When through the course of History, A government of a
few Elite, ceases to be a Government for The People,
then it is the Right NAY it is the duty of the Down
Trodden to rise up and overthrow it.

That seems to sum up the only course the Citizens of
these United States have. The cycle and recycle of
the same Politician does little to effect change for
the Working, and Poor classes.  The primary reason
that we ever got anything during the Depression, was
that FDR and by no small effort from his wife
Elenore, was able to fight hard and aided by being
reelected three times, delivered some improvement in
their daily lives.

Robert Laurence “Bob” Barr, Jr. represented Georgia’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003; he was not a representative for Florida.

GARTH: It’s my understanding that the war represents .5% of the population. If you feel revolving door politics allows the M.I.C. to place recruiters in local High Shools and, Charter Schools are a threat to Public Education, then my suggestion below is for you. Violence may be a possible reality of efforting for organized change, but non-violent change is possible.

  My bet is that allowing anger to reduce fellow Americans to characterizations allows one to avoid the personal responsibility of stepping up to the plate and allows a generation of half-adults to blame others.

  Be the change you want.

  ASTROLOGY: Americans do understand how “Blessed” they are. Hence the rage expressed on this site. Nothing has to “burn”. I SUGGESTED that ACTION is the key. Your “bums—in and out” complaint is the point. Distorted Campaign Finance regulations stop “We the people—” from enjoying true political representation.

    Thanks to you both for your comments.

All this TALK!! of revolution and CHANGE!! is smoke and self-serving blather. It requires the ACTION on an individual basis that connects like minded individuals and forms COMMUNITY. Defeat is a convenient choice.
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That’s it.  Let’s stop the one per cent of the 300 million of us who go to war.  Let us intervene at the high school level.  No more teaching militarism. 

Teach self.  You’ve got one self and so do I, but only one,  If you want to wear a uniform and march, go right ahead.  Keep in mind, though, that all that order all that conformism ultimatelt to disorder, violence and crime.

Come home after you’ve killed a child and her mother and brag about it at the local VFW.

In this new movement toward Charter Schools.  Let’s insist that the fake-ass Majors and the blow hard Colonels leave our Public High Schools.  Teach compromise there. 

If it doesn’t end there, it’ll never end.  I’ll bet on it.

All this TALK!! of revolution and CHANGE!! is smoke and self-serving blather. It requires the ACTION on an individual basis that connects like minded individuals and forms COMMUNITY. Defeat is a convenient choice.

    The Latino Community is a great example of ORGANIZATION and ACTION by a self-interested community. It has its own press, finance, public relations, and communications. It turns out for mass demonstrations and can mount “road trips” to deliver protest support anywhere in the U.S.A. and, the press and Washington are scared to touch it. It is a master of spin and manipulates and scares Corporate Business at will. It demanded its own status as a separate Nation-Within-A-Nation with its own culture and language and Washington rolled over without a whimper.

    Another point for WOULD BE revolutionaries is that in fact, no violent revolution is needed. THE “CORE” ISSUE, Campaign Finance Reform (removing $$$$$ from politics) could not only stop the Rethug agenda dead in its tracks, but revitalize Democratic dialogue, identify possible 2012 candidates and force our President to show his true colors. 1000 simple well written flyers on the topic (two sided folded 8.5"X11” cost less that $70.00) or a two line ad in the classifieds saying CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM NOW!!cost pennies a day. It ain’t Rocket Science. Send a letter with copies to your Representatives and local party headquarters. Want to shake’em up, offer to speak on the subject at their next meeting.

    REALITY IS: There are already groups in place fighting for the issue, desperate for volunteers. Join or snivel.

    To paraphrase the Bard, Methinks the Ladies and Gentlemen complain too much.

Chris Hedges on the Thom Hartmann show yesterday (Nov. 7th or thereabouts) spelled it out clearly.  There is a difference between Revolution and rebellion. 

We don’t want to make ‘systemic’ changes as the right wing mafia is so fond of exclaiming.  We are voicing our disapproval of the way things are being done. 

We want substantive changes without throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Make change.  Make change possible.  Make it regettable to hold on to what you’ve gained by deception.

Hit ‘em where it hurts.  Find the Achilles heel.

They must have some sense of pain somewhere.

Amarcissie says:

“This reminds me of something by Andrei Amalrik, a Soviet dissident who, against all conventional wisdom, predicted the demise of the Soviet Union in his not-too-distant future.  Writing in the 1960s, he said of the Soviet nomenklatura:

‘There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels of society: this is the extreme isolation in which the regime has placed both society and itself. This isolation has not only separated the regime from society, and all sectors of society from each other, but also put the country in extreme isolation from the rest of the world. This isolation has created for all—from the bureaucratic elite to the lowest social levels—an almost surrealistic picture of the world and of their place in it. Yet the longer this state of affairs helps to perpetuate the status quo, the more rapid and decisive will be its collapse when confrontation with reality becomes inevitable.’

In the United States, however, the problem is not just the people ‘within the Beltway’ but in other high offices in the ruling class everywhere.  It is part of their incompetence, their progressive degeneration and dissolution.  But the principle is the same. “

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In each iteration of this madness throughout history, the mind-bogglers at the top and ones behind it think that their scheme will succeed for one crazy reason or another.

In this instance we have the reason being, technology and the government’s backing to group the NSA, Homeland Security, the State Department, CIA and FBI, and the News media together to scare the bejeebers out of most Americans.  And they keep an eye on them at the same time. 

