tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post4838492801744760295..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: No Kids, This is NOT "What Democracy Looks Like"Bill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-76155869245537808262015-03-11T01:21:37.925-04:002015-03-11T01:21:37.925-04:00I made a comment, other than this one. Lost in th...I made a comment, other than this one. Lost in the ether. It was the second try. <br />Oh, well. <br />Quick recap. love the following...".I think a better historical model would be the Gilded Age. Haymarket Square rather than Zuccotti Park, Wobblies rather than Hippies. Joe Hill instead of Elizabeth Warren."<br />Loving also the context of 'chock' and 'Kardashian'. Dry drydock humor.<br />Finally, Jim Crow maybe better called Jim Phoenix as he rises from the ashes of burned crosses.centralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-12909055924793488652015-03-10T22:47:25.259-04:002015-03-10T22:47:25.259-04:00Amen to that. People forget that the two Roosevel...Amen to that. People forget that the two Roosevelts had to be pushed from below. Without that push, change ain'ta comin'.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-22088378942996432812015-03-10T15:27:36.643-04:002015-03-10T15:27:36.643-04:00If there's one thing that the Occupy movement ...If there's one thing that the Occupy movement proved, it's that '60s style activism is a dead issue. One can hold all the teach-ins one wants, write letters to one's congresscritter every day and draft enough petitions to chock a Kardashian - and it won't make so much as a dent. Our masters and betters are far too well insulated for any of that to work. To borrow some dialogue from the film Dogma: "(They) ..rest comfortably in seats of inscrutable power, hiding behind (their) false idol, far from judgment, lives shrouded in secrecy even from one another."<br /><br />I think a better historical model would be the Gilded Age. Haymarket Square rather than Zuccotti Park, Wobblies rather than Hippies. Joe Hill instead of Elizabeth Warren.<br /><br />AlanSmitheenoreply@blogger.com