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I always liked the suggestion that you mail Congress a package with a torch, a pitchfork and a bit of paper with the number(s) of the law(s) that caused you to do so.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri May 29th, 2009 at 02:13:13 AM EST
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Isn't the right as capable, if not more so, of manipulating this kind of populism as the left?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri May 29th, 2009 at 03:23:02 AM EST
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Absolutely.  Probably better, especially when they can wind up the church people, of whom there is no shortage in the South.  Hence our "conservadems."  Bill Mayer may have made Senator Mark Prior look silly in Mayer's movie, but he really did him no harm.  If anything he got him points for "witnessing."

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri May 29th, 2009 at 01:37:48 PM EST
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Probably.

But then again, if you democratic system is sufficiently FUBAR to merit a revolution, and the only people who can actually muster the warm bodies to make a revolution are the fascists, the theocrats and the happy get-together of people who really think that the 20th century was a bad idea that should just go away... then you are screwed.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri May 29th, 2009 at 06:51:11 PM EST
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That is not a new paradox: the Gracchi experienced it. Often it's the best fascists who make the best revolutions (that was basically Caesar's point, but the plutocrats did not let him drive it home). Later, when the Franks made their own revolution, it was at the point of fascism itself (Soissons' vase, etc.)

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by Patrice Ayme on Fri May 29th, 2009 at 06:57:00 PM EST
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