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The answer to my most gnawing, constant question dawned on me just the other day;
Why don’t ‘they’ see that they’re driving our nation over the cliff?
Why don’t ‘they’ see that their rapacious greed is wrecking the very economy that made their own wealth possible?
Why don’t ‘they’ see that they’ve killed the goose that laid the golden egg?
Then it dawned on me that you can visualize our economy in a certain sense, as a wave, a wave that the PTB have been both shaping, and riding.
They’ve worked very hard to build this thing, and they really succeeded in getting a tremendous amount of momentum going here.
Our MOTU are a crazed gang of hoodlum surfers, and they’ve caught a monstrous wave.
It’s all a matter of hysterical momentum.
They are riding a mountainous wave of greed fueled hubris, and they see some sort of illusory finish line ahead where the rest of us see a very real chasm.
They cannot stop, they would never in a million years think of stopping.
As things are, there is virtually nothing standing in their way other than a terribly fragmented and uncoordinated public opinion, and that public has been so thoroughly convinced of it’s own helplessness that so far, it’s been mostly staring down the road in anticipation of the crash.
It is already too late, the tipping point is here.
It is no longer possible to make believe that we can turn the Democratic party around convince them to listen to our pleading.
I’ve had my doubts, but those doubts have disappeared, yes ‘they’ intend to take everything, and the Democrats as much as the Republicans are helping them carry it all away.
It’s no longer necessary to list their crimes, we all know what they are.
It’s no longer necessary to convince anyone of the uselessness of petitioning our politicians to come to our aid before it’s too late, everyone knows that.
There is one thing we might do, one thing they don’t expect, one thing that would at least make us feel less complicit in our own ruin.
Instead of sitting out this disgusting election season, instead of joining the ranks of the dispirited, we could get out and vote for Jill Stein, and the green party.
On election night we could turn off the TV, ignore the vote tally and get a good nights sleep secure in the knowledge that for once we haven’t been snookered into voting for the lesser evil.
If enough of us did this, we could show ‘them’ quite convincingly that the tipping point is now, and that we’ve had enough.
It won’t require torches and pitchforks.
Let’s proudly turn our backs on those who’ve sold us down the river, and vote for Jill Stein.
The tipping point is now.
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I pretty much agree with everything in your post.
I will cast my vote for Jill Stein happily and enthusiastically….I can’t wait to vote For Jill Stein. By doing so, I will also be voting Against both factions of the UniParty.
I hope that there are many of us sending that message on election day.
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I assume the MOTU (masters of the universe) are the multinational corporations and the special interest groups that have pretty-much taken control, increasingly, post-Citizen’s United?
I’m just wondering how much of a fraud government will become– given the fact that the lobbyists haven’t capitalized on their new-found fascist power yet.
Unfortunately, the austerity program has only just begun. Therefore, (I assume) that many of us will be “trickled down upon” beyond our wildest dreams. Hope for our future withers in the face of cold facts. Stein is great, but IMO, we’re grasping at straws.
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Whiners alert ….but she can’t win, couldn’t govern, blah blah blah.
I said before and I’ll say it again I’m betting a women wouldn’t randomly murder other women’s children where the Men can’t seem to resist notches on their belts , in kills that is.
The days ahead are nothing but a living hell brought about by unmitigated greed.
We have sown the wind wildly and the coming whirlwind will leave few standing , if any at all.
I’m voting for Jill Stein. I can walk to my precinct. If I didn’t enjoy the walk, I wouldn’t bother voting.
Whining my ass! I’ve taken a cynical view of Washington. So should we all, and stop electing Ds & Rs. I’ll take that bet on a woman not ordering drone strikes by the way. It’s what we do.
Also, I wasn’t criticizing Jill Stein! She best represents my views.
Blah Blah yourself.
Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful morning and I hope everyone is in a good mood.
I want you to consider the opportunity we have to Occupy the Vote.
Think of this as D-Day, and Jill Stein has provided us a beach head.
Are we going to take advantage of this first best chance to strike blow for freedom or are we going to continue to waste our time wishing evil wasn’t so evil?
