I was reminded of what I read yesterday on Weer'd Beard's blog. At his request I'm not providing a link, but here's what I'm talking about.
I am 100% behind these people and their cause, and I get goosebumps seeing HUGE crowds of people all carrying American Flags, and Gadsden Flags, and signs and chants against policies I'd like to never see come to fruition.
I'd love to say that those HUGE fucking crowds will tip off the creeps on capitol hill that a LOT of people disagree with them, and for every head there is down in the streets, there are many more heads, like mine, nodding in agreement.
Skye called it "Live from Jupiter," as in "what planet are you from?"
Wow. Just wow. I admit his 'interview' style was as poor as many mainstream interviewers (i.e. trying to force a quote to further his own pre-decided opinion), but some people are just scary. There are so many accurate problems out there with government, why focus on some of this stuff?
ReplyDeleteI guess it goes back to my old quote: No matter which side you're on, there's gonna be someone you wish wasn't!
I don't like what the Democratic party is doing...but I can't say that I loved what the Republicans did much better. We need a new party that truly represents what people [*who don't wear tinfoil hats] want. Oh, and reporters to actually report rather than propagate their own biases and beliefs.
Here, here CJ. I am no fan of a public option. To be honest I would rather have a single payer system in place.
ReplyDeleteOf course I say this, as I make minimum wage, and have nothing. A public option, as much as I dislike it, is a start. But as CJ said we have so many other issues that need to be attended to. And neither major party seems willing to vary in their course, which is oddly very similar.
I really find the course of American social and political history pretty disturbing when viewed as cycles.
ReplyDeleteThere are threads that run through a society which define it...a gene, a virus, a destructive meme, an inherent flaw which can either mutate into something good or destroy it.
I could look at this eruption of hate and say it is a continuation of the destructive politics that were used to try to destry Clinton's presidency...but there is another factor which is more deadly in this present mix.
The conservative have learned how to harness the inherent racist fear that lurks in the back of the psyches of many Americans...
This trumps all logic and we have seen that this debate is nott about logic or truth....
The opposition is one lie distorted to become a bigger lie.
This manufactured, heavily promoted demonstration has already taken on mythic proportions in the collective minds of the people who support it...30,000 to 60,000 people has become any where from 500,000 to 2 million in the fantasy world they live in and it is fed by the propaganists who supply the lies and the fake imagery of crowds from other events.
I have been reading a lot of Jamaican history and the recurring theme of Apocalypse and Redemption that have torn it apart every 60 years....
America has the same rythmnic convulsions that result in racist purges and witch hunts....
Those damn Puritans!
Right-on, cj and John.
ReplyDeleteThanks Micro.
From microdot...
ReplyDelete"The conservative have learned how to harness the inherent racist fear that lurks in the back of the psyches of many Americans...
This trumps all logic and we have seen that this debate is nott about logic or truth....
The opposition is one lie distorted to become a bigger lie.
This manufactured, heavily promoted demonstration has already taken on mythic proportions in the collective minds of the people who support it...30,000 to 60,000 people has become any where from 500,000 to 2 million in the fantasy world they live in and it is fed by the propaganists who supply the lies and the fake imagery of crowds from other events."
Now swap out "conservative(s)" for "liberals" and "racist fear" with "fear of guns" and read it again.
We ain't so different you and I.
The sooner we can find some common ground on the tactics we both find reprehensible, the sooner we can join forces and attack the root causes of the problems we have already identified.
kaveman's idea that "We ain't so different you and I.
ReplyDeleteThe sooner we can find some common ground on the tactics we both find reprehensible, the sooner we can join forces and attack the root causes of the problems we have already identified."
I've often noticed that what my critics accuse me of can equally be said about them. They often seem to not be aware of this.
I'm all for common ground, which I think exists in this debate.