tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post4829169430473135647..comments2024-03-29T05:41:35.119-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: The American PlowFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-357013034491381232012-06-13T10:18:29.082-07:002012-06-13T10:18:29.082-07:00Chief,
Your readers share your sense of helplessne...Chief,<br />Your readers share your sense of helplessness. The term “Gilded Age” does not do justice to the new reality, which includes religious, technological, surveillance and penal dimensions, as well as perennial, low-intensity warfare. <br /><br />I would like to think that the array of forces against what one might call the will of the people is not as seamless as we have been told. All sorts of quiet revolts are underway. You, yourself, seem to be making an effort to collaborate and share with your community. That in itself is a revolutionary act, since the basic premise of modern capitalism and fundamentalist religion is that each of us is isolate and must cut our own deals for wealth and/or salvation. Others are returning to the land or learning trades rather than acquiring certifications for corporate-sponsored professions. Nearly all of us, either out of necessity are commitment, are buying less. And some have faced down the worst that power can inflict. One lady, a nuclear resistor, has just been released after spending 27 years of her life behind bars. Another, an 82-year-old Jesuit and visibly dying, unable to make up his bunk without resting, has recently been incarcerated for trespassing on military property. <br /><br />I don’t think these actions will “solve” the problem or “win” victory. But that’s almost beside the point. For good or ill, some people are reclaiming the moment and, in the process, their souls. And that is the first requirement for social action, the immolated fruit seller in Tunisia demonstrated.Podunk Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-143236261706147262012-06-12T18:30:07.397-07:002012-06-12T18:30:07.397-07:00I really need to do a post on the raft of fucked-u...I really need to do a post on the raft of fucked-up shit that has become accepted wisdom in out country because of these jackholes, beginning with "Government is the problem."<br /><br />It's a <i>democracy</i>, fuckpole; we ARE the government. If we're not - if we've let corporations and monied individuals and special interests hijack it...it's OUR fault, and we need to reclaim it.<br /><br />Ronnie Reagan said a lot of dumb shit before his jellybean-addled brain really went away to senility la-la-land, but his "government is the problem" has caused more problems and resulted in more ignorant idiocy than "Sure it's safe!" and "Trust me!" combined. Hopefully somewhere in hell barb'ed devils pan-fry his nuts forever for that weapons-grade moronity.<br /><br />Trickle-down economics, tax cuts as a solution to everything, Islamophobia, hooking the Christopaths on abortion and homos, deregulating everything in sight, corporate personhood, <i>Citizens United</i>, voter suppression, prayers in public places (as long as they're good Jebus-loving Xtian prayers!), Terri Schaivo, Katrina, Iraq, Iran-Contra, the S&L debacle, drill-baby-drill, and Dan Quayle...<br /><br />Is there ANYTHING that U.S. movement conservatism has spawned that isn't Satan's stool sample?<br /><br />I can't think of anything; even the kleptobanks had to come up with the ATM. These fuckers?<br /><br />They got nothin'.<br /><br />I cannot think of a good reason that the entire Limbauch-Norquist-Malkin-Coulter-Beck-VDH-Lowry Axis wouldn't be more useful as goddamn Soylent Green.<br /><br />Except for the high trans fat content in Limbaugh, of course.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-49453578633302675392012-06-12T12:45:52.644-07:002012-06-12T12:45:52.644-07:00Normally I'm for compromise, I recognize that ...Normally I'm for compromise, I recognize that it's not possible to in this world to impose your will on everyone.<br /><br />However your comparison to the French Bourbons is valid for how distorted their worldview is. And how it's almost impossible to work with them. They'll never reform until come the revolution and then it will be too late.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-35348537061409399042012-06-11T22:48:19.470-07:002012-06-11T22:48:19.470-07:00Perhaps this, Leon; until the fucking organization...Perhaps this, Leon; until the fucking organization that is modern "conservatism" is torn out root and branch from the American body politic, that noxious weed salted, poisoned, burned, the ashes soaked in lime, and buried in a dunghill at midnight we will continue to slide further and further into the slime-pit of oligarchy and crony-capitalism that so far characterizes the Second Gilded Age.<br /><br />There is simply no alternative. The coalition that produced the magnificent stability and prosperity of the center of the 20th Century (for white men, at least) is gone. There is no one to replace them. And the modern GOP is a rough beast that has not a single grain of sense to recognize the disaster that it's making. As the French aristos of the Bourbon court, they have learned nothing from the panics and anarchism and labor wars of the 19th and early 20th Centuries, and they have forgotten nothing, of the gigantic erection of money and power they once sported before the Depression, FDR, and the New Dealers (and the Eisenhower Republicans) rapped them on the nuts and humbled them. They dream of that other Gilded Age without seeing the misery it brings to the rest of us.<br /><br />They cannot be "reformed" - or compromised with. They can only be destroyed. And the ferocity for that fight is no longer in us, the liberal left, the heirs of the New Deal. The article Marcus quoted said that <i>"In 1987, 66 percent of Republicans and 77 percent of Democrats said they favored political leaders willing to compromise. In 2012, nearly the same share of Republicans -- 68 percent -- took this view, while the proportion of pro-compromise Democrats had risen to 90 percent."</i><br /><br />We have met the enemy, and he is people like Ruth Marcus and the 90%.<br /><br />Stalin was a ruthless shitheel bastard sunofabitch, but he knew how to deal with fascist bastards.<br /><br /><i>"Ni shagu nazad"</i>; not one step backwards.<br /><br />Not one step.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-79487484403605347372012-06-11T09:37:26.374-07:002012-06-11T09:37:26.374-07:00Now tell us how you really feel about the Republic...Now tell us how you really feel about the Republican party Chief? I think you're holding back.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.com