Greetings good citizen,
Monday again and the ‘nonsense markets’ are up to their usual shenanigans, mostly reflecting the ‘will’ of the One Percent.
But that isn’t the headline that caught my eye. In fact it was the opposite question that popped into my head when I saw this story in today’s AlterNet newsletter
The opening question, as C.K. Michaelson is fond of phrasing it, is ‘asked and answered’.
The Tea Party has been around for years and isn’t going anywhere. Conspicuous by its absence (and thus the title of today’s offering) is ‘Occupy Who?’
What happened to that ‘loose confederation’ of ‘concerned students’ who peered into the future and saw stuff that would have made even Orwell balk?
Did they scare themselves into submission or did those magical acronyms do the trick?
(I’ll never get a job teaching with a FBI record hanging over my head!)
Thus did the ever so tenuous ‘movement’ to protest the rule of the oligarchs ‘vanish’ in pretty much the same way it coalesced.
Which is not to say the OWS ‘participants’ have, er, ‘abandoned’ the cause, they haven’t.
What they were looking for then and what they are looking for still are ‘answers’.
The trouble with being young and knowing all the answers (as they were spoon fed to you) is you begin to realize how little you actually ‘know’ with any degree of certainty.
Everything you have been taught has six inches of ‘whitewash’ covering it, whether it needed it or not! It’s done for ‘consistency’…so it all ‘blends’.
As I age I am seeing this ‘goo’ being applied to days of my youth and the national tragedy that was Vietnam.
The misguided vendetta against already wobbly ‘communism’ was really just a ‘trial run’ for the GWOT!
If we get kids young enough, will they ‘kill on command’?
And the answer turned out to be yes.
Well, good citizen, what do you suppose ‘the answer’ to that one is?
You’re correct again, I don’t ‘know’ either BUT I’m pretty sure throwing EVERYBODY in the INTELLIGENCE community in the big house would provide a clear starting point to correct 50 years of military ‘adventurism’.
I know I am not alone in ‘theorizing’ that something went radically wrong after WWII and the introduction of the ‘nuclear age’.
Just how far would/did ‘our betters’ go towards insuring that nuclear technology didn’t fall into the hands of ‘the rabble’? [Iran anyone?]
Aren’t those the ‘battle lines’ we are seeing today? Did the ever-paranoid capitalists see their doom written in a mushroom cloud wielded by those they have oppressed?
Worse, the ‘hate’ doesn’t stop there. There are those among us who ‘believe’ the human race isn’t worthy of the (totally fictional) ‘kingdom of heaven’, and would see us all ‘eradicated’ so that nasty Jesus wouldn’t be able to ‘save’ us (allegedly) again.
Which is to opine that there are some mighty unbalanced individuals out there. (Start with ANYONE who claims to speak for ‘spirit in the sky’…then proceed to the entire crowd born with the proverbial ‘silver spoon’ stuck in just about any orifice!)
But I digress, somewhat anyway.
Where is OWS and more importantly, where are its ‘children’?
The Tea Partiers have been with us for long time under different guises, soon they will abandon their tri-corner hats and start pretending it wasn’t them at all! (In typical conservo-looney fashion!)
I, perhaps unkindly, predicted the demise of OWS when it became obvious they were as ‘rudderless’ as the alleged 99% appear to be.
They ‘identified’ the enemy easily enough…and then they sat there and did nothing. And when the cops came they fled.
Somehow I don’t think that will be the case next time but I’m just ‘thinking out loud’ here.
When the ‘second leg’ of the downturn hits and the people take to the streets, chances are good the One Percent will be A.) long gone and B.) quick to ‘appease’ the protesters with mock trials for low level offenders…
But seriously good citizen, justice, five years delayed, will not repair the economy or our badly broken society.
While the Libertarian leaning ‘progressives’ speculate on the fate of the Tea Party, the rest of us can continue forgetting the movement that wasn’t…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday again and the ‘nonsense markets’ are up to their usual shenanigans, mostly reflecting the ‘will’ of the One Percent.
But that isn’t the headline that caught my eye. In fact it was the opposite question that popped into my head when I saw this story in today’s AlterNet newsletter
Is the Tea Party Over?
