I’m amused as the US electorate prepares to “participate” in deciding which business class representative they want not represent their interests in matters of state. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Obama v. Mittens, Rap, US Election
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Dead Wild Roses: The Course is Stayed – Win an Election, lose the Planet.
Political theatre harms us all. Issues that are important to public are marginalized while supposedly “important” issues take the spotlight. (Yes, you women, under the bus with you stat!) Noam Chomsky summarizes what elections have become in the US – “Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Right Will Howl Tonight
Income inequality seems to have sprung up as a hot issue in the American elections. With a consummate rent-seeker, Mitt Romney, carrying the Republican banner, America’s crippling inequality – income, wealth and opportunity – was bound to bubble to the surface. Today’s American Right (no, they’re not conservatives) has reacted
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Voting Fruad – More Republican Shenanigans
A substantial portion of the view DWR gets is from the United States. Consider this a NSFW PSA from your friendly Canadian neighbours. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Disempowering People, Humour-ish, PSA, Republican “strategy”, Republican Fail, US Election
Continue readingPop The Stack: Yes David, the Conservative movement has two sides, but it also has two parties.
True words written by David Brooks. But the next step is for him to realize that the Democrats are not actually socialists at all but are the Traditional Conservatives he is talking about and pining for. In Canada we used to call them Progressive Conservatives and they’re all but dead
Continue readingPop The Stack: Yes David, the Conservative movement has two sides, but it also has two parties.
True words written by David Brooks. But the next step is for him to realize that the Democrats are not actually socialists at all but are the Traditional Conservatives he is talking about and pining for. In Canada we used to call them Progressive Conservatives and they’re all but dead
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