tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5874855963463943589..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: SUSAN SARANDON LIVES IN A VERY SMALL WORLDSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67958626769444189442016-03-30T13:29:53.547-04:002016-03-30T13:29:53.547-04:00She reminds me of the sixties radicals who serious...She reminds me of the sixties radicals who seriously thought there was going to be a <i>leftist</i> revolution in America.<br /><br />Makes perfect sense she'd support Bernie, who blathers meaninglessly about a "political revolution" but is no more candid about what that means than he is about his own commitment to socialism.<br /><br />There are a damned sight more potential brownshirts in America than potential red revolutionaries.<br /><br />And those brownshirts are all lining up with Trump.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72903172183247693272016-03-30T00:07:02.259-04:002016-03-30T00:07:02.259-04:00Thank you. There is no revolution coming. The Bern...Thank you. There is no revolution coming. The Bernie Bros are just Obama Holey Changers seven years later. Anybody but Hillary, they cry, because our new world order is just right around the corner. I was just reading on Boo about Kent State & May 4, 1970. I was a much dirtier hippy at the time. Nothing changed then. Luigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16483229810538275725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73047267193325799042016-03-29T22:29:26.729-04:002016-03-29T22:29:26.729-04:00It's getting harder for people to escape those...It's getting harder for people to escape those pockets of Sanders supporters out there these days -- national poll figures from this week show Sanders now leads Clinton among women, men under age 30, whites, Hispanics, blacks under 30, and 'other'; also among LGBT, and those with income less than $50K. Some of Sanders supporters likely told Gallup they think of themselves as 'moderates', or might today tell them differently.Chai T. Ch'uanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956478299220539612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42053308483056664682016-03-29T20:26:47.277-04:002016-03-29T20:26:47.277-04:00I do not agree at all , I am around people every ...I do not agree at all , I am around people every day who are very ready for the revolution. They have not had a raise in forever and the cost of living and esp college keeps going up . The labels do not describe the reality ... just ask the questions properly e.g. " do you agree that Social Security should be reduced ? Do you think Medicare should cover all ages ? .... when the questions are asked in a straightforward manner the answers bear out liberal solutions . Bernie is the only politician I have known of in my time in USA who I would TRUST absolutely with the reins of this country .sligowomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00541694400948547529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-30655451431746556772016-03-29T19:07:25.237-04:002016-03-29T19:07:25.237-04:00I hope she isn't right about the electorate. T...I hope she <i>isn't</i> right about the electorate. This kind of thinking does lead to "Our turn!" fantasizing, and that can lead to a revolution most people don't want at the hands of people who care nothing about that because "they know better". <br /><br />And yes, some of this is privilege: The privilege of seriously imagining you are not only right, but have some sort of right to impose your ideology on a majority that doesn't want it. <br /><br />This is also profoundly unconstitutional, at variance with the entire philosophy that gave this country life. If someone thinks that's necessary, then say so. Admit your intention is the overthrow and the discarding of our nation's governing principles. Oh, and full disclosure: You might get killed in the process. Once you "Cry havoc!", the dogs of war that will be unleashed won't all be yours, and those that aren't will be going for your throat.jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-40094953631728152832016-03-29T18:51:36.865-04:002016-03-29T18:51:36.865-04:00People hate change, as it implies entropy. So a pl...People hate change, as it implies entropy. So a plurality will probably always identify as "conservative."AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-55734841726767505492016-03-29T17:47:55.901-04:002016-03-29T17:47:55.901-04:00“It is better to be roughly right than precisely w...“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” <br />- JM Keynes<br /><br />"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."<br />- JM Keyes<br /><br />A lot of Americans claiming to "be" or "lean" "conservative" either don't understand what that means, or are expressing a preference for some largely imagined past. If issue tests were used here, like Social Security, Medicare, right of access to emergency medical care, public tax supported policing, fire fighting, prosecution, motor vehicle licensing, testing and inspections, road construction and maintenance, airports and air traffic controls, development and building standards, waterways maintenance and monitoring, the CDC, increasing the ACA, etc etc etc, using those as markers to delineate between being misguided about what conservatism entails OTOH and OTO things they like or feel they need or even have a right to, and want to keep, many of those amount to socialism and government guidance and oversight to protect individual Americans and groups of them from lives that are nasty, brutal and short. Cutting out the chaff from the sterile wheat of conservatism that way would show that the actual percentage of 'truly ideological conservatives' reduces to a number really not all that different from the incidence of serious mental illness in the U.S. adult population at a given point. The rest comes down to variations in local cultural norms and personal and social pressures to conform.<br /><br />And when people are isolated from the crowd, no matter how heavily that crowd is infected with ideologues, idiots, ignoramuses, accommodationists, settlers, bigots, misogynists, fascists, the craven, the perverse, and indeed the entire line-up from Hedley LaMarr's List ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7WD8wkb1c ), people can be plenty flat scared stupid on their own.<br /><br />If I think back on all the fools I knew in high school<br />Who could barely form up for alarm drills ...Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-47260067001929375502016-03-29T16:29:09.947-04:002016-03-29T16:29:09.947-04:00It is what it is...
We are NOT some liberal basti...It is what it is...<br /><br />We are NOT some liberal bastion of a country!<br /><br />Back in the 70's, when I was a kid, I thought I was a bit left of center. Not too much, but more to the left than any e I knew.<br /><br />Within a few years of Reagan, I felt so far to the left, that I was looked upon as tongue-kissing Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Fidel - and I basically stayed the same in ideology, it was the rest of the country that went Reich-wing!<br /><br />So, as much as I love and respect her as actor, she's fucking nuts when it comes to politics!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-33933831975408328342016-03-29T15:59:08.811-04:002016-03-29T15:59:08.811-04:00That is one depressing Gallup chart.That is one depressing Gallup chart.Sherry Resonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02827779331228145410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32728021584366297832016-03-29T15:58:33.305-04:002016-03-29T15:58:33.305-04:00I'd like to arrange a bus trip for her and som...I'd like to arrange a bus trip for her and some of my Facebook friends.Four Bshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07523978967218994413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56431529150583821762016-03-29T14:46:48.098-04:002016-03-29T14:46:48.098-04:00I don't think anyone has ever said "as Sa...I don't think anyone has ever said "as Sarandon goes, so goes the nation."AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-12731132429713896642016-03-29T14:35:42.281-04:002016-03-29T14:35:42.281-04:00If you click through to that first link, there'...If you click through to that first link, there's a picture of Ralph Nader in 2000 (ooh, scary!) holding his hands up in front of him.<br /><br />Noticeably long fingers. Just sayin'.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05493939044872288977noreply@blogger.com