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"The Populist Upsurge is Real" When A Liberal College Professor Finds Common Ground With The Tea Party
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
People are going to be pissed off no matter who wins this election and that is a very important social dynamic I believe is vastly under appreciated by the majority of mainstream pundits and analysts out there. This is also very distinct from the environment that prevailed in 2008. Four years ago, the financial markets were crashing and the economic future of America was circling the toilet bowl, yet a majority of Americans embraced the potential of a young, inexperienced biracial politician from Illinois who was saying all of the right things. Despite the gigantic disappointment he has proven to be as President, there is no denying that he had all of the Democrats and most Independents under his spell on this day four years ago.
Fast forward to 2012 and the county isn’t “divided” as mainstream media talking heads like to say. The country is pissed off. Genuine and legitimate frustration permeates the land from sea to shining sea and rightly so.
– From my 2012 pre-election article: The Seventy Percent
Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. I know of the man mainly from his frequent appearances on CNBC when I used to watch the channel (I’m proud to say I haven’t tuned in, even for five minutes, for several years now). He was always held up as the token “liberal,” always more than eager to spar with CNBC’s endless parade of crony capitalist heroes and “socialism for the rich” supporting statists. During my post Wall Street years, I have from time to time come across his musings, but none have struck me like the insightful post he published three days ago.
The post is titled, What I Learned on My Red State Book Tour, and it’s an extremely important that all Americans read it. Here are a few excepts:
I’ve just returned from three weeks in “red” America.
It was ostensibly a book tour but I wanted to talk with conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers.
I intended to put into practice what I tell my students – that the best way to learn is to talk with people who disagree you. I wanted to learn from red America, and hoped they’d also learn a bit from me (and perhaps also buy my book).
But something odd happened. It turned out that many of the conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers I met agreed with much of what I had to say, and I agreed with them.
For example, most condemned what they called “crony capitalism,” by which they mean big corporations getting sweetheart deals from the government because of lobbying and campaign contributions.
I met with group of small farmers in Missouri who were livid about growth of “factory farms” owned and run by big corporations, that abused land and cattle, damaged the environment, and ultimately harmed consumers.
They claimed giant food processors were using their monopoly power to squeeze the farmers dry, and the government was doing squat about it because of Big Agriculture’s money.
I met in Cincinnati with Republican small-business owners who are still hurting from the bursting of the housing bubble and the bailout of Wall Street.
“Why didn’t underwater homeowners get any help?” one of them asked rhetorically. “Because Wall Street has all the power.” Others nodded in agreement.
Whenever I suggested that big Wall Street banks be busted up – “any bank that’s too big to fail is too big, period” – I got loud applause.
In Raleigh, I heard from local bankers who thought Bill Clinton should never have repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. “Clinton was in the pockets of Wall Street just like George W. Bush was,” said one.
Most of the people I met in America’s heartland want big money out of politics, and think the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision was shameful.
Most are also dead-set against the Trans Pacific Partnership. In fact, they’re opposed to trade agreements, including NAFTA, that they believe have made it easier for corporations to outsource American jobs abroad.
Heartland Republicans and progressive Democrats remain wide apart on social and cultural issues.
But there’s a growing overlap on economics. The populist upsurge is real.
I sincerely hope Donald Trump doesn’t become president. He’s a divider and a buffoon.
But I do hope the economic populists in both parties come together.
That’s the only way we’re going to reform a system that’s now rigged against most of us.
The above is both depressing and encouraging, but mostly encouraging. It’s depressing because Robert Reich is a man who clearly means well. He isn’t trying to grab as much money and power as possible, rather, he genuinely seems to want the best thing for this country. Despite all of that, it wasn’t until he actually visited “red states” and talked to people who he assumed he had very little in common with from a public policy perspective that he discovered their common ground. In other words, an intelligent, thoughtful and well meaning professor had been so successfully siloed into partisan group think, he wasn’t able to see the bigger political picture. If that was the case for Mr. Reich, imagine how divided and conquered the general population is?
Writing the above isn’t meant as a critique of Mr. Reich, we are all constantly learning. That said, the obvious overlap between “progressives” and “tea partiers,” has been obvious for years. This is why I’ve always posted the following venn diagram whenever possible:

Of course, it’s not just me saying it. Ralph Nader actually wrote a book titled, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. While I agree with Ralph’s prediction in the long run, what is “stopping” this alliance from flexing its muscle in the present day? The longer we wait to confront the major issues of the day, the more pain and suffering the population will have to deal with. So what’s taking so long?
