Comments on: The Results Are in: Massachusetts Chooses Tweedledum over Tweedledee!

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:59:39 +0000

But as the elite would rather destroy the world than lose their grip on it, and as many of them, and of the morally insane and moronic Rightwing mob that worships them, are Armageddonist religious psychopaths, they are probably actively pursuing this end, to please their bloodthirsty, and imaginary, God, who in reality, is nothing more than a psychic projection of their own twisted souls. Mulga

But as the elite would rather destroy the world than lose their grip on it, and all done in the age of reason.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

Just on the off chance Einstein was on to something are we making any progress on that substantially new manner of thinking in the age of reason.

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:27:40 +0000

The much vaunted ‘American Way of Life’ was only extended to the rabble as a tactic to de-fuse revolutionary feelings during the seventy year war against Bolshevism.Once Gorbachev surrendered, eminently sensibly in order to avoid thermonuclear war launched by the demented Apocalypticists of the Reagan regime, the Masters felt no inclination to continue these social arrangements. So the years since 1989, the groundwork for which began as early as 1973 with the Pinochetist experiment in Chicago School social and class revenge and retribution, have seen a rapid increase in inequality, particularly in the benighted ‘Anglosphere’ but also throughout the rest of the world. Global inequality is unprecedented. Several hundred billionaires, many open Mafiosi,control more wealth than the bottom 50% of the earth’s population. In the US the vaunted US middle class has seen its median wages stagnate for thirty years, and at the moment a gigantic wave of pay-cuts and losses of hard-won conditions is being ruthlessly imposed, courtesy of the orgy of elite kleptomania known as the Global Financial Crisis. Household indebtedness is stratospheric,house prices continue to fall, health insurance is still a sadistic sham with ruin one hospitalisation away and social welfare was gutted by the oleaginous creep Clinton.
So the social conditions inherent in market capitalism are spreading. Immiseration, anxiety and ruin for the plebs, accompanied by excesses of elite greed and ostentatious display. The favoured elite prescription to avert this toxic stew descending into revolt is fascism. It served them well in Germany, and Italy in the1920s and1930s, and throughout the poor world over the last sixty years, so it’s just the ticket for today. FoxNews is simply the Die Sturmer of the current age, replete with Goebbelses and Streichers of every imaginable sex, but one-dimensional ideology. Unfortunately, in the era of thermo-nuclear weapons, resurgence in China, restiveness in Japan and open revolt in the poor, majority, world, and rapidly advancing global ecological collapse, US fascism is simply a recipe for a complete debacle. But as the elite would rather destroy the world than lose their grip on it, and as many of them, and of the morally insane and moronic Rightwing mob that worships them, are Armageddonist religious psychopaths, they are probably actively pursuing this end, to please their bloodthirsty, and imaginary, God, who in reality, is nothing more than a psychic projection of their own twisted souls.

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:26:22 +0000

Where is nader? Is he also for these immutable ‘laws’? Which cannot [ever?]change from inside the loop. But once [does he read DV?] he establishes a viable party, the loop is forever busted; i.e. if the loop permits it?

Nader tried to build up the Green Party and for several reasons was unable to do so. The late (great) Peter Camajo was even surprised by the undemocratic rules that governed the Green Party. Those rules is what permitted the influtration by Medea Benjamin and her cadres to split the Green in 2004 and cause the internal riff whereby Nader wanting to run a 50-state campaign was prevented to do so within the Green Party due to needless delays and footdragging. Now that the Green has been essentially neutered now there’s talk about a third party — typical M.O. of the pretentious left. The Left has its BEST chance in decades in 2004 to make a real electorial difference and summarily sabatoged itself giving way to the ridiculous “anybody but Bush — vote Democrat in close states” strategy supported by Howard Zinn and the Z-Mag contingency.

The question is how can a real effort be constructed that won’t be betrayed. IMO only via a radical program that will scare the shit out of the phony left.

By: bozh

bozh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:08:33 +0000

This is what greatness of america means: only like-minded people get elected.
In this case, one like-minded p., tad right of franco, lost and the other, tad left of franco, one.
No, they don’t agree on everything. Each can choose own underwear or overwear, food, women, etc..
So nation of ‘laws’ and cheques and balances is inded ruled by ‘laws’. And the ‘laws’ say that some ‘laws’ [a constitution being a mere set of 'laws' compiled by slave owners] cannot ever change if it is up to old snake oil sellers or ‘lawmakers’.
Now, please don’t get mad; get it all! That’s why bush, obama, clinton never ever get mad; they get all! Eat ur hearts out all of u outside looking in.