"The Most Dangerous Woman in America"

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Wednesday March 25, 2015 · 4:50 PM PDT

2015/03/25 · 16:50

Chris Hedges has written a piece on Kshama Sawant of Seatle in another blog, and has described her as the “The Most Dangerous Woman in America” because she wants a $15 p/hr minimum wage, and she has expanded funding for social services and blocked, along with housing advocates, an attempt by the Seattle Housing Authority to allow a rent increase of up to 400 percent.

She poses a real threat to our corporate masters and their agenda for our future.

The elites cannot let the Sawants of the world proliferate. Corporate power is throwing everything at its disposal—including sponsorship of a rival woman candidate of color—into this election in the city’s 3rd District.

I'm a child of the sixties, so I think many of her proposals are just about right, but the children of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, I'm afraid are not so sure.They did not grow up in a time when families had to think about their son's being drafted and sent to a war that many of us knew we could not win, and should not be fought. Many of us took much longer to realize that Washington lied to us because they knew that the war could not be won while 58K brothers, friends and others went off to fight and/or serve. As always we have a generation gap of experiences. We lived during the time when JFK was President, and MLK Jr. spoke and organized. We also lived during a time when we landed men on the Moon, but also, we saw our President, his brother, Malcolm X, and MLK Jr. shoot down. We have different frames of reference that most of the new adults that are around us, and many of us are not happy with how we got from in many ways the better standard of living of our youth to today's horrible conditions. This time our country again is in deep trouble, because 90% of the country's wealth is held by 10% of the people, and 10% of the wealth is left to be divided by the remaining 90% of the people. The elites own this place like never before in our lifetime, and they are not good at sharing. The elites like it this way, and have worked for 40 or so years, to get it back this way again, and people like Kshama Sawant are beginning to challenge their idea of how things should be.

Sawant believes that because of the presidency of Barack Obama—who has served corporate power, expanded imperial wars, carried out a massive assault on civil liberties and failed to address the needs of the mounting numbers who are unemployed or underemployed—many people, especially young people, are hungry for political alternatives to “the two big business parties.”

So, Daily Kos, is Chris Hedges right? Should we join with the elites to build fear of her and work to demonize and defeat her efforts, or is it possible she might be onto something that might make things better for our country's future?

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Kshama Sawant is

44 votes Vote Now!

Kshama Sawant is

Dangerous and should be defeated.

3 votes

A Patriot in the truest sense of the word.

39 votes

No clue.

2 votes

Don't care because it is March Madness time.

0 votes

Iris Dement, Wasteland of the Free

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Sunday December 21, 2014 · 7:29 AM PST

2014/12/21 · 07:29

and she wrote this in the 90's. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/...

Age with Poll.

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Monday December 15, 2014 · 9:21 AM PST

2014/12/15 · 09:21

I'm 69 and will be 70 in the Spring. For the past 10 years I've been a farmer of a small horsefarm but before that I was a HS teacher. I've had very little stress in my life and have been lucky to have had good health. Teaching was filled with much joy and happiness, as is being a farmer but I know that at my age I don't have the physical and mental strength to take on one of the worlds biggest jobs for the next six to ten years and if I said that I could, you should not believe me. I enjoy my afternoon naps and need to hit the hay by 10 pm or I'm not very good the next day or so.
Those of you that are of similar age, I would like you to tell the others that are younger than us what you think about your feelings about this important issue facing our world as be start to decide who should be this country's next President.

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Age an issue?

42 votes Vote Now!

Age an issue?

I'm of that age and Hell YES

12 votes

I'm of that age and I can do it.

16 votes

I'm much younger and think, no problem.

3 votes

I'm much younger and not sure

7 votes

Pie

4 votes

Charlotte's Web, its time...

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Saturday February 01, 2014 · 9:27 AM PST

2014/02/01 · 09:27

that this community to lend our support to parents all across this country that have children that would greatly benefit from Charlotte's Web. If you have not heard of it, please Google it, and read of the help that it has already done. The FDA will take years to approve this new treatment and all these families can't move to Colorado, so we need to put pressure on our Reps., Senators, and whoever else we can to get help to these families.
Thank you, and please help.

