I'm not bitter.

To be bitter you have to have hope.  I have only my black hatred to keep me warm.

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1186 comments) on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 9:18:53 AM
 

Individual Black Hatred Bitterness Defined?

Not very clear, Hank......   What is it that keeps you warm...?  Your "hatred" of blacks...., or your perception that other ethnics and races have a "hatred" toward you?

Once the causes for the Bitterness  are recognized... it can inspire hope..., but without recognition of a positive alternative..., mostly it produces animosities which leave little cerebral space for hope, and more often produces anti social outcomes...

One easy example is the guy on the picket line in a strike action against employer abuses... If the guy knows of no other alternatives but a losing contest between his union and the bosses..., destructive acts may...historically HAVE ...,  occurred. Labor history bears this out.

Rather than use such strike energies exclusively for picket actions..., people is such condutions would be better directed toward recognizing rhe SYSTEM which produces  CAPITAL- LABOR   conflicts. We CAN change the system..., which is responsible for all our societal disparities..., including ethnic and racial animosities which are too often caused by competition for available jobs...  In a system in which everyone contributes to our societal needs and is remunerated equitably...,  positive human relationships will comply accordingly...

by Wally (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 13 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 5:42:54 PM
 

Servile is as servile does..

Thiose who do not recognize "oppression" even when they are living with it...

Ask  yourselves...Do You have democracy in YOUR work place..?Y

Did you have a  vote to decide  to invade Iraq?

Did You decide to freeze the minimum wage for ten years?

 Did you  decide to export U.S. jobs to starvation paid wage workers in Indonesia?

Or did the "public" political government and "private" corporate governments DICTATE such actions FOR YOU to OBEY, according to the present laws which give dictatorial powers to those oppressive entities?

Demos=People   Cracy=People.  Democracy means People, that's WE, the People, have empowerment to have a direct voice and vote in all matter  that affect our lives, and IN ADDITION..., have the legislative and material means, the industrial institutions..., through which to implement such decisions... , like, you know..., clear air and water..., clean foods .., etc.,etc. 

Did you vote for ANY of the above? No?  How come?  You're being affected by these every day of your life...   wally

You decided to

by Wally (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 13 comments) on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 2:52:16 PM
 

Yes, the Hopeless turn to religions and guns.

Which hard working laboring slave of which small town is not ''BITTER'' seeing their TIME, LABOR, MONEY, LIVES and the LIVES of their children being squandered, and sacrificed, to promote LYING and MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE to STEAL their OIL ?

In this 12-17 TRILLION DOLLAR annual economy, which POOR and HOPELESS SLAVE does not turn in desperation to religions for salvation, or to guns in rebellion ?

by Thomas Panto (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 6:44:22 PM
 

Oop! Mis wrote... Demos=people Cracy= power...

Democracy in our society does not mean corporate and political government dominance of how we think and live... The corporate powers whose primary goals are PROFIT, not the betterment of society anf of  We, the People, is currently illustrated in this latest news report...04/23/08.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/business/media/23ownership.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

by Wally (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 13 comments) on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 6:18:47 AM
 

Democracy compromised by the SYSTEM!!! What You see is not n

Addenda to the conclusion that when we view the mechanics of how DEMOCRACY is practiced in our nation…, we must conclude that we live in a societal paradox….The form of “DEMOCRACY” actually practiced, is contrary to Democracy’s embedded principles

The political and economic “dictators” of our self- contradictory social institutions, the corporate autocrats who are the Lords of our economic apparatus, our industrial technology, as well as acting as the over Lords of the political government “managers” of our population…, OUR “elected” representatives…, insist that the corporate Media, and We, the People, we refer to ourselves as a nation of DEMOCRACY, yet we endure and suffer politically and economically all the effective dictatorial mechanisms which give the “LIE” to the DEMOCRACY and Free Enterprise claims.

On the political front, the two major political parties literally exclude ALL minority viewpoints which contest both the major party duopoly, and the autocratic corporate control of our economic resources…, ie; the system of capitalism. How do they do this?

Minority parties in our society are effectively subordinated…, by the oppressive ballot access requirements which have been promulgated by the two major parties to restrict any opposition to their monopolization of access to OUR votes. Legitimate minority parties such as the Greens, New Union , SWP, SLP, have a near impossible task in presenting their social programs for the majority electorate to consider as alternatives to our current social institutions.

