Human sacrifice for Middle class

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Saturday October 17, 2015 · 7:25 PM PDT

2015/10/17 · 19:25

Berniebots... A-OK with a few hundred murdered Palistinian children... a few thousand "accidental" drone civilian deaths. We're kinda like pre-conquest Aztecs, aren't we? Sacrifice--human sacrifice... justified if it makes the vanishing American middle class a wee bit more secure.

I voted... but Almost Didn't. And May Not Again

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Sunday November 07, 2010 · 12:20 PM PST

2010/11/07 · 12:20

The long and short of it is, I can no longer believe in the rationalization that the lesser evil paves the way by compromise to incremental change. Power & wealth has come to be concentrated in too few hands, the news and elections are both paid for by the oligarchy, whose tools and mechanisms of power are the corporations and banking/investment institutions. Even when a representative plays the system with good intentions--as I think Obama tries to do, it's too late.

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 7:19 PM PST

2010/02/16 · 19:19

This is an almost raw report of my day with the Casino-Free Philadelphia 13, our trial. The important point here--is that if you select the right target--specific, do the research, the whole thread of corruption and corporate subversion of democratic process begins to come unraveled. Grassroots efforts can be effective--this is one example why and how.
I was one of the defendants--profoundly humbled to be a part of this action with an extraordinary cross-section of "ordinary" people... extraordinary, because they had chosen to take the responsibilities of citizenship seriously. HERE is an account of our arrest and day in jail.

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6 votes Show Results

Is the system broke?

6 votes Vote Now!

Is the system broke?

If we sit on our butts and do nothing?

3 votes

if we write lots of emails to our reps?

0 votes

If we get involved in all sorts of general progressive causes?

0 votes

if we learn to work with our neighbors and begin reform where we live?

3 votes

Who Killed Michael Jackson?

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Sunday June 28, 2009 · 11:33 AM PDT

2009/06/28 · 11:33

Who killed Cock Robin ?

The sense of loss when a public icon dies is real. We identify these figures with important moments of our lives. I in no way mean to mock that, but the very potency of the psychological attachment raises some disturbing questions. First, the way the mourning and recapitulation of life and career takes over the news cycle implies a judgment on the part of those selecting the news; projecting the death of a pop star front center on the stage of unfolding history suggests something not entirely right with our collective mental health.
(This is an edit). I did not write "only" a pop star. The label was not disimissive, but descriptive. Given the events in Iran, which news of this death overwhelmed... I think it is fair to suggest a sense of disproportion in the reporting... )

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 9:14 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 21:14

Do we talk? Or do we kill one another? And if we elect to talk, are we so afraid of reason and evidence that we must exclude some... marking them for extermination?

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 11:51 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 11:51

The man has a way with words, but what's that have to do with reality?

In the hundreds of conversations I've had on the doorsteps of South Philadelphia, how many times did I hear some variation of this question? The man has a way with words, but what does that have to do with reality? In thinking about my experiences in this campaign, from my first day as volunteer, a bundle of voter registration forms in hand, standing outside the 69th Street terminal on an unnaturally warm day in early March, through eight months as a volunteer, working three major events, knocking on more than 2400 doors, those four long GOTV days that lasted forever and passed in the blink of an eye, I can't imagine a more important question, a question more worthy of thought. The man has a way with words, but what does that have to do with reality?

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 10:50 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 10:50

The following is a piece written by self-employed, small time contractor, a terrific craftsman whose done an exquisite restoration job on a 19th C. Henry Flowers house in Philly. It's an account of journey many of us have taken, a journey that is an eloquent testimony to Obama and his ability to bring us together from the far corners of the political arena.

Because this is not my writing, I can plug it without embarrassment. I'd love to see this one rec'd. It deserves it.

Sean Soloman after the jump.

(Sean was only recently registered on DK, so wouldn't be able post a diary for a week, after the election; I posted this at his request.

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Probability that even Nader will vote for Obama

103 votes Vote Now!

Probability that even Nader will vote for Obama

100% Absolutely! Even Nader will see the light!

9 votes

Who knows? Nader is beyond predicting.

28 votes

Don't think so. He'd rather throw the election to the bad guys, every time.

41 votes

When hell freezes over

25 votes

Philly Obama Event... some reflections on the heart of the matter

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 9:33 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 21:33

I don't have a digital camera. Don't even have a TV. I've volunteered at a number of events that I would like to have reported on... but with no images? Better those who could demonstrate that pictures are worth... well, you know.

Worked an Obama event today. An hour or so last night, orientation. Got there at 7:00 this morning, helped set up chairs etc, then went to the cattle-chute: queue on its way to the security check... crowd control, that was my job. Non stop till about 1:45 when Obama began to speak. A LOT of people... puzzles me how some (very few, really, but disproportionate in the impression they leave) can be so angry and disrespectful of the inconvenience they cause others.. .but that went with the job description. Having teacher skills was a definite plus... aside from some rambling, the "difficult" encounters provided fruitful material for further thought... after the jump.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 8:19 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 08:19

Why do we see so little expression of outrage at the abuses of police power around the Republican conventioin? Is it because we've become addicted to hope, that we would rather cling to a sweet dream of the future than find the resolve to face a present that threatens to rob us of the dream?

Watch and weep

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 1:27 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 13:27

Are we creating shortages of oil products in the U.S. by exporting to China so they can replace coal with deisel for electrical production--so they can clean up their air for the Olympics?

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Wednesday July 02, 2008 · 7:16 PM PDT

2008/07/02 · 19:16

This is a challenge.

We know we don't want to be an Empire. We also know we .. that is .. these more-or-less "United" states--wield extraordinary economic power, which translates to military and political power.

So what do we want to be? How do we want to use that power?

Here's the vision thing writ large. What is a realistic and progressive role for the USA in the coming decades? What are we to become when we are no longer the only "superpower?"

This is not a solicitation for "comments," but a challenge to work out our new role in a "new world order:" -- a world of the sort we would want to be part of?

Politics? Compromise? Principle? Obama is a Politician.

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 6:22 PM PDT

2008/07/01 · 18:22

Why do view "politics" as bad? When it's all that saves us from ... Uganda, our own unCivil War?

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