Last week was the 58th anniversay of the last Buddy Holly show. Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. 53 years! It seemed like an awfully long time from February 1959 to February 1964....
As the postmortems of Hillary's still alive and unwell corpus corruptus are still running rampant, especially amongst the smart people, it is once again noting that asking the wrong questions never reveals correct answers.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~Buddha~
Hello, welcome to the Friday Open Thread, aka Funk Friday. I have been winging it for awhile now, and offer no excuses. The bottom line is I managed to get the Friday Open Thread and it's my funking Friday.
Too funny. Trump's pals Joe and Mika finally clue in to Bernie. Because of his fundrasing prowess. The corporatists really only understand money, don't they? Morans.
Here's the clip - 14 minutes long. It's priceless to watch corporatist conservatives trying to understand Bernie. Dazed and amazed not by Bernie's ideas or his integrity, but by the people's money.
Author's note: this diary was published 25 September of last year -- still relevant today!
You know, postcapitalism -- the coming period of existence after the capitalist system has run its course, after Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" has outstripped Sanders' current promises, and brought us to a world in which we can actually do something about our situation without dragging around the profits system like a giant millstone?
The term wealth redistribution, often used by the mainstream media and critics of Democratic Socialism is an obvious mis-characterization. It implies wealth distribution in the first place. We 99 percenters know, wealth is pooled up at the top with the serious people that run things.
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Hey, it's Friday the 13th! We all have bad luck and trouble is on the horizon.
I am a tail end boomer and have been relatively fortunate. That was then, this is now.
Do we live in a democracy? Most of you are probably aware of the Princeton study that concluded that we are closer to oligarchy than democracy.
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
