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In reply to the discussion: I have examined where my loyalties lie, you judge, I'll explain my position. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)50. Yes, they do, I hope our political revolution succeeds, History shows what happens when
Peaceful, political based revolutions fail. There is also something new happening that adds great urgency to end the cycle and begin repeals extremely soon - an Extinction level event is fast approaching and the current ruling class are too greedy to do what is needed to avoid it. I wrote about cyclic Revolution, a way it was once avoided in the US and spoke of this new urgency recently.
[font size= "3"]Many are still sleeping, but the awakening has begun![/font]
In their somnolence many are only dimly aware of lies and propaganda as told by the corporate owned media and thus some support a candidate that openly and habitually lies to them in order to continue serving her masters that have already made her a multimillionaire by doing their bidding at our expense.
However some dreamers have awakened! Many no longer follow the mcpravda media and are seeing with their own newly opened eyes as their lives and livelihoods fall apart all around them while the billionaires capture all the wealth created by the work and effort of those that see themselves falling either from middle class into the working poor, or from the poor to the desperately impoverished while witnessing the once solid safety nets put into place to keep them safe and fed , free from the horrid conditions of more Dickensian times being ripped to shreds little by little before their eyes with both parties complicit in their destruction.
One need look no farther than a Republican stump speech or the more cleverly hidden common goals of the Democrats that have become Vichy collaborators that hide their plans in the open to destroy those safeguards against complete hopelessness by perusing the chapters of the PPI or Third Way sites where they scheme with the (john Birch Society Transformed) Republican party to not only recreate the gilded age (which they have already done).
But to surpass it via the now global neo-liberalism and it's trade deals to the bottom, it's austerity, it's privatization of all the nations commons, it's near enslavement of all the worlds workers, and it's desired complete destruction of any semblance of a middle class. In an insane attempt to create the wealthiest class ever, which will create the poorest population conceivable.
The new generations are fully awake however and are beginning to feel their power and the power of unity that will in time destroy the depravities and horrors of completely unchecked Capitalism via revolution. The question becomes when and how at this point, the people united win!!! Once after a depression a man and his political revolution saved us from the very same plan at this very same stage, by mixing Socialism with Capitalism and regulating it and thereby defanging the beast of it's venom.
His name was Franklin D. Roosevelt. WE that are awake, those that are awakening, and those of a younger generation not polluted by propaganda must either unite again in a similar political revolution, or else they WILL succeed with their Dickensian utopia until such a time as a different sort of Revolution occurs - one involving a great deal of blood, death, and in the end a victor that may or may not be any better than the ruling elite that it defeats, that is if it defeats it at all the first go around
For the sake of us all, I hope we make the better choice for all of humanity as this is history folks and history almost always ends up with the bloody revolution. However unlike in the past, we are facing an Extinction level event that threatens many of the lifeforms on the planet including humanity itself and so we lack the luxury of time and blood soaked streets and the turmoil that follows such ever recurring events before things settle and we begin to repair the damage being done to the biosphere that supports us.
Not to be an alarmist, but the alarm has already sounded and we not only need to fight and win a political revolution and defeat the plutocrats, we must restore balance and sanity again, but we must do so quickly.
We must unite as well and stop being divided by minor differences within our species such as race (in truth there is only one human race regardless of melanin content or shape of eye and we need to wake up from that right away if we are to survive) we must also unify the different sexes an sexuality's and do that quickly.
There is no more time to play history's games of the wealthy siphoning everything until a revolution occurs, or the games of racism, sexism, or any other isms.
For time is too short and not only must the quality of life of the struggling and ever more impoverished masses be resolved, but unity must happen or not only will the impoverished grow hungry, but the entire human race will cease to exist.
We have run out of time to play the DNC and RNC games and fully awaken not only to live well, but to live at all.
The Younger generation has begun to glean this and so must we all, and pathetically such grand goals with such high stakes must begin by winning a simple yet difficult to win political revolution happening in this very election. Made so unnecessarily difficult by pure, short sighted ridiculous greed of people like the Clintons , their third way and the Republicans.
Let us all awaken now!!!!
In their somnolence many are only dimly aware of lies and propaganda as told by the corporate owned media and thus some support a candidate that openly and habitually lies to them in order to continue serving her masters that have already made her a multimillionaire by doing their bidding at our expense.
However some dreamers have awakened! Many no longer follow the mcpravda media and are seeing with their own newly opened eyes as their lives and livelihoods fall apart all around them while the billionaires capture all the wealth created by the work and effort of those that see themselves falling either from middle class into the working poor, or from the poor to the desperately impoverished while witnessing the once solid safety nets put into place to keep them safe and fed , free from the horrid conditions of more Dickensian times being ripped to shreds little by little before their eyes with both parties complicit in their destruction.
