re READ WITH A Tranquilizer in hand -- No One Is Going To Save You Fools

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bnmeeks () verizon net>
> Date: December 20, 2009 8:06:47 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] READ WITH A Tranquilizer in hand --  No One Is  
> Going To Save You Fools

> What a bunch of bloviating nonsense; doesn't this Kat have anything  
> better
> to do than open a vein and bleed into his (or her) keyboard?  I  
> suppose at
> some point you can put lipstick on this threadbare "advertising is  
> evil;
> you're all mass market idiots" pig and call it an intellectual  
> argument, but
> that ain't happening in this rambling screed.
>
> This same message has been written (better) a thousand and one  
> times, excuse
> me while I choke back that little bit of bile that crept into my  
> throat as I
> read this.
>
> Advertising isn't the problem and American's aren't all fools.   At  
> best
> they are apathetic; at worst  self-absorbed narcissists (yes, that's  
> an
> oxymoron, I wanted to see if you were paying attention...)
>
> Most of us wake up and go to bed having just tried to make it  
> through the
> day without fucking things up and we're happy that we have a job to  
> go the
> next morning.  Most of us lead spectacularly ordinary lives and most  
> of us
> don't give a rats ass what the clowns in Congress are doing or not
> doing--until something lands on our doorstep:  you lose your job,  
> suddenly
> you're all energized about jobs programs, unemployment benefits, COBRA
> subsidies;  your son is killed by an IED fighting to preserve a  
> ginned up
> democracy that no one wanted and still doesn't want; your kid dies  
> from an
> overdose, your wife and kid are mangled beyond recognition in a car  
> accident
> having been blind-sided by a drunk driver; you go broke having spent  
> every
> last cent you've ever earned or saved on medical treatments trying  
> to keep
> your kid alive because your health "insurance" stopped paying the  
> bill years
> ago when you "hit the cap" and you're just shit of luck now... Next.
>
> And those things land on our doorstep every day but not in enough  
> numbers to
> REALLY CHANGE THINGS because most of us believe "it'll never happen  
> to me"
> and that things will just "keep on keeping on" no matter who  
> controls the
> White House.  A $1.4 trillion budget deficit?  Who cares?  It's not  
> like the
> U.S. is going to fold up tomorrow; you'll get your paycheck, I'll  
> get mine
> and my neighbor his... But if there were a law that said, "if the  
> budget
> deficit tops $1.5 trillion the nation will stop broadcasting all  
> cable and
> TV shows until such time as..." there would be a populist revolt of  
> massive
> proportions (let's lay aside the myriad constitutional problems with  
> that
> example, you get my point).
>
> When I took my 18,000-plus mile trip across this country I talked to
> hundreds of "just plain folks" in every nook and cranny of nearly  
> every
> state.  People would tell me about their church, their kids, their  
> job,
> their land or their prize bull before politics ever got laid on the  
> table,
> and most the time, it just never came up... And this was during an
> congressional election cycle!
>
> Look what happened when a fraction of the electorate got off their
> collective ass and became in engaged in the political process...  
> Historic.
>
> So forget all this bullshit about "I am your enemy" and "you're all  
> fools,"
> what condescending white noise.  Things will change when people  
> start caring
> about the state of this country past the next commercial break. End of
> story.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
>
> Meeks out...
>
>
> On 12/20/09 7:07 PM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> > Date: December 19, 2009 12:30:38 AM EST
> > To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] No One Is Going To Save You Fools
> >
> > No One Is Going To Save You Fools
> > by thereisnospoon
> > Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 04:28:17 PM PST
> > <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-
> > You-Fools>
> >
> > Before I explain the generic insult, let me first make something  
> > perfectly
> > clear: I am your enemy.  That you don't know this is  
> > understandable: after
> > all, people like me prefer it that way.  But until you understand  
> > just what
> > you're up against and why, you're going to continue to lose, and  
> > look like
> > fools in the process.
> >
> > Barack Obama has indeed sold you out.  He and many of his Democratic
> > colleagues have sold you out on healthcare, and they've sold you  
> > out on
> > financial reform.  You were looking for a savior, and you've been  
> > had--not an
> > altogether atypical result for those looking for a strong leader to  
> > "save"
> > them.
> >
> > He hasn't done this because he's a bad guy.  In fact, he's a great  
> > guy.  I
> > think he's doing pretty much the best job he can.  He's sold you  
> > out because
> > he's not afraid of you.  And really, if I may be so bold, he  
> > shouldn't be
> > afraid of you.  You don't know who really runs the show, and you're  
> > far too
> > fickle and manipulable to count on.
> >
> > The first thing you need to understand about healthcare reform is  
> > what Jane
> > Hamsher identified long ago:nothing--absolutely nothing--is going  
> > to trump the
> > White House's deal with PhRMA and the insurance industry.  The  
> > question you
> > need to ask yourselves is: why?  If you're intellectually mature  
> > enough to get
> > past "personal betrayal" as your best answer, you'll be on the  
> > right track.
> >
> > While you ponder that one, you might want to also consider why  
> > nothing has
> > been done--nor will anything serious actually be done--about  
> > financial
> > industry reform.  Standing up to the financial industry in the  
> > current
> > political environment should be a no-brainer.  So what in the heck  
> > is going on
> > here?  If you can think past shadowy conspiracy theories and  
> > possible personal
> > enrichment for the Obama family, you'll be doing the kind of  
> > thinking that
> > will help actually solve the problem.
> >
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