Love this!!! The most powerful parts of this post for me:

Many Americans seem at this point to be under a magic spell that prevents us from understanding our shared circumstance ... It's morally dubious to consider these people enemies and intellectually lazy to write them off as sheeple.

Something that's coming up for me as I read your post is that we're all mirrors for each other. As the alt media community gets more polarized and reactive in their approach, other factions (like victims of a vast propaganda machine) double down, and vice versa. We need some form of activist aikido. Enough resisting and reacting against the Other. It's just creating more violence.

And we also need time and energy. The oppressive economic conditions have led all of us to survive on minimal resources as we work our butts off to pay our bills, put food on the table, etc. We're too busy to spend time with each other, and to slow things down. That's a huge problem.