Should it come to that

Post #432,209 by rcareaga 1/8/20 9:15:13 PM 1/8/20 9:15:13 PM Reply	Should it come to that If Trump is returned to office this year, it will be apparent that the Constitutional system in its present degenerate state is no longer susceptible to reform, nor liable to resistance. How, then, may it be addressed, save by acquiescence or by armed* overthrow? Discuss. *Oh yeah? That’s what Ceaușescu thought. cordially,
Post #432,210 by dmcarls 1/8/20 9:30:34 PM 1/8/20 9:30:34 PM Reply	Re: Should it come to that >> "... is no longer susceptible to reform,..." This should be a clue to that: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/politics/equal-rights-amendment-justice-department-opinion/index.html The ERA has been reintroduced in the US Congress every year since 1982.
Post #432,211 by a6l6e6x 1/8/20 10:42:22 PM 1/8/20 10:42:22 PM Reply	"Second ammendment remedies" will be required. That's what the Tea Party folks said in the past. So, it must be right! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #432,213 by boxley 1/8/20 10:55:52 PM 1/8/20 11:08:39 PM Reply	any of the current crop of dems should be able to get ahead as long as voter turnout is high part of the issue will be that the current admin and cohorts will be constantly hammering on anything that will subdue turnout of the indies and the core of the democratic party. Some democrats are actively assisting the republicans to suppress the different. "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman Edited by boxley Jan. 8, 2020, 11:08:39 PM EST Expand All History
Post #432,217 by mmoffitt 1/9/20 8:53:31 AM 1/9/20 8:53:31 AM Reply	Migration to Cape Breton. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #432,223 by a6l6e6x 1/10/20 5:07:00 PM 1/10/20 5:07:00 PM Reply	Flipping the control of the US Senate would help a lot. This past Wednesday I got to see and hear Jaime Harrison who is going to take on POS Lindsey Graham. He sure says all the right things. He had been the chair of the SC Democratic Party and an associate chairman of the DNC. Anyway, he has a chance to knock out Lindsey if he gets the black vote out. I've started out with a C note to his campaign. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #432,224 by rcareaga 1/11/20 1:09:29 PM 1/11/20 1:09:29 PM Reply	I should clarify I’m personally not keen for the armed overthrow option—for one thing, when the oppressed masses rise up with their pitchforks and flaming brands, my protests that I was rooting for their side all along may not be audible over the din—but given an increasingly obdurate and rapacious plutocracy prepared to subvert the institutions to their ends and, where subversion fails, to go full fascist…even given a happy outcome this year, even, heaven help us, should the Senate flip, I fear that we’re looking at no more than a respite, a short-term palliative measure. And if we don’t get the breaks, I think we’re looking, best case, at something like the “chaotic devolution” the USSR endured a generation ago; worse case…Bosnia on a continental scale. gloomily,
Post #432,226 by Ashton 1/11/20 5:02:25 PM 1/11/20 5:02:25 PM Reply	A One ƒeares.. when the Olympic finalist in target-shooting points his technified-gadget at -->One. (As is often the case) I join you in the ..What!? .. kaleidoscopic hologram of possible local-World-next? … as an overview [.each .day] of the incessant pukka selected-madness: engulfs all the meeja + mouth-noises of the millions of perps -vs- anti-perps. (But concision escapes modeling the magnitude of our Clusterfuck) I see/feel no chance that extrapolation-FROM within-chaos is anything but ... [cf. a quip mentioned past] by Lord Peter Wimsey within his long-running PBS mystery-series; specifically the episode, Murder must Advertise. The ad-jingle ends with phrase … “flat, stale and unprofitable”. The FIX IS {already} IN. Since I do take seriously the constellation of consequences from: “When.. actually seen to be fait accompli", that, Language has been murdered pre meditatively” aka, by successful Design—as was crafted by ∑-IT/now-automated processes. Eloquence/ thus, becomes tossed-into-the stinking sound-barrel with the (new! personally-crafted) small-group precision-of-targeting, of the surgeon’s scalpel: within the ‘operating theatres’ all about—these crafted by the Top-Greediest æries of purest $$$-malevolence, as any one of us Can imagine. Confucius WAS dead-Right in his brief reply to the query, “Why should language be correct?” as he ticked-off the ineluctable horrors as would ensue if we allowed Language-itself to be subverted (into doggerel.. any pissant synonym will do). If we are not There? … then there’s no There there! (that smarmy dismissal of Oakland CA by denizens of the smugly pretentious-SF ‘Paris of the West’). Only purest-LUCK (a god worthy of our offering daily pæns toward) might alter the trigonometry of the said ‘ineluctable horrors’, I wot. So then, PUNK: are ya feelin Lucky? [did I fire five .. six?! shots from the most powerful handgun] etc. Perhaps we'recollectively that character from long-vanished Smokey Stover© comic, Mr. Mxtyplk (?sp) the character had a perpetual rain-cloud-over-head (Mr. Gurdjieff hired! such-a-one to be contrarian/to keep-awake his students, via his incessant BS-in-the-mix). er, Hmmm, has it even local applications? tl;dr.. Yes there IS 'luck' but as you opine: only for an iffy-period of respite (within which ... some/too-many! wouldst lapse) into Unicorns and flying-cars as They Shop even More. For 5000# 'cars' like it was 1971.

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