2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This could have the effect of a revolution occurring under the radar... just consider... [View all]OSPREYXIV
(74 posts)They have their games, we have ours.
They are Bourbons who learn nothing, forget nothing. We have knowledge, they have power.
The reason we are sitting out here in the cold on the verge of starvation is that we cannot agree on a common agenda. Corporate propaganda, disguised as entertainment is used to divide and conquer. There's nothing complicated about it.
For that reason, we must realize that this struggle will never be over. There are no happy endings,
Hollywood bullshit is delusional, it deflects and disconnects us from genuine emotion reactions appropriate to the reality which is at hand in the here and now. Politics has become packaging and presentation. It is our job to understand what is really being said, not to fall for the grifters' spiel.
What is real? What's really at stake? Easy one. The Constitution. We're for it, they'd like to forget it.
Romney Republicans are deracinated, even more thoroughly hypnotized than chalk-lined chickens.
If not, they're double plus dangerous because only a super-cynical, uber-clinical sociopath can suspend disbelief on continual basis 24/7/365. For them "follow the money" is their mantra, not their motto. Our motto?
"Fair play, fair deal, fair share."
Maintain a constant state of suspicious alertness at all times. "What's in it for them?" More. Always more. Nothing more, nothing less. That's all.