tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post4462085783366343178..comments2023-08-11T08:06:28.810-07:00Comments on Slobber And Spittle (Archive): So, You Say You Want A Revolution?Cujo359http://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-14225046299587824752011-11-02T22:49:41.122-07:002011-11-02T22:49:41.122-07:00It feels more hopeful, that's for sure. What p...It feels more hopeful, that's for sure. What people bought in 2008 was the idea that they could just choose the right guy to run things and everything would be fine. That they chose someone who really had no intention of doing them any good is only now becoming clear to some, but it's probably no accident that they put all their hopes in someone who was a liar.<br /><br />OTOH, the Occupy movements are doing it themselves, and they have avoided the mistake of being co-opted by someone like Obama. That shows gumption and smarts.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-460198403455340582011-11-02T21:00:39.030-07:002011-11-02T21:00:39.030-07:00Joyce's excellent article fired off all manner...Joyce's excellent article fired off all manner of synapses in my brain as well. For a mass movement, lead by general consensus OWS is turning out wicked smart. Even when betrayed by supposed allies, OWS finds a way to perform astounding acts of political jujitsu. This a political movement the puches way above its wight class. <br /><br />There is real fear in the response of the anti-OWS, a panicked, almost hysterical reaction. The attempt to smear the movement with accusations of sexual and criminal excess reek of flop sweat. The right wing went to straight to the dirty-rotten-copulating and defecting in the streets hippy meme and did not pass go. That means they have got nothing Cujo359, just the same old tired cultural warfare talking points they have been using since Nixxon. That old, tired, senile, arthritic dog won't hunt. <br /><br />This is the real deal Cujo359, the first true mass movement since the civil rights struggles of the post WWII era. It is early days, the beginning of the beginning. Still unlike the false Hope packaged and sold to us in 2008, this is actual hope, a possible way out of the political and economic hole we all had a hand in digging.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07881103048419383597noreply@blogger.com