gdp's Comments

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Fri, 7 May 2010 23:04:50 +0000

"Help me Jesus the flying zombie, help me." It's disturbing that adults take things like that seriously. Why not the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny?

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Fri, 7 May 2010 23:00:52 +0000

You do that. It still doesn't change history, the political spectrum or the different ideologies and systems that US trading partner, Hitler and US military ally, Stalin, followed. How was that even playing? You'll have to do way better than that. I'm not in your amen corner, like you're used to. I listen to your talk radio idols, because I think their nonsense is hilarious, so I know where you get your, um, information, for lack of a better word. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, outside of right-wing pop culture.

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:28:38 +0000

Reminds me of the study that showed that right-wingers believed Stephen Colbert was only pretending to joke and believes that nonsense. http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/2/...

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:21:21 +0000

Don't forget the career military family, enjoying the fruits of the taxpayers' labor, cranking out children who are born into the only cradle-to-grave welfare state that the US has to offer.

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:17:20 +0000

I think the poster was talking about history, but not the revised history that US right-wing celebrities are pushing in an effort to throw their old friend, Hitler, under the bus and pretend that they weren't the leaders in Antisemitism, until very recently. The WWII vets I've talked to about this are appalled. A good way to understand the left-right politics of the 20th century is to look at the Spanish Civil War, the dress rehearsal for WWII: Right-wing side-nationalists, royalists, clergy, and air support from Nazi Germany, and the US and UK gov'ts continued to supply Franco Left-wing side-social democrats, trade unions, socialists/communists, and anarchists (who were betrayed and attacked by the Stalinists) with support from the USSR. It was all so simple and clear until the fringes of corporate media tried to quietly divorce the reactionary nationalists in the US from the reactionary nationalists in WWII Germany.

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:00:34 +0000

I'm embarrassing myself, but you are invoking the magic powers of a document, that beginning with Ronald Reagan and continuing with every successive president, has been systematically destroyed? Sincerely, I wish that those freedoms were guaranteed, but in my experience they are not. Even if they were, the constitution offers the individual no protection from corporations, who somehow have the status of an individual person when it suits their purposes. I believed in the magic of the US constitution, too, but it only took a handful of cops in a few separate incidents, to convince me that what I believed didn't matter in those cases. Between the War on (certain) Drugs and the War on (some) Terror, those rights are gone. Governments exist outside of their own laws; especially the bureaucrats with guns, such as cops and military personnel. Calling it the American Revolution is a misnomer, and not just the American part. What happened in the late 1700s was not a revolution, since the changes were purely political, not social or economic. The British elites were overthrown in a coup by the Colonial elites, with varying levels of popular support. This was great for the Colonial elites, er Founding Fathers, but it probably did not change the day-to-life of everyone else, other than extending slavery. Washington, like Lenin, did not tolerate dissent. Here in Western Pennsylvania, Washington commanded a force as large as the entire Continental Army that fought the Redcoats, to quash the Whiskey Rebellion, since it threatened his own whiskey business. The use of military force by the elites to protect their economic interests is nothing new, though.

Big Government : America's Progressive-Anarchist Tea Party

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:53:10 +0000

By "left" do you mean the Democratic party? That's as close to a relevant left as there is in the US and they are right of Richard Nixon at this stage. The alphabet soup of Jehovah-Leninist newspaper vendors and their latest front/splinter group make up what's left of the rotting corpse of authoritarian socialism are even less relevant than the capital "L" libertarians, and that's saying something. Many Wobblies were (and are) anarchists, despite the best efforts of the Communist Party USA to control their union. This was long ago when the CP was relevant. The CP-USA, like the Mormons, is fond of "converting" the dead to their beliefs. They have been trying to claim the Haymarket anarchists, who were hung for trying to win the 8 hour day, for years.