Must Read Medium Article Exposes Corporate Dems as "The Weinstein Resistance"
Pulling a Teacher Ken move* here, because this post on Medium says it all:
Link to Will Pflaum Medium essay, "The Weinstein Resistance."
Trump is Hitler. Or he is a fool who will blunder into a nuclear war: his aides talk about tackling him to get the nuclear football away from him. He’s unraveling. He’s going to take over television stations. He’s ignoring global warming. He’s incoherently trash talking with a nuclear power.
So what do we do? First, not fall in line behind corrupt corporate Democrats or Republicans and believe the bullshit pushed by the MSM. Don’t. If we put losers in charge, we will lose.
The reason Trump is dangerous is because the media and Democrats and Republican elites all completely suck. No unity talk, no Hitler/nuclear war hyperbole can put the genie back in the bottle and make the world like 2008 again. [... ]
Obama sent his daughter over to Wienstein. Same guy who f’cked up in 2016 and made Trump president.
Let that sink in. Obama knew what a rapist shitheel Weinstein was (hell, they all knew), but Harvey was a big donor to the Corporate wing of the Democratic Party so Obama sent his daughter to work for Harvey anyway. Because money is all these assholes care about. Nothing else and Mr. Hotel Bathrobe & Lotion Guy was deeply embedded in the various orifices of the Dem Establishment.
Weinstein is not the problem, but he is a perfect symbol for all that is wrong with the Corporate - excuse me, Corrupt - wing of the Dems. You might say he's become the lecherous face of who and what they stand for: the "status quo" in America that benefits the the wealthy scum of the earth while they (said scum) screw the rest of us out of everything we hold dear. In effect, their puppets in both parties put up a false facade of compassion for their respective supporters (GOP to those on the right and Dems to those on the left).
But for me, the Dems are far worse. It's like the Dems who control the party apparatus are that accomplice to a rapist, standing by and holding our hand as we're getting buggered while whispering gently in our ears that we should "just lay back and enjoy" what's happening because that monster (Bush, McCain, Ryan, Trump, whomever) under the bed would be oh so much worse.
Indeed, they demand we lie down and accept being strip-mined of our jobs, our assets and our lives because LOTE or some other nebulous hypocrisy. They take the same filthy, dirty money that the Republicans do from many of the same sources. Then they drench their own brand of self-righteous perfume all over their soulless rhetoric, trying to convince us only they can save us from a fate worse than - what exactly is never quite spelled out, but it's BAD. Never mind that the Dems under Clinton and Obama are directly responsible for a hell of a lot of the damage done to us over the last two and a half decades.
One more excerpt:
As the 2016 primary proved, there are two factions on the left. One faction, the corporate/CitiBank faction, spit in the face of the Sanders faction on July 25, 2016. The situation could have been salvaged then: Obama could have made Clinton pick Bernie as her running mate, or made other real concessions. Instead, Obama spit in our faces. He did it again by picking his boy to head the DNC, what’s his name, Perez. So, the left fractured and remains fractured.
That’s not leadership. None of them learned anything from losing more seats than any political party in US history, despite raking in more money than any political organization in history. Anyone who accepts the Schumer/Pelosi/Obama/Clinton losers as their leadership is asking to lose. In this case, to lose to Trump again, no matter how crazy he acts. Eminem is corny and not going to save you. Jay-Z didn’t help Hillary, did he?
We can definitely call the corporate/Clinton/Obama wing of the party the Weinstein wing of the party.
My only disagreement with Mr. Pflaum is that there was nothing Obama or Clinton could have done to "salvage" the situation last year, nor was there anything they believed needed salvaging. We saw the bloody claws and fangs of the Clinton faction come out in the open in 2016. They did everything in their power to screw "we the people" when they rigged the primary, called us sexist, racist and unnecessary for Her victory. Then blamed us after the fact for Her loss. To paraphrase an old 80's song, they've paid a high price to keep their masquerade going forever, one they still insist we join.