US Gun Buy Back program

CTDemoFarmer

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Friday January 18, 2013 · 7:07 PM PST

2013/01/18 · 19:07

We spend $600 to $700 billion a year of DOD, why not spend $500 million a year on a Gun Buy Back program?

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Sunday September 09, 2012 · 4:22 PM PDT

2012/09/09 · 16:22

Thinking that it is not healthy to think too much about one thing, I had a thought that we could bring music to Kos. So I propose another contest, a musical contest. Oh, no we can't have fun here again! Well maybe, we'll see.

My entry for tonight’s diversion is Adele Rolling…http://www.youtube.com/...

Last week’s contest winner was my entry.

Post yours and we will see who gets the most rec's.

Music Diversion again

CTDemoFarmer

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Sunday September 02, 2012 · 2:51 PM PDT

2012/09/02 · 14:51

My entry for tonight’s diversion is ColdPlay… The Scientist. http://www.youtube.com/...

Last week’s contest winners were my entry and Bosbonian ‘s great banjo piece.

Post yours and we will see who gets the most rec's.

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6 votes Show Results

Fun againg!

6 votes Vote Now!

Fun againg!

Hell yes!

3 votes

Maybe

2 votes

Can we just talk and read?

0 votes

No, just go away.

1 vote

Today's Outrageous Lie

CTDemoFarmer

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Sunday August 26, 2012 · 5:50 PM PDT

2012/08/26 · 17:50

Last Friday night I was reading Professor Krugman's blog and he had a post entitled "Niallism" and one of the responders was a woman named Jane III 42nd Parallel. She put forth a interesting idea about a strategy that is being employed by the Right Wing. She says.

They intentionally say stupid things b/c that puts dems in the position of having to correct them.
Nobody likes being told they are wrong. But, dems tell people they are wrong regularly because because we are forced to.

But all that does is alienate everybody else.

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Right Wing Lying works for them?

59 votes Vote Now!

Right Wing Lying works for them?

Yes

54 votes

1 vote

They are just confused.

0 votes

It is just an honest mistake.

0 votes

Pie

1 vote

Truth will win out.

3 votes

Music diversion

CTDemoFarmer

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Saturday August 25, 2012 · 3:13 PM PDT

2012/08/25 · 15:13

Thinking that it is not healthy to think too much about one thing, I had a thought that we could bring music to Kos. So I propose a contest, a musical contest. Oh, no we can't have fun here! Well maybe, we'll see.

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11 votes Show Results

Music on Kos ?

11 votes Vote Now!

Music on Kos ?

Yes

8 votes

1 vote

I hate music

0 votes

No fun allowed on Kos

1 vote

huh?

1 vote

Inspirational

CTDemoFarmer

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Saturday June 16, 2012 · 4:51 PM PDT

2012/06/16 · 16:51

If you have not seen Gov. Granholm's thank to our President for his actions as they related to they young people in our country that are afraid that we might send them to a country that they do not know.

Please watch it is powerful. http://www.youtube.com/...

CT Gov. Malloy like Gov. Walker

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Saturday May 05, 2012 · 1:18 PM PDT

2012/05/05 · 13:18

In forty years, since public employees won the right to collectively bargain, NO Connecticut governor has ever proposed banning collective bargaining for a group of public employees. No Democrat or Republican or our one Independent governor ever proposed such an inappropriate and immoral step – except this one.

Link:http://jonathanpelto.com/

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Tuesday October 18, 2011 · 4:17 PM PDT

2011/10/18 · 16:17

I will tell you one way that could be very powerful without much effort. You know how sometimes when you go to a sporting event, someone starts a wave? Do you remember the fun that it is, and the sense of togetherness you felt? Well imagine if we brought that experience to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
So how do we done that? Mass marches are great, but not everyone who wants to participate can because of a thousand reasons.

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Iris Dement, Wasteland of the Free

Age with Poll.

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US Gun Buy Back program

Another Music Diverison

Music Diversion again

Today's Outrageous Lie

Music diversion

Inspirational

CT Gov. Malloy like Gov. Walker

So, you want to rattle their cages?