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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:41 PM Original message |
Hartmann was brilliant as usual today. His view - our "culture" is broken. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. You bet he is indeed spot on |
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ShamelessHussy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
54. he is a smart dude, hopefully there will be a clip in the video forum |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. I hope he's wrong, but I kind of think he's right |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. Divorce money from politics and things would improve |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. Did he offer any ideas about *how* the culture got broken? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. My theory is the destruction on the community in America |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I agree... and the shredding of the social fabric |
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C_Lawyer09 (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. That was a damn prescient post, you nailed the bottom line |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. If you don't know your neighbors |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Subthread all holding different parts of the elephant |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Well Bill Maher said it months ago |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 05:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
42. transiency breaks human solidarity & human identity: the better to control you |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
47. Plus your job can probably be done |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
49. I think this is a spot on assessment of the main problem - the breakdown of community. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
55. People hop from corporation to corporation because the corporations force them too. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Some of our previous generations felt this way indeed |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. Individualism gone rampant. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
48. What makes rampant individualism possible? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. Change Minds, Change Votes |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Christians are cheering war and the wealthy elite |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. Institutions |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Add religous |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. hardly an original thought |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:24 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. see you made your big pronouncement |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
37. uh, there was no knock against anyone in my post. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #37 |
50. "Hardly an original thought" |
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Frosty1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
14. I have the letters that my Great Great Grandfather wrote home |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. During the Civil War they were fighting over civil liberties? We've let ours be eviscerated. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The war profiteering in the north was out of control and legendary |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. And? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:03 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. There was a letter about human greed during the civil war |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Ironic |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:08 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. They were fighting over states leaving the Union |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Are you trying to have an argument? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Abe Lincoln said if it would have avoided the war |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. oh with yourself, apparently |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. FDR didn't declare war on Germany to stop the Holocaust or on Japan to stop their War Crimes |
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Frosty1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. It's not quite that simple |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. Time to regroup |
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Blasphemer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
23. K&R. Sad, but true... nt |
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libertyvalence (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. PISSED OFF AT WHO? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
26. Thom is a national treasure. |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. "The culture" barely exists anymore |
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miyazaki (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:29 AM Response to Reply #27 |
38. good points, this tenacity of greed. |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
31. He's wrong. It's all Obama's fault. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:34 AM Response to Original message |
39. He is brilliant and absolutely right about the fact that our culture is broken. |
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jasi2006 (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
40. One has only to look at the behvior of drivers on the roads. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 05:04 AM Response to Original message |
41. We're building up to it. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
43. It really is. |
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AndrewP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
44. Hartmann is brilliant |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
45. How can we hear or see his show? |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Bookmark this link - (The only radio link you will ever need) |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
46. David Sirota mentioned something along the same lines today. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
51. British historian A. J. Toynbee described this phenomenon 70 years ago. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
52. We've always been a destructive species. |
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