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In reply to the discussion: If we don't fix this under a Democratic President, it will never be fixed. [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Nothing wrong with mainstream, after all the Beatles Rolling Stones Clash and Pink Floyd all were mainstream.
I don't believe in hating someone just because they have money. Because, money can't buy happiness, and hating money means one thing- that if the person has money, all the problems are solved, therefore it's not that they actually hate money, just that they wish they had money. The old "other persons grass is always greener".
After all, at the 12-12-12 concert that was free, major corporations gave major money, so that people like Roger
Waters could sing "Money" and bring in millions of dollars in the most ironic moment of all time.
I don't rage against the machine
but I will buy a rage against the machine cd as they sing mainstream music too.
(anyone with a #1 album is after all, mainstream.)
(just like the only difference between the mainstream media and the alt-media is the size of the paycheck ALL media receives.
After all they are writing as a hobby but as a profession, and whatever they write, their audience depends on their words to be what their specific audience wants to hear. ("Buy my book and I'll tell you what you wanna hear" they hawk.)
I am more happy that now, in America, every single woman can now grow up to wanna be President, and it's no longer said
to be impossible being that the next president will be a woman President.
And every single black person in America (who doesn't run into a Zimmy in Florida) can now grow up to be President because of
Dr. King, LBJ and Barack Obama.
Now there is hope.
Something prior to Barack Obama, there never was.
and with an 80-20, and the 80 includes the regular republicans, great things can happen
After all, LBJ needed the republicans to pass his legislature to get past the Wallace dixiecRats wing of the democratic party
(today those would be the democratic Paulites along with the republican tea party.
And, after all, Lincoln needed democratic votes to pass his historical bills that the same as the Paulites tried to stop then.
(and it's funny, some people I have been told, actually hated LBJ and Lincoln.)
And people are selective about who they adore. They say they like FDR, yet, of all presidents, FDR certainly abused
the rights of millions,(the Japanese) and his NOT going into WW2 for many years, caused how many millions to perish til he found an excuse but it was a few years late.
Now, let's not even talk about Truman(who is NOT a favorite of mine), and for the life of me,
I don't understand why people in 1952 voted for Eisenhower and again in 1956 over the single smartest person ever to run for
President, Adlai Stevenson. Go figure yet, the same people later voted for Reagan over Jimmy Carter (the 2nd smartest person who ever ran for President).
No, I will be happy with an 80-20, rendering the 20 politically obsolete after the 2016 election of Hillary Clinton/ Cory Booker 2016.
Real liberals are liberals like John V. Lindsay and Jim Florio, who of course, the public tore down in each case, making it 100% impossible that either will ever be elected office anytime in the next three decades.
and, as for money, well the NRA rules because of the money.
all we need to beat the NRA in 2014 and 2016 is someone with more money than the NRA to take them on, in every single state.
I welcome someone like that to defeat the NRA.
A real liberal would place getting rid of all guns/bullets from the streets (except for on duty cops and law enforcement,
and bring the 2nd back to meaning National Guard=Militia.
Because a true liberal wants guns out of the streets.
Which is why we need a Great Equalizer against the NRA.
imho
and it's all about the gun/bullet and always has been.
and you know what is better than pot for Cancer?
Eraticating cancer completely by coming up with new technology and new
treatement, and new vaccines (like the great Gardasal vaccine every single girl and boy man and woman should get as it prevents 25% of certain types of cancer)
and any other vaccine they come up.
But it takes big money to pay for that.
So, sorry, but I am not against big money. Bad money, but not good money.
And I myself am not looking for vengeance and an arena gladiator.
I am for wellness. (nobody needs a 48 ounce soda in a 90 minute movie with a free refill.)
Wellness saves big money at the doctor's office.
I don't think Ron and Rand Paul are for even 1% of what I would want being that the Paul's are in their John Birch Society world.
I want NINE Supreme Court Justices like Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer(who might just be two of the greatest justices of all time).
Not the ones Ralph Nader enabled to be put on the court, like Samuel Alito and John Roberts, and the people who voted for Reagan in 1980-1984,and Bush41, that gave us Clarence Thomas and Scalia retire one of these days in the next few years.
I want votes like the vote that was 97 to 0 the other day for a Judge who soon will be elevated to the top court at the next opening.
imho, feel free to disagree, this is a free country and we are posting on an international read board here, free of restraints except for what is in the rules. (the rules that say NO to Paulites).