I believe there are two primary drivers behind our current predicament.
The first is human nature. People are tribal. Generally speaking, most individuals will ultimately gravitate toward an ideology that helps them understand the world around them, and will then cling to that ideology and defend it to the bitter end against those who disagree (those people become their “enemies” and are easily vilified). This can manifest in many different forms, from religion, to political party partisanship, to nationalism. Such unbending adherence to one ideology or another leads to most of the conflict and irrationality we see around us. This is because once someone has “committed” to an ideology, they close themselves off to even hearing other points of view. At that point, learning and critical thinking ends, and dogmatism takes over. To help those in finance understand what I’m trying to say, it’s very much like when you are in a losing stock position, but can’t get yourself to close out the trade and cut your losses. It’s the exact same seemingly insurmountable emotional commitment at play.
One of the ways I’ve tried to prevent this mindset from infecting my own psyche, is by shunning political labels entirely. In my early days of writing many people characterized me as “libertarian,” although I never personally embraced such a label. As discussed earlier, once you embrace a label you end up defending a side more so than thinking critically. You have committed the sin of identity politics, and from that point forward you feel it is your duty to defend other “libertarians” and wage war against those who you perceive to be “on the other side.” Although discarding political labels confers obvious advantages, many people simply can’t do it. Why?
Again, back to human nature. Most people feel a need to identify with, and become part of, a larger group. Unfortunately that larger group is almost never “the human race” as it should be. Why? Because if people tried to identify with everyone then they couldn’t feel special. People like to feel special, and that they’re a small part of a bigger struggle against other groups of humans who are in the wrong. Not in the wrong about specific policies mind you, but in the wrong merely because those other humans have not chosen to identify with the particular group you have aligned yourself with. You can usually tell identify who these brainwashed people are, because they constantly critique other people as “libtards” or “tea party wackos.” There’s no need for these loaded labels, but many people love to use them anyway. Why? Because with a single word they can be dismissive and degrading without ever having to talk to the other side and discuss real issues.
Which brings me to the second reason American citizens have yet to unite on the greatest issues of national importance, despite the fact that a vast majority of the population agrees on them: Status quo propaganda.
The status quo are deeply unethical and corrupt, but they aren’t stupid. They know how to divide and conquer people, and through the media, they are doing a great job of keeping citizens of these United States angry at each other, as opposed to angry at them.
Robert Reich’s experience presents the perfect example. He admits he didn’t realize how much he has in common with “red state” tea partiers until he went out and talked to them. The problem here is that it’s not exactly feasible all for coastal people to travel to the heartland and vice versa in order to come to a mutual understanding. Most people depend on the media for information about the world around them and “those other people out there.”
Unfortunately, the media intentionally misinforms people and makes them distrustful of “the others.” Fox News will make it seem like liberals are child-sacrificing heathens who simply want to get everyone to have an abortion while taking away their Christmas tress. Likewise, MSNBC makes it seem like it’s an indisputable fact tea partiers are ignorant, racist schmucks who want to shoot everything that moves and turn American into a Taliban-like Christian theocracy. Of course, neither of these things are true.
The truth is, the American public is tricked into thinking they disagree with each other on the big issues, when in reality there’s enormous overlap. Until we stop being tricked, the status quo will continue to suck the economy dry through their religious-like embrace of corruption and crony capitalism. Unfortunately, the people who could benefit the most from reading this post, will never see it.
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Slowly the truth comes out. But not quickly enough to avert disaster.
… The Populist Upsurge is Real, but…
... Bernie’s campaign, no matter how it ends, will be felt for generations to come.
Just like Joseph McCarthy gave birth to the “Red Scare”, which has morphed into Russophobia and still is alive and well, Bernie Sanders’ flirting with Socialism is planting the seeds of this plaque into the minds of millions of Americans.
The likes of Sanders would’ve never gotten such a support, if not for Hillary being shoved down every Liberal’s throat.
I ain’t no Democrat, but this is not just the Democrats’ problem, this is our collective tragedy in the making.
Now, I need a few sniffs of glue to calm myself down. ;-)
Looney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from the novel The Pit (1903) by Frank Norris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLfjB7dSyc
so a Lib-tard who drank waaaaaay too much Socialist kool-aid for most of his life finally crawled out of his echo-chamber silo of a life on a fucking college campus and discovered that deep down he's actually a real American. I hope he realizes also now that he's not a "Liberal" or anything of the corrupted sort that he thought he always identified with (because of their expert, sociopathic lies).
