Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Handouts for the rich, good. Handouts for the poor, irresponsible. | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: democracy (4.00 / 6)
The US is a post-democratic state - implicitly so since Reagan or maybe Carter; explicitly so since Dubya.

The language has been so corrupted that it is hard to imagine a political discourse where your points could be made.  In contrast to the USSR and Orwell's state, the US elite have privatized the debasement of language - with awe-inspiring results.  Our mainstream "media" are poisonous.

by cambridgemac on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 09:56:04 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Others have rated this comment as follows:

Jerome a Paris 4
Sven Triloqvist 4
melo 4
ATinNM 4
r------ 4
Frank Schnittger 4

Handouts for the rich, good. Handouts for the poor, irresponsible. | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Display:

Top Diaries

The Really Hard Work Starts Now

by Frank Schnittger - Dec 3
2 comments

More Status Quo please - for now

by Frank Schnittger - Dec 2
2 comments

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - 2024

by gmoke - Nov 28

The Irish general election draws near

by Frank Schnittger - Nov 21
10 comments

Basic Electricity for the Bottom Billion

by gmoke - Nov 12
6 comments

Recent Diaries

Full Circle from Baghdad to Damascus

by Oui - Dec 9
6 comments

Turks and Sauds to Install Sunni Terror in Damascus, Syria -...

by Oui - Dec 8
8 comments

More Back-Stabbing in the New Middle East

by Oui - Dec 7
17 comments

#WeAreNATO v Rest of the World

by Oui - Dec 5
4 comments

The Really Hard Work Starts Now

by Frank Schnittger - Dec 3
2 comments

US Syrian Quagmire - A Second Life

by Oui - Dec 2
14 comments

More Status Quo please - for now

by Frank Schnittger - Dec 2
2 comments

The Arab States Are Faced with Virulent Zionism in Israel

by Oui - Dec 2
6 comments

December 2024

by Oui - Dec 1
12 comments

Next Step An Integrated, Sovereign Europe

by Oui - Dec 1
4 comments

Making the Europe and BreXit Trump Proof ...

by Oui - Nov 30
6 comments

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - 2024

by gmoke - Nov 28

Not A Permanent Ceasefire Lebanon-Israel

by Oui - Nov 28
9 comments

Clash of Empires - Crossroads @ Middle East

by Oui - Nov 27
6 comments

City Agriculture - November 26, 2024

by gmoke - Nov 26

Harry Truman: 'The Buck Stops Here'

by Oui - Nov 26
8 comments

German Election False Promises, Lack of Vision

by Oui - Nov 26

EU Patriots, Hudson, VDL: ICC Arrest Warrants

by Oui - Nov 25
13 comments

Wilderism Hate Mongering, Now ICC Troublemaker

by Oui - Nov 23
18 comments

P3+1 Threaten Iran After Ditching JCPOA Deal

by Oui - Nov 22

More Diaries...

Occasional Series