> On Sep 15, 8:02 pm, "Sean"
now.com.au> wrote:>> "Doing the same thing, over and over again for decades, and still
>> expecting
>> a different result."
>>
>> And yet still many people believe that substantial structural change in
>> the
>> way politics and economics works is anathema, impossible, or not
>> necessary
>> in the world today despite all signs and evidence to the contrary.
>>
>> Of course underpinning all this is the way the majority of people
>> continue
>> to think, and what they choose as being of greater value over other
>> available options. Yet there are none so blind as those who refuse to
>> look
>> in the first place. Others just need a little help.
>>
>> Consider the following definition on a mass scale across a nation or a
>> civilisation ..... what would it look like overall, and how would it
>> manifest across varying groups and individuals?
>>
>> Paranoic Type Schizophrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by
>> delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include
>> anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike
>> other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if
>> delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner.
>>
>> --
>> "Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." RFK
>> 1968
Mmmmm, ru so sure I'm in the throes of a cynical reation, or just plodding
along quietly as usual holding up a banner nobody wants to read?
Eactly how many examples do people need before they choose to wake up is
what I wonder about occasionally. That is a rhetorical question, but for me
a facinating one. :-)
Did anyone mention Alterman? Or Media Matters, actually "matters" ????
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And, with the race locked in a deadheat and the economy imploding, Gary Hart
had this advice for Obama:
"I've been advocating, publicly and privately, that he make this a
transformational election. There comes times in this country's history - we
saw it in '32 and '36 of course, and also in '48 with Truman and '60 with
Kennedy - when voters are forced to face the fact that we must do things,
economically, in foreign policy, fundamentally differently."
"Obama's change message right now is, 'get rid of those who have
mismanaged and put in people who will manage better.' He needs to wrap that
up and step beyond it."
"This is transformational politics. He must lay the burden of this
economic collapse at the feet of the whole Republican Party, where it
belongs."
Here's what Obama said today:
Today offers more evidence that too many folks in Washington and on Wall
Street weren't minding the store. For eight years, we've had policies that
have shredded consumer protections, loosened oversight and regulation, and
encouraged outsized bonuses to CEOs while ignoring middle-class Americans.
The result is the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.
I certainly don't fault Senator McCain for these problems. But I do fault
the economic philosophy he subscribes to. It's the same philosophy we've had
for the last eight years - one that says we should give more and more to
those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.
It's a philosophy that says even common-sense regulations are unnecessary
and unwise; one that says we should just stick our heads in the sand and
ignore economic problems until they spiral into crises.
Now, maybe it goes without saying, but Obama never blames Republicans,
explicitly, for the mess they've made.
