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Abbie has nailed it…. If anything defines the period we live in, it is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish political and social paralysis… and managing to make such a crisis, one so objectively earth shaking and transcendental, mendacious, mediocre and boring to boot.
Cross posted from: http://seaton-newslinks.blogspot.com
MyFDL Editor’s Note: Thanks for posting, David! Won’t they think of the children? From the Firedoglake staff, here’s to the end of the silly season! -Kit O’Connell
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Mediocre and boring, comrade? Things are exciting in Spain, no?
Maybe you should be restarting the revolution, eh?
David: Probably not. Though I do have the schadenfreude of imagining the freakouts from the usual suspects at the sight of the wraparound OFA ads that have been on FDL since yesterday morning.
Arrrrgggghhhh! Disorienting! So Blue!!!! Whassup wid the bright blue????
(Ahhhh; thanks, PW; I feel better now…..)
It is better that Obama win than Romney, but having said that the general perception is disheartening… the gridlock, the inequality… there is a term in Spanish, that needs no translation, “fractura social“, that I wish we had in English. The situation is so dangerous and at the same time so banal.
They’re actually from the AFL-CIO.
But no, it will never end.
This video made me laugh hard. Election season is hell on earth and the gods mock your pain, little girl.
From Der Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/divided-states-of-america-notes-on-the-decline-of-a-great-nation-a-865295.html
Thanks for the link, David.
I love the word banal. I forget who coined the phrase “the banality of evil,” but it so aptly describes the overall situation.
Hannah Arendt. ;o)