tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post5629070767834242836..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Topsiders, Duct Tape, and the National Dilemma of WealthFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-23090538727859271382012-01-18T07:36:08.088-07:002012-01-18T07:36:08.088-07:00Go Kucinich!
Bill Moyers ( who else? ) interviewe...Go Kucinich!<br /><br />Bill Moyers ( who else? ) interviewed Jim Hightower on Populism a couple of years ago.<br /><br />Excellent conversation, and here's the link.<br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04302010/watch2.html<br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-51527914198066417622012-01-17T12:41:56.085-07:002012-01-17T12:41:56.085-07:00Well, your choices are either to build your own co...Well, your choices are either to build your own constituency (with all that entails including personal poverty for at least the short term) or to adopt your positions into the best fitting constituency.<br /><br />You should try and contact Dennis Kucinich. He might have some help (and the worst that can happen is that you get ignored) The mere act of verbalizing your desire to help together with your inability to find a suitable gun wheel to push on might be useful.<br /><br />Have you thought about <a href="http://aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/1122012.cfm" rel="nofollow">unions</a>Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-92179580487113210552012-01-17T11:40:10.311-07:002012-01-17T11:40:10.311-07:00Ael: No sitting Democrat or Democratic candidate w...Ael: No sitting Democrat or Democratic candidate would pay me for what I'd be willing to write for them. Dennis Kucinich, maybe, but who the hell listens to him?<br /><br />The U.S. political system as currently set up is designed to force all entrants towards the preppy outlook, the "fuck-you money" outlook. I can't and won't endorse that. I've had contacts with the local political parties and the Oregon Dems don't want to hear it - they don't WANT a populist writing for them or speaking for them. They don't WANT conflation with OWS or the Occupy movement.<br /><br />The Pacific Greens were all over it, but, really...WTF? What the hell good could I do as a tract writer for the Pacific Green Party?<br /><br />I do WANT to do something...it's just that the things I could do that would have an actual impact on the system would force me towards political positions I consider short-sighted and idiotically self-destructive. And there's literally no place within the working system for someone with my political positions...<br /><br />Errrrrrrgh!FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-15702540452406999272012-01-16T21:53:10.097-07:002012-01-16T21:53:10.097-07:00Chief, you are thinking about it wrong. Don't...Chief, you are thinking about it wrong. Don't run for free, get paid to worm your way into the system.<br /><br />You have very good writing and analysis skills. Use them. You have a writing portfolio (ie. GFT, milpub to show off). Politicos spend vast amounts of money pitching their message. You should take some of it.<br /><br />Furthermore, I suspect that political writing (at least in the beginning) is a part time job that you can do along with geology (and in the middle of the night).<br /><br />Go thou and write for the democrats and may god have mercy on your soul.Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-85627514009532898862012-01-16T19:54:12.124-07:002012-01-16T19:54:12.124-07:00the world wags towards them and not towards us
. ...<i>the world wags towards them and not towards us</i><br /><br />. . . little wonder, eh? It'd be different if being a politico wasn't careerism, hairdos and fundraising, but that is.<br /><br />Per duct tape and shoes, my father was diametrically opposite from a preppy, but he, too, duct-taped his old oxfords for yard work (oh, and I'm certain placed cardboard inside to protect from sole wear, much to my mother's horror.)<br /><br />In fact, I even remember a dapper pair he treated to a protective coat of silver paint, unawares of Billy Pilgrim, I am most certain. A bit eccentric, y'might say.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-23784343568794066152012-01-16T14:28:11.192-07:002012-01-16T14:28:11.192-07:00I had a copy of that book in high school.I had a copy of that book in high school.BigFrednoreply@blogger.com