Will the US military fire on American citizens if ordered?

Sure. They always have.

So what?

The US duopoly is (1)Right Wing (Democrats); (2) Even More Right Wing (Republicans).

It has been the ‘50’s.

Both are Corporatist and Imperialist.

In the ‘60’s there was a breath of serious fresh air with the emergence of the New Left, followed by the counterrevolution begun by Reagan and moving rightward with every administration since.

A lot of “Progressives” are just slightly uncomfortable Corporate Fascist Democrats who still have nocturnal emissions over FDR, who was himself a Corporate Fascist middle man, intended to coopt the Communists and Socialists and prepare the US for World War.

Even most American Socialists are not really Socialist—their aim is Capitalism with social welfare, which is not Socialism.

The miniscule Communist Party USA is mostly FBI agents.

And those who are not, though valuable resources, are rigid ideologically and a century behind the times.

The Labor Unions with a few exception are Corporate accoutrements, and they know it.

So what is left?

It’s brewing in and out of the US.

When the smell of genuine revolution is in the air, you’ll know it.

It doesn’t smell like coffee. It smells like fiesta.

But first people have to get REALLY REALLY REALLY fed up.

That requires a certain amount of education, some of it hard knocks, some not.

One thing is certain: there is not going to be a revolution by ballot box. Nor by twitter or internet.

What I find particularly disgusting is that Obama is convening a deficit commission stacked with those whose agenda has been to slash Social Security & Medicare. After running up the deficit to bailout the class he serves and wage wars without end, he seeks to take it out of the hide of the already suffering citizenry. The dead give-away is he frames these safety net programs that people pay into their entire working lives, as “entitlements”.
  What is wrong under Bush, is wrong under Obama.
Unfortunately, so many are still caught up in the cult of personality sales pitch of “hope and change” and continued to be suckered while they ram this stuff through that Bush could only dream of—from off-shore drilling to cutting Social Security.

This being Kentucky, I have to wonder how many people thought they were voting for Ru Paul. 

Scheer doesn’t mention that Paul’s opponent ran a milquetoast, traditional campaign and resorted to attack ads.  And being an elected official when the state government is so screwed and the legislators once again failed to pass a budget didn’t help him either. 

It will be interesting to see if Palin’s support will alienate voters in November.

i feel we have two ways to begin to stop this madness&take; this country back from wallstreet&the; corporations without an all out revelution,namely,1,VOTE ALL THE LEECHES&BUMS; OUT &2.USE THE WAY WE SPEND OUR MONEY EVERYDAY TO STOP CORPORATIONS THAT ARE F"ING UP THE PLANET!!!!!!!!take oil co’s for example,if “we the people” can get smart&brave; at the same time by parking the car and doing our shopping with bikes or our feet more,we can take the power for the oil co’s and totally change our world!!think back to the selma,alabama bus boycot by blacks in the 60s-damm did it work!!!come on folks we can take these bums on&beat; them at their own games,if not then this country&the; world is finnished!!!!

First of all, who cares what happens in Kentucky?

That great state (sorry, commonwealth)is best described by this old joke, The day the world ends I hope I am in Kentucky, because it won’t happen there for another 30 years.

How much longer are we going to ignore the Neo-nazi links to this “new” libertarian movement. I have always found it amazing that anyone in the US with links to communists or socialists is a traitor to america, but if you are a skinhead you are just practicing free speech.

Reminds me of Thailand; anarchy, chaos, and no defined
direction.
U.S. politics are at an all time low and doomed to not
solve the real problems.
Corporate anarchy rules and we don’t!

I believe there is little doubt that Rand Paul is a direct result of the rapidly growing Tea Party movement.

I’ve been writing here for months how more and more “independent” voters are joining the movement.  How it is independents who decide elections.  How it’s been a stupid, bigoted and short-sighted mistake for ITW and others to so vehemently denigrate millions of independent thinkers.

Simply listening, with a mind to understand (not hate), would have been a great deal easier.

Mark my words and throw them back at me if I turn out to be wrong:  Progressives will suffer tremendously in the next election cycle.  Outrageous and unrepentant violence, hatred and bigotry toward protesters will be its cause.

Rand Paul is like Chris Christie in New Jersey: A nihilist masquerading as a Republican.  Christie is going to force the state government to shut down on July 1, part of the classic “Starve The Beast” strategy to end needed government programs and controls.  Everything from police, fire, hospitals, tollbooths and even the MVC (DMV to you) will shut down.  Somehow chaos is supposed to be better.

Sometimes I think Scheer has such a big axe to grind he gets downright irrational.  I’m sorry Mongiardo lost to Conway but Conway will still be a shining spot after that nitwit Bunning is gone.

Even if he only lasts one term I am happy we have gotten rid of these tiresome encumbents.

I hope to vote against Steny Hoyer soon.

Having been in contact with the Libertarian party 30 years ago, I soon discovered that their isolationist and civil liberty policies are merely a Trojan horse to usher in their insane free market, Ayn Rand nonsense (hence the candidate’s name) based upon the so-called Objectivist Russian Science Fiction of her silly books. Like L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, this great thinker so adored by folks like Alan Greenspan, is best left where she applied her trade: Hollywood.

Neither Rand Paul nor his father are Libertarian.

You might as well try to find “Libertarians” at Liberty University, which Falwell bought and kept the name of.

The elder Paul rushed into impeaching Clinton,for example, while admitting it was the wrong grounds (read his speech at the time) but when Kucinich moved to impeach Cheney and Bush, Paul became suddenly very scarce, arguing that he was not sure Cheney or Bush were guilty of any impeachable offenses.

In the primaries Paul got under the table Neo-Con support exactly t defuse the anti-war vote.  In New Hampshire, for example, he got anti-war cross over votes, then ran anti-immigration campaign ads on NH TV.

When he did, despite all his transparent idiocy, begin to get fifteen or sixteen percent support, mostly anti-war, he suddenly suspended his campaign, pocketed the remainder of the $35 million in campaign funding he had swindled, and said his goal was to save the Republican Party.

This just scratches the surface. He is a Born Again Fundamentalist Creationaist, a white Protestant crypto-racist, a certified member of the medical guild that makes its living on state-certified monopoly, a gold bug supported by gold interests—on and on and on.

He is also a concealed nativist jingo—working as a US army medico during Vietnam, for example, he moaned and suffered over the poor US helicopter pilots that were wounded but had not one word to say about the literally millions of Vietnamese peasants and civilians the US was mowing down with free fire zones and carpet bombing.

The Pauls offer very little that would actually help the working class in the long term. Ron Paul’s foreign policy stances are absolutely honorable, but his economic policies are almost anarchism without the socialist aspects.