tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post6041462768507559666..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Fraudulence of the DemocratsKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-8056829504761820802018-04-17T16:21:37.785-04:002018-04-17T16:21:37.785-04:00Support Our Graffiti Artists !Support Our Graffiti Artists !Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-7876661804694386632018-04-17T13:55:14.446-04:002018-04-17T13:55:14.446-04:00Along the same lines of working to re-frame narrat...Along the same lines of working to re-frame narratives, shatter illusions, and create a paradigm shift:<br /><br />"They work so hard to manufacture support for war because they require that consent. If the oligarchs try to launch a war against a disobedient nation amidst very clear opposition from the public, they will shatter the illusion of freedom and democracy that their entire empire is built upon, and then they’re exposed. Corporatist oligarchy has succeeded in weaving its web of dominance because its oppression has thus far remained hidden and its depravity disguised as humanitarianism. They cannot expose themselves by transgressing a loud NO from the public or else the masses will realize that everything they used to believe about their country, their government and their world is a lie.<br /><br />They won’t risk that. We can force them into retreating from open war by circulating facts and information and keeping a healthy level of skepticism circulating among the public. Watch them squirm, move goalposts and shift narratives, and point and yell about it whenever it happens. We can win the media war against the propagandists. We have truth on our side."<br /><br />https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/16/syrian-chemical-victims-suffered-from-dust-inhalation-reports-say/Anna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-14176719867366307472018-04-17T13:38:45.312-04:002018-04-17T13:38:45.312-04:00Fuck the Parties. Let's just address the issue...Fuck the Parties. Let's just address the issues to expand consciousness and work our way to a paradigm shift. Then the politicians and parties will drag themselves kicking and screaming to the correct position. <br /><br />I like this idea:<br /><br />"Maybe what the nation’s embattled peace activists need to do, instead of just marching or demonstrating, is to start a campaign of painting messages directly on the evidence all around us of our nation’s dilapidated infrastructure of crumbling bridges, roadways and schools attributing each to the vast expenditure on the military. I’m imagining a rusty bridge with bold red words saying “The $4-million cost of three Tomahawk missiles used to attack Syria could have fixed this,” or a pot-hole-riddled stretch of interstate boldly painted with large white letters saying: “This stretch of highway repairable for the $100 million price of one F-35 fighter.”<br /><br />https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/17/no-indication-in-the-us-that-the-country-is-at-war-again/Anna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-78662106033214347232018-04-17T12:24:02.364-04:002018-04-17T12:24:02.364-04:00Picketing is one way to fill the streets with mean...Picketing is one way to fill the streets with meaningful protest. Teachers are picketing hard in Red States, of all places. May their union leaders not betray them.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-30578518987261061942018-04-16T23:19:52.623-04:002018-04-16T23:19:52.623-04:00I agree with Voice; the truth just makes us sick. ...I agree with Voice; the truth just makes us sick. And there is no medicine yet discovered to correct the problem. At some point the truth, which is being hammered home every day on sites like this, must hand off to an idea, an action, that provides a cure, a solution, a change for the better. Nothing will change as a result of our endless litany of criticism of the status quo.<br /><br />A couple of big unions just pulled away from Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Andrew Cuomo in New York. Thanks a lot to former allies, the unions, most said to be as corrupt as the rest of the political scenery.<br /><br />Not voting for either major party has its merits, although I do secretly hope that Trump & his cabinet and the disgust they engender will make it possible for the House and Senate to change hands in 2018. Unfortunately, the new hands will be the same old Democratic party hands. Same neolibs, same neocons, but better manners as they too destroy the world. As we all know by now, one wing of the duopoly is as bad as the other. <br /><br />There just might be a grain of truth in the notion that voting for a third party is an empty exercise. Stein’s Green party is feeble and there were reports that its chief of staff, not a real progressive, pulled a coup and really does not represent the grass roots majority or the basic ideals of the Greens. Furthermore, many activists in the Greens seem content to stay small and insignificant, but justified.<br /><br />So what do we do with the sickening truth? Hedges says the only thing left is to go into the streets in great numbers and stay there until the elites get spooked. Who among us is ready to commit to that course?Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-53103640080561089332018-04-16T19:39:40.147-04:002018-04-16T19:39:40.147-04:00So where does this leave us as voters if the GOP a...So where does this leave us as voters if the GOP and Democrats are the same at their core, even if they are different in things like gratuitous cruelty to the poor and denial of science facts? There are various terms for this political state, such as Wolin writing of Inverted Totalitarism.<br /><br />Doesn't this beg the question of whether we should bother to vote in national elections? That question lurks in the idea, expressed in various ways and attributed to various personalities, that we would not be allowed to vote if it made any difference.<br /><br />Where is there hope at a national level? For example, I admire the way Andrew Bacevich analyzes our military issues, but in the end he has no solution except to vote all the current devils out of Washington. And that is not going to happen.<br /><br />This all reminds me of a saying I picked up in college: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you sick"!<br />voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.com