I hope he now realizes he's actually a true Libertarian of the Jeffersonian kind who just wants big crony gov-scum and their corporate bankster puppet masters out of our lives so that we can just enjoy our God-given freedom and right to live our own lives w/out hurting others or being hurt or violated by others. Especially the gov-scum he has worshipped all his sheltered life.
Now I hope he goes back to the "Uni" and wakes up all the other sheep-tards who have been indoctrinated just as he was all their short lives up to this point by the psychos of the cultist, Marxist, treasonous scum of the Earth.
He should watch along with his students, Roddy Piper's "They Live" movie.
Hopefully they will all get the message from that movie about what kind of scumbags have been feeding off of them all their lives.
Boris' Libertarian Manifesto:
1. Man is free, individual freedom is most important freedom.
2. Freedom of individual is trump over purpose or policy of state.
3. State is infinitely corruptible and individual must active vigilant against encrouchment of state, abridgement of individual.
4. Individual is ultimate right to protect life, and by extension is right to protect liberty, at all or any cost.
5. One man freedom end is where next man freedom begin. Do not you are tread on me!
6. Only legitimate function of government is protect of individual. All other activity is corrupt perversion.
7. Do not make fun of Britney Spears, if Miss Britney is shave head, that is Miss Britney's business, not is yours.
(Okay, so is still in draft subject to revision)
yer Damn right, Boris.
And that ain't a lot of crap, either! ;-)
my logo on ZH all along has been an American Buffalo in red, white and blue. It's small, but at the bottom it says "TEA".
TEA for the TEA Party has always stood for "Taxed Enough Already", and we just want a whole lot smaller government (if any at all), and a whole lot less taxing and spending (if any at all). I'm for the ultimate bare minimum of each.
Tell your friends that taking back the issuance of currency from the Fed Banksterati is JOB #1 or you'll be fucked over again after the crash.
Oh, like the career politicians would be any better.
Me with Boris, er..., I'm with Boris on this one. Dammit Boris, you've got me talking like a Ruskie.
Boris, I am for heem. Boris is run for President, lincolnsteffens is vote twice, more maybe yes.
Boris, Shto ty gavarish comrade?? Dlya Sibiryi!!!
Um, in case you didn't understand what Boris was saying, here is a translation you may find useful:
Oris'bay Ibertarianlay Anifestomay:
1. Anmay isway eefray, individualway eedomfray isway ostmay
importantway eedomfray.
2. Eedomfray ofway individualway isway umptray overway urposepay
orway olicypay ofway atestay.
3. Atestay isway infinitelyway orruptiblecay andway
individualway ustmay activeway igilantvay againstway
encrouchmentway ofway atestay, abridgementway ofway
individualway.
4. Individualway isway ultimateway ightray otay otectpray ifelay
, andway ybay extensionway isway ightray otay otectpray
ibertylay, atway allway orway anyway ostcay.
5. Oneway anmay eedomfray endway isway erewhay extnay anmay
eedomfray eginbay. Oday otnay ouyay areway eadtray onway emay!
6. Onlyway egitimatelay unctionfay ofway overnmentgay isway
otectpray ofway individualway. Allway otherway activityway isway
orruptcay erversionpay.
7. Oday otnay akemay unfay ofway Itneybray Earsspay, ifway
Issmay Itneybray isway aveshay eadhay, atthay isway Issmay
Itney'sbray usinessbay, otnay isway oursyay.
Boris,
Will your manifesto protect the right to arm all bears or just Russian bears?
Is cruel and inhumane to amputate limb of ANY bear, so ALL is right to bear arms.
So Robert Reich is finally waking up to the false left-right paradigm.
Must have been from his head impacting that fire hydrant during the celebrity dwarf toss...
When the author outs hisself with "I know of the man mainly from his frequent appearances on CNBC" I merely shrugged and wondered WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU FOR THE LOLLIPOP GANG ADMINISTRATION. Jeezuz, all they were missing were the orange faces and white overalls.
But that aside...Robert Reich talking to me about commonality? THAT IS EFFING RIPE ROBERTO.
Reich stands for free child care, organized labor, universal single payer health care, & NAFTA uber alles. Suck a back of dicks, Bob. The N word. Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. And something something the banksters. So there.
<drops mike>
Even little men can wake up from a dream.
It sells books,controversy is free advertising.
