Today's honored comment:
"It's hard to stand by and watch one set of slaves
rag on the other and vice versa."
By DieDaily, April 2 at 4:49 am
@anarsissy "Who wants more labor?"
Err, um, me and everyone sane, for starters?
Look, it's simple, and I see that most of the commenters get it. You want to regulate the shit out of the large corporations and leave the small business the hell alone. It's real simple.
The reason corporations spend an impressive amount on buying small startups right, left, and center is that large, centrally controlled dinosaurs have sluggish nervous systems and inevitable systematically reward rung-jumping psychopaths while crushing the "dissent" of their most enterprising, innovative and energizing innovators. It's not rocket science. On a level playing field (i.e. one one devoid of the "regulatory capture" achieved by behemoth lobbies over their long-subverted, revolving-door "watch-dog" [i.e. lap dog] agencies) the small and decentralized beat the crap out of the large and centralized nearly every time. Google was created in a garage, Facebook in a dorm room, Einstein's Relativity in a patent clerk's less than roomy office, and the American Revolution in a pub. Think about it.
Socialism has a powerful role to play, and we can't go bandying about the phrase "all hail the free market" when we've never had much of a free market and at this rate never will. Presently we privatize all occasional Wall Street gambling profits while yet we simultaneously nationalize all their gambling losses. And yet a simple Tobin tax transactional tax of <1%) would correct all that! ALL!
It's not "right" vs. "left". It isn't and it never has been. It's a vertical divide. Freedom vs. Authoritarianism. Venal acquisitiveness vs. social consciousness. Exceptionalism vs. sanity.
I stopped commenting here about a year ago because I was not happy about the artifical Left and Right peasants ceaselessly ragging on each other all the time beneath the occasional star-burst of a rose-colored flare fired up the Waspington Post. It's hard to stand by and watch one set of slaves rag on the other and vice versa.
But the tide is definitely turning. I want to come back now because for the first time the so-called Left and Right (god bless their earnest if ignorant souls) are beginning to see that there is little to choose on this false axis, and much to choose with regard to freedom vs. authoritarianism.
The Leftists used to fail to see that an overbearing central government can BAN the right to chose, the right to gay marriage, the right to medicate with herbs. The Rightists used to fail to see that an overbearing central government can BAN the right to bear arms, the right to dissent, the right to innovate and profit from it.
I don't believe, after the fiasco that is Bush-Obama (same diff), that either side is so sure that THEIR version overbearing government is the answer. Statism is sick and dying. Thank goodness. Congrats, people!
I'm truly heartened. I began to doubt whether you had it in you. But article after article, comment after comment, I see that in your hundreds and thousandsyou are waking up to the obvious. Fighting Rep vs. Dem is and always was a distraction. The fight is
vertical not horizontal. So let's get to it!!! The religious Far Right are a bunch of utopian-myth--control-freaks! The radical Far Left are a bunch of utopian-myth-control-freaks!
Fuck both of them (they are the same...freaks...half-humans that would drag the sane down into their midst by force and violence) and get free!
Welcome to the Center, WHERE WE DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND WANT TO DO WITHOUT TOLERATING THE INTERFERENCE OF HALF-FORMED FREAKS.
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