I definatively support the OWS movement and I hope it grows stronger as election day draws nearer.
However, I'm currently of the opinion that, barring open and armed conflict and a new American Revolution that I seriously doubt we'll see any real change in our corperately-owned government.
... at least until real campaign reform takes place and utterly and completely removes (and illegalizes) private campaign financing completely so we can get politicians to serve their constituants instead of their sponsors.
However, I think if that even remotely becomes a possibility, then those special interests against that will initiate a much worse conflict.
Regardless, this will either peter out with no benefit to the real 99% of America or we're at the crossroads to having the kind of real change America has been waiting for for the better part of fifty plus years. That is to say, the whole reason we elected the democrats into office in '08 and instead watched them bend over backwards to the republicans and their corperate sponsors.
This whole thing makes me sick, but I'm getting a little more hopeful with every OWS article I read or see on the news.
However, I'm currently of the opinion that, barring open and armed conflict and a new American Revolution that I seriously doubt we'll see any real change in our corperately-owned government.
... at least until real campaign reform takes place and utterly and completely removes (and illegalizes) private campaign financing completely so we can get politicians to serve their constituants instead of their sponsors.
However, I think if that even remotely becomes a possibility, then those special interests against that will initiate a much worse conflict.
Regardless, this will either peter out with no benefit to the real 99% of America or we're at the crossroads to having the kind of real change America has been waiting for for the better part of fifty plus years. That is to say, the whole reason we elected the democrats into office in '08 and instead watched them bend over backwards to the republicans and their corperate sponsors.
This whole thing makes me sick, but I'm getting a little more hopeful with every OWS article I read or see on the news.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