What he says is bland and obvious, not any sort of epiphany to Mr Reich.
Reich seems to think that because he and the red-staters he met came to the same diagnostic conclusion makes them more or less the same. While both may see the same problems in the big government/bit business cronyism, Reich would try solving the problem by increasing the size and power of government. The red-staters would like to solve it with smaller government, without which those large crony-capitalists could not duck at the public teat. That's a really big difference.
I disagree with the cartoon above. Tea Partiers think that corporations have too much power also. It just comes in number 2 behind the gubbimint.
With the exception of bodily needs, I share NOTHING with socialists.
Trump/Sanders 2016!
Let's test that one out. Put a nationalistic capitalist and a socialist together on the same ticket. Hmmmm. Can you say "National Socialist Party", anyone? Boy, does that sound like a real bad idea.
Poop swastika's for everyone everywhere all the time!
The CAUSE is government. The EFFECT is to prevent the normal failure of large corporations (think GM, Citibank, Goldman, AIG etc). Getting cause and effect wrong is a comment libtard (HaHa) failure. For example, despite all the ice core data from the last 800,000 years they believe higher CO2 cause higher T when its the other way around (CO2 levels rise after temperature does as it outgasses from the ocean into the atmosphere due to the lower solubility of gasses in liquids at higher T)
Another reason we tea partiers call them libtards: they think an inanimate object, a gun, is the reason for gun violence and fail to recognize guns prevent violence in many cases-thus denying us the most fundamental right, self defense against both hostile individuals and hostile government.
And the most important reason we're right: the individual is the engine that drives the world. Not the collective! And Ayn Rand is the main expositor of that fundamental reality. The battle is and will always be between the collectivists mediocrities who want the state to control everything and give them everything and those that value freedom, personal responsibility, and liberty.
So, yes, we conservatives, teapartiers, liberatarians are right and they are indeed wrong. And we're tribal too, but so what? Why would anyone but a collectivist like Reich want to change that-he just wants a one world tribe controlled by experts in the state.
Down vote was probably for the "few sniffs" comment. Sniff the whole bottle maybe.
The Affordable Care Act (guffaws) is the only "success" the Obama administration can point to. No government, anarchy, would be preferable. Restore the Republic, before it's too late.
Is too late. Death of patient is pronounce approximate 19h on 19 January, 2009.
Was it over when the communists bombed Pearl Harbor? No, it wasn't.
10 arrows up. That was the funniest comment I've seen in weeks.
The movie Animal House has got to be one of the most classic funniest movies of all time. Its one of the few I can watch over and over again, that and Stanley Kubrick films. 2001 is still my favorite movie of all time.
"Forget it. He's rolling."
https://youtu.be/Wv5c2YR1lVE
2001!! Jeez, I walked out of that movie theater and got my money refunded. That was one of the most boring movies of all time.
"Was it over when the communists bombed Pearl Harbor? No, it wasn't."
The communists bombed Pearl Harbor??? Since when?
You can't be serious.
I know they don't teach much in Murika's schools, but there are limits.
I know... it was the Germans.
That's why we entered WW2.
I have this sort of problem all the time. Cultural icons like the movie Animal House provided quotes that many remember and apply, but others are not familiar with the source and cannot identify the source of the comment, reworded or otherwise.
I experienced this decades ago when I began working with a group of Latin Americans in Miami. One day I casually came out with "In for a penny, in for a pound". Later one lady came and asked me what money and weight have to do with one another.
It's a paraphrased line from an American documentary which follows the early life of Senator John Blutarsky. Senator Blutarsky famously uttered these words (more or less) following an unfavorable outcome involving a dispute with the Dean of his college.
A documentary? I always thought it was a historical reenactment. I mean, togas were involved.
“Obama has just caved without firing a shot,” said a senior, non–White House adviser to Obama in early June 2009. Instead of drafting his own legislation, Obama had announced he would outsource its contents to Baucus, a six-term senator from Montana and a paragon of bipartisan Washington. Baucus, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, was the health care industry’s favorite politician. According to Open Secrets, Baucus had received $3.8 million in donations from the health industry, which put him among the top five recipients on Capitol Hill. He took more money from health care groups in 2008 than any federal lawmaker that year."
from Time to start Thinking - E.Luce
Amazing is how Amerikansky is so easily offend. Micro Aggression! What is that!? Try butt of Kalashnikov on back of head!
