This is too good to remain buried in another long thread (on Vandana Shiva, 12-18-14), so I am taking the liberty of quoting Mark Wormington: Its the same tribe of economic advisors no matter who is in the oval office. So many people miss that thanks to the ubiquitous partisan lens and complicit corporate media. Economically, LBJ and Nixon were more alike in a liberal way; Clinton and Reagan more alike in a conservative way. What if we had foregone the Vietnam fiasco, if we had kept stirring in LBJs butter without all those bipartisan guns? I think unelected and powerful forces were constantly at work to see that guns would ever dominate the half-ass national discussion. Heres a thought: today we are 13 years from the events of 9/11, almost exactly the time elapsed between Ikes 1961 farewell address (military-industrial complex) and Nixons 1974 resignation (Vietnam ended with Watergates climax). In every presidential campaign at least one party harps on the need for change, but what really changes? Every year we lavish more on the military and big biz, and every year we trim back the legacy and legitimacy of the Great Society a little more. The whole world gets caught up in the kind of delusional hope we derive from superficial change; thats why Obama got an unearned Nobel Prize. So much to be done; so few willing and able to do it.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:09:53 +0000
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