Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 814 Editor's Choice: 48
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If you doubt...
[Read the article: "The Trap"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the thesis of the book, that a plutocratic backlash was the primary agent in creating the financial problems of 20-somethings today, just look back 100 years.
When plutocrats feel threatened in ANY way, they fight back. Savagely, and effectively. When unions threatened the income of guilded-age plutocrats, they simply slaughtered union heads, and striking workers.
You could make a fairly strong argument that plutocrats were deeply responsible for the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s...they felt threatened by the communists, and nutball nationalists they could control seemed just the ticket. Read a good history of the time and you can see how the major plutocrats in Germany and elsewhere gave a LOT of money to the Nazis. And most of the big plutocrats in Germany fared very well before, during, and after the war, assuming they survived the violence.
Every time plutocrats have felt the slightest heat from the great unwashed, they have fought back, and the rise of "conservative" power in this country, starting after WWII, has been the most effective fight our plutocrats have ever waged..quiet, but devastating in its effect.
Our country has been taken over completely by transnational corporations. They run the place, we just live here. And not even revolution can stop it, as long as corporations control the wealth, and the means of production. And they do.
Conservative politicians have presided over the end of the American experiment. There is no hell hot enough for them. Instead, they are consistently rewarded by their plutocratic and corporate buddies.
I see no end to it. The plutocrats have won, and the pendulum will never swing back. As long as young people are mired in debt, and jobs that don't pay enough. It'd take a major governmental intervention to do something about that. And we'll never see that kind of thing again.
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@realname...
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]dude, we're not intolerant. We just have a problem with incoherent intellectually dishonest lightweights. But, then, maybe you wouldn't understand that, being one yourself.
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@anonymous...poor paranoid
[Read the article: John McCain goes off the rails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]anonymous wrote:
some of them I fear are so radical, they could be the next terrorists.
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Yer joking right? You have to be kidding. Do you think any of us would consider depriving you of your perfect right to believe any ridiculous thing you want to?
We get upset only when some ridiculous false belief of yours (and these are legion) threatens *our* freedom to think, and say what we see.
We're not terrorists. Not even incipient terrorists. If anything, we have fairly solid reason to think of *you* as the terrorist. How about that? Certainly your president GW has used fascist tactics to get his way. Lying. Cheating. Murdering innocents. You really want to claim that *we* are the next terrorists, considering what your own terrorist president has been doing the last 5 years?? With your eager vote?
C'mon. Try to see reality, just for a second.
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@realname...
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]happy? Not especially.
We've tried reasonable argument. You seem impervious to that.
Your favorite rhetorical device seems to be empty-headed sarcasm, so I thought I'd try a little myself. It is distinctly dissatisfying. And calling you out as intellectually dishonest was hardly sarcasm. Just a simple fact, as any number of your troll-posts prove handily.
I dunno why I bother. I really don't. It's not like you're going to change your opinion about anything.
As a pure shot-in-the-dark, I'd guess you're a not-very-experienced 25-40 year-old-male who has trouble getting laid.
Anywhere close? Enlighten us. It might explain a few things...and if you're a 50-year-old CEO family-man, then my instincts are every bit as bad as I've often believed..
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George Carlin had a nice answer...
[Read the article: Is atheism dead?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when asked if the natural consequences of his atheism bothered him, Carlin apparently said something along the lines of "we come from stardust, and to stardust we'll return, and that's good enough for me."
Not a thorough answer, but not a bad one either, for an adult-type person.
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very interesting..
[Read the article: China to foreigners: Quote Mao, at your peril]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]great heads-up, Andrew. Thanks.
A lot of food for thought here. You wonder what's going on. On the surface, it suggests the the Chinese government is a lot more nervous about what's happening in the country than they've let on, at least to the wider world. Otherwise, why get so bent? It's not like this story is some kind of state secret. Everyone who pays attention to these things knows that the Chinese government could be in very big trouble at any moment.
Does that government really think that the powerful people inside China don't know this? If that's the case, what in hell are they smoking? Even *I* know this, and I'm just an anonymous left-coast workin' stiff.
I have always assumed that the current Chinese government was composed of realists, so this latest little boondoggle has me vastly intrigued: what's going on?
I can't help wondering if this started with one or two people getting exercised, far up the food-chain in the government somewhere. Stupid, in any case. There were many other ways for the gov't to handle their displeasure over basic truths leaking out to a mass-circulation publication. Now they've created a PR debacle for themselves. Stupid.