I don't agree with him that there is no alternative. He beat that same dead horse when he helped defeat Al Gore and gave us George Bush and the war. Democrats are lazy. Republicans are not. The Republicans have won because they out maneuvered the Democrats and they out organized and out theorized the Democrats on every point. Obama held hope with his credentials and intellectual skills but he has proven to be not up to the job. He was out organized by a concert pianist, Sam Lipman, now dead, but who started the ball rolling by capturing the wealthy by convincing them that the Democrats and Liberals were the enemy of wealth. Sam Lipman was another product of UC Berkeley just as were those two new millionaire economists we spoke of yesterday. The stale stench is difficult stay in the room with. I never was very good at it. I was around during that whole thing and one day I will write about it from the view where I sat. Sam was my coach for a time but he was a right wing radical and his buddy Hilton Kramer and their magazine the New Criterion served as the intellectual basis for the right until the Koch brothers started Cato.
Hedges is articulate but not much use in this system. He is as out of touch with the system as are the neo-Feudalists. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:03 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Fw: Terrific commentary by Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall Street movement >From a freind. ----- Original Message ----- From: John McGrath <mailto:[email protected]> To: Ed Weick <mailto:[email protected]> ; Caribou Stu <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:39 PM Subject: Terrific commentary by Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall Street movement Another voice from the barricades. First time I've heard a blunt account of what is going on in "Occupy Wall Street". The mainstream media have not told us much about this insurgency, probably less than about the Arab Spring. Let's hope the movement keeps up its momentum. Hedges is the author of a number of great books, among which Death of the Liberal Class and Empire of Illusion. http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_shares_his_thoughts_on_occ upy_wall_street_20111007/
_______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
