tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4177028635634225687..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Truth, propaganda and political correctnessPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-44462508436739895982016-01-17T03:32:47.770-06:002016-01-17T03:32:47.770-06:00Sarah is lying to herself.
Both parties in the US...Sarah is lying to herself.<br /><br />Both parties in the US cooperated on making certain topics non issues. Huge Immigration to drive down labor costs is just one of those. Another is race, though, to be fair, there is no point in discussing that because there is no fix.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-49971721218287867602016-01-16T16:13:13.137-06:002016-01-16T16:13:13.137-06:00I really, really hope things in Europe get better ...I really, really hope things in Europe get better before the greater mass of Europeans have had enough. Europe's ability to lead the world into madness is well documented in history.Retired Mustanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02699864696101977529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-43289124788466822452016-01-16T10:03:01.085-06:002016-01-16T10:03:01.085-06:00This links, some, to something I've been think...This links, some, to something I've been thinking on Mediterranean Europe politics, mostly Spain but also some Greece, Italy...<br /><br />Those countries are all multi-party, something the Italian system explores to rather confusing degree. While the Spanish system DOES favor the two most voted parties in any single election and it used to work rather well, no two parties united hold majority in the current Spanish parliament.<br /><br />What I've been saying for a while is that the traditional parties, "right" (bullshit) and "left" (ibid), have lost their touch with the street, have become "courtesans" surrounded by the local equivalent of the "Beltway bandits", DC bureaucracies, unelected senior civil service (*)...<br /><br />As a result, a rehash of the "right" (mostly former members that dressed some of their rethoric in leftish compassionate memes; I'd be okay with that if they hadn't started in my own city and I happened to know how they work) and a bunch of clueless university lefties (that have had, so far, the common sense to join local grassroots successfully but don't seem to gel up properly at a national level) have been eating their votes for breakfast. The "right" wing party was used to get 9-9.5M votes every single election (the "left" managed to mobilize more or less people and so won or lost elections). This time it lost 2M of those. Somehow, people refuse to see it as significant.<br /><br />And yet, they keep the same discourse. Centralization, presidentialism, and "all's well; this is not the crisis you're looking for". The "left" has some federalists, but they've been historically laughed out (not quite as much these days, but it might be too little, too late). The current king (not yet a year) got himself put FIRST as Captain-General and only later that same day got his job ratified in Parliament. While it doesn't seem people noticed, it's a symptom, and it reflects the way certain basic forms of democracy are no longer followed.<br /><br />And, while people have trouble getting a job or keeping their houses (I'd have the whole unions' heads in prison for their mismanagement, there), they keep approving compensations for stopped illegal works (Beltway; the approval itself is legally shaky), blaming Catalans for this and that (while the very same actions are approved some hundred Km SW)... While the Constitution "shall not be touched" it gets a hasty reform in summer at the behest of Citizen Merkel.<br /><br />I do think that this is going to correct itself. The later, the harsher. Some years ago, I went to the Peace Museum in Gernika. Two bits: right and left (Republicans; really) stopped listening to each other; and the current "right" refused to have their opinions reflected in the museum-memorial (as they did in a documentary about Basque terrorism that had everybody else in, including victims).<br /><br />Just saying. Things will balance. And, like Sarah, I think the later they do, the harsher they will.<br /><br />Take care.<br /><br />[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWZ5KW1aLMshugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-33316436712178143362016-01-16T09:39:43.529-06:002016-01-16T09:39:43.529-06:00There's an old curse that states "May you...There's an old curse that states "May you live in interesting times." I'm afraid that times are getting interesting.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780834197167716549noreply@blogger.com