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In reply to the discussion: Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop. [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)I'm really ready now.
The whole country, the whole planet, has been totally fucked up by a bunch of greedy conservative assholes and they're making it worse every single day, and I can't believe I'm reading this Third Way bullshit here.
"If they had bothered to study history, they would know that what they want to try has been tried, and failed, and tried again, and failed again, ad nauseum."
"It's because he knew that real, lasting change is accomplished the same way it always has been: with determination and, etc a chisel, not outrage and a machete."
Really?
Um, I wouldn't be calling anyone ignorant of history if I were you. You'd still be singing God save the King if it weren't for radical revolutionaries (gasp, egad!) like Franklin. Jefferson, Paine, and all rest of the dedicated people that stood up against tyranny. Anyway, you ever hear of them? They're in many history books. Smart, determined BRAVE group of folks, they was, guvnuh. Occupied the whole country back in the day. Totally trashed the status quo, and improved the world quite a bit with that new fangled idea they called democracy.
Who knew?
How dare we challenge authority? Fringe people! Blah, blah, blah."
Maybe the Strike won't change the world overnight, but there's no possible way it can be more of a flop than the US Government has been over the past 32 years.
Have a great day Mayday.
I surely will.