A lot of what we do around here, a lot of the discussion is about “what can we do?”
This is something we can do, this is what is possible, right now, no waiting, front row seats still available.
We can drive the Hope and Change bus, it’s clear that BO doesn’t feel up to the task.
Keep in mind that starting the journey is the point here, sure ‘they’ may have us pretty demoralized, but that doesn’t mean we have to be immobilized.
Let’s do like hackworth1 says and enjoy the trip to the polls.
It’s impossible to do worse than idly watching another kabuki election, or even worse voting for either of the evil twins.
By voting for Jill Stein we can guarantee ourselves a better experience this time, no matter the outcome.
Let’s show ‘them’ how many of us have come to our senses.
I’m with your post 120%, all the way to “vote” anyway. I’ve got my seat belt fastened, and I’m ready for the ride to hell in my handbasket, just like that guy who rode the bomb in that movie.
Exactly, why wait?
If not now when?
It’s not like things are going to get better if only we explain it all to each other for another four years or so.
I’m not sure who I’ll be voting for, but it won’t be for either wing of the UniParty.
I’ve mostly voted third party in the past, making exceptions for Dems at times. I can’t, and won’t, be making exceptions for Dems anymore, down ticket or anything else. Not after seeing the way the Dem Party has embraced and supported Obama in his quest to be worse than Bush while blaming everything on Bush at the same time. And not after seeing the way the Dem party relentlessly squashes any hope of a down ticket progressive Dem candidate getting elected.
I’ve been supporting both Stein and Anderson and will end up voting for the one who seems to have the most national momentum come election time. My state allows write-ins so it won’t matter so much to to me if one or the other doesn’t get on the ballot.
To me, investing anything in the Dem Party with the hope that it can be changed is more hopeless than investing in progressive third parties with the hope of building a national force
My sparkle pony is not enabling or casting my approval on either the Dems or the Repubs, and yes, I’m gonna get it.
Great! Recommended including almost who to vote for … though will research Stein and Anderson a bit more before deciding on one of them or someone else. Leaning toward Stein …
A message needs to be sent by those of us still sentient …
Although I’m very impressed with Jill Stein, my priority in writing this post is to highlight the fact that we have the option this election cycle of voting for something other than the lesser evil.
Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala talk with Bill Moyers.
We have the option and I hope we have the motivation.
It seems to me that we’ve always been encouraged to be afraid of ‘wasting our vote’.
That whole meme has become tired and transparently false.
The only wasted vote is one that isn’t cast.
I think that this time around, the most impact we can make with our vote, long-term, is to vote third-party.
The PTB ignore the ill-informed and the captive voter, but will not ignore widespread, purposeful abandonment by voters.
Their schemes will only work as long as we follow the script, and play the part they’ve written for us in their kabuki democracy.
Following our own plan is a tactic they cannot ignore.
I wish you all the success in the world with your plan; however, as so many brilliant writers have stated, you would have a better chance of saving the SS Titanic, than this ship.
You and I, and the rest us are traveling on this ship, and it’s the conditions on this ship we’re talking about.
The Titanic is history, and that makes all the difference don’t you think?
Recommended, although I will still vote for Stewart Alexander for a number of reasons, I’m not going to attack anyone for voting their conscience in November.
It can’t hurt to at least vote and TRY to send a peaceful message to the uncaring PTB.
“I said before and I’ll say it again I’m betting a women wouldn’t randomly murder other women’s children where the Men can’t seem to resist notches on their belts , in kills that is.”
That dog won’t hunt. Cleopatra certainly didn’t hesitate to do just that. Nor did Queen “Bloody” Mary or Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine the Great of Russia, Indira Gandhi(We got the Bomb, Yay!), of India, Golda Meir of Israel, or Prime Minister Margaret Iron Lady Thatcher of Britain.
Be prepared for every voter suppression trick in the book and note the USPS service delays brought to you by the 1%ers. Check your voter registration now and get it in order.
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Hillary doesn’t exactly instill confidence either.
