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**evammaUselp** · 02-12-2012, 11:42 PM

This was a serious, non-ironic post in the comments section:

Do not be misled by a name. The core of today's Republican Party is the offspring of racist Southern Democrats who accepted Richard Nixon's invitation to join in 1968, to react against the Civil Rights Act of 1965. The essence of ignorant yahoos, they turned over economic policy to runaway lassaiz-faire investment bankers, whose only goal in life is add zeros to the end of the bottom line, regardless of how it's done or who gets hurt. So what if the lives of a few million workers are wrecked in the process? MY Maserati runs just fine!

Over 44 years, whatever might have been left of the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or Eisenhauer has completely disappeared. No point in bemoaning what is long gone. As Joe Hill said, Don't mourn, organize.

Mr. Friedman's journalistic integrity insists on looking for the "or" of the right to go with the "either" of the Democrats' center-right. In fact, the Democrats are the new moderate conservatives (meet Senator Schumer, for example). What's needed is a revitalized LEFT... call it Occupy for short ... that can revitalize the whole society, from the bottom up! That is whence cometh new thinking for a new age, post carbon, post environmental destruction. Can't find it? My suggestion: look to the women! This is their century, after all. Not a moment too soon! This from a geezer of the now-exhausted male strand who types messages while his daughters demonstrate How to Do It, whatever it may be. These are the people who insist that they are "moderate" and are the ones doing the "compromising." Some people are simply too far gone to save.

02-12-2012, 11:42 PM	#5
evammaUselp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	This was a serious, non-ironic post in the comments section: Do not be misled by a name. The core of today's Republican Party is the offspring of racist Southern Democrats who accepted Richard Nixon's invitation to join in 1968, to react against the Civil Rights Act of 1965. The essence of ignorant yahoos, they turned over economic policy to runaway lassaiz-faire investment bankers, whose only goal in life is add zeros to the end of the bottom line, regardless of how it's done or who gets hurt. So what if the lives of a few million workers are wrecked in the process? MY Maserati runs just fine! Over 44 years, whatever might have been left of the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or Eisenhauer has completely disappeared. No point in bemoaning what is long gone. As Joe Hill said, Don't mourn, organize. Mr. Friedman's journalistic integrity insists on looking for the "or" of the right to go with the "either" of the Democrats' center-right. In fact, the Democrats are the new moderate conservatives (meet Senator Schumer, for example). What's needed is a revitalized LEFT... call it Occupy for short ... that can revitalize the whole society, from the bottom up! That is whence cometh new thinking for a new age, post carbon, post environmental destruction. Can't find it? My suggestion: look to the women! This is their century, after all. Not a moment too soon! This from a geezer of the now-exhausted male strand who types messages while his daughters demonstrate How to Do It, whatever it may be. These are the people who insist that they are "moderate" and are the ones doing the "compromising." Some people are simply too far gone to save.
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