Shiny City of corruption, death, and destruction on a hill

[AllentownJake]

Thanks Ronald Reagan.

I'm now a radical for having a belief that the government should step in when the private sector fails to provide a service to the populace and that providing money to the same people that caused a problem to fix it is generally a bad idea.

[Oregone]

1. Commie

[Octafish]

2. Bleeding Heart Liberal.

You all are always going on about "Justice" and "Equality" and "Education" and "Freedom."

Why can't you just watch ESPN like everybody else?

[Goldstein1984]

3. Just think of yourself as a Keynesian

The free-market, trickle-down bullshit was floating in the ether as a pending backlash against the New Deal. Reagan gave it wings, and the shock doctrine already being used by the empire elsewhere was instituted here at home. Thus began the peasantification of the working class. Unfortunately, mainstream Democrats have bought-in to the BS. An entire generation was raised thinking rabid capitalism is the only way things have ever been. Clinton was an advocate, and Bush/Cheney showed us bad it can be.

If a government no longer of, by or for the people wants to survive, it's going to have to either become a police state or win the people back. Right now, it seems to me like they're choosing the police state route.

[AllentownJake]

5. China

That is the model.

[Goldstein1984]

8. I hadn't thought of that.

Scary.

[AllentownJake]

9. Why do you think on the big issues you get the same policy

This is planned, hell the actors in it might not even know they are being set up, they take their bribe and do their dirty work.

[Goldstein1984]

10. The similarities are certainly there:

The use of rubber bullets, tear gas and LRAD weapons on G20 demonstrators in Philadelphia, including the arrest of a person using Twitter to help the protesters avoid the police, was eerily reminiscent of Tehran. The "preemptive arrests" in Copenhagen.

My gut tells me there is a worldwide awakening of the peasants, and we in the United States may find ourselves with more in common that people in Honduras and elsewhere than with our own "leaders."

[AuntPatsy]

4. I've been called the same as well as foolish for even caring about something

that is so severely broken and told constantly that there is no way it can be fixed so I just sit down and shut up basicaly...

The problem is...I don't wish to ....and the other problem is...in some ways they are starting to have me believeing that they just might be right, but since I despise and have zero respect for the right, I will never sit by and allow the right to continue on without trying to stop them from continuing this right trend though it might seem they are veering left..

From one radical to another..

[StarfarerBill]

6. Comrade.

:thumbsup:

[AuntPatsy]

7. I've been called the same as well as foolish for even caring about something

that is so severely broken and told constantly that there is no way it can be fixed so I just sit down and shut up basicaly...

The problem is...I don't wish to ....and the other problem is...in some ways they are starting to have me believeing that they just might be right, but since I despise and have zero respect for the right, I will never sit by and allow the right to continue on without trying to stop them from continuing this right trend though it might seem they are veering left..

From one radical to another..

[mix]

11. Economic liberalism has been around since the late 18th century.

Raygun returned us to these dark ages where we remain.

[glitch]

12. Give up your foolish political ideology and become "practical", fellow corporate consumer.

All hail the practical Reaganomics! love, Obiteme