tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post3694542678492630944..comments2023-09-29T06:57:06.991-07:00Comments on Anglachel's Journal: OccupationAnglachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-46682644072958945942012-01-29T23:30:50.113-08:002012-01-29T23:30:50.113-08:00Certainly Lambert & Riverdaughter are not Obam...Certainly Lambert & Riverdaughter are not Obama supporters.But most of the 08 Obama voters I know, seamlessly went for OWS, it hits all our usual hot buttons ....and certainly when I visited my local OWS, it was very much an '08 Obot atmosphere. If OWS lead to something it would be great. Certainly a legit movement is vastly needed.I will look forward to your thoughts about it.<br /><br />I just see those who crafted Obama also behind OWS. My local Dem/Obama party was on the scene almost immediately and running alot. My Dem mayor was most welcoming. It basically seemed a New Dem apparatus to me. Something to control and contain the left side of the Dem party. I would love to not think that.<br /><br /><i>What I'm driving at is the way in which OWS is making itself ridiculous because it won't learn the lessons of 2008. Part of it is unavoidable because these are the ingrained habits and biases of our tribe...</i><br /><br />This goes much further back than '06 or '08 of course. I have been voting 40 years, and in that time all I have seen the tribe do is get an ever worse case of " The Big Stupid"....in other words, walk further and further away from the working class. Frankly, it's depressing.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-21829591331693136142012-01-29T16:12:12.736-08:002012-01-29T16:12:12.736-08:00Hi Anne,
I have to disagree with you about Obot =...Hi Anne,<br /><br />I have to disagree with you about Obot = OWS. Lambert & Riverdaughter are certainly not Obama supporters by any measure, but are articulate and impassioned OWS activists. My brothers are Obama supporters and OWS activists. It's a mix.<br /><br />I'm also not against OWS. Quite the contrary; I think there needs to be more of this. What I'm driving at is the way in which OWS is making itself ridiculous because it won't learn the lessons of 2008. Part of it is unavoidable because these are the ingrained habits and biases of our tribe, especially the political newcomers. That is the political problem I've been pounding at since the 2006 bi-elections, what Somerby sums up as The Big Stupid, that afflicts the tribe.<br /><br />I'll have more to say about this in coming posts.<br /><br />AnglachelAnglachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-5940804790072506192012-01-28T10:14:30.040-08:002012-01-28T10:14:30.040-08:00terrific post
A ruthless and right-wing Republi...terrific post <br /><br /><i> A ruthless and right-wing Republican Party spurned talk of common ground as a sign of weakness, and did everything it could to ensure that Obama’s presidency would fail. But oblivious to the long-standing internal dynamics of the Republican Party, Obama continued to vaunt his brand of “post-partisanship.”</i><br /><br /><br />This is the incredible bright Obama who is somehow endlessly, endlessly fooled by those mean Repugs excuse used to hide the fact the man doesn't know or care what comes out of his mouth in public. He reads what BS they feed the teleprompter and goes off to shoot some hoops. <br /><br />He certainly seems to like the Repugs he's constantly courting a heck of alot more than his supposed party, who he is constantly scolding. ( I love how Obama talks about the US public's need to eat peas and tighten belts, as he goes off to another vacation. Cute. And who else but Obama could have the gaul to wag a finger at actual Freedom Riders, telling them to take off thier bedroom slippers...priceless! ) Indeed, Obama likes parties,just not political ones.<br /><br />I really don't see a difference between the obots /whole food nation and OWS...it's the same people. ( It's actually a lifestyle, not a movement.) Via OWS, they get to mind wipe thier hero's utter complicity with Wall St and they love that. Suddenly they can be angry again!Yippee! <br /><br /><i>It is determinedly anti-political, anti-working class, and anti-transactional, preferring morality to effectiveness, righteousness to power. Thus the people who can gaze upon hucksters like Steve Jobs and The Precious and see saviors instead of snake-oil salesmen.<br /></i><br /><br />Very well put.<br /><br />If( when?) Obama is declared President for life, they will be fine with that.<br /><br /><i>Apple ranked at the very bottom of twenty-nine global tech firms “in terms of responsiveness and transparency to health and environmental concerns in China.”<br /></i><br /><br />Honey, that's bad.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com