WWH~~ Wake'N'Bake 101: Feelings

Dr. Woody's old blogging buddy (more than 5 years, now) and former compAtriot, Prof. Wombat took up an important question in his usual, restrained fashion, the other week: When, if ever, is revolutionary social change acceptable. Thoughtful, compassionate, wise, Wombat ends up arguing for patience, and working within the system to effect what changes we can.

Another long-time and formidable blogging associate, Steve S. replied, and not in the spirit of contradiction:

"We can't win in rigged elections. We can't win in partisan courts. What is left?

I keep saying it -- progressives have to take over the Democratic Party as ruthlessly and completely as the conservatives took over the Repugs in the wake of the Goldwater fiasco.
That took twenty years, of course, and I don't know if we have the luxury of that kind of time.."

Y'r Ob'd't S'v't responded:

I think it took MUCH longer than 20 years; it took closer to 50 years, and STARTED with the assassination of JFK, in '63. That was the first public act in the silent, surreptitious, but now --since 2000-- complete coup de etat by the Commercial/Militarist/National Security//Intelligence cabal against popular sovereignty. And Kennedy's was not the only life sacrificed for its success.

Since then, the back-street coup has occupied the talents of probably scores of thousands of people: organizers, propagandists, proselytizers, academics, pundits, the whole array of the CorpoRat/Gummint "ideological state propaganda apparati," including the schools.

And it cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS (think Carl Sagan-sized numbers) of dollars.

And it was unstintingly and enthusiastically bankrolled by a cabal of about 20, more-or-less interchangeable billionaires; descendants, either literal or epistemic, of the treasonous bunch of CorpoRat Fascisti who wanted--and half-assedly tried-- to overthrow FDR in '33.

So yeah, I think Steve's right, we don't have "time." Or ANY of the other "peaceful" contributing factors either: money and man-power. For billionaires, we've got Soros, who isn't even a really reliable "insurgent" funding source, like the Coors were/are, or the Kochs, or the Lilys, et al. were for the Rightist revolution.

By the way: The Opus Dei SCROTUS just ruled this week (5-4) that consumers no longer may make common cause and, as a class, sue the Owners for their commercial frauds, injuries and misdeeds.

And they're gonna reverse all the rest of class-action jurisprudence in the Wal-mart case.

One stick at a time, they're pulling the structure of our liberty down around our goddAm ears. But, if it just too messy to change it, it ain't gonna change.
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Dr. Woody doesn't understand the apparent concern some folks (CBS, the "Villager" punditry) manifest for the 'delicate' feelings of the troglodytic, moronic, knuckle-dragging, ignorant, racist Phux who, from an income bracket about one fiftieth or one one-hundredth of their Bosses', can steadfastly parrot their Owners' moronic platitudes, lies, and misrepresentations.

Folks say we on the left gotta swallow our vomit and make common cause with these folks, to present a united front. But I CANNOT imagine the "Baggers" possess ANY civic values or virtues with which I could agree or upon which I could build any sort of coalition.
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If you EVER doubted that the Fed was an enemy to the People, here's some pretty good evidence of where it's true loyalties lie:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/fed-lending-helped-wall-street_n_853884.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/26-4

Clever, clever banksters at places like Goldman-Sucks 'borrowed' bailout-level, almost interest-free money from the Federal Reserve, and then loaned that money to the Treasury--'buying' bonds, would be the usual way--at much, much higher interest rates than that they paid to borrow it from the Fed in the first place. Also, they speculated--successfully--in energy and food commodities (n.b., rising prices in both the food and energy sectors).

This is one of those cases when the claims of the "anti-Fed ocd" crowd (Paul, Rockwell, Alex Jones, etc) that the Fed is not your friend, is indeed inimical to our best interest--as a people, if not as a business-- finds new meaning, innit?