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Fort of the 1%
13 Nov
I’ve had a vision, and in that vision the last of the 1% end up in this little fort nestled in the swamp grass in Liberty State Park. And then an itty bitty asteroid crashes into the harbor and they’re swamped. Which suits the ducks and herons just fine.
Labor poised for big win in Ohio – The Labor Movement – Salon.com
6 NovHow is the issue playing in presidential politics?
We’ve got a couple of the outside groups — Citizens United and FreedomWorks, which is a Washington-based Tea Party group — on the record saying that “the reason we’re involved in Issue 2 is that we think it’s a precursor to the 2012 election in Ohio.” If they can somehow help Republicans win an upset here or at the very least make a dent in public opinion, they see that as a step in the right direction to defeating President Obama here next year.
The unions are less vocal about this. But the fact remains that they have this huge network with all these field operations set up. You can argue that the logical transition would be that many of those operations would just be folded into Obama’s operation here next year. But that connection cannot be officially drawn yet.
via Labor poised for big win in Ohio – The Labor Movement – Salon.com.
A One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
3 Nov
See also Wall Street: The Dead Face of Domination.
On why the protests won’t stop, see The Banker’s Don’t Get It.
Populism and the Silent Majority – NYTimes.com
3 NovThe legacies of Nixon’s pursuit of the silent majority can be found across the political spectrum. In 1972, the community organizer Saul Alinsky portrayed the silent majority as “up for grabs” and promised to “show the middle class their real enemies: the corporate power elite that runs and ruins the country.” In 1980, the Religious Right televangelist Jerry Falwell proclaimed that “God is calling millions of Americans in the so-often silent majority to join in the moral-majority crusade to turn America around.” In his 1981 inaugural, Ronald Reagan updated Nixon’s formula by informing the “heroes” of America — an allegedly classless majority made up of factory workers and entrepreneurs — that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” . . .
Mr. Obama’s challenge in 2012 is not the ideological fervor of Tea Party conservatives, but rather the recognition by many working-class and middle-class voters that both parties favor Wall Street over Main Street. While activist groups on the right and left compete to portray big government or big business as the enemy, the silent majority is still out there in the volatile political center, up for grabs.
Truth and Traditions 