The answer all depends on what you mean by "Tea Party."
January 12, 2013 |
Photo Credit: A.M. Stan
There's a new parlor game in your nation's capital, played by reporters and pundits who begin with a single question: Is the Tea Party dead? Endlessly entertaining to ponder, it's a question whose answer depends on your definition of the Tea Party movement.
Are you talking about the 900 grassroots Tea Party groups in 2010 whose numbers have now dwindled to 600? Or the popularity of the movement among most Americans?
Or do you measure the "Tea Party" as a marketing plan by the right wing in its 50-year quest to bend the Republican Party to its will and bring the nation to its knees?
The opening question, as C.K. Michaelson is fond of phrasing it, is ‘asked and answered’.
The Tea Party has been around for years and isn’t going anywhere. Conspicuous by its absence (and thus the title of today’s offering) is ‘Occupy Who?’
What happened to that ‘loose confederation’ of ‘concerned students’ who peered into the future and saw stuff that would have made even Orwell balk?
Did they scare themselves into submission or did those magical acronyms do the trick?
(I’ll never get a job teaching with a FBI record hanging over my head!)
Thus did the ever so tenuous ‘movement’ to protest the rule of the oligarchs ‘vanish’ in pretty much the same way it coalesced.
Which is not to say the OWS ‘participants’ have, er, ‘abandoned’ the cause, they haven’t.
What they were looking for then and what they are looking for still are ‘answers’.
The trouble with being young and knowing all the answers (as they were spoon fed to you) is you begin to realize how little you actually ‘know’ with any degree of certainty.
Everything you have been taught has six inches of ‘whitewash’ covering it, whether it needed it or not! It’s done for ‘consistency’…so it all ‘blends’.
As I age I am seeing this ‘goo’ being applied to days of my youth and the national tragedy that was Vietnam.
The misguided vendetta against already wobbly ‘communism’ was really just a ‘trial run’ for the GWOT!
If we get kids young enough, will they ‘kill on command’?
And the answer turned out to be yes.
Well, good citizen, what do you suppose ‘the answer’ to that one is?
You’re correct again, I don’t ‘know’ either BUT I’m pretty sure throwing EVERYBODY in the INTELLIGENCE community in the big house would provide a clear starting point to correct 50 years of military ‘adventurism’.
I know I am not alone in ‘theorizing’ that something went radically wrong after WWII and the introduction of the ‘nuclear age’.
Just how far would/did ‘our betters’ go towards insuring that nuclear technology didn’t fall into the hands of ‘the rabble’? [Iran anyone?]
Aren’t those the ‘battle lines’ we are seeing today? Did the ever-paranoid capitalists see their doom written in a mushroom cloud wielded by those they have oppressed?
Worse, the ‘hate’ doesn’t stop there. There are those among us who ‘believe’ the human race isn’t worthy of the (totally fictional) ‘kingdom of heaven’, and would see us all ‘eradicated’ so that nasty Jesus wouldn’t be able to ‘save’ us (allegedly) again.
Which is to opine that there are some mighty unbalanced individuals out there. (Start with ANYONE who claims to speak for ‘spirit in the sky’…then proceed to the entire crowd born with the proverbial ‘silver spoon’ stuck in just about any orifice!)
But I digress, somewhat anyway.
Where is OWS and more importantly, where are its ‘children’?
The Tea Partiers have been with us for long time under different guises, soon they will abandon their tri-corner hats and start pretending it wasn’t them at all! (In typical conservo-looney fashion!)
I, perhaps unkindly, predicted the demise of OWS when it became obvious they were as ‘rudderless’ as the alleged 99% appear to be.
They ‘identified’ the enemy easily enough…and then they sat there and did nothing. And when the cops came they fled.
Somehow I don’t think that will be the case next time but I’m just ‘thinking out loud’ here.
When the ‘second leg’ of the downturn hits and the people take to the streets, chances are good the One Percent will be A.) long gone and B.) quick to ‘appease’ the protesters with mock trials for low level offenders…
But seriously good citizen, justice, five years delayed, will not repair the economy or our badly broken society.
While the Libertarian leaning ‘progressives’ speculate on the fate of the Tea Party, the rest of us can continue forgetting the movement that wasn’t…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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