EvilGoalie 21
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And thus the ghost dancing begins anew. same steps, new dancers. like I said, history has it's reckonings.
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And thus the ghost dancing begins anew. same steps, new dancers. like I said, history has it's reckonings.
Sheriff Joe
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So, you feel the same as I do, nice.
Sheriff Joe
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Wez
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Unlike you, who probably homeschools his kids from the "Hotair" site, I said up front I haven't fact checked that article.
Sheriff Joe
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Wez
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I feel like I'm kicking a cripple, back on ignore.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Ha! I think you see a different set of dancers than I do but that's OK.
Sheriff Joe
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Sheriff Joe
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Probably, but there is still hope for you I believe.
Let me know if you need help getting there.
Hüsker Dü
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Apparently lil' joes dancers wear midriffs, short-shorts and have mustaches.
Wez
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Sheriff Joe
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Sounds as if you are starting to like me.
Sheriff Joe
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EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Its interesting in that this seems to touch on something where we are not sure how to read each other. On the one hand I can read this as ridicule of a right wing conspiracy theory. On the other as a class based view on how globalism serves the interests of an American "elite" versus the "common man". Or both. Or neither. How are you thinking of it?
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
I think manifest destiny can also be seen as an extension of 19th century capitalism. A nascent American corporatism. And why stop just because you've reached the beach? Trump/Bannon's economic nationalism, to the extent that it means anything at all, is similarly a means to manipulate markets to squeeze profits in a different type of way. Since we are quoting Roosevelt's today, here is what FDR had to say back in 1938. By today's metrics is what he's saying liberal, conservative, what?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15637
Hüsker Dü
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Like in the movie Demolition Man, someday everything will be Taco Bell after they survive the franchise wars.
Wez
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622 pages, may take me a few mins....
Hüsker Dü
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As the United States entered the nineties, the political system, whether Democrats or Republicans were in power, remained in the control of those who had great wealth. The main instruments of information were also dominated by corporate wealth. The country was divided, though no mainstream political leader would speak of it, into classes of extreme wealth and extreme poverty, separated by an insecure and jeopardized middle class.
Yet, there was, unquestionably, though largely unreported, what a worried mainstream journalist had called "a permanent adversarial culture" which refused to surrender the possibility of a more equal, more humane society. If there was hope for the future of America, it lay in the promise of that refusal.
Yet, there was, unquestionably, though largely unreported, what a worried mainstream journalist had called "a permanent adversarial culture" which refused to surrender the possibility of a more equal, more humane society. If there was hope for the future of America, it lay in the promise of that refusal.