tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post7028485077817585402..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Is Democracy Doomed?Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-58545791932244412422015-03-04T17:59:26.408-06:002015-03-04T17:59:26.408-06:00Yes, and interestingly, the very people who were t...Yes, and interestingly, the very people who were tilting that way now have their kids in power today. What IS scary is the numbers of people who seem supportive, but I'm worried more that they're better organized than there are more numbers of them. At the end of the day it is the middle ground folks who always reject all kinds of extremism. As we rejected McCarthy and HUAC and Moral Rearmament and John Birchers then, we will reject the same today. Even with all the Koch money.Churchladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189667700112500485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-62895134843065583142015-03-04T14:47:54.590-06:002015-03-04T14:47:54.590-06:00The first time I heard a lefty tell me America was...The first time I heard a lefty tell me America was careening toward Fascism was nearly 50 years ago. It's a familiar refrain.Tien Lenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-52644597954376160602015-03-04T13:54:18.659-06:002015-03-04T13:54:18.659-06:00We can have a Third Reconstruction that solidifies...We can have a Third Reconstruction that solidifies democracy IF we don't make the same horrific error of the 19th Century and perpetuate racial divides. The model for overcoming that lies in unions. They overcame the rifts between working people and discovered common purpose against those who would choke them all. That has to be part of how we get back. Molly Ivins once wrote that American politics really isn't Left and Right - but it's Up and Down. If the Down - the 99 or 47 or whatever percent - realized the commonality of their experience, the Ups would have no power over any of us. Jim Webb's exhortation that the Dems need white working men missed the GREAT opportunity to point out the bonds of solidarity between deindustrialized working class white communities and #BlackLivesMatter who are suffering the same predations from capital. He perpetuated the gulf between white and Black and Latino people rather than calling for the party to be for working people and each one for the other in difference as well as commonality. We don't have to be the OTHER party of stupid. This is not an either/or situation. We live at the expense of others when we refuse to make the commitment TO others to be on their side against the common enemy - corporatism and a slavering ruling class. We are doomed - democracy is doomed - only if we let it happen by refusing to find our shared victimization and refusing to join together to fight like hell for the living. (H/t Mother Jones the woman and labor leader.)Churchladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189667700112500485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-86718077536719070162015-03-04T13:44:52.119-06:002015-03-04T13:44:52.119-06:00I agree that the country is in bad shape. Look at ...I agree that the country is in bad shape. Look at the bad decisions made over the last 15 years. Letting the Supreme Court choose a president. Ignoring plain signs of an attack on our soil. Going to war for knowingly false reasons. Losing those wars. Creating economic collapse. Allowing a movement to arise that holds the destruction of our government as it's long term goal. Electing members of that movement to serve in the government they seek to weaken to the point of dissolution. And on and on. It's grim. And the only, single remedy we have is the process of elections. And we watch as some seek to tamper with those. Voting for the right people is the only way out. If there is another, I'd love to hear it.T2noreply@blogger.com