Topic: Take the Country Back? For whom?
msharmony's photo
Tue 05/29/12 11:47 PM
Edited by msharmony on Tue 05/29/12 11:49 PM
The country has changed in that we are even more of a meritocracy today than at any time in the past. Women, minorities, gays, Jews … all can now work on Wall Street, in law firms, start businesses, and enter the market without being run out of town. Merely being one of the boys isn’t enough anymore. The level of shrillness is nothing but the last, desperate gasps of an aging demographic group left over from a time when America meant apple pie and baseball for some and lynchings, beatings, and disenfranchisement for others.

http://www.joshuakennon.com/what-take-our-country-back-really-means/



It is ponderous why several of the main goals of the right's "take our country back" top 10 demands (view here: http://takingourcountryback.net/issues/contract-from-america/ ) were not as loudly championed during the Bush years as they are now during the Obama years (such as #3. Demand a balanced budget; #6. End runaway government spending; #8. Pass an ‘all-of-the-above” energy policy; and #9. Stop the pork), but I'm sure the Heritage Foundation has a talking point ready to distract them from that inconsistency

.......I for one think perhaps it's OK to pause a day or two and let every American feel it's, you know, their country too and no one is trying to take it back.


http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2012/03/taking-country-back.html

Sojourning_Soul's photo
Wed 05/30/12 02:25 AM


Yep, give the people the ILLUSION of choice, and you can sell them anything!

msharmony's photo
Wed 05/30/12 02:24 PM
Edited by msharmony on Wed 05/30/12 02:25 PM



Yep, give the people the ILLUSION of choice, and you can sell them anything!


choice is real, freedom is the illusion

the choice is in who or what we will be slave to,,,,

a boss, a government, but someone has and will always be 'in charge'

no photo
Wed 05/30/12 03:00 PM
Yes, the federal bank, in charge and making money.
Inflation = The hidden Tax.

mightymoe's photo
Wed 05/30/12 04:08 PM




Yep, give the people the ILLUSION of choice, and you can sell them anything!


choice is real, freedom is the illusion

the choice is in who or what we will be slave to,,,,

a boss, a government, but someone has and will always be 'in charge'


15 years ago, most people could get a job making 40 grand a year... now anyone is lucky to get a 10 dollar an hour job... big business had made us all slaves...

msharmony's photo
Wed 05/30/12 10:59 PM





Yep, give the people the ILLUSION of choice, and you can sell them anything!


choice is real, freedom is the illusion

the choice is in who or what we will be slave to,,,,

a boss, a government, but someone has and will always be 'in charge'


15 years ago, most people could get a job making 40 grand a year... now anyone is lucky to get a 10 dollar an hour job... big business had made us all slaves...



on this , we agree