If people who would have a hard time accepting this would only read this article, things just might start tilting in the right direction. This piece is so spot on. I had one of those Why Did I Not Think of This moments. Why? Because I'm not you. Please keep writing. Maybe the next time you drive home from school delivery, you will pass Putin hitchhiking, pick him up, and talk some sense into him.
Have you tried to have a REAL conversation with the higher-ups of the DNC?
You are so on the mark, Clear headed sensible people with a reasonable sense of history will certainly think along these lines. You articulate it so clearly. I babbled and screamed about this for the last sixty-five years and was drowned out by silence.
I'm glad I now have time to read you and other good ones now. We submit the plans for permits today to rebuild our house that was lost in the Eaton/Altadena fire.
Corbin, you dare to say what so many of us feel. We experience guilt, not because we have done something wrong, but because we cannot prevent or justify or repair the damages we know have occurred or are now occurring. The word I often use, and have for many years, is impotent.
Our duty as citizens has been to observe the horrors committed by the psychopathic few who lust for power, get it, and then unleash their own brand of sadism and indifference. We can call a govt. official, we can write a letter of protest, we can object, we can offer alternatives, but almost none of us have any power to actually intervene in the path our own lives are taking Because We Are Involved Via Passivity.
Via the Constitution, we have given away all power except a very diluted and manipulated choice when we Vote. But whoever we vote for has zero obligation to listen to us or do as we ask. They have real masters pulling their strings, the big shots who put them into play, not for us, but for The Economy.
Because that is what we citizens are: the hungry parasites feasting on the Private Economy and paying, via taxes n fees, into the Govt. Economy. A man running for mayor of the largest city in my state made a promise to 'arrest' the homeless, as if they were criminals. Would they then build another Alligator Alley for the homeless? Who would pay for it? We, the Consuming Parasites.
The capitalist economy is parasitic. It can exist no other way. The destruction, the violence, the crime, the bigotry and prejudice and fear and hatred ALL FEED the capitalist economy. It thrives on misery and discord and addiction. Why addiction? Because we have become addicted and inured to fear, misery and grievance. We thrive on unhappiness. The economy runs on assuaging this unhappiness.
Keep writing and thinking and feeling Corbin. You have become our conscience. You stir the warm embers deep inside us, giving oxygen to the fire we need to erupt from within. The paradigm we live within must burn down. We need precious time to imagine what a life without ideocracy might look like. And our own bad behaviors have taken away almost all the time that remains before we just kill off our biosphere.
I definitely understand that feeling of helplessness in stopping our country from causing harm. It’s saddening and maddening. The frustrations are real and we need so many systemic changes.
America is facing the eternal question: Should we pursue justice for all or build more prisons, walls and bombs to lock up, keep out and kill to hide our guilt?
No one is asking anyone to pay for the sins of our fathers, what's being asked is to not repeat those past sins like slavery, genocide and exclusion.
"We supported this genocide. We’re still supporting it. And there’s zero accountability. The world watches a country commit genocide against a people and basically nothing happens."
While what you say is true, you are missing the progress that the anti-Zionist movement has made here in the U.S. Public opinion has moved away from Zionism quite a bit. 61% of U.S. Jews say Israel has gone too far, and 39% of them say Israel has committed genocide. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza)
In the Senate, a majority of Democratic senators voted with Bernie to stop shipping certain weapons to Israel. There is also some progress in the House. In the immediate aftermath, one of my senators reflexively spouted the Zionist line in responding to constituents, but she later voted with Bernie because of pressure from our movement.
So the main message I get from Corbin Trent is that together we can build a movement to defeat neoliberalism and move towards justice. That is what I believe, too, and I think we are beginning to see some progress toward it.
Why are we NOT working with China instead of propping them up as our enemy? We are not better at human rights; we torture, we imprison more, support more foreign wars and genocide; we are arguably less free than Chinese citizens. It is only that our corporate interests and wealthy stand more to lose than theirs.
Corbin. Yes!! This is precisely our republic origin story: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men/women are created equal... ", where equal is the point. Thanks.
WOW. Thank you, Corbin! I am reading this after dropping my kids off at school and cursing the congested school drop-off system! (Buses aren't free at this particular public school in St. Louis, and they don't come to my house anyway - otherwise I would not contribute to the congestion!)
Sometimes I think you are reading my mind, Corbin - especially about why this country lives in fear (when the countries without guns don't have our levels of fear and insecurity), and how wealth inequality creates resentment, etc. PLEASE keep doing what you are doing, and I will continue to donate so that your voice gets elevated. The whole world needs to hear this!!
All true, but maybe the best thing to do is focus on the buses, and on getting a better public transportation system for everyone in the county. The people who are looking the other way, or being distracted by media, or dealing with issues closer to their kitchens, will not read this article and ponder those issues. As long as that is what we do, we will remain powerless to stop the torturing and weaponizing.
Goodness you are an amazingly powerful writer!
