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Old 03-02-2014, 02:34 PM
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But those lights keep flashing and the machines keep talking. I know, it's a disease.
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But those lights keep flashing and the machines keep talking. I know, it's a disease.
...and here I thought you were talking about Tommy; the deaf, dumb, and blind kid.
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Old 03-02-2014, 06:52 PM
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...and here I thought you were talking about Tommy; the deaf, dumb, and blind kid.
I have that concert on laser disk that I purchased new for stupid money. Time to play it and see how Tommy did it.
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Old 11-16-2019, 06:26 PM
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RE: WHY AREN'T WE HAVING A MIDDLE CLASS REVOLT?

A: We already had a middle class revolt. It occurred on Nov 6, 2016.
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Old 12-14-2019, 07:15 AM
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Why Trump? Why Johnson?

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The average person has become a tiny microcosm of the aspirations and norms of elites — they’re not curious, empathetic, decent, humane, noble, kind, in pursuit of wisdom, truth, beauty, meaning, purpose. We’ve become cruel, indecent, obscene, comically shallow, and astonishingly foolish people.

That’s not some kind of jeremiad. It’s an objective, easily observed truth. Who else in a rich society denies their neighbours healthcare and retirement? Nobody. Who else denies their own kids education? Nobody. Who else denies themselves childcare and elderly care? Nobody. Who else doesn’t want safety nets, opportunities, mobility, protection, savings, higher incomes? Nobody. Literally nobody on planet earth wants worse lives excepts us. We’re the only people on earth who thwart our own social progress, over and over again — and cheer about it.
The point of the essay is that our rich have been hogging the social surplus to a radical degree, plunging the rest of society into a losing fight for less and less, so most can't even invest in themselves, and the maintenance and expansion of social infrastructure goes to hell. As a result, we're in nothing less than a death spiral. It's grim reading.

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Old 12-14-2019, 07:20 AM
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RE: WHY AREN'T WE HAVING A MIDDLE CLASS REVOLT?

A: We already had a middle class revolt. It occurred on Nov 6, 2016.
You're right, but it was a revolt by the duped, a revolt in favor of more oppression. The results delivered by Trump are piles of more meaningless, useless-to-them money for the rich, and more and more jobs that pay under $15 an hour for everyone else. Meanwhile, accelerating environmental destruction will soon enough make everyone really poor, or dead.
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Old 01-29-2020, 10:46 AM
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In the 1930's, there were organized efforts to involve the public in thinking about democracy and civil issues, though civil debate. Seems like a good idea....

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Old 11-03-2020, 05:40 AM
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We ARE having a middle class revolt. It happened in 2016. Just look at any trump rally, A 95 mile line trump support motorcade, boat rallies?

It is huge and it is nationwide. And it is unprecedented. Literally.

And the kids on the left burns down cities in protest.

Seriously.
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