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Posted By populist 1 year, 4 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThe new book Wolves in Sheep's Clothing is a "journey into the heart of the ideological retreat of the baby boomer generation. It is a quest to discover what drives people to abandon their youthful anti-militarism and sanction the kind of warfare that ultimately destroys and destabilizes entire communities.
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SantaM1 year, 4 months ago
what an intelligent girl. i've been thinking this for a while... and loving my country as much as i do, i feel ashamed for thinking it.
The nation is acting like an empire. The presideny is the emporer, and Rome is burning. We have lsot sight of our domestic problems... the REAL ones... Katrina, Social Security, Health Care, 9/11... because we are spreading our selves so thin dominating the world. delivering justice for unjustifiable attacks. defiant and stubborn. conquering for conquerings sake... we are an empire on the fall. we fit history's desciption to a t.
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berkeley1 year, 4 months ago
mammon bows to no one. some of us notice, but aren't sure what to do about it. alexandra clearly notices, and for anyone in the public arena to admit that is newsworthy.
we are surprised because, by comparison, rudy and hillary and crowd (and mom nancy) would not be caught dead speaking that way in public. whether they are capable of it privately is a different question.
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gsquare1 year, 4 months ago
People sitting around talking that they wont do as well as their parents. What a crock. Sitting around appears to be the operative word. Wonder how many ask Mom and Dad, where am I going wrong. They would get an ear full.
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DavidLSchneider1 year, 4 months ago
If you grew up around New York in a place like Scarsdale like I did you saw most of your neighbor's kids going off to Ivy League schools and they were going to change the world. Here is what some of them did
1.SDS member against Vietnam-ended up working on the 12th floor of Citicorp foreclosing on little old ladies.
2. He used to steal the flag from our house that my mother raised during Vietnam in respect to the young people serving there. -Became a gynecologist and Republican
3. Girl was a literary major who wanted to do something positive in education. -Married a man who designs ceramics for tank armor among other things
I grew up four years behind these examples. I found they all turned out to be sell outs for the most parts. They love money not passion. They live sad lives. They had potential and education and all that their parents could give them and they are as we say: Arm Chair Liberals. Remember Ralph Nader was the environmental candidate not Al Gore. Hope is in the youth
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Amazing11 year, 4 months ago
Every Wednesday, I participate in an anti-war demonstration. Most of the participants are, like me, too old to be boomers. There is a smattering of people in their mid-thirties, but it's mostly aging hippies who have not yet given up their idealism and the belief that war is an unnecessary evil that is engineered by the elite and paid for by the poor.
This article is sad. And probably true. Thank you, populist, I think.
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crespi1 year, 4 months ago
Find a way to stop the war machine that is more effective than a bunch of people standing around holding candles.
There is also a liberal "kindergarten teacher" kind of condescension toward those who would passionately fight the fascists. The left talks constantly about passion but as soon as someone shows any the left chastises them, "use your INDOOR voice," is more important to them than getting to the bottom of things and doing something about it.
The Democrats need to divest of the milquetoasts who are afraid to make waves or "hurt the feelings" of Nazis.
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quackpot1 year, 4 months ago
People are too comfortable to be radical. The radicl movements of the mid 19th Century, the 1930s, the 1960s were reactions to massive discomfort.
Today we have a war that many feel is wrong, but it is not a discomfort - no draft, and no financial burden (it is financed with borrowed money, so our children will pay, not us). We have a very comfortable economy (again, thanks to borrowing). We have a broken health care system, but one which works well enough to keep people off of the streets. Race relations are such that while there is still defacto segregation, the conditions are not bad enough to cause rioting.
The upper class can syphon off even more of the economy than ever before, but there are enough crumbs left to keep the workers too comfortable to complain.
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Neef1 year, 4 months ago
skier07-I'm not sure there isn't a hissing or a rumbling sound just below the surface: a malcontentment about to erupt and none too soon if you ask me (which no one ever does) Could it be the re-birth of passion? I hope so. I write a lot of letters that get published until they realize I am serious. Then they don't like me any more. No more talk of "honor killing" of young daughters, sisters, little girls, really, who may hve been defiled--Lots of talk of "courage" among Repubs who never, ever go to war but go on 'missions' for their Church here in Utah instead. "Now she's complaining about religion again. Shut her up!"
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WCFIELDS1 year, 4 months ago
"if you are a conservative before the age of thirty, there's something wrong with your heart and if you're a liberal after 30, there's something wrong with your head."
Simple. It's a matter of being on the side that points to another group and says "pay for this, pay for that, join the Army". Once you're old enough to avoid military service and now are paying taxes the shift is automatic.
