Daily Topics - Tuesday September 20th, 2011
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Hour One: Is John Boehner a socialist?
Hour Two: The secret world of spiritual abuse in America - Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Quivering & Take Heart Project
Hour Three: Employer Health Care...Shape Up or Pay Up? - Seton Motley, Less Government
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#2
Young people are not getting involved in every way that they need to. Randi Rhodes just spoke at a Democratic Party meeting in Florida, and sure, it's Florida, but she said there were no young people there to take over the workings of the party as the old Democrats die off. And I saw pretty much the same thing last year when I went to the caucus--there was one person there younger than me, and I was 34. Almost all of the hundred or so participants were over 60.
#3
Perhaps as a country we should support life imprisonment for any police officer, prosecutor, Judge, Jury member and govenor involved in putting any suspect to death and then later found innocent. Since their actions are responsible for the suspects death, they are at least guilty of manslaughter, and therefore should face the consequence of their actions, or lack thereof.
I wonder if such a law would result in a death penalty abolition, or at least slow it to a trickle.
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I have to disagree with the premise that the youth of today is not organizing and mobilizing. It isn't that it isn't happening, what it is is that its not being reported on in detail. Protests are popping up, from Madison, Wisconsin to Wall Street New York. I don't think they need a leader to direct them either, in time their leaders will rise up from their ranks. For now though, many of them are expecting politicians to solve their problems, because they don't understand that politicians are reactionary not trail blazers. As things get tougher on the American people, more and more people will join movements, they will get political. Which way the country goes is uncertain, but the fact of the matter is the people will eventually reach the tipping point, the last straw will break its back and they will demand changes one way or another. Its like watching the tide come in, its so slow and inperceptable, you don't really see it happening, but before you know it, the surface has raised everything. The scary thing is, it may not come in the form of a tide, but as a Tsunami, rapidly and destructively, beyond all control of natural barriers. Some people on the left say let the Republicans come to power, that will wake people up and make them change, I think that will trigger a social Tsunami as do they, however I think that such a desire is foolish.
Our country is pretty divided right now, and I belive the divide is artifically enlarged by the corporate media outlets. The movement on the left is countering with independent news sources, and I'm hoping that such sources will be taken up, that people will turn on tune out and turn off, as a popular saying from the sixties put it.
We're living in interesting times.
BTW I think we should counter the Right Wing meme of we're becoming a "Socialist" country by replying no we are a country that is working towards the "Common Interest". That way when that statement is questioned, the left can talk about the "Commons" and why its always been the true wealth of our Nation.
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