The Centrist/Neoliberal Dems don't want us at their party, they just want our zombie votes. They will never give up their addiction to the Weinsteins of the world, and they sure weren't about to do it last year when they self-hypnotized themselves into believing that the worst candidate ever, one who hand-picked Trump as her opponent, was guaranteed a seat in the Oval Office.
But other than that, as the inimitable TK would say, go read the whole thing. It's well worth your time.
* Actually I'm a lot more vulgar than that quisling TK [Insert stupid emoticon of shepherd here], but you get more truth and less condescending superiority.
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I feel this way about the dems too
"But for me, the Dems are far worse."
"They did everything in their power to screw "we the people" when they rigged the primary, called us sexist, racist and unnecessary for Her victory. Then blamed us after the fact for Her loss . . ."
Sure, I hate the republicans, but with the dems it's personal.
It is personal
And that is why we can never forget, never let it go.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The Democratic Party runs against its own constituents.
And they've been doing it since they screwed McGovern. They'd rather ride the fat white (Republican) elephant through what's left of the American china shop than allow actual working stiffs to have any real say in the direction of the government or the economy. All while the Libertarian team owners and their stink tanks push more and more Chicago/Austrian School Economic Royalism and Pillage.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Great imagery!
And how very true.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I'd draw a cartoon of it but I can't draw.
Anyway, that's pretty much why I don't count the Libertarian Party as a separate party. David Koch and the other billionaires behind the LP found that they'd never get elected so they've spent close to 40 years buying influence instead.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Identity Politics
They certainly 'identified' with Weinstein up until a couple of weeks ago.
What a grotty bunch.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Just a quick hijack:
“grotty”
Always liked that word. It sounds exactly the its definition. A very effective word. And haven’t seen or heard it since the ‘English Invasion’ of the 60s.
It’s funny how certain things can ‘cast your memory back’ to another time. And now that I think of it, things were pretty ‘grotty’ back then as well. And look what it took to at least sliow down the MIC. Now it’s probably impossible. Not under these two parties.
EDIT: autocorrect took the word hijack and made it hi jack.
EDIT EDIT: a bunch of unrelated letters into ‘exactly’.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Seems like an
Inter duopoly party squabble between the "corporate" dems and the "Bernie" dems. It's interesting how the author of the Medium article labels part of the democratic party the corporate wing so that can allow inclusion in the dem party for those supposedly against corporatism without having to take responsibility for the what the entire dem party really is, a wing of the oligarchy.
I definitely disagree with the author where he says "As the 2016 primary proved, there are two factions on the left. One faction, the corporate/CitiBank faction, spit in the face of the Sanders faction on July 25, 2016."
I think there are more like three factions on the so called left, maybe four. One is those pretend to be on the left but are willing to vote for Clinton who is a war criminal Wall Street warmonger with policies and actions anything but leftward. The Daily Kos types. I call them democratic conservatives. Then there is the Bernie faction which also is willing to accept the oligarchy's Wall Street democratic party and U.S. imperialism as long as they get middle class improvement via Bernie. Then there is the farther left who will not accept any of oligarchy bullshit and either support the Green party or other third parties or want an independent working class people's movement against the duopoly.
Will Pflaum seems to think the left/right divide should be defined as a democrat/republican thing, which is a limited way of thinking. That's exactly how the powers that be want it to be defined, between the two oligarchy political parties. I think many democrats forget that there is a whole nuther left out there other than the 25% of the country still clinging to that half of the duopoly. It's one reason I try not to even identify as left anymore because people automatically think of that as democrat.
You made me think of a recent conversation
My friend recently told me about being at a protest. She said that the BLM people were all good, but the d e m o c r a t i c - s o c i a l i s t s made her uncomfortable, because they were carrying g u n s . She also acknowledged their right to do so.
I thought I could relate to D S s better than anyone, but like with the Derp Party, I think not, any longer.
