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by Cassiodorus on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:04:26 PM PDT
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But I am talking about organizing, and in your words "[kicking] the analysis offered on this board up a notch".
It seems to me that too many people become bogged down in their (justified) hatred of Bush, and turn a blind eye to the systemic problems.
"The opposite of a triviality is plainly false; the opposite of a great truth is another great truth." - Niels Bohr
by Autarkh on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:30:51 PM PDT
is too much like Bush, and people have been coerced into supporting that alternative out of fear of Bush. The 2004 election, primarily, offered us John Kerry as an alternative, and the result was that nobody wanted to believe that what Alexander Cockburn said about Kerry was true, but it was. All of which was of no consequence, since Bush stole the election without Kerry lifting a finger, and the public blamed the Green Party which (while running a candidate who got no votes out of deference to Kerry) blew the whistle on Bush's buddy Blackwell for rigging the Ohio vote.
Eventually, I suppose, most everyone in the US will just lose any semblance of a credit rating, since bankruptcy has become too expensive and is no longer worth it anyway. And then they will all see that the US has sold its stake in capitalism to a few super-rich people and their corporations, and that the only "business" in town is the police state which has sprung up throughout America, largely with their help. Those in the know will be able to join the local equivalent of the Common Ground Collective or Food Not Bombs. In the medium term, many of them, meaning many of all of us, will be wiped out by the vagaries of abrupt climate change.
The reason I suggest we get published, then, is that there is a communication problem here. The truth has become too scary; America lives in denial, stoppering its ears and keeping its eyes glued to FOX and CNN.
by Cassiodorus on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 04:19:54 PM PDT
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