Rebounding MoveOn’s question
by J.A. Myerson
Dear MoveOn,
While I don’t appreciate your using Occupy Wall Street to raise money for yourself, I do appreciate your statement that “MoveOn stands in solidarity with the brave protesters at Occupy Wall Street, but we’re not Occupy Wall Street and we’re not trying to become Occupy Wall Street” and I *love* your video here.
It asks a question I’ve asked many times. It comes from the old labor tune. It’s a question that affirms that there are choices to be made, implies that the choices are moral ones and demands that people make them: Which side are you on?
Well, let’s split that proposition. MoveOn has essentially been the activist wing of the Democratic Party, going as far as to have contests to generate ads for Barack Obama. The Washington Post reports that “Obama has brought in more money from employees of banks, hedge funds and other financial service companies than all of the GOP candidates combined” and, of course, the President’s chief-of-staff is former JP Morgan Chase & Co. executive Bill Daley.
So when it comes to campaign time and Obama pays lip service to the 99% while he stands with the 1% behind closed doors, which side, MoveOn, will you be on?
An Alternative to Capitalism (if the people knew about it, they would demand it)
Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: “There is no alternative”. She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: “Home of the Brave?” which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/steinsvold.htm
John Steinsvold
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
–Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sorry, but this is as utopian and unrealistic as anything I’ve ever heard. Show me one ‘modern’ society that successfully uses this system? The historical use of ‘money’ is firmly entrenched and just needs revision. Money in and of itself is not evil, it’s the way it is hoarded by some people. This will always be the case (no matter what we trade in) unless we as a collective society, send a message that this is wrong, bad, and unfair and prevent those sociopaths from doing it to the rest of us.
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