One need look no farther than a Republican stump speech or the more cleverly hidden common goals of the Democrats that have become Vichy collaborators that hide their plans in the open to destroy those safeguards against complete hopelessness by perusing the chapters of the PPI or Third Way sites where they scheme with the (john Birch Society Transformed) Republican party to not only recreate the gilded age (which they have already done).
But to surpass it via the now global neo-liberalism and it's trade deals to the bottom, it's austerity, it's privatization of all the nations commons, it's near enslavement of all the worlds workers, and it's desired complete destruction of any semblance of a middle class. In an insane attempt to create the wealthiest class ever, which will create the poorest population conceivable.
The new generations are fully awake however and are beginning to feel their power and the power of unity that will in time destroy the depravities and horrors of completely unchecked Capitalism via revolution. The question becomes when and how at this point, the people united win!!! Once after a depression a man and his political revolution saved us from the very same plan at this very same stage, by mixing Socialism with Capitalism and regulating it and thereby defanging the beast of it's venom.
His name was Franklin D. Roosevelt. WE that are awake, those that are awakening, and those of a younger generation not polluted by propaganda must either unite again in a similar political revolution, or else they WILL succeed with their Dickensian utopia until such a time as a different sort of Revolution occurs - one involving a great deal of blood, death, and in the end a victor that may or may not be any better than the ruling elite that it defeats, that is if it defeats it at all the first go around
For the sake of us all, I hope we make the better choice for all of humanity as this is history folks and history almost always ends up with the bloody revolution. However unlike in the past, we are facing an Extinction level event that threatens many of the lifeforms on the planet including humanity itself and so we lack the luxury of time and blood soaked streets and the turmoil that follows such ever recurring events before things settle and we begin to repair the damage being done to the biosphere that supports us.
Not to be an alarmist, but the alarm has already sounded and we not only need to fight and win a political revolution and defeat the plutocrats, we must restore balance and sanity again, but we must do so quickly.
We must unite as well and stop being divided by minor differences within our species such as race (in truth there is only one human race regardless of melanin content or shape of eye and we need to wake up from that right away if we are to survive) we must also unify the different sexes an sexuality's and do that quickly.
There is no more time to play history's games of the wealthy siphoning everything until a revolution occurs, or the games of racism, sexism, or any other isms.
For time is too short and not only must the quality of life of the struggling and ever more impoverished masses be resolved, but unity must happen or not only will the impoverished grow hungry, but the entire human race will cease to exist.
We have run out of time to play the DNC and RNC games and fully awaken not only to live well, but to live at all.
The Younger generation has begun to glean this and so must we all, and pathetically such grand goals with such high stakes must begin by winning a simple yet difficult to win political revolution happening in this very election. Made so unnecessarily difficult by pure, short sighted ridiculous greed of people like the Clintons , their third way and the Republicans.
Let us all awaken now!!!!
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I have examined where my loyalties lie, you judge, I'll explain my position. [View all]
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
OP
It is funny, but the funniest part is that I believe he calls himself a Democratic Socialist
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#97
I've been up all night, lots to think about so I need to crash for a few hours
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#5
That they threw the mentally ill out on the street during Reagan's terms and they are
Dustlawyer
Mar 2016
#31
And how much does it cost us taxpayers vs a proper nursing home and treatment?
Dustlawyer
Mar 2016
#40
Excellent Post on a topic that needs more light shed on it, I agree with monicaangel make It an OP!
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#90
You do not think, or you do not LIKE to think, that Obama would hurt the little people?
Coincidence
Mar 2016
#42
Sanders has only push Clinton's rhetoric to the left. It's impossible to push her
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#99
2 things, a focus group can push Hilary's rhetoric to the left, but she remains a Goldwater girl
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#103
He is talking about political revolution, the alternatives have historically led to much worse
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#104
Wow! that must be the equal of at least 2 "by a whole bunch" kicks, I feel greatly honored. /nt
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#65
K&R...societies always, or nearly always, develop a ruling class, regardless of the political
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#28
Yes, they do, I hope our political revolution succeeds, History shows what happens when
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#50
I'm new around here so I don't fully understand the jury system, but wow wtf!?
Coincidence
Mar 2016
#69
I didn't know DWS hangs out here at DU just to flick boogers at the liberal party infiltrators.
Coincidence
Mar 2016
#68
Clinton is alienating droves of life long democrats with her dirty tricks campagin
Cheese Sandwich
Mar 2016
#54
My belief is they were never with us in the first place, I see them as Republican infiltrators
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#94
People suffering and dying from lack of healthcare, even in the wake of the ACA, are not political
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#85
In the end, we NEED to come together to win the Revolution and with it Bernie's Vision
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#91
That peace can only be won by kicking out the military industrial political neocon machine
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#96
Your loyalty lies with people, not profits, nothing radical about that :) nt
slipslidingaway
Mar 2016
#101