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90-percent

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62. Thanks
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 12:08 AM
Jan 2014

Thanks for all the responses to my post. It's nice to say something that resonates with my fellow DU'ers. Most of my stuff goes over like a lead zeppelin around here.

Chris Hedges has had some excellent "what is it going to take to start revolution in America" videos and because he covered so many revolutions ans social upheavals in the middle East over his career. He really knows the confluence of factors that trigger revolution. It seems to take only one or two percent of the population to get active and protest and fight to trigger substantial change.

As 2014 has been deemed by some to be the year of the return of liberal progressivism, this will be a year of profound change, and I think for the better.

We have wonderful people like Alan Grayson, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and other remarkable politicians fighting hard for the bottom 99%. May the 2014 Elections replace all gerrymandered Republicans with Bill DiBlasio clones!

Once the lies and smears the right has directed at the ACA for the last three years are proven to be demonstrably false by the experience of millions of Americans, it will become more apparent to the aging Fox News Viewers that their beloved Republicans are liars that work aggressively against the best interests of the bottom 99%. And it will be more obvious to the entire country that the Republicans grovel at the feet of the wealthy Oligarchs they serve instead of the fools that vote for them.

It will become so apparent that perhaps the wealthy will get their children kidnapped by desperate Americans with NOTHING LEFT TO LOOSE. With our media, that could be a full blown epidemic happening at this very moment that our MSM is censoring desperately, lest they incur the ire of their masters. Looks for elites to start receiving more ears from their kidnapped children this year. If this fantasy is taking form somewhere, thank God we have reporters like Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Bill Moyers, Thom Hartmann and even the MSNBC prime time line up to tell us about it.

I can taste the schadenfreude now!

-90% Jimmy

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Jan 2014 #1
Worse. An economic recovery for the parasites funded by the middle and lower classes. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #2
a neat summation. You said in one line what took me several paragraphs. cali Jan 2014 #3
K&R.... daleanime Jan 2014 #4
The solution - basic income. It's a human right, especially in an economy that doesn't produce jobs. reformist2 Jan 2014 #5
Fantastic idea. Our economy produces plenty of wealth but its distribution is the worst pampango Jan 2014 #7
sorry, but that's not a viable solution. I think focusing on raising the federal minimum cali Jan 2014 #8
Basic Income is the long-term goal. Minimum wage, unemployment insurance are merely stop-gaps. reformist2 Jan 2014 #9
It's not a long term goal but in order to achieve anything like a cali Jan 2014 #13
Looks like capitalism is failing. . . B Calm Jan 2014 #6
They did a great job of covering it up with financial bubbles... reformist2 Jan 2014 #10
Capitalism is very similar to feudalism fasttense Jan 2014 #11
Feudalism is terminal capitalism. zeemike Jan 2014 #35
Good point. fasttense Jan 2014 #73
More properly, government is failing. Capitalism is just doing its job bhikkhu Jan 2014 #55
You're right. davidthegnome Jan 2014 #12
Of course there's no economic recovery. Watch any of Prof. Rick Wolff's monthly Global Capitalism truth2power Jan 2014 #14
Why do you hate Obama?!... druidity33 Jan 2014 #15
please tell me there aren't that many right wing nut jobs in Westerm MA! cali Jan 2014 #17
I'd like to tell you that... druidity33 Jan 2014 #53
So what are YOU going to do about it? One thing to complain. OK. Now ACT. RBInMaine Jan 2014 #16
uh. I have acted cali Jan 2014 #18
+1 B Calm Jan 2014 #19
berating pixels on a message board is that one's activism. I guess you gotta start somewhere... KG Jan 2014 #28
how very convenient- and dishonest of you to omit the other things I listed and just what cali Jan 2014 #29
oh shit, cali, dude is on your side. toby jo Jan 2014 #34
I don't think KG was targeting you with that post whopis01 Jan 2014 #36
try a little reading comprehension some time. KG Jan 2014 #44
Yipes... Agschmid Jan 2014 #64
Oh come on, RB-- Doesn't posting on discussion boards count for anything? NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #20
and on these issues you've done precisely what, dear friend. do tell. cali Jan 2014 #30
You have been asked upthread and I'd like to know the answer... What have you done? And what ChisolmTrailDem Jan 2014 #40
The first step is to recognize the problem. But some choose to live in the rhett o rick Jan 2014 #52
Sorry, but the numbers prove you wrong MannyGoldstein Jan 2014 #21
Thank you for that vital correction, Manny! I humbly beg your pardon for cali Jan 2014 #22
No problem. MannyGoldstein Jan 2014 #23
Actually, the numbers favor the OP. Research link enclosed --> ChisolmTrailDem Jan 2014 #41
Manny was being sarcastic Skittles Jan 2014 #46
The Stock Market 90-percent Jan 2014 #24
re the market bubble, my two cents Shemp Howard Jan 2014 #26
It's the low interest rates that's making stocks go up and that's going to end soon. L0oniX Jan 2014 #42
90 percent airplaneman Jan 2014 #49
At best only half of Americans own stock. WHEN CRABS ROAR Jan 2014 #54
Thanks 90-percent Jan 2014 #62
The recovery signs are all pointing to better times for the 1%. The rest of us have a very mixed jwirr Jan 2014 #25
Someone will come along and post how low unemployment is to make it all better seveneyes Jan 2014 #27
no, the self-righteous are too busy lecturing me about having posted this. cali Jan 2014 #31
Keep in mind that there are a lot of stock holders here approaching retirement age. L0oniX Jan 2014 #43
If they are approaching retirement age, they'd best get their money out of it soon. RC Jan 2014 #47
There, there. It will all trickle down eventually. malthaussen Jan 2014 #32
Look on the bright side ProSense Jan 2014 #33
K&R woo me with science Jan 2014 #37
Great Post! Absolutely agree with you; economic recovery??? who is kidding who?? democratisphere Jan 2014 #38
Truth. 840high Jan 2014 #39
Exactly. DeSwiss Jan 2014 #45
Hmmm Phlem Jan 2014 #48
I'm afraid that we are probably into a new baseline reality. The shift away from an economy fueled Douglas Carpenter Jan 2014 #50
like Reagan and the DLC did for politics, they're not looking more than 4 years down the line MisterP Jan 2014 #63
Not long after the 2008 crash, Orman was talking about the "new normal." merrily Jan 2014 #67
"That's the simple truth of the matter" - very well said FreakinDJ Jan 2014 #51
"So what are YOU going to do about it? One thing to complain. OK. Now ACT." djean111 Jan 2014 #56
Cheers Savannahmann Jan 2014 #57
Economic recovery on the backs of the poor workinclasszero Jan 2014 #58
Only in Amurka 2naSalit Jan 2014 #59
K & R ctsnowman Jan 2014 #60
Actually, I do think we're in a recovery. Now, all the money is staying at... WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2014 #61
"Economic Recovery" for the Too Big To Fail ONLY. All else need NOT apply. blkmusclmachine Jan 2014 #65
K&R! The simple truth is an ugly reality. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #66
kick woo me with science Jan 2014 #68
kick woo me with science Jan 2014 #69
kick woo me with science Jan 2014 #70
kick woo me with science Jan 2014 #71
kick woo me with science Jan 2014 #72
The President is getting his FAST TRACK OF THE TPP! woo me with science Jan 2014 #74
Recommend jsr Jan 2014 #75
On a macro level I totally agree with you. On a micro level it may be prudent to kelly1mm Jan 2014 #76
When Market uncertainty ends, BobUp Jan 2014 #77
There has been no fundamental change to the economy. NCTraveler Jan 2014 #78
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