Cold mush
Walking is frustrating, the surfaces are covered with half-frozen mush. No fun any more in the shopworn snow.
Interesting that anyone suspected of being "liberal" is under attack from not just the rightward jerks, but from people claiming they are true leftists, antiwar, etc. All these people want "action." Like what? Big peace marches? What does that do besides make the participants feel as if they've done something? No one in power pays any attention to people's protests these days, and the "MSM" abets this willful blindness. The marches of MLK Jr.'s time were supported by the people they were in aid of, blacks, here in the USA. A march protesting US occupation and destruction of Iraq is not going to have everybody in support of it, especially not from the military sector. The upper echelon military people are profiting from the Iraq debacle, along with Bush and Cheney's cronies, the lowly soldiers are making the sacrifices, or "investment", a la Condi Rice. All claim they must obey their Commander-in-Chief. I'm appalled at how few people don't seem to think about or care much about the people of color in Iraq, the Iraqi civilians, and their losses. So easy to dismiss them as terrorists. And they're not here, in the US of A. Would that we could bring the many displaced Iraqis, many middle-classed just like us, and put them into the homes of people who smugly sit and feel safe about "fighting them over there." Would that faces could be put to the suffering.
Interesting that anyone suspected of being "liberal" is under attack from not just the rightward jerks, but from people claiming they are true leftists, antiwar, etc. All these people want "action." Like what? Big peace marches? What does that do besides make the participants feel as if they've done something? No one in power pays any attention to people's protests these days, and the "MSM" abets this willful blindness. The marches of MLK Jr.'s time were supported by the people they were in aid of, blacks, here in the USA. A march protesting US occupation and destruction of Iraq is not going to have everybody in support of it, especially not from the military sector. The upper echelon military people are profiting from the Iraq debacle, along with Bush and Cheney's cronies, the lowly soldiers are making the sacrifices, or "investment", a la Condi Rice. All claim they must obey their Commander-in-Chief. I'm appalled at how few people don't seem to think about or care much about the people of color in Iraq, the Iraqi civilians, and their losses. So easy to dismiss them as terrorists. And they're not here, in the US of A. Would that we could bring the many displaced Iraqis, many middle-classed just like us, and put them into the homes of people who smugly sit and feel safe about "fighting them over there." Would that faces could be put to the suffering.
posted by isabelita at 12:35 PM
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It's frustrating, indeed. I want to protest, but agree that it accomplishes little unless the numbers of protests and protesters are very large and events are very frequent. I think we've gotten too used to our middle-class trappings, as a society, to be willing to sacrifice enough to convince this administration that it must listen. It probably never will.
It's a shame that protesting does not produce the intended results. I still think taking to the streets is a good thing. Yes, the MSM often abets the blindness, but 100,000 people are hard to ignore. If the protestors could just stay on a single message, and not let the MSM focus on the whacky protestor who is marching to free Mumia. A strong, single-voiced anti-war protest could be a good thing.
It's true, though, most people don't identify with Iraqis as fellow humans.
Mfm, it infuraites me to be forced into this position. I never supported this criminal lot or ANY of their machinations. But as my dad always used to say, it's always the middle class that winds up footing the bills. We should become radicalized. Well, we are.
Sacrifice...No, let the people at the top send their coddled little offspring to Iraq and wherever their parents are picking fights.
Robin, maybe millions upon millions taking to the streets might elicit at least a chuckle from this bunch, but then what? Bush/Cheney want this to last a long time, it's a business investment for them, with our money.
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