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brahmasdream1 year, 4 months ago
Yes, America is economically declining, and that may be good for the world as a whole, but it is not good within America, and contributes to the militarism and ultra-Conservatism that has taken over the nation. People don't gather together any more to discuss ideas, either. We've become isolated from each other. Perhaps we will see the nation defeated by India or China in 50 years, more dynamic and needier cultures - I'm not sure that is a good thing, either, because at our nation's best, say sixty years ago, we were a strong force for improving the world.
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Obtruder1 year, 4 months ago
Just more symbolic propaganda that tries to redefine past political leadereship.
Idealism is now being assigned to one political party?
The liberals and hardcore radicals of the Vietnam era fought and protested against the DEMOCRATS.
Jacob Javits would be laughing at all of you liberals who somehow believe that the Democratic Party lead this country to a position of respect in the eyes of other countries between WWII and the end of Jimmy Carter's term.
It just didn't happen.
Reagan was the man who commanded the most respect from the average person abroad.
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Natureboy1 year, 4 months ago
I think that those who protested during the Vietnam era protested both Johnson, a Democrat, and Nixon, a republican. Had we been more aware earlier on, we could have protested the roles of Eisenhower, a republican and Kennedy, a Democrat, in the Vietnam war.
War, genocide and imperialism are bipartisan agendas. Have you not noticed? Stab a dagger into the heart of the two-headed monster!
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
Actually Clinton commanded the most respect abroad.
Reagan was napping through his Alzheimer stupor the whole time.
I hated Nixon and felt his paranoid criminality led to the sad state we are in today. All these folks pointing to party affiliations are dead wrong. They are Both divisions of Mao Mart, nothing more. Time for REAL change.
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MyCampingMall1 year, 4 months ago
A Vote for Third Party!
You covered a number of subjects but I'll comment only on the third party issue. I feel there could be a third party but it has to be grounded in local and state representation not just presidential elections. Here's an offer: call the third party "the Conservative Christian Party" and the candidates would be mostly from the southern states which would be about 1/3rd of the congress. The demoncrats would continue to rule the northeast while the republicans would rule the mountain states and some of the midwest states. The far west would be faught over between the demoncrats and the republicans with all three parties taking about 1/3rd each so that passing of bills would thus be compromises on almost all of them. The president would have to be bi-partisan in his governing approach.
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xpansion1 year, 4 months ago
Government and religion are supposed to be kept seperate, its in the Constitution.
It sounds to me like all you are promoting is division, as well as theocracy. I'm sure its just coincidental that your 'third party' would consist of right wing conservatives...
But I don't really expect someone who calls the left 'demoncrats' to be unbiased.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
Bah one more bribe from the K street gang could take a 3rd party to hell too. Since so many in Washington are paying lip service to evangelicals lets bring back crucifixions and start with every lobbyist on K street.
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DoseASpinoza1 year, 4 months ago
In fact, a viable third party emerges in this country roughly every 50 years. It does just well enough for the GOP and Dems to see the writing on the wall. Then one or both parties co-opt whatever makes the third party attractive.
The best example is Eugene Debs getting a significant portion of votes in the 1930s. The Dems came back with the New Deal and the traditional parties survived.
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curley-zark1 year, 4 months ago
Young folks don't have a draft card in their pocket and the local radio station where 60's music and ideas flowered are now owned by giant corporations. In fact, our government is in the hands of giant corporations (tip of that iceberg finally popped above water in imigration debates).
How do we wrestle with issues we never studied in school like the world shrinking, giant corporations climbing out of their US cradle, the rise of religeous fundamentalism and its' dangers (mid east and HERE!)?
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crghss1 year, 4 months ago
More populist dribble about how bad how everything is while we sit down in front of 50" LCD TV, type away using our high speed internet connects with mega powerful computers. All of which didn't even exist 15, 20 years. While once deadly cancers are now chronic diseases. Car's are ultra safer and comfortable. Food is cheaper than it ever was. Travel is common event for all people not just an extreme luxury for the rich. So let's just sit here and type away about terrible everything is and how we're all going to die.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
More propaganda from fascist corporatists.
Don't touch that dial folks! Remain fat and lazy doped on chemically poisoned food cheap from China and like it. Right.
Industry is god worship Mammon on your knees peasants!
I watched a medieval healthcare system torture my father as he died from your "chronic" disease pal. You are simply a liar!
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curley-zark1 year, 4 months ago
Yeah, it's all great now, but I remember being proud to be an American who saved the world, i.e. not a Jap or German who tortured prisoners and imprisoned/burned more than a few scapegoats in an insane ideological crusade.
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LiberalsSmell1 year, 4 months ago
"Wolves in Sheep's Clothing is a journey into the heart of the ideological retreat of that generation. It is a quest to discover what drives people to abandon their youthful anti-militarism and sanction the kind of warfare that ultimately destroys and destabilizes entire communities."
I think a better title would be "Requiem of A Hippie"
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
I'll praise a "hippy" (Whatever you think that is) any day rather than endure the rotten stench of corporatist fascism emanating from the materialist world you are dieing in.
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