Then Shoot with mosin nagant
For sale at popular Amerika sporting good:
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Mosin-Nagant-Model-Rifle/710007.uts
$USD 169.99
or purchase by case:
https://www.classicfirearms.com/mosin-nagant-rfile-by-the-crate
I was in bardstown ky 3 yrs ago at keenes. A grandma bought a case of them to give out for Christmas to her grand children.
Comrade, pleeeze.
I think it's done on purpose - make everyone very think-skinned and fragile so they'll all be to PC and worried to discuss anything important. Add panoramic fear and you get the right mindframe for mindless shopping. A rich man 's disease for the increasingly poor
I have often pointed out to people that the left and right have more in common than most think. They use divisive issues like abortion, gun control, gay marriage etc. to make us think we have very different views. The sooner people realize this the better off we'll be.
Gladius - No but better late than never. People with more wealth are shielded for a lot longer. Those at the top dont change until it effects them and I myself am probably only a bit different because I was born with an inquisitve mind of why people behave the way they do and only learned this as I do sales and it helped me personally.
I did understand early on blowback and six degrees of seperation and had a couple great mentors that taught me to give back to the community. So I do what I can. I find your intent matters.
One has to go from the pure logic of why this is important to actually feeling it. That takes a bit of the time. The logic part of why you are your brothers keeper takes little time to understand or start to practice. But sociopaths that are weak emotionally at times mistake some understanding and balance that you are lunch. So I learned making your yes mean yes and no means no and if you dont like it, being blunt and telling them to piss of early. They then try to find an easier lunch :)
It's all Kabuki Theater.
Thank you for your participation.
Now back to work.
You won't even notice the chains after a few months. Back to rowing, serf!
Boiled frog is not complain.
You are not a slave. It is 5 o'clock. See you back here at 8 AM tomorrow.
Oh, and don't forget to pay your taxes.
Clinton was the last time I shrugged and said "what the fuck, I'll just see how he does". Ever since then I knew we were fucked no matter what the new president does.
And this is carefully framed as merely 'populist' rather than 'rethink of fundamentals, like political structure and powers"
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/dynamics-of-national-colla...
If we citizens still had any clue about the Constitution, we could solve this easily. First Constitutional gov in the original sense, then we can decide on whether to fall back to the Articles or modify the C in some major ways.
We tricked some folks
Robert Reich - that weasily little bastard.
The real Truth is Israel is the problem. But I don't see many from either side saying this.
Khazaria is a bigger problem than Israel.
Please define current boundaries of Kazaria.
Israel, Palestine, Syrian Golan Heights, Washington, Wall Street, and Florida.
The left wing and right wing belong to the same fucking bird...
The oligarchs could not be happier.
dumbasses.
A turkey...
I don't think this article would change anyone's preconceived notions, even if everybody saw it.
Judging from the comments here, I am wondering whether people even read the article.
Venn Diagrams are sooo hard to understand.
Seeing Reich's name in the article provided very good reason not to read the whole article as it would be a waste of time. Propaganda. Robert Reich is a sell out. Psych opt, talk some good shit and dis the Donald. RR can shove it!
The divide in America has been perpetrated by a virulent zionist infestation in our media. This is why the media focuses on the extremes.
Be not deceived. Robert Reich is a true liberal/socialist. He agrees as much with the Tea Party as an Occupy Whatever would.
Fucking RINO's everywhere?
Where's the "Jack Hannah" x3 ETF?
Don't fool yourself.
Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
The TEA PARTY never saw a war funding extension it didn't like.
Dude! The quote has been;
"Don't trickle down my back and tell me it's raining"!
since the Reagan years!
Don't piss down my back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e8iAofnrw
We lookin at this thing from the wrong view.
TRUST. It is not just a millenial issue.
But the President cannot do much with a corrupt Congress that makes the laws.
WE NEED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LIMITS. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE SUPER PACS.
TO DO THAT WE NEED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
See MoveToAmend.org
Then just maybe we can eliminate lobbyists.
Excuse me, but the President ignores congressional laws and makes his own up. You can eliminate super paks but the lib media, academia, etx will have as a result even more power through there propaganda which is worth billions in free advertising for the libs (Democrats). If being corrupt means you can be bought off and change your convictions in a twinkling of an eye then, please, look at what President Obama has firmly stood for, before he caved into status quo big money/power libs.
It has nothing to do with Americans being tricked into fighting each other. It has all to do with Americans having lost their fight. It's just not there any longer. All the racial instigations only prove that there has been and already is tension between races. That's nothing new. But for Americans to be more absorbed with their phones, games, TVs and selfies is to say it all, plain and clear: we no longer posses a fighting spirit.
