Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Minaret or Minute Rice?And people get so butt-hurt about changing the Constitution, amirite?
Minaret or Minute Rice?And people get so butt-hurt about changing the Constitution, amirite?
While I agree with all that, it is just an intellectual exercise.im rewatching videos by sheldon wolin. theres not too many, but thank god chris hedges did a 3 hour interview with him before he died. he used to be one of americas greatest living political philosophers.
this one is 15 years old right when the iraq invasion started. he defines whats totalitarianism and how america is totalitarian but he calls it inverted totalitarianism. he says america is essentially a one party system because theres so little difference between dems and republicans. he says dems are not an opposition force. says in this system of totalitarianism, voters are demobilized whereas in the nazis they were mobilized which turned into war (although trump still does rallies which is i think is a new development). he says with the nazis the state had power over the capitalists, but with this system its the other way around.
he defines democracy and what it is not. defines government and bureaucracy.
i saw an interview he did with bill moyers looks like it was in the 1990s, and said america was totalitarian back then. he said basically all the institutions are undemocratic.
i guess thats the deal with our system is they use rhetoric to make things appear a certain way but upon deeper inspection its not true.
its hard to change course if you dont know where you are.While I agree with all that, it is just an intellectual exercise.
It has and almost assuredly will not effect the reality of American politics.
Good Gawd ... you must have been a friend*ing wreck!!!i know ive changed for the better over the years.
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i know ive changed for the better over the years.
haha no actually i was an and bully in elementary, and just an in high school. after high school i was just like everyone else for a little while which is to say a consumer and narcissist.Good Gawd ... you must have been a friend*ing wreck!!!
That's good.after i had a political awakening, i fixated on it too much and got depressed for a while, but ive since learned to not go overboard with it, only on BC
It's even harder when one believes all the lies!god, its hard being lied to all the time
in democracies people are controlled based on lies.It's even harder when one believes all the lies!