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Panaconda (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:31 PM Original message |
Sanity? Civility? We All Should be Mad as Hell! |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Right you are. |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. K & R nt |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Rec. Damn straight! |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. k & r |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. 100% correct. Folks ultimate desire seems to be conflict avoidance not prosperity, lasting peace, |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. From where I sit, I don't see conflict avoidance. What I see is authoritarianism. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. On that I was talking about a piece of the electorate on "our side". |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. I disagree. That "piece of the electorate" wants LOTS of conflict. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
39. After a fashion, I reckon. I see that as bullying and puppy kicking |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:47 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. You definitely have that right. Passive-aggressive to the max. |
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Big Bill Jefferson (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-02-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
72. Exactly |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-02-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. Hey! There you are! |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. No, we should be focused as hell eom |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. I'm definitely mad as hell. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. And we poor people are POOR because we are so damned RUDE! |
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lib_wit_it (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 04:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
64. Well. don't worry. Glen Beckkk is here to explain the civil rights thing to them. |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. K&R |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. So women and blacks were "unpleasantly arrogant?" Bullfuckingshit. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. If you had been there, you would have known that's how we were SEEN, and what we were called. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. Disagree. Rallying against fear is good for Democrats. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. the problem is, just who should we be mad at? Most important link you'll ever go to - |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 01:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
45. Very good lecture. Summarizes a lot of what I knew or suspected. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Totally wrong - those changes took place within the system |
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Panaconda (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 04:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. No they didn't |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #30 |
69. From where I sit, sit-ins and suffrage appear rather civil |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 12:22 AM Response to Reply #15 |
44. Bull. Shit. |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 07:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
67. revise history much? |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. But the liberal class, in our age of neo-feudalism, is now powerless |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. ipaint- Nice post. -nt |
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chidy (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. i agree with most of your points, except this one: |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
37. Thank you for posting that. I'm going to have to agree. "Diffusing anger"...that is |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 06:46 AM Response to Reply #16 |
52. True. |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
68. Thanks for this post. |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. This is right on the money |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
21. Hey I think that sanity rally |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. K&R |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
23. you undermined yourself at the end |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Republicans have been "working" with us for thirty years. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. More like forty-three years. I tried to get university professors |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. who said anything about compromise? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:43 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. You h ave characterized exactly what poor people have to take from "social workers", from those who |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #26 |
70. The middle class is gone, irreversibly. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. They aren't going to work with us because they are racist, idiots, homophobes, full of hate and fear |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. eggsactly right. |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. Remember Republic Windows sit in?? |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
32. Hot Anger vs. Cold Anger (a DU blast from the past): |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
33. You can fight for what is right without stomping people on the head. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Did the OP talk about stomping people on the head? |
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Panaconda (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. Who's talking about that? |
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JoseGaspar (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. Man, am I ever tired of this "Slow decline of Empire" bullshit... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. +++ to this |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 07:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
71. +1000 |
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lib_wit_it (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 12:18 AM Response to Reply #34 |
43. Watching the rally yesterday, my husband said it's easy to be civil when you're Jon Stewart--he may |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 02:48 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. "A lie is not another side of the story. It's just a lie." |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #43 |
55. So you think our side has no faults? I know for a fact MSNBC has many faults. That includes Shultz |
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lib_wit_it (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #55 |
62. Exactly! I think "our" side has no faults. Excellent interpretation of my comments. I'm going to |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. You said: he tries too hard to find fault with our side |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 08:33 AM Response to Reply #34 |
54. We haven't had civility in decades. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-31-10 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
35. K&R nt |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 05:26 AM Response to Original message |
47. morning kick, nt |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 12:58 PM Response to Reply #47 |
61. Afternoon kick. -nt |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
48. Right on |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 05:59 AM Response to Original message |
49. The size of the elephant... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
50. Get uppity |
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deacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
51. Last election "anger" was a bad thing according to the GOP. This election they are embracing it. |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
53. The point is to get civility and ESPECIALLY sanity back in to our media. No more pundits |
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Panaconda (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. The media isn't "ours" |
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The Uncola (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
56. Nothing short of civil... |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
57. Sanity and civility aren't incompatible with courage of conviction. We can leave crazy for the RW. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
59. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will." |
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FirstTimeVoterAt37 (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
60. Somebody beats up a woman in front of me... |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
63. If you're fear of the 'evil' corporations |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-01-10 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
66. K&R. You're right. |
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