I feel like that little, baby animal in the book Are You My Mother?.
They are all in CYA mode
and again forget about that wayback machine, the internet. We become more embittered with each cut. We are not sheeple! How many more bombs+death today? WTH can we do?
An aside. Wasn't tk likable except for his damn prose? I just stopped reading him. You are correct, he oozed superiority. In a quasi-religious mode. Did you meet him IRL?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I did meet him once
At the 2005 Washington DC anti-war protest march. He looked very professorial. We talked for a bit and he was nice enough but as soon as he realized I was a nobody at Dkos (compared to him) he excused himself and went to talk to someone else with a bigger TOP following. Which was fine. I met a lot of people at the march who were far more interesting including DammitJanet, among others.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
DamnitJanet!
OT, but I so miss her and am very worried, given the fires.
Plus, I randomly think of her.
Does anyone know how she's doing?
he is paper-thin-skinned.
he reacted to even the mildest contradiction with a surprising nastiness.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Hollywood and Sleezeball Dems
Flip sides of the same predatory coin. Hollywood has a long history of malicious "business agents" and "casting couch" sexual depravity. The biblical culture of Sodom and Gomorrah has been replicated in spades by Hollywood. Any sexual depravity can be easily purchased in Hollywood and easily provided to D.C. power brokers in either party.
American media is certainly complicit. It strains credulity to believe the blatant misogyny uncovered at Fox News does not also pervade the entire media. And now Sinclair Broadcasting?
Until Trump brazenly publicized racist misogyny I had no idea how deeply America's cultural decline had gone. I naively believed the KKK was a small percent of American degenerates. One gut wrenching, stomach turning, sickening display after another.
And the media band continues playing, because the show must go on.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Yes we call it political Kabuki
but that's an insult to true Kabuki. The proper entertainment metaphor is a circus or carnival with all the barkers calling for you to see the three-headed man or bearded lady or to play some rigged game, or watch the clown show, all meant to distract you from how stinking and sleazy the entire operation truly is.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Weinstein IS the American Media. Seriously, He IS the Media.
A media mogul, in fact. I'm going to make sure that I hit on that any time I talk about the corporate media.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Maybe I'm naive
But I think we're seeing a hateful minority given a bigger megaphone by TPTB because it serves their purposes to keep the 99% fighting among ourselves. Of course, it could be creating a feedback loop and creating or bringing more to the surface. But, if the case is that the sheets are off, so to speak, I would consider that a better situation than business as usual secrecy.
That's what I'd like to believe anyway. I tend to be an optimistic cynic. Of course, if we're talking about the halls of power, I have a hunch your assessment is pretty close to the mark.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Media Megaphone
and feed back loop. I try to stay optimistically cynical, but it ain't easy these days. It's like Alex Jones has become middle of the road.
The only positive outcome I can even imagine is if one of America's so called "liberal billionaires" buys out Sinclair Broadcasting and gives a nice shiny megaphone to the "FDR Socialists" on the left of Bernie.
My comment about Tom Steyer and Billionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer from an L.A. Times and Common Dreams story:
https://caucus99percent.com/comment/302533#comment-302533
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I was accused of being an Alex Jones nut today
Because I said that I thought that presidents are just figureheads or puppets for the PTB. And that there is a secret government or an unelected group that is actually in charge of the country and possibly the world. The Rothschilds are definitely setting financial policies and we know that the Rockefeller and Kochs are able to set their agendas. The Bildeburg group has every one who runs for office come to their meetings, so is it really a stretch to think there is a ruling organization or a one world government?
We started out speaking about what Trump has been doing and I brought up the things that Obama did and didn't do.
I'll admit that I have strong opinions and that I might be opinionated, but I think it's obvious that our government doesn't represent anyone but their masters.
Is Jones a nut? Yes. But does this mean that he's not wrong on some issues?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
bing!
