While this Counterpunch article, The Wisdom of Serpents, starts out asking questions about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (AOC) biography, it winds up going through a lengthy laundry list of rotten things the Democratic Party has done since Obama was elected.
Really interesting discussion in this video. I won't give away the answer, but you know who is more corrupt, don't you. They talk about Trump being just a symptom of the real problem that this is now an Oligarchy, not a Democracy.
Special guest - Richard Eskow, Bernie Sanders' writer during his presidential campaign.
I'm taking a break from Outside the Asylum this week, but it'll be back next week with more on how to make a politics based on autonomous zones.
Something/Someone Old
My Something Old today is The Yes Album.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
The 1814 translation into English by the Reverend H. F. Cary is the origin for this phrase in English, although he gave it as the less commonly used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.
**Original post (from Tuesday, 7/10), appears below this update.**
This morning at 7am, UVMMC nurses began their two-day strike.
I deliberately took the long way to work to witness the main campus (Burlington) action and express solidarity. The sea of red shirts ran deep, the energy high, and I heard many car horns in addition to mine.
Growing up in the 70's I used to hear things on the news, and from conversations by adults, that I don't hear anymore. Here's a partial list.
1) We don't want to be the World Police.
I remember hearing that everyone agreed, Democrat and Republican, that we didn't want to stick our noses into everyone's business.
And then 9/11 happened, and this was forgotten.
2) We have a mixed economy.
Last month the peace marchers finished their 430-mile journey in Kabul. If anyone still doubted the strength of their convictions, they soon put those doubts to rest.
A full belly and empty amphora is not an ill wish for a man
a state of bliss unto itself, with the mind free
of the chains of order, the shackles of manners
and the leash of law ever pulling on the larynx
For when the flames flicker dim, who wishes to feel
the sting of cold's dagger, or the the wind's salted scourge?
Drink! For the amphorae are full and it will only be the sun
which provides the toil and the song to find more
So all of a sudden the Rip van Winkles of American politics, having been asleep during the Obama years, are now awake and yelling "Fascism." Trump is a Fasc
