch nine minute segment. What is Socialism really ?

I concur. Dore's reaction to the audience member who sarcastically says we 
ought not trust our government is particularly worth seeing and he does a 
good job explaining why that reaction is wrongheaded -- we are better off 
with small-d democratic control over the service the grocery provides than 
we are handing that function over to private interests in the hopes that 
they won't exploit us too badly.

I'm also reminded of the segment of one of my favorite documentaries -- The 
Corporation -- where Mark Kingwell explains why we have public firefighting 
(around 59m):

> Mark Kingwell: Over the centuries we have put more and more things in
> that public realm and lately, just lately, in the last let's say three
> or four decades, started pulling them out again. So firefighters, for
> instance. Firefighters started as private companies, and if you didn't
> have the medallion of a given firefighter brigade on your house and it
> was on fire, those firefighters would just ride on by because you didn't
> have a deal. Well, it gradually evolved a public trust for the provision
> of safety on that very specific level. This is important. We should not
> go back from that and start saying, well, you know why don't we put that
> back in the market and see what that does? Maybe it will make it more
> efficient.
You can see or download this excellent documentary at 
https://archive.org/download/TheCorp/TheCorporation.mp4

If you get a copy of "The Corporation" get the 2-disc DVD set because the 
second disc has interviews with everyone featured in the movie and they're 
very interesting on their own. There's even one with Michael Moore in there 
before he was obviously a Democratic Party shill (as Jimmy Dore exposes in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwmFRReGUco when he sits silently and 
tacitly co-signs a neocon smear still used by the Democratic Party against 
Tulsi Gabbard).

There's a sequel to "The Corporation" in the works now. See 
https://www.thecorporation.com/#block-views-news_and_events_blog-feat for more.