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David Weigel 2/27/09 2:22 PM Some photos from the just-completed anti-stimulus New American Tea Party, outside of the White House (after the jump): The best sign I saw. Right before the march from one point of Lafayette Park to another. This was right before we were told balloons were verboten. The crowd was a mix of guys taking their K St lunch breaks (right) and guys taking much longer breaks. Her neighbor bought a big house, but all she got were his lousy payments. He recycled this sign from an "anti-global warming hysteria" protest.
love these fools protesting what is essentially a rounding error of the money weve given to the uber-rich banksters. at least some of the mortgage funds might help prevent EVERYONES home prices from falling even further.
its like the last 8 years never happened, right lorraine? obama is president of a smoking crater thanks to the failed policies and governance (if you can call it that) of conservatives. they got everything they wanted and what we got was an unmitigated disaster that obama has to clean up.
All you do is call names and make ridiculous statements such as "they have dumbed down the people since FDR". Even if the majority of idiotic statements on this site were coming from the Left (and they're not) what the frak does that have to do with "dumbing down the people since FDR"? Something tells me that, if you actually respond to this, it will an attempt to insult me and will, of course, not answer my question.
These people are confronting losses on all fronts - the loss of their political representation, the loss of the "free market" that flushed itself down the toilet, the sense that the Other is taking over. At first, of course, the response was to target blacks with myths about the government's actions against racist redlining in the mortgage industry. Since, of c ourse, that had nothing to do with anything, they still ardently cling to that myth. Another one was that somehow Fannie Mae and the Dems did this. And the dark and dreadful heart of Reagonomics - the connection between the speculative economy (into which hundreds of billions of retirement dollars have been directed) and easy credit (to make up for stagnating median household income) is being staked so badly it might be a generation before we see Dow 10,000 again. These people are, like their peasant ancestors, part of the little tradition. They are dependent on the myths and symbols of an elite that, they feel, has betrayed them. An, they are the tools of an elite that gives them tactile symbols that they can take comfort in. That , in sheer economic terms, the miniscule tax rate increases will be far overshadowed by the damage to their property values if houses keep going into a tailspin doesn't really matter. For the elite of the rightwing, the real issue is that the rich will basically be paying those higher taxes - not the protesters. But the rich aren't going to do anything so stupid as gather around a second rate tv personality and rave about the satanic congress. In fact, as the industries in the Sunbelt, which are shedding jobs at a terrific rate, keep getting shuttered - all of them brought there, by the way, at tax payer expense, as Southern states gave incoming manufacturers huge tax breaks that made it hard to sustain infrastructure in education and normal state services - the far right fringe is going to find that even Dixie is deserting them. Louisianans and South Carolinians will not like being held hostage to please a bunch of people who apparently can't add. These people have been led by the nose all their life, and here they are, faithful to the last, protesting against their own self interest.
aurelius would have better use with his time but if mom and the us taxpayer feeds you then why not surf the net to get your kicks? get outdoors and go for a walk, it'll do you some good Aurelius!
And naturally you dig into your quiver of unoriginality and accuse me of being a dependent of both my mom and the US taxpayer. Your first sentence actually makes no grammatical sense. I assume idle namecalling is all you're capable of and so won't bother responding next time unless you can actually cobble together an argument worth answering.
Actually you and your type have been on the scene often in times of crisis. The fascist movements among the Central European peasants in the 30s, the Gerald Smith movement in the US Hell, rebellions both left and right among those like you took off in Luther's Germany and in the French revolution. Your kids are being taught by liberal teachers and already know that your beliefs are out of date. Your eager listening to hate radio merely feeds an anger and frustration that will eventually exhaust you, and has certainly already alienated coworkers and neighbors. This has had the effect of closing your world even more, as you filter out people who 'suck up change." It will be interesting if you can get out of the cul de sac you are in.
Psychologists need the mentally disturbed to understand normality. You hold a very important role: the mentally disturbed in the political sphere. But as a probe into a decaying opposition, you are a very nice symptom. As for ending on the passionate line about loving people you don't even know, well, I'm going to assume that my guess about your problems with people around you must be correct. But deviance combined with a sort of adolescent love of radio personalities is not so healthy.
I believe he has stuck his fingers in his ears and is saying "NYAAAA NYAAAA NYAAAA" as loudly as he can. Certainly not the best the modern GOP has to offer, but fairly typical.
Roger the fact is that your vocabulary grenades which you are so fond of, absolutely does not qualify your opinion as truth. You wish to "WOW" us with your wonderful learning's of the Marriam-Webster dictionary. Because whether or not one of the commentators here can speak your rhetoric Does not mean that they cannot understand what is going in this country and the world. The right side of history shows us that NEVER has Socialism and/or Communism Lasted. You are correct that our children are being indoctrinated by liberal has-been hippies in the school system. When they come home from school they get fed the truth, when they walk out amongst the world they also get fed the truth. Maybe to you, your house is worth the shackles that your "Messiah" will enslave you with. To us NO house is valued higher than liberty and NO object is valued higher than liberty.
There's nothing really complicated in the vocabulary I'm using. It is odd that you display such anger at teachers and at an adult vocabulary. The vocabulary is a sign of what John C Scott calls the great tradition. Now, I've analysed this in terms of a pretty common framework in sociology. It is not fancy at all, or any fancier than your appeal to a rather strange history in which socialism or communism doesn't last. The most lasting socio-economic arrangement, actually, was paying tribute to the pharaohs, which well outlasted any system we can come up with. In fact, this is why it is so sad that you are using it in support of living enslaved and servile, the bootlickers of the wealthiest. What happens when a group of people have indoctrinated themselves in myth, have a contempt of learning, and make references to a history they obviously know nothing about? Proud of your ignorance, proclaiming your slavery is freedom, unable to calmly look back at the recent history of developed economies or understand how to calculate those policies that would actually benefit you. I suppose economic rationality would simply enrage you, since it must come from Merriam Webster.
One doesn't need to be a college graduate to comprehend the sweep of history. gogojojo, discover what it means to be an autodidact, and you will no longer spout words like intellectual and elitist with contempt. You would also do well to travel to other countries and other cultures - and I'm including merely Canada and Mexico - to discover that know-nothingism is the path to oblivion. roger, your insights are painfully obvious to someone who has traveled through many countries on many continents....
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