Inspired by the great song included in the Lost In Time post over at the ladybluerose blog, I went searching on YouTube for more great music by Jim Croce. While I was doing that, I had The Rachel Maddow Show playing in the background on my TV. I don’t know about you, but Jim’s music has always been kinda symbolic to me of that “even little guys can win” part of the American Dream, while Rachel has become, IMHO, one of the most eloquent spokespersons for what’s wrong with that dream today.
So, I ask you, is the “happy ending” depicted at the end of this great song even possible anymore in the new America described in the report below?
BTW, there’s a really nice Jim Croce Official Site that you should check out.
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Indeed, Mak, the always brilliant Rachel was especially so last night. $40,000,000 (40 million dollars) to Sheldon Adelson is like $40 to someone making $100,000 a year. I don’t know how the issue could be made any more clear – I wish everyone could see this clip, but half the heads are stuck in the Limbaugh rant tank.
I wish they could to Jim. Regardless of which side of the aisle a person sits on, I can’t believe anyone could think anyone having the power to buy the government of their choosing is a good thing!
Rachel’s primary problem is that she makes sense. For a lot of the country, her sort of logic just ain’t gonna fly. Her other problem is that she’s on MSNBC (soon to be NBC again since Microsoft appears to have split). And we all know who DOESN’T watch MSNBC – namely everyone who probably *should* be watching it. Therefore, she preaches to the choir nightly while the rest of the pinheads get their mental programming from Bill O’Reilly and the Faux News crew.
Remember that scene from “A Clockwork Orange” where they strap him down and peel his eyelids back and make him watch videos? This is about the ONLY way you’re going to get conservatives to watch Rachel Maddow. It’s also probably the only way you’ll get me to watch Faux News. (At least for more than a few minutes before I start puking).
See the problem?
Excellent points Dood. What scares me the most is that I think so many are going along with this insanity because the fat cats buying their way into power are helping them get rid of Obama – a desire I believe to be motivated by racism as much as anything else. Unfortunately, like the sheep that they are, they’re incapable of imagining where the path they’re being lead down might ultimately lead…
I agree with you about the racism thing, but I’ve learned to be really careful where and with whom I bring it up. I mentioned it to my son once — he’s quite conservative but always very friendly during our political sparring — and he was instantly offended that I might even hint at such a thing. And all I’d said was I thought there were surely still some super-conservative, right-wing extremists who opposed Obama because of his race. You’d think I’d called HIM a racist.
That’s funny, because it’s just the opposite with my family. I avoid talking about it with them because they think everything’s about race!
LOL, I think humans find any angle to hate politicians. Hillary = ewh white bitch, McCain = old bastard, Mitt = creepy Mormon… Race, religion or sex
Very true Loon, but it’s not just politicians. The reason it’s so effective in politics is because humans use those reasons to hate each other as well!
So true. Hey IzaakMak, have you attempted the tube of Vegemite yet? I suspect not as you are still posting
Not beyond that initial “taste” Loon. Scheduling conflicts have prevented the medical personnel I requested from “standing by!”
Rachel smiles politely, charms with her presence, and cuts to the truth of the matter like a surgeon with a scalpel. When it comes to analytical commentary, there’s no one better, IMHO. I’d give anything if she were totally wrong this time, if Big Money weren’t buying up our government, if the majority of Americans instead of a mere 190+ super-rich individuals were calling the shots. But she’s right, as always. The wealthy are calling the shots and the rest of us are just excess baggage.
I wish she was wrong too PT, but you’re right, we are just excess baggage to them. Excess baggage that they’re all too eager to be rid of…
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No, of course not. As I’ve mentioned before, in 1835, Alexis de Toqueville wrote: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” And America has ceased to be good, thus is ceasing to be great.
An excellent quote Scott, and so totally apropos. I summed it up a little differently in my Opening Rant, the very first post I wrote for this blog, when I reminded everyone of the “honor rule” they learned about in primary school. If history has taught us anything, it’s that there’s nothing you can do, and no “system” you can impose, to “force” people to do the right thing. We either choose to be good people or we don’t. But we never really get away with the evil we do. Like some kind of morally corrosive STD, every evil act plants the seeds of corruption that then grow into a “dark” influence undermining every aspect of our lives.