The Big Picture is as ugly as the details.

[Cresent City Kid]

We focus on issues, which is important, but when you step back and take it all in, you'll see a network of interconnected crises that represent the unfinished (even unstarted) business from the early 1970's. We all know the list: oil shortage, pollution (includes CO2), hunger, stagflation here in the USA, and so on. The failure to solve these problems wasn't from a shortage of solutions, it was an unwillingness to implement solutions, or even admit problems in some cases.

What's frustrating to me is not only the fight against the logical solutions, but the driving principle behind this fight: the perceived right to get rich and keep the money. Anything that took from the wealthy few to better life for all was contested with a religious like zeal. The negative result of having your cake and eating it too was delayed by the discovery of a little more cake (oil), and the deliberate poltitical manipulation that made a voting majority in the US believe in 1890's style endlessness of resources.

Getting the United States on the right side of solving problems will take the rejection of Reaganesque governance, which John McCain has promised us more of. The voting public has to be educated, and the media is no help. We have to do more than hope McCain loses, and gripe if he doesn't. The problems of the 1970's have just sent us a FINAL NOTICE, and we can't just put it back in the mail box.

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[Sinistrous]

2. Good post. K&R.

:applause:

[Cresent City Kid]

3. Thank you

Like Chris Rock says, "I'm gettin' ti.. ti... tired of this shit!"

[femrap]

4. K and R

I agree wholeheartedly with you....no wonder I feel like I am living in a constant Deja Vu! Women's rights, civil rights, Justice have all been backlashed into a time where I will NOT go.

I'm not a patient person and to have to fight the same fights we did in the '60's and '70's...well, it's beyond aggravating. And now with the MSM no longer having a Walter Cronkite on TV at 6:30 pm everyday with EVERYONE watching (no cable TV....you watched NEWS at 6:30 or NOTHING), people today receive no news about political events...just Hollywood crap.

The hippies were right. PERIOD.

ETA: Welcome to DU:hi:

[Cresent City Kid]

7. Glad to be here

Hippies were right on issues, but the Reaganites threw out the baby with the bath water. What I mean is that they lumped drug use, in with the ideas, and started the "consider the source" knee jerk reaction.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Hmmm. Don't think Obama or Hillary will do anything positive, just a

"kinder, gentler" more of the same. That's why the corprat media chose to "support" them and ran off Edwards. x(

[madmom]

9. As much as I wish it weren't so, I agree with you 100%, we needed Edwards!

[Cresent City Kid]

10. You just reminded me

This is off topic, but the Darwin fish reminded me of something that made me laugh. I was watching the local news, and there was a story about a fugitive. They told us to be on the lookout for a particular vehicle. The car had the traditional fish emblem, but they HAD to show the Darwin fish, just in case.

[Fireweed247]

6. we need a new perspective in this country, an entire culture shift

We need to look down on the greedy and self absorbed, and begin to value people who care about others, who do good deeds for others.

Instead of TV shows like 'lifestyles of the rich and famous' we need 'lifestyles of the courageous and altruistic'.

www.peacecandidates.com

[Cresent City Kid]

8. You just hit a nerve

"Lifestyles of the rich and famous" was indicative of a time when, incredibly, rich became the new way to be cool. "Morning in America" was kind of true for me because all I had to eat was grits. Every meal was breakfast!