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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:04 PM Original message |
What Should Our Issue Be? |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. Class warfare. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. A agree. That becomes the narrative |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. As far as messaging goes, just make it as strictly.......... |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. Tom..problem with that is... |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. "The 2% vs The Rest of Us".......... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
42. We poor people aren't the rest of you. We weren't recognized in Madison, nor anywhere else. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. OK......... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. We don't have the resources you have, and I think you know that. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Correct. |
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ozone_man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
44. Nothing like cutting to the chase. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. One more priority list that leaves out poor people. Don't expect our support. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Actually I'm unemployed and poor |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. That is the typical middleclass response. Nothing new. The same rhetoric. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. I respect your contributions here. But how does "2% vs 98%"... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. That is really telling that you don't see that difference. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. But, I didn't say middleclass, it was the OP. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. If not spelled OUT, Everything. Is. Subsumed. Into. The. Middleclass. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. By "you" do you mean me in particular or the MC in general? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:09 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. As southerners say, and maybe we should all take a cue from them, "All y'all". |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
5. Great post. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. By kicking it around here first... |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. Definitely class warfare. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The real issue is class warfare |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. Go ahead and make it Save the American Working Class.......... |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. I'm open to that n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
40. And there again... those of us who are too old, too sick and too injured to work... can heave |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. Do you really think that matters to the PTB? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:47 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. We are NOT in YOUR circle, and Madison proved that. |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. We need to take business back. Teach people how to own assets and |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Most Americans support a mixed economy |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
12. The Metric System |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. The UK isn't completely metric. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 06:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. I still hear peoples' weight being expressed in stone in the UK |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #35 |
52. Yep, That's definitely one to get used to. |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. There are many, |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
14. Oh gawd. "people like us" Tell me you didn't just say that |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I meant people who participate here at DU, |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. So you assume there are no impoverished people here at DU? |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Not in any way |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. If you consider yourself "poor," then you're not like the "us" in your OP? |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. I think this is the confusing line: |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:09 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Perhaps you've stumbled upon (or possibly on) the issue |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
45. You are NOT going to get poor people participating with this language, and |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
41. You can't teach those who refuse to hear... and if the middleclass doesn't do a 180 |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. Public funded elections. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
26. I've been watching many recreations of Dickens Novels by BBC and ITV on Netflix |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
36. Excellent question! +! I don't have an answer at the moment but if I do, I will reply again. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
37. This, no more money for war, and health coverage for all. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
38. I got it. School lunches. Something to do with school lunches. |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
43. k & r for the fur babies nt |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
47. Realize the human dream, not just American. Boomers could lead the way. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
51. Something centered around the phrase "The American Nightmare" |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
53. I think Class Warfare got the strongest response |
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