Drones, courts, and psychopathic killers in uniforms.  They think it can never be overcome.

Johannes FuckFace, the cop who killed Osacar Grant on the BART in Oakland, caught on film, was sentenced to two years.  Two years ago he agreed to something or other when he turned himself in. What in the world was that about? He, a ‘killer’.

Some gotta live and some gotta lose.  Good Time Charlie’s got the blues

But when the shit hits the fan, I don’t want to be on their side wearing uniform, carrying a rifle.

I’d cut a choagie and head for the Badlands.

Reminds me of a Bill Maher quote:  “Republicans say
government doesn’t work and then they get in it and
prove it.”

And when the newbies get to DC they quickly devolve
into DC regulars.  Devolve, because Washington is a
town that pays more attention to loyalty and discretion
than to vision or success.

JDmysticDJ, November 9 at 5:50 pm:
‘The data shows that “We the People” have nearly no respect for those inside the beltway. Human nature being what it is, I’ll suggest that those inside the beltway have an equal lack of respect for “We the People” and that they will continue doing what they have been doing, and the people be damned. ...’

This reminds me of something by Andrei Amalrik, a Soviet dissident who, against all conventional wisdom, predicted the demise of the Soviet Union in his not-too-distant future.  Writing in the 1960s, he said of the Soviet nomenklatura:

“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels of society: this is the extreme isolation in which the regime has placed both society and itself. This isolation has not only separated the regime from society, and all sectors of society from each other, but also put the country in extreme isolation from the rest of the world. This isolation has created for all—from the bureaucratic elite to the lowest social levels—an almost surrealistic picture of the world and of their place in it. Yet the longer this state of affairs helps to perpetuate the status quo, the more rapid and decisive will be its collapse when confrontation with reality becomes inevitable.”

In the United States, however, the problem is not just the people ‘within the Beltway’ but in other high offices in the ruling class everywhere.  It is part of their incompetence, their progressive degeneration and dissolution.  But the principle is the same.

The data shows that “We the People” have nearly no respect for those inside the beltway. Human nature being what it is, I’ll suggest that those inside the beltway have an equal lack of respect for “We the People” and that they will continue doing what they have been doing, and the people be damned.

I heard recently that Harry Reed, Joe Lieberman, and Mitch McConnell are good friends. At the height of the Health Care debate Joe Lieberman single handedly destroyed hope for a public option. When Harry Reed was asked about Joe Lieberman, he snapped, “Joe Lieberman is the least of my worries.” These people are totally disconnected, and possess an, us vs. them mentality. I’ll suggest that nearly all these representatives of “We the People” have their own agendas, and are willing to sell out because they consider their personal agendas more important than their personal integrity.

All the leading social commentators, political pundits, etc. identify the problems, but they stand aloof, offering no viable solutions. We are in need of a reform, but only those who are in need of being reformed have the power to carry out that reform, and they are not likely to do so, they are too busy trying to advance their personal agendas. I’ll suggest that moderates tell themselves, “I’ve got to stay in office or my moderate voice will be lost,” while more radical and reactionary politicians use the same type of rationale. Meanwhile, the injustices, atrocities, corruption, and insanity continue unabated.

The buck stops with Obama, and only he is in a position to evaluate the situation and to understand the real need for a consensus in order to accomplish positive goals. Personally, I see no positive accomplishments coming during the next two years, quite the contrary. Obama, because of who he is, and because of his life experiences, will compromise his best instincts, and submit to his critics in order to create a consensus. There will be no progress, only continuing reactionary regress. I fear that Obama will be remembered by history as the first black president, and as the most ineffectual president in history. A well meaning impotent, who amounted to nothing and who accomplished next to nothing, except to serve the interests of tyrants and warmongers.

I’m trying real hard to not spiral in to defeat.  At
the very least, we’ve got Rand Paul as a Republican
Senator calling for military cuts.  We’ll also see
shortly whether or not Ron Paul is able to run the
monetary committee he should be in line for.

Yea, otherwise though, there ain’t a lot of reason to
expect any sort of big changes.  I mean, the House was
already writing Republican-friendly legislation…

That’s good to know, and my suggestion to Washington is to keep on laughing, and laugh all the louder, knowing that you got away with larceny….

Laugh in the halls of congress, and in the senate, and down on K street, and at the White House…

Laugh, Laugh, Laugh, Laugh until your sides split, and until tears run down your eyes…

We won’t be laughing along with you…instead we’ll be sharpening our pitchforks…

America is watching, and we no longer buy your two party divide and conqueor scheme…

and remember this, he who laughs last, laughs best…

Preaching the inevitable does not help bring about change.  But it don’t cost nothing, so what the hell?

What’s this!? Republicans with a tea bag on their lapels will not end the American Empire!? There will be business as usual!? Whew! Thought for a minute there I was going to have to stop being curmudgeonly. So, I can rest easy, and be assured that all the joys and bells and whistles are still corrupting and fabulous, and can spin all the heads of the gosh gollies from the hinterland. Michelle Bachmann and Rand Paul in the same hot tub, … boy that vision gets my cuckolds ahacklin’! Partéé baybee.

Yup. That about sums it up. The new gang hasn’t even been sworn in yet and I’m already pissed off. Not because of anything specific, but just on prinicple.

I know deep down in my gut that those spineless prettyboys and -girls won’t do squat except repeat ad nauseam, “You don’t understand. It’s not that simple…”

Piece is extremely concise; not an excess word, reference or quote.  And exactly correct.