I mean, on the one hand, there's a lot of good stuff here, especially regarding the use of psychopharmacology as mind control. On the other hand:
Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don’t believe it will be around to benefit them.That's the example? You see, this is where non-institutional leftism runs aground; yes, it rejects the fakery of Democratic party politics; it does not fall for Barack Obama's phony hoperation compain; and yet the ne plus ultra of its egalitarian vision is a little more democratic socialism for the yutes; it demands nothing but institutional access: gaymarriage, socialsecurity, healthinsurance. Its prescription for the future is stirringly . . . bourgeois. Middle-class entitlements . . . or bust! If you can't mobilize a twenty-something with the halcyon cry of unsecured payroll tax deductions, what can you mobilize him with? WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE WITH YOU PEOPLE?
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I blame Fleet Foxes and The Arcade Fire myself.
I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky...
Sorry, what I Mean was aim high, dream higher...
Unfortunately for the thesis, Alternet in no way represents "non-institutional leftism that rejects the fakery of Democratic party politics and does not fall for Barack Obama's phony hoperatio compain", though it's not as bad as some.
RISE UP AND FIGHT... to implement incremental policy changes.
Alternet wants the yutes of America to hearken back to the days of 1968, so that they can protect the policies of 1935. "Progressivism" means beating on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, in hurdles of 30 to 40 years.
We want what our parents had--slightly affordable domestic misery! Culs-de-sac and bowling leagues to win the future!
...but the New Deal was heroic, not a smashing of revolutionary energy!
We're gonna need a bigger flux capacitor.
IOZ blunders upon the fundamental problem of modern progressivism: having crushed its enemies, it is the establishment, and has been for 70+ years. And yet the left still insists on the right to judge things for yourself, and the duty to rebel. How do you rebel against yourself? How do you speak truth to power when you have the power? How do you judge anything independently when the entire education system from pre-school to post-graduate is controlled by progressives?
Leftism is fundamentally about rebellion. About destroying the existing order. How can there be a "non-institutional" leftism in a country controlled by leftists? There can't.
I was down at the coffee shop for open mic night and I'm telling you, those kids felt very strongly about protecting the mortgage interest deduction, to the point that they had considered a letter writing campaign! I felt like I was in a sea of Che Guevara's.
BY GOD SIR, I WILL NOT ABIDE ANOTHER ADDITIONAL TENTH PERCENT ON THE PRIME RATE!
KILL THE STATE... subsidies for the oil industry
I REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE FACEBOOK STATUS TO UPDATE FOR MY COUNTRY!
happy talking, happy talk
talk about things you like to do
if you no have a dream,
if you no have a dream,
how you gonna have
a dream come true?
AS FOR ME, GIVE ME A HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE, OR GIVE ME DEATH!
jad fair and daniel johnston's version of happy talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0hyeUavn4
What's it gonna take, you ask?
Speaking personally, I say: legalize weed.
Amirite, ppl?
If Boner and his gang don't get that shit repealed, Leonard, you may get both. Fucking death panels.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA... and tax it to fund education and healthcare.
END THE WAR...on farm subsidies.
FIGHT THE POWER companies who don't buy carbon offsets.
FOR FROOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I AM A MAN... who humbly requests an extra week of paid vacation.
"How can there be a "non-institutional" leftism in a country controlled by leftists?"-Leonard
This is quite a revelation. Where have I been?
If only young people were more selfish.
If social security ended tomorrow, I'd be pretty bummed, even if it won't be around when I retire. I mean, old people.
And proud we are of all of them.
If you can't mobilize a twenty-something with the halcyon cry of unsecured payroll tax deductions, what can you mobilize him with? WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE WITH YOU PEOPLE?
he'll be happy with a 16, galil, ak, 12 ga, etc, etc, etc, when EXPLOITATION BECOMES MORE physically COERCIVE -- at least that's what I can say from experience some thousands miles sou7th
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