In These Times

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• • 23 Jul 05
  • 3:53 am

  Part One: This is a very interesting thread. I'm intrigued that so many people still believe that the Dems can or will pull us out of this mess. Apparantly, you guyz believe that the system, tho twisted, even broken, can be fixed, and that the Democrats are the "tools" we'll need to use to do so. I just don't see how this can be true. Some time ago, I was reading about FDR's internment / imprisonment of Japanese Americans, during - and after - WWII. This led me to pieces about the relatively indiscriminate bombing of known civillian targets throughout Germany …

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• • 23 Jul 05
  • 4:00 am

  Part 2: (Couldn't post all this blab in one submission...) Clinton, a sweetheart by comparison, moved the country sharply and deliberately to the right. He forced single mothers with children off of welfare and out into the minimum wage workaday world - let the chips fall where they may. He "got tough on crime," and on "drugs," putting even more people of color behind bars while giving speeches about his deep and abiding concern for blacks and Latinos and Asians. He felt strongly that, generally, there is "too much democracy." Throughout his presidency, huge, powerful corporations became even larger and more …

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• • 23 Jul 05
  • 2:41 pm

  Hi Richard2 and SuzieQ - You folks concluded, from my critique of the dems, that I must be a republican. This is not, I think, accidental. The democrats and republicans, and the corporate power which they both are, would have us believe that our choices must be limited to what they offer us: Horrible - under the Republicans… somewhat less horrible - under the democrats. Yes, life - all life, here at home and all around the world, has gotten much worse under the Bush Cabal. But I would argue that we’ve arrived where we are because of the generalized myopia, …

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• • 23 Jul 05
  • 4:51 pm

  Hi SuzieQ - Well, I don't know what I am, actually. I voted for Nader - not because I thought he had a prayer, but because he is so passionately opposed to corporate power. (Something NEVER discussed seriously by most members of either party. Have you read: The Corporation, by Joel Bakan? It's factual, well researched, and frightening.) I was a democrat throughout most of my life, as were my parents and grandparents. But, after 9-11, I started reading voraciously. I did so because I saw Dan Rather on Letterman. He said that the terrorists attacked us because they were jealous …

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• • 23 Jul 05
  • 7:51 pm

  Hi Richard2 - Calm down, Sir. In most respects, we agree completely. That I point out that Clinton was a criminal does not mean that I approve of the Bush Thugocracy. Quite the contrary. I simply fail to see how the democrats differ in substance, from the republicans. In terms of the heartless greed and dedication to the New Corporate Reich, Bush may well be in a league of his own. But the democrats AND the republicans paved the roadway for babyBush's easy ride into Babylon. The government, composed of BOTH parties, created a nation which allowed Bush to be appointed …

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