And we have to remember this little gem from one of her predecessors;
If you think they supress the democratic voter, wait until you see what they do when voters start thinking outside the box.
I think that’s what they’re geared up for actually so as to prevent votes leaving the Dempublican/Republicrat travelling show.
@johnjcook of Gawker at the #DNC2012 (watch the expressions including response from Cory Booker):
[Vid] “Ask the DNC: Is Romney Ready for the Kill List?”
I remember an article written by Peggy Noonan (speech writer for Ronald Reagan), as I recall it was written once Teddy Kennedy announced his brain tumor. She wrote about a conversation that was had shortly before he became ill. There had been a group sitting around with Kennedy, Noonan was present, when Teddy made a comment to the effect that he was glad he wasn’t going to be around much longer because “we are all on a train that is out of control and soon will be running off the track”.
I remember being horrified that he would know such a thing and not be doing everything in his power to stop this oncoming tragedy. Well, obviously, Kennedy died, and the shit more than hit the fan. We all now know what he was alluding to, that night. Which makes me wonder just how long most of Washington HAS been aware of the balls it has been keeping in the air at our expense?
The Titanic sank because the rivets were defective.
The Titanic wasn’t part of my analogy, it was lakota’s, @12 but I’ll bite.
How do the bad rivets relate to what we’re facing now?
By the time Kennedy died, he had witnessed nearly forty years of ever-increasing power on the right, and the dawn of third-way politics within the Democratic party.
He saw the capitulation of the Democrats up close and personal long before we the people understood what was happening, hell, most of the democratic base still doesn’t understand that they’ve been sold-out.
I’d say that the Washington insiders knew in 1983 (Social Security reform act) that the right-wing had taken over and it was compromise or get out of the way.
So since 1983 it had been a gradual, but unrelenting sell-out until Clinton, when you could say that with the repeal of Glass-Steagal we had total capitulation and the momentum became what we’re now experiencing, corporate ownership of government.
In 2008, I was so excited to vote for Obama that I was on line to vote over an hour before polls opened.
Four years later, I just may get to the polls at 5 a.m., to vote against Obama and every other faux Democrat.
And, yes, at the top of my ticket will be Dr. Jill Stein.
I don’t believe Noonan for five minutes.
Recommended. I watched the Moyers interview. It was the first time I had really seen Jill Stein and I was quite impressed with her, but even more so with Cheri Honkala. She appears to actually be the sort of real, empathetic person that Obama is still pretending to be. I found Moyers’ sort of aggressive questioning of them to be a little odd, given how reserved he often is with others, but they more than held their own. Perhaps he is loathe to give up the Dem delusion, in spite of the fact that his show regularly reminds us of just how bad things are.
Sooooo . . . for me, it’s a matter of whether to vote for Jill and Cheri or not to vote at all. I just looked at the registration deadline and I have until October 22 to decide, since I have to update my address. My gut feeling is that “they” won’t count the votes accurately and that by participating, I am continuing to enable this farce. I don’t know whether I will be able to talk myself out of that between now and Oct. 22 or not.
Indira Ghandi and Golda Meir were women.
P.S. So is Hillary.
Ack, I mean “loath.” But I do loathe the lack of an edit function!
I don’t think Moyers is a fan of Obama’s.
Maybe he questioned intently to allow them to show their stuff. Pitching them meatballs would not have impressed anyone.
After all, if you cannot answer some searching questions, you probably shouldn’t be President.
Yes, I agree with that; I wasn’t suggesting that he hold back. There was just something a little different about his tone, IMHO. It could just be me, but it seemed like he was treating them as “spoilers” to some extent, and asking questions in that context.
My guess he is a supporter, really, but sometimes criticizes him in a softer version of the way Michael Moore can castigate him…then advise us to vote for him cuz Romney will eat our children…or whatever.
Rec’d, Watt4Bob.
“cuz Romney will eat our children” – ROFLMAO! I think he only did that when he and Anne were having their hard times, living in the basement apartment and having to cash in a coupla stocks.