In addition to the ballot restrictions, the Republicans and Democrats have successfully shut down Section 315, the FCC’s “Equal Time” law which was enacted to ensure that the TV and radio stations , (which legally bid for, and “rent” the “PUBLICLY-OWNED airwaves from the government, which, supposedly is, We the People, …, to give to all legitimate political candidates the same “Free” time to voice their programs. This was meant to avoid having either of the TWO major parties “favored” by a particular media outlet for public exposure over the other…, but, to their duopolistic dismay, it inadvertently, legally included the MINORITY parties, among which were the Pro- Labor people parties…, the minority candidates…, who offer new ways to organize our needed industries…, as is the concept of a genuine democracy in which people in their industries and in their civic governments, have a direct voice and vote in all matters that affect their lives…

The electoral system we have today is not unlike the system employed by the Communist Party which dominated the erstwhile USSR… during the “Cold War” years …through 40’s and the 90’s …, in which Soviet citizens had the right to vote…, just as we do today in our own nation. BUT the Communist Party version of democracy worked like this. The Party placed candidates on the ballots which were ALL members of the Communist Party, and no other . Should the electorate not approve by a majority vote any of the Communist Party names on the “open, public and free election process” used there, another ballot was offered, with different candidates, but also of the Communist Party persuasion…, , which was, of course, to keep in place the Soviet system, which was a system disguised as a “socialist” system simply because the economy was not owned by “Private” capital….,, but was STATE-owned… A State-owned economic system, in which wage Labor ran the industrial processes…, and the products were marketed domestically and globally with a view to profit…, same as any capitalist system…, which conformed it as simply another form of capitalism…, SOVIET STYLE…, but capitalism, nevertheless, n which the majority working class population had NO democratic say in any of the operations, including the kinds and quality of the items and services being produced.

The system here in our society has TWO political parties with ONE ideology, same as the ONE ideology Communist Party in the old USSR. No genuine Democracy in either system!

The two major parties, the …duopoly …, maintain ONE central program…, which is to preserve capitalism at all costs, a purpose bought and paid for by corporate and private capitalist financings of the preferred major party candidates for all State and Federal legislative, executive and judicial offices.

The paid- for Legislative branch …, Congress, makes the laws…, the preferred , Senate -appointed Judicial overlords legitimatize the laws.., and the Executive carries out whatever dictums are laid on We, the People. The entire process serves the existing autocratic systems which are disguised as “open” and available to ALL of us… But the inner workings of the so-called “Open” system are a paradox, to a fault.

On the political front, the duopoly (Republican and Democrat Parties) make laws which prevent normal access to the ballot for opposing viewpoints. In the economic marketplace spheres, the dominant corporate autocracies use their monopolistic economic resources to restrict potential competition for market dominance. .

The two party Duopoly works to afford its corporate capitalist owners of the dominant corporations…, its financial benefactors, the greatest possible profit margins at the expense of the majority working class citizenry in the form of restrictive wage laws…, unregulated food production processes…, which result in consumer sicknesses…, and unregulated import practices which bring unhealthy and dangerous products from other dictatorially controlled capitalist societies where slave labor and other undemocratic subordinations of working people is rampant.

We need not review the recent ‘08 news reports about China imports involving poisonous dog food and unsafe children’s toys…, or the also recent exposures of how domestic beef cattle are prepared for our consumption, to illustrate the “service” which this political system affords to our ruling corporate capitalist entities.

Media pundits, as well as elected officials, have described these threats to our health and welfare as “failures” of the responsible departments…, the FDA and the Federal agencies which monitor imports to our domestic markets.

We know these “government” agencies have “failed” to protect our health and safety. We also know the people who administer the FDA, the so-called watchdogs for our health and safety, are placed there by the affected corporations through the confirmations of Congressional approval. While some Congressmen have tried to act responsibly in their roles as the “people’s” reps, in the main, they seldom, if ever, are successful in maintaining these “watch dog” departments with people who will “.. blow the whistle.. ’ on the corporations at fault…, primarily because the corporate-appointees are dutifully in the SERVICE of their corporate sponsors… to make as easy and profitable importing the relatively inexpensive commodities from capitalist nations, where wage workers there have less freedoms there to organize against State and private corporate owner abuses…, than wage workers do in our own society.

The restrictions imposed by Capitalism’s Political State upon workers in our own “democratic” society…, working people who presently are helpless and want to organize against corporate abuses , vary from State to State. In collusion with its corporate overlords, the various States’ suppressions of working class peoples’ determination to organize has resulted in many bloody confrontations in which the State militia often forced workers to go back to work…, without realizing their stated goals for union recognition.

As clearly put in Plato’s Republic.., each State of our U.S. controls the education process in its territorial confines. So it follows that since the State machinery is at the service of its leading corporate sponsors, it is understandable, however contrary to a responsible, intellectually honest education program , for the conspicuous absence of Labor History in State approved curriculums.

But that’s for another page in this ongoing saga about the birth, life and ongoing decline, and eventual, universally recognized need for the replacement of the capitalism mechanisms which have produced our economic disparities which have led to well defined social classes…, and the perennial wars.

In addition to his E=mc squared, Albert Einstein had it right about capitalism and a genuine socialism…, to which subscribers to a real democracy will concur.

by Wally (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 13 comments) on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 3:35:49 PM