salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:33 PM
Original message |
Bring Back the Gilded Era! and other trends we never thought |
|
we would see brought back to our society... nominations?
|
pbeal
(506 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:35 PM
Response to Original message |
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
4. well - the practical thing is one might be able to use the oil |
|
from the whale for lamps when electricity becomes to expensive...
|
Beetwasher
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:36 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Cod pieces.
How about Scarlet Letters?
Also, there's nothing like a good witch burning! Can't wait for those to come back in fashion!
|
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
5. Scarlet would look so good on some of our legislators |
|
and on Rudy... this time around we do have gender equality, you know...
|
RaleighNCDUer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:37 PM
Response to Original message |
3. I always liked skimmers and raccoon coats, n/t |
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:39 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
7. let's bring back other "good" eras... a racoon coat clad Joe McCarthy?? |
|
oh what joys the radical right wants to bestow upon us...
|
Warpy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:39 PM
Response to Original message |
6. The age of the Robber Barons |
|
along with the incredibly destructive Horatio Alger myth.
|
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:40 PM
Response to Reply #6 |
8. a myth? why just look at bush |
|
oh, thats never mind... ;-)
|
RaleighNCDUer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:57 PM
Response to Reply #8 |
10. You do know about Alger, don't you? How he was dismissed from |
|
his position working with teenage boys for inappropriate acts. Ever read his books? The plucky young hero never makes it by his own entrepnurial skills, but by hooking up with an older, established man as a mentor, and then marrying his daughter.
Creepy.
|
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 02:42 PM
Response to Original message |
9. In honor of todays mad cad story... how about we curse Upton |
|
Sinclair for vilifying the meat packing industry...
|
Butterflies
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:02 PM
Response to Original message |
11. Let's start building bomb shelters again |
|
It'll be fun to spend weekends in them practicing for the real thing . . . eating crackers . . drinking bottled water . . cowering in the dark. Yea!
|
nothingshocksmeanymore
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:07 PM
Response to Original message |
12. Dead laborers are a cost of doing business..bring back the Hoover era |
|
let's build a dam with slave labor from dustbowl workers and name it after Bush!
|
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:15 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
15. but with a corporate twist.... we privatize the damn |
|
and let private industry make scads of dollars by pumping the price of water higher than the Taj Mahal!
|
Union Thug
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:28 PM
Response to Reply #15 |
18. Seriously, can water privatization be far off? |
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:30 PM
Response to Reply #18 |
19. Indianapolis, IN deprivatized its public water |
|
a couple of years ago... going against the trend. Yes, some communities are moving towards privatized water.
|
EmpireWeAre
(50 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:09 PM
Response to Original message |
13. Child labor and Jim Crow laws! |
|
And government Of, By and For the Corporations, oops.. we're there now, my bad.
|
Union Thug
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:11 PM
Response to Original message |
14. Let's have the cops amass at strikes and start gunning down.. |
|
...striking workers.
Strong arms of the propertied class really needs to become the vogue for good law enforcement officers of the Bush era.
|
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:16 PM
Response to Reply #14 |
16. striking workers? unions? are those still legal...? |
Union Thug
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #16 |
salin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 03:38 PM
Response to Original message |
20. bring back the company store, sweatshops, and |
|
subsistence share cropping... bush is pushing for his guest workers program in order to drive down already decreasing wage levels... woohoo!
|
depakid
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Dec-21-04 04:53 PM
Response to Original message |
21. Poorfarms... workhouses.. debtors prisons... |
|
I would actually not be surprised to see Republicans propose any of these things. At this point, nothing would shock me.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Wed Apr 24th 2024, 06:53 PM
Response to Original message |