The thing that's funny (or scary) is that "They" think they can run the rematch in 2020 and win with Her Highness. That 2016 was a fluke, and there's No Doubt they can ring in those 70,000 votes they need to win, damn the torpedos. "Yes We Can!" the new rallying cry. Get behind her or get out of the way! Can't wait to see how "well" that works.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I think it's more like . . .
"We told you what would happen if you didn't vote for Her. Now, pull the damned lever and STFU."
They don't see the need to change because they think the election proves we don't have anywhere else to go.
I would go to hell before I voted for Her.
@FuturePassed
Much better that way, rather than after voting for it.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
"I would go to hell before I voted for Her" A-freaking-men!
Me too.
We know that the 2000 election was stolen from Gore
and the 2004 was possibly stolen because of the shenanigans in Ohio, so maybe this one was manipulated to let Trump win. The PTB decided that he would be able to do more things than Hillary.
Would she have been able to appoint the type of people to regulatory agencies that Trump has? His imagination policies, defund the ACA, his tax reform or any of the other things he has done? What he's doing is republicans' wet dreams.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
Plus the PTB running the US government get to imagine that the Dems can retain some of the patina of being the helpless 'good cops' in the fictional 'democratic' scenario being quasi-maintained to keep the American people quiet.
With the Clintons enacting all this, it would be too blindingly obvious that the Dem half of the corporate party is merely an airbrushed version of the Repub side - and there goes the whole Two-Party fiction of one side actually working for the public interest, making it obvious that regime change in America is imperative.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Chucky Schumer's got
this look on his mug as if to say, "are you getting this?" "Becuz we own you, and we Know we own you, and as far as the s-e-x goes... well, we'll take that as far as we damn well like, too."
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
In the face of arguments like this...
... I usually just shrug and say, "HENRY FUCKING KISSINGER"
Really, Weinstein is small potatoes in terms of the demonstrably evil the Democrats so adore.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Thank you for this, Steven
I first thought this essay was going to be about Weinstein and was going to skip it. I'm glad I didn't.
What you wrote is the crux of the problem with both parties, but I agree with you that the democrats are much worse bastards than the republicans because they constantly play on our hope that something will be done to help the 99% instead of the 1%.
I especially liked this statement:
I wasn't aware of the damage that the Clintons were doing at the time and only became aware of it after I needed to rely on the social programs that they gutted in order to put more poor and under classed people in prison and what their prison records would do to them in their future.
I was aware of what Obama was doing to not only the people in this country, but in others. From letting millions more people lose their homes, pensions, jobs and hopes, to knowing what his refusal to hold anyone accountable for crashing the economy. This last point makes it almost guaranteed that they will do this again. And the next time they do that, we aren't going to bail them out with our tax money and the future things it's going to cost us, they are going to be able to take our money directly out of our accounts.
Obama set things up so that there will be no consequences for what any president does to people in other countries when they decide to invade their countries on false pretenses, drop bombs on innocent civilians and possibly start another global war which will possibly include nuclear Armageddon. He started this process already when he and NATO placed troops and military equipment into countries that surround Russia while democrats, the media and his sycophants helped spread propaganda about the things that he did but blamed on Russia. The Ukraine coup, the downing of the airplane that flew over Ukraine, Putin's aggression in Syria and many other issues.
He took the hope of millions and turned that hope into despair.
Hillary, the DNC, democrats and everyone else involved in rigging the primary so that Bernie would lose made sure that this country will continue becoming a banana republic if it's not one already.
This is one of the best essays I've seen here. Well done. Thanks again.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Thanx Snoopy
That means a lot coming from you.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
This is good article about what we have allowed to happen
This goes well with this essay.
http://oftwominds.bmobilized.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oftwominds.com%2Fblogoct17%2Fconned10-17.html
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
I was sorry to hear of your struggles; it's enough of a shock to wind up in circumstances where one needs the kind of programs that one's country may have once had, (that you never thought you'd need help from,) without discovering that they're no longer there/functional enough...
