Stop Me Before I Vote Again

I heard comments weren't working here....

Frum is right about this. The period he valorizes was also the golden age of the white working class (so far) and the period in which the black underclass found its political feet. The solid south was doomed by WWII.

Today we have corporate governance that is directed as much from a Laputa as the finance industry's Laputa.

Hit me big guy.

MJS, I meant the previous one. Sorry. I hadn't checked back.

>>when confronting anything foreign or colored they had a notion to terrorize bully or plain kill

Isn't that what they're still doing?

And the pork is still doing well, too, especially when it comes to the military industrial complex.

The shouting and the posturing is all for show, friends, it's Kabuki.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Flakster:

we are of course talking domestic movements here eh ??
note his examples

the white hat external motions
--such as they are --
do not always or even often
strictly line up in sync with domestic reforms ...obviously

the blue collar "golden age"
was a product of a fairly sizeable restructuring accomplished
by the raft of institutional reforms
known as the new deal ... eh ???

none of this restructuring occured between 46 and 64
the golden era itself

this post is about one institution
that didn't reform itself before or during
the golden era ...the congress
and how that two chambered body
put a hammer lock on social progress
til lbj used the kennedy martyrdom to push thru another .. wave of reforms
that indeed catalyzed our minority and "identity " liberations
of the 60's and 70's

recap:

roosevelt reform wave parts post
13-15 impasse in 33-36
--more or less--

johnson reform wave reparts impasse 64-66
--more or less--

before between and after
the center aisle sea
reclosed over the land of liberty

now frummy here alludes to the self reform of the congress after the nixon debacle :

rule and means changes
that yielded
.......nothing substantive
true enough

but hardly a tribute to the
age old CAS ( center aisle stymie) game
that prevailed apres the tricky D deluge

i note the spurious formalistic internal "reform wave " of the post 74 congress paralleled a series of gestures aimed at curbing the imperial presidency

they have failed magnificently no ???

the present attack on the 60 rule if successful
will end up i suspect
yet another example of form trumping substance call it kabuki reforms
ala the ardent M kay

if the congress "must" really act
it will act
by one means or other
with or without the 60 rulle
it isn't a bar it's an alibi

the congress can be as nimble graceful and swift
as a dancing master when necessary
--note the bank bails --
then return to its habitual CAS condition once more
like a sleeping barabarossa awaiting the next call to "action "

as to congresses with real protracted prolific tenures of activity
among all of our 110 or so congresses
they can prolly be counted
on two hands

seem slight yield wise

i'd suggest u take that up with cleo
not the constitutional authors and amenders
form follows function
and function follows the motions
of the class plates

lemma

many forms => similar functions

same plate motions => functionally similar forms

i'm the Red Buttons of smbiva

"never get a comment "

unless i write it myself

or beg for em
like now
errr like some gut blasted
tudor
conny catcher

"The solid south was doomed by WWII"

dear soul
that removes the need for agency
and the blood
that trickles down
the cheek of change