Protest only spread the message, for real effective action you have to hit the playmaking class in the profit margin. That is the only barometer they work by.
So protest is only the first step in getting people focused, alone it doesn’t do much of anything.
Naomi Klein has made a career out of it. She’s basically a secular Pope; she speaks urbi et orbi about what other people ought to do to reform the world.
I’m not anti-Klein, I agree with a number of her positions, but I have the uncomfortable suspicion that when the proletariat are building the barricades and the government forces are wheeling the artillery into position, she’ll be writing about it from somewhere nice and safe, not helping with piling the stones.
Life in these United States, to steal a title from Reader’s Digest.
Although I’d amend that to be a life with only hope; We can only hope that each day will bring something better, but it brings something more absurd instead. There is always hope.
Nicely put.
If I wanted advice on US political strategy from a Canadian college dropout, I’d just as soon turn to Rob Ford.
And we have a new record!
Boy, I can hardly wait until all these guys start racing to write autobiographies trying to cast themselves as the lone voice of reason in a White House gone mad.
So far—although it just happened—he’s being super-conciliatory. “I’m Team Trump,” basically. If he’s going to start burning bridges, he’s not letting on yet.
Good news America! We have a new communications director too! Time to get this administration on the right track!
Here’s my take on Reince, Kelly and Moochie.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/priebus-out-kelly-in-scaramucci-wins.html
Once again, there is a Trump tweet for every occasion.
I can’t wait to see what they do for the White House Halloween.
Have you really analyzed a wide swathstika of history before asking this question?
I have to wonder how “no nonsense” Kelly is going to deal with ol’ Mooch. Mooch seems exactly the kind of person that a hard ass military type would utterly detest.
I suppose I’m nazinformed as I could be on these matters.
BTW: This New Yorker cartoon was published last Wednesday:
His swearing-in picture needs a minor change for his swearing-out one:
@anon89609066 and @timmh: You should both be ashamed of yourselves! Well done!
I thought he was of average height?
Perhaps, then, you should try telling *some of your countrypeople to stop telling all the rest of the world what to do, with few excepted countries. Pot, kettle. My comment was not intended to fuel American exceptionalism.
*edit.
Bit of a non sequitur there, I think.
You object to a Canadian “telling you what to do” because you are American. I object to her on the grounds that she tells other people in general what to do. Hence, exceptionalism.
The country I live in is in a mess because of persons of inadequate education (edited for clarity) who don’t want “the EU telling us what to do”.
I am more tired of nationalism that I care to expand on.