I did try to go through your link, but:
So I'll hope it'll be found by the time I'm back on tomorrow, as I'm about to curl up in bed with a cat, a book and a hot cup of tea - some of these among the luxuries (especially the 'proxy-pet' cat) which I likely wouldn't have if I had to rely upon social services for survival, as so many now must do.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I must not have copied the link correctly
This should work:
The Consent of the Conned
Thanks Ellen for your kind words about my situation. Like most people, I never thought I'd be in this position.
I grew up playing every sport I could and continued after high school. I was in great physical shape, but I had a congenital problem with my back and I kept injuring it at work when I helped move patients. I was told I didn't have to do it anymore, but I had a patient who was going to fall so I turned and picked up a chair improperly, and boom! I blew out two discs in my back. I continued working while my doctor fought with my worker's comp insurance. After trying to continue to work, my doctor had to take me off work after 8 months when I limped into her office and could barely walk. The game went on for 5 years until I finally had surgery. But the nerve damage was permanent.
And even though it was illegal to fire a person who was injured at work, I was fired anyway. I couldn't blame them. What company could hold a person's job for 5 plus years?
The worst part of this was that I had trained myself to learn about ophthalmology and I loved my career. Boom! One day it was over.
This happened almost 20 years ago and I have had to continue to fight my insurance company the whole time and I'm now fighting both my insurance company and my pain clinic to continue being prescribed the medication I've been on for 15 years.
This is the result of the opioid epidemic. Pain patients are caught in the middle of this.
Now Trump and the republicans are once again trying to gut social programs that are already under funded. This is a hell of a way to live.
I make the best of this I can. I hold on to the things that are important, like my two precious dawgs.
I just finished reading this article. You don't have to read the whole article, start about half way down where it talks about the mortgage crisis. This should make everyone see more clearly how Obama let banks get away with fraud. This story should go viral to show how bad of a president he was.
How Obama let Chase screw millions
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
OMG, sometimes I wished we would all know
each others' life stories. I always wondered about your posts and how you had the energy to bring us all the proofs to back up your posts. The motivation behind ones actions is one thing one needs to know. Thank you for sharing this.
I always leave reading here more worried, shocked and embarrassed than the before I read the last story. Cling to whatever you have to keep on going.
Thank you for all your contributions.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Thank you, Mimi
We all have our burdens to carry. I have always considered myself lucky just to be alive. I got a second chance to live in 1977, so anything after that day is a gift.
It's not so much energy for me to find other articles, I have a lot of time to score the web and find the articles. Other than my daily walk, twice in the summer, I'm usually home and being a political junky, I follow lots of links.
We all add something to this little sane corner of the world. It all starts with the great essays others write.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
I'm almost left wordless, because I do understand... including worsening work-induced damage because of not being able to afford to miss time and working out ways to try to keep going for too long as a result... (I was cut off Workers Comp after a year, while still having trouble opening door-knobs due to tendon damage in both hands and arms) and all I can do is to send virtual (very careful) hugs... And thank FSM for pets!
Just about to tackle that first link, and thank you so much for them both! We will prevail!
Edit: just to say that I actually don't believe that the premise of that first link is being fair to the highly-propagandized American public.
Some percentage of it admittedly falls for the 'you're in the in-crowd of the Exceptional' malarkey and doesn't want to let go of it - something likely linked to insecurity in many cases, due to the effects of propaganda and the 'meritocracy' garbage, as they don't want to effectively lump themselves in with 'the whining unworthy' in that nonsensical and self-justifying 'if you're worth anything, you're worth real money' PR claim made by ruthless takers - but the American voter has hardly been allowed much choice of anything to vote for, other than 'one party/candidate not as bad as the other' and the Two-Party Trap, used in splitting the population and setting them against each other in ways which we all understand and which need not be defined here.
But now, what was once applied predominately to Republican voters in the form of 'right wing' fear/hate media propaganda campaigns aimed at activating the victim's amygdala, thereby shutting down higher thinking levels in the viewers and triggering instilled and unreasoning reaction by rote, is being more universally applied...
