What is to be Done? 21st Century Edition with Ryan Mathis

<em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is part 1 of a two-part edition. Listen to </em><a target="_blank" href="http://activistmmt.libsyn.com/ep-21-ryan-mathis-there-is-nothing-natural-about-societys-laws"><em>part two</em></a><em> on Activist #MMT podcast.</em><br/><br/>Because of the Covid-19 crisis, our guest, Ryan Mathis' university has abandoned in-person instruction as of Friday, March 13th. My own Burlington County in New Jersey closed all schools for a month, not to open again until at least April 20th. Since my wife and I both work in two different schools, and my two little boys attend two others, I am greatly relieved. (As I record this introduction on March 28th, with the number of confirmed infected in New York and New Jersey now at nearly 50,000 and increasing exponentially, this date is very likely to be extended by several months.)<br/><br/>In the heart of our conversation, Ryan lays out his plan of what must happen in order to fix and replace our corrupt government, media, and educational institutions. In his estimation, it is becoming increasingly clear that the electoral process in the United States is a profoundly unfair one. Bourgeois liberal parties are becoming increasingly hostile towards both the social democratic agenda they pretend to champion, and to those desperate for that agenda to be enacted. <br/><br/>During the March 15 Democratic Debate, we watched presidential candidate Joe Biden, profusely lie &#8211; and not once challenged by its corporate media moderators, ostensibly journalists whose supposed job is to transmit &#8220;truth&#8221; to their audience . It is obvious that legacy media has no intention of functioning as fair arbiters. In other words, it is clear that the system as it has existed will do everything it can to prevent those who want to even modestly reign in corporate power from ever achieving office. In this context, even a comparative moderate such as Bernie Sanders is torn down, smeared and faces opposition in the media.<br/><br/>Given this reality, it is a fool&#8217