Noob Sleepy Steve Upbraids DU
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10027371170My goodness a NOOB has to remind the DUmp "What day is this?"
Steven the Somnolent (15 posts)
52 Years Ago Today, Our Decline Began
We stopped trusting our government. The military-industrial complex seized its chance to sell Johnson on Vietnam, in the process selling the country to war profiteers. Nixon's racist Southern Strategy. The consolidation of cynicism. The self-indulgence of the 70s and 80s. Reagan. The certification of the American Empire with Bush I's oil war. Bill Clinton, "the best Republican president we've ever had." The incestuous merging of the news and entertainment media. FOX. A stolen election. Unnecessary wars. The bankrupting of the country. The supremacy of the super-wealthy. The rejuvenation and emboldening of the racism that had never really gone away. The glorification of stupidity and denial of science. And still the endless calls of the privileged for more war, more blood, more restrictions on the people.
Near the end of Testament, a movie about the aftermath of nuclear war, Jane Alexander's character screams, "Who did this??? ******* you!"
To Oswald or the CIA or the Cubans or the Mossad or the Mafia or the KGB or aliens from Alpha ****ing Centauri, I echo her condemnation: God damn you, indeed!
And now, if you'll excuse me, this tired old man is going back to bed.
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Rant on NOOB rant on. Sleepy Steve has a future at the DUmp.
Star Member Recursion (43,025 posts)
1. Tell an African American we've "declined" since 1963 (nt)
THis thread is chock full of nuts, just like a heavenly coffee.
Response to Recursion (Reply #1)Sun Nov 22, 2015, 07:45 AM
Star Member Warren Stupidity (45,318 posts)
2. Of all the responses to this post, that was not on my list.
I don't think the OP was making the claim that there has been no progress on anything since 1963. However by the Carter administration the New Deal era of reform was over, and with the start of the Reagan administration the rollback had begun.
The efforts to integrate society have largely been abandoned and instead our school systems are segregated and unequal again, with good public schools in the affluent and overwhelmingly white suburbs and horrible public schools in the poor and overwhelmingly non-white urban areas. The wonderful war on drugs and hard ass draconian criminal justice system have created an entire prison society within our nation, and again that system inflicts its life-wrecking "justice" disproportionately on people of color. Our militarized police - a feature of society unthinkable in 1963 - kill citizens with abandon and again that terror falls disproportionately on people of color.
This decline may not have started at precisely November 22, 1963 but perhaps it is marked by the day of a different assassination April 4, 1968, and the follow on targeted killing on June 6 of the same year.
War on stupidity? Looks like stupid is winning.
Response to Warren Stupidity (Reply #2)Sun Nov 22, 2015, 07:48 AM
Star Member Recursion (43,025 posts)
3. OK, but when people talk about white progressive myopia, that was an example
People aren't just making this up.
People make stuff at the DUmp all the time. Why should this be any different. I particulary like Atwater and the Southern Strategy. Generational disconnect boistered by Wiki missinformation probably.
Response to Recursion (Reply #3)Sun Nov 22, 2015, 08:55 AM
Star Member Ed Suspicious (6,065 posts)
15. Life got worse, for some, a bit better.
What a snoozer of a thesis.
I see what you did here Eddie. Too clever by half.
Response to Ed Suspicious (Reply #15)Sun Nov 22, 2015, 11:45 AM
Star Member BainsBane (34,372 posts)
42. So better to maintain a system of Jim Crow
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Voter disenfranchisement, married women denied the right to own property, discrimination in the workplace, a complete absence of rights for people of color and LGBT, so that white men--a minority of the population--can prosper? You expect people to look at that and not realize he is talking about a time period when most Americans were denied employment, civil rights, voting rights, and full citizenship? We are talking about the majority of Americans, all but a select few who were born white, male and middle class.
That is precisely what many of us who were not born into privilege see when some of you talk about "taking the country back." I see it as a clear cry to take back white bourgeois male privilege, not even privilege for all white men. But it's "a snoozer of a thesis" because we don't matter. What matters is that the white bourgeoisie regain its rightful place atop the capitalist world order, where they happily lived off the exploitation of the many--both in the US and globally.
It is possible to speak about the current system of exploitation without longing for the past. Many have repeatedly pointed out that such talk is alienating and exclusionary to many, yet some persist in repeating those cries. Why?
A bottle of Old Crow would make Banal Bane better I bet.
951-Riverside (6,616 posts)
5. Why in the good ol' days everything was White and "those people" were kept in their places
Muslims? What's that?
Gays? Bash 'em!
Women? Slap 'em!
Daughter expressing self worth and independence? Lobotomize her!
Commies? Aaaaah! We're gonna die!
Asians? Take their businesses and put 'em in camps!
Blacks? Forcefully sterilize 'em, subject 'em to deadly secret government experiments, make 'em sit at the back of the bus!
Illegals? Actually we don't have a problem with that unless they're IRISH!
Cigarettes? Makes you a man and extends your life!
Martin Luther King? Commie, outside agitator and trouble maker!
...but enough about the Donald Trump presidential platform, let me tell you how crazy America was 50 years ago.
This one was one of the better ones. At least someone has a bit of a sense of humor.