It bothers me whenever blame is transposed from the abusers to their victims, as is so commonly done within such as the polluting/predatory self-interested corporate culture infecting government, and even more so when the victims accept 'their share of the blame', this share also typically increasing over time, that being why I'm writing this before going on to the second link.
Re-edit: regarding the 2nd link, this is, indeed, a lawless system defined, both within the corporations controlling government and the government itself. I don't see how they could have cheated essentially everyone else in the US more comprehensively but, as with electoral cheating, every time I think that, further cheats are discovered...
If no single thing seems to take down any of the components within this too-too-solid mass of corruption, surely the endless examples within it will combine to collapse the whole, for a new start while anything yet remains to salvage.
And edited to add a missed letter and comma, while deleting a stack of redundant multiple-edit-added 'addresses' at top. Anything else I've missed should have leapt out at me sooner, lol.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I consider myself lucky
Sorry to hear what happened to you after you were injured. You are left with your injury because the new laws said they could do this. Most people's cases aren't just finished in a certain time period, except that is what is happening all over the country.
This seems so simple, doesn't it? Congress passed worker's comp insurance system so that people couldn't sue their place of employment. This system worked well for decades until companies' profits became more important than people's health.
Since my injury the workers compensation problems have gotten considerably worse. Just like you were cut off after one year, many others are experiencing this same problem. But there is so many other problems with this system. There are groups that find every loophole they can and they then teach seminars telling others how to get away with not having to uphold the rules.
People who have been able to get medical treatment, home health care workers come in to help them have been cut off.
One person who is a quadriplegic had his cut off with no notification. His family came home to find him sitting in his waste.
I'll try to find the article on this that explains what is happening. It's absolutely disgusting what is happening to so many people because of money.
My case was settled in federal court with a judge, my lawyer and their lawyer agreeing on my settlement. But somehow the insurance companies were able to pass new legislation which has affected my case and millions more. How can a legally binding settlement be changed without my consent? And of course I didn't get better treatment. Sigh.
I try to tell people that if they get injured at work they should go through their insurance instead of wc. And that people need to declare their doctors on a form that says if they get injured at work this is the doctor they want to see. If not, companies can send them to their doctors who will deny that there is anything wrong.
So many people aren't thinking they will go to work one day which will turn out to be their last day working.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
And any still-existing workplace and other protections are joining already-injured workers by the wayside...
Nobody has, or could ever have, any 'right' to surrender other people's right to not be poisoned, injured or otherwise abused by powerful corporations or any employer. And the same goes for their environment, their food, air, water and other product supply. The destruction of human and environmental health and life for profit is always going to remain illegal, whether it's officially recognised or not.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Heh! Good ole Eric Holder
Always looking out for us little people. You just can't make this shit up
Eric Holder refused to prosecute Jamie Dimon and Chase, but now he is defending them
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
Of course he is, that being why they knew they could continue to get away with anything and everything.
I wish this was made-up, but then again, all of us non-psychopathic people do...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Link doesn't work, but is this what you meant?
Maybe this is what you meant:
http://m.oftwominds.com/?task=get&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oftwominds.com%2F...
Sorry for this
Right website, but this is the article I meant
The Consent of the Conned
I read the one you linked to as well as the one that the other maven posted. I recently found this website and this guy has some great articles.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Two things anyone can be doing right now.
1. No more lies. Just don't. No matter whose feelingses are hurt. Never mind "But my Mom/sister/brother-in-law/best friend is a teacher/ judge/real estate broker/farmer/whatever and "He/she ISN"T LIIIKE THAAAT." Good people trapped in bad system are still part of the problem. No need to angrily confront people, but we need to stop "being nice" about being lied to.
2. Do good work. Period. Again, no matter what feelingses get hurt.
You think those two things are not revolutionary? How long do you think someone who practices them can keep a job?
Mary Bennett