See my moniker? Have any idea what it represents? Know who it is? Then don't assume 'all' of us have lost the will to fight. I fight it daily and will continue to until the day I die; then 'I' will return to right the wrong ('I' is not 'me' but the spirit of Freedom itself that lives in 'Me')
Well, first, I didn't say "all" Americans have lost their fight. That all Americans have not lost there fight is obvious by this site: clearly, many here have not lost their fight.
Additionally, it is common sense that I couldn't possibly have meant every single American on planet earth has lost his/her fight. Please, afford me and others the built-in common sense in such generic statements.
It's so kind of the good Professor to tour the provinces to find out how the little people think. What a fukin wanker. Might as well expressed amazement that they don't eat with their hands outside of the Ivory Tower.
Don't minimize the situation. He's an influential dude. There are others in the beltway and in university ivory towers who need to make the same pilgrimage to the hinterlands. For me and you to agree with the expressed sentiment does not bear social fruit, but it's a biggie that Mr. Bob is on board -- at least for this week until the spiritual experience wears off after his return to academia.
very well explained in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitari...
Government senses unrest under the thin veneer of total normalcy and economic growth portrayed by their capitve media. So what to do to direct the unrest into safer directions? Well, we could have the Russian Federation invade Ukraine, slashing, burning and killing across that peaceful land of happy go lucky farmers and shop keepers. Or we could have the evil of ISIS/ISIL threatening every American is his bed, with the USA engaged in a total war on these jihadists?
Americans always fall for the foreign enemy scam. You can't get angry at a government who is all that stands between you and the Russians who have gone off the reservation and threaten invasions everywhere. While the evil Muslims, whom American stand against everywhere, fighting to keep us safe.
Now the fact that facts can be put forward that refute that whole "defender of the people scenario" doesn't matter, because the media is captive of corporations and government, more proof arises that even the CIA has hundreds of moles in the media editorial boards. American listen to FOX, 30% of Americans gain their world knowledge from FOX, another 30% from CNN and the remainder pick their knowedge up from MSNBC/PBS/NPR/ and local affiliate stations. Only a tiny minority use the worldwide web to scan the blogs, the foreign news sites, the abundance of non-corporate news sites etc.
Anger will be directed by the media to where Government wants that anger.
War is when someone else tells you who to fight.
Anyone who thinks voting for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum again is going to change anything is a fool. These two groups of circus clowns have been running the show since the 1960s, the problems America has today are the problems they have specifically engineered for us.
jewish divide and conquer
Israel is a lobbyistm Lobbying is the number one issue. Even Jack Abrahoff, the super salesmen of Washington lobbying came out in January on Cspan on a 40 minute program and stated such.
Now go up one level of issue thinking to a concept which drives everything below it. That concept is justice, that all are subject to the same law the same set of rules. This is easy to explain to someone else without getting into all the details of the Federal Reserve and currency and who should manage it.
Israel is a lobbyistm Lobbying is the number one issue. Even Jack Abrahoff, the super salesmen of Washington lobbying came out in January on Cspan on a 40 minute program and stated such.
Now go up one level of issue thinking to a concept which drives everything below it. That concept is justice, that all are subject to the same law the same set of rules. This is easy to explain to someone else without getting into all the details of the Federal Reserve and currency and who should manage it.
I tell all of my friends I'm a Democrat, but I know several people who I have to tell I'm a Republican... because if I don't they'll get very upset.
Somehow in those conversations Reich never heard any anger about the ongoing flood of illegal aliens flouting the law, nor anger about leftist government imposition of its social policies, nor about the murder of the unborn.
Those thoughts would probably be "devisive" to Reich's mind. The only things he heard in his conversations were points that supported his own beliefs.
Sure professor, get out there and talk with people who have contrary views -- you'll learn a lot, unless you mark them off as divisive before you start.
Exactly.
Sadly populism has nothing to do with liberty. Both right and left populism are authoritarian at best and totalitarian at worst.
Do not forget that Robert Reich is a memeber of the tribe.
Cronyism.
Capitalism has nothing to do with it.
Without doubt, a True Liberty-Loving (Liberal) human is Conservative in his thought and deed.....Do not try to read anything into this; True Freedom is Conservative....Get it?
it's corporate fascism. has been for last 100 years
it's corporate fascism. has been for last 100 years