tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post6522252748553682106..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Calling (the other) Saul Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-57145700511253435852017-03-15T12:33:01.854-05:002017-03-15T12:33:01.854-05:00RJ Adams ~ I believe both Obama and Clinton were ...RJ Adams ~ I believe both Obama and Clinton were asleep during Alinsky's lectures.<br />Oh, I feel sure you're still eligible for TFHC, RJ - IMHO - LOL (Oh look, I'm learning to speak acronym !)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-56077447759914437292017-03-15T12:01:20.702-05:002017-03-15T12:01:20.702-05:00I haven't read any of Alinsky's work but w...I haven't read any of Alinsky's work but while I can see how it may have affected Obama in his early political years in Chicago, I think Hillary Clinton wasted her time reading it. <br />You ask where all the radicals have gone? They've all been given high-paying jobs in corpocracy, or moved into the media like Maddow.<br />Sign me up for the TFHC brigade, please - though I gave up dreaming a long time ago (15 years in the U.S. killed it) so I may be ineligible.R J Adamshttps://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-75173710953809262052017-03-14T17:21:08.911-05:002017-03-14T17:21:08.911-05:00Wisewebwoman ~ Oh can I join your TFHC brigade pl...Wisewebwoman ~ Oh can I join your TFHC brigade please? Definitely me to a "T".<br />We can dream and hope but, harking back to Lady Violet's words in Downton Ab:<br />"Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality."<br />I think she's part of the TFHC too. ;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-90844641666339016872017-03-14T16:54:19.968-05:002017-03-14T16:54:19.968-05:00Corporatocracy rules then as now. Democracy is an ...Corporatocracy rules then as now. Democracy is an illusion. I'm a registered tinfoil-hatted cynic at this stage of the game and I knew when I saw the blatant militarization of our poluce some years ago that the voice on the street was being quieted forever.<br /><br />We can still dream though.<br /><br />XO<br />WWW<br /><br />Wisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-21891992504632232842017-03-14T12:36:42.905-05:002017-03-14T12:36:42.905-05:00LB ~ Yes, Nader remains one of the few.
While I ...LB ~ Yes, Nader remains one of the few.<br /><br />While I cannot imagine, in this current atmosphere, single payer ever getting a look in, reducing the age when Medicare kicks in, as a small first step, would be an easy tweak to what we've got (or a likely to be having soon). It'd be easy, but they'll not do it, not in the mood they're in at present. I don't know why the Dems didn't do it a few years ago when they had House and Senate. But truly, the Dems, now and then, were/are no more on our side than the Republicans. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-72254550580576714782017-03-14T10:13:18.596-05:002017-03-14T10:13:18.596-05:00Ralph Nader is still speaking truth and fighting t...Ralph Nader is still speaking truth and fighting the good fight:<br /><br />"In a recent letter to HR 676 lead sponsor John Conyers (D-Michigan), Ralph Nader wondered out loud “why the 64 members of the House who have signed on to HR 676 – the single payer/full Medicare for all legislation – have not individually or collectively put this proposal on the table."<br /><br />http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2017/03/13/single-payer-bernie-sanders-mark-cuban-ralph-nader-indivisible-not/<br /><br />Poverty, homelessness, unsafe food/water/air, state-sponsored violence and unaffordable healthcare are becoming greater concerns for many who once felt safe, believed in the illusion of 'democracy'. LBnoreply@blogger.com