If people who would have a hard time accepting this would only read this article, things just might start tilting in the right direction. This piece is so spot on. I had one of those Why Did I Not Think of This moments. Why? Because I'm not you. Please keep writing. Maybe the next time you drive home from school delivery, you will pass Putin hitchhiking, pick him up, and talk some sense into him.
Bravo. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Love you Corbin.
Have you tried to have a REAL conversation with the higher-ups of the DNC?
You are so on the mark, Clear headed sensible people with a reasonable sense of history will certainly think along these lines. You articulate it so clearly. I babbled and screamed about this for the last sixty-five years and was drowned out by silence.
I'm glad I now have time to read you and other good ones now. We submit the plans for permits today to rebuild our house that was lost in the Eaton/Altadena fire.
Nailed it; especially the racial reckoning ♡ it's up to each and every one of us to believe the tide is turning and to stay KIND
Corbin, you dare to say what so many of us feel. We experience guilt, not because we have done something wrong, but because we cannot prevent or justify or repair the damages we know have occurred or are now occurring. The word I often use, and have for many years, is impotent.
Our duty as citizens has been to observe the horrors committed by the psychopathic few who lust for power, get it, and then unleash their own brand of sadism and indifference. We can call a govt. official, we can write a letter of protest, we can object, we can offer alternatives, but almost none of us have any power to actually intervene in the path our own lives are taking Because We Are Involved Via Passivity.
Via the Constitution, we have given away all power except a very diluted and manipulated choice when we Vote. But whoever we vote for has zero obligation to listen to us or do as we ask. They have real masters pulling their strings, the big shots who put them into play, not for us, but for The Economy.
Because that is what we citizens are: the hungry parasites feasting on the Private Economy and paying, via taxes n fees, into the Govt. Economy. A man running for mayor of the largest city in my state made a promise to 'arrest' the homeless, as if they were criminals. Would they then build another Alligator Alley for the homeless? Who would pay for it? We, the Consuming Parasites.
The capitalist economy is parasitic. It can exist no other way. The destruction, the violence, the crime, the bigotry and prejudice and fear and hatred ALL FEED the capitalist economy. It thrives on misery and discord and addiction. Why addiction? Because we have become addicted and inured to fear, misery and grievance. We thrive on unhappiness. The economy runs on assuaging this unhappiness.
Keep writing and thinking and feeling Corbin. You have become our conscience. You stir the warm embers deep inside us, giving oxygen to the fire we need to erupt from within. The paradigm we live within must burn down. We need precious time to imagine what a life without ideocracy might look like. And our own bad behaviors have taken away almost all the time that remains before we just kill off our biosphere.
I definitely understand that feeling of helplessness in stopping our country from causing harm. It’s saddening and maddening. The frustrations are real and we need so many systemic changes.
Nailed it
Thinking will soon be banned in America.
Thank you, Corbin. You made my day a little bit brighter. ☀️I don’t feel so alone out here.
So true. And so heartbreaking.
America is facing the eternal question: Should we pursue justice for all or build more prisons, walls and bombs to lock up, keep out and kill to hide our guilt?
No one is asking anyone to pay for the sins of our fathers, what's being asked is to not repeat those past sins like slavery, genocide and exclusion.
"We supported this genocide. We’re still supporting it. And there’s zero accountability. The world watches a country commit genocide against a people and basically nothing happens."
While what you say is true, you are missing the progress that the anti-Zionist movement has made here in the U.S. Public opinion has moved away from Zionism quite a bit. 61% of U.S. Jews say Israel has gone too far, and 39% of them say Israel has committed genocide. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza)
In the Senate, a majority of Democratic senators voted with Bernie to stop shipping certain weapons to Israel. There is also some progress in the House. In the immediate aftermath, one of my senators reflexively spouted the Zionist line in responding to constituents, but she later voted with Bernie because of pressure from our movement.
So the main message I get from Corbin Trent is that together we can build a movement to defeat neoliberalism and move towards justice. That is what I believe, too, and I think we are beginning to see some progress toward it.
Why are we NOT working with China instead of propping them up as our enemy? We are not better at human rights; we torture, we imprison more, support more foreign wars and genocide; we are arguably less free than Chinese citizens. It is only that our corporate interests and wealthy stand more to lose than theirs.
Corbin. Yes!! This is precisely our republic origin story: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men/women are created equal... ", where equal is the point. Thanks.
WOW. Thank you, Corbin! I am reading this after dropping my kids off at school and cursing the congested school drop-off system! (Buses aren't free at this particular public school in St. Louis, and they don't come to my house anyway - otherwise I would not contribute to the congestion!)
Sometimes I think you are reading my mind, Corbin - especially about why this country lives in fear (when the countries without guns don't have our levels of fear and insecurity), and how wealth inequality creates resentment, etc. PLEASE keep doing what you are doing, and I will continue to donate so that your voice gets elevated. The whole world needs to hear this!!
All true, but maybe the best thing to do is focus on the buses, and on getting a better public transportation system for everyone in the county. The people who are looking the other way, or being distracted by media, or dealing with issues closer to their kitchens, will not read this article and ponder those issues. As long as that is what we do, we will remain powerless to stop the torturing and weaponizing.