Our US empire is in steep decline. In order to wrest complete control
over the globe and feed a rapacious thirst for resources and wealth,
the American ruling elite is wreaking havoc around the world.
Meanwhile, average Americans are suffering, legs trembling under a
mountain of debt as they toil at unfulfilling, underpaying jobs. And
those with enough time and energy to get angry and fight back are
told that the answer is to vote for one of the two pro-war, pro-Wall
Street corporate parties claiming to be their savior. This epic
tragedy does not sound like the beginning of a joke. But somehow
comedian and TV host Lee Camp makes it both funny and interesting.
Whether he is setting his sights on the scandal of $21 trillion worth
of unaccounted-for financial adjustments at the Pentagon or the
scorching environmental and human tragedy caused by climate chaos,
it's unsurprising that one of our most incisive political
commentators is technically a comedian. Camp knifes his way through
the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies,
and government blackouts, trailblazing a path between Hunter S.
Thompson and Jon Stewart. Perhaps the present-day story of America
can only accurately be told by a comedian, otherwise no one would
believe it. In a world where con men are heralded as leaders, locking
up peace activists is perceived as justice, trumpeting state
propaganda is considered journalism, and mocking environmentalists is
championed as strength, it's only appropriate that a comedian is
viewed as more reliable than the evening news.