Jun 29, 2012 -- 7:50AM, amcolph wrote:

How old are you?  No, you needn't answer--it's a rhetorical question.  But as an 'old timer' I have to laugh when I listen to Conservatives denounce Obama's fumbling, middle-of-the road attempts at policy as "socialist."

There is no "Left" left in this country.  What we have is "far Right" and "not quite so far Right."

Actually, there is a "left" in the US, if by "left" Aarroottoonn means things such as organized labor, anti-war sentiment, universities that still have humanities departments, and so forth. Those things have been systematically supressed and driven underground over the last 30 years, by giant corporations acting through the media and politicians they own.

But the economic collapse, bank bailouts, massive unemployment and endless war have at last produced a rumbling underground. The subterraneans are finally organizing and preparing to resurface as an energetic and viable force in the political and economic struggle.

This is what the agents and servants of the corporo-military state fear most; it's what their mercenary goons in Congress and on the Supreme Court were hired to beat into submission, and what their armies of Limbaugh-like pundits attempt to silence by shouting it down every day.

We're back, and, thanks to the greed and crimes of the banking sector, the callous brutality military-industrial-security establishment, and corporate domination of our economic and cultural life, we're energized.

Welcome to the real world, where real people have become aware of what "trickle down" actually means. We plan to bring the wars home, so as to do a little "regime change" and "nation building" right here, in the "homeland."

Jun 29, 2012 -- 8:49AM, catboxer wrote:

Jun 29, 2012 -- 7:50AM, amcolph wrote:

How old are you?  No, you needn't answer--it's a rhetorical question.  But as an 'old timer' I have to laugh when I listen to Conservatives denounce Obama's fumbling, middle-of-the road attempts at policy as "socialist."

There is no "Left" left in this country.  What we have is "far Right" and "not quite so far Right."

Actually, there is a "left" in the US, if by "left" Aarroottoonn means things such as organized labor, anti-war sentiment, universities that still have humanities departments, and so forth. Those things have been systematically supressed and driven underground over the last 30 years, by giant corporations acting through the media and politicians they own.

But the economic collapse, bank bailouts, massive unemployment and endless war have at last produced a rumbling underground. The subterraneans are finally organizing and preparing to resurface as an energetic and viable force in the political and economic struggle.

This is what the agents and servants of the corporo-military state fear most; it's what their mercenary goons in Congress and on the Supreme Court were hired to beat into submission, and what their armies of Limbaugh-like pundits attempt to silence by shouting it down every day.

We're back, and, thanks to the greed and crimes of the banking sector, the callous brutality military-industrial-security establishment, and corporate domination of our economic and cultural life, we're energized.

Welcome to the real world, where real people have become aware of what "trickle down" actually means. We plan to bring the wars home, so as to do a little "regime change" and "nation building" right here, in the "homeland."

Well, I won't wish success for your band of 15-20 people who subscribe to such nonsense. That is a figurative number, but not too far off from a literal one. Maybe you can double the number by incorporating all the Ron Paul Troglodytes, at least until you start killing each other off once you get past free dope.

Still, it seems we disagree, but it is a free country to attempt your rage against the machine.

Jun 29, 2012 -- 9:45AM, amcolph wrote:

Jun 29, 2012 -- 9:31AM, aarroottoonn wrote:

 
Well, I won't wish success for your band of 15-20 people who subscribe to such nonsense. That is a figurative number, but not too far off from a literal one. Maybe you can double the number by incorporating all the Ron Paul Troglodytes, at least until you start killing each other off once you get past free dope.

Still, it seems we disagree, but it is a free country to attempt your rage against the machine.

My goodness--that's pretty nasty.

I think you are in danger of becoming too smug about your situation.  There are more than 15-20 people who favor such things such as organized labor, anti-war sentiment, universities that still have humanities departments, and so forth.  There are more than 15-20 people who think the ruling class is starting to get above itself, ruling badly and wanting too big a share of the pie for it.

And the Republicans know this too...that is why they are busy with their disenfranchisement project.