"War Is a Racket "
-- United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler.
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 128 Driftglass Reads "Drift," h/t @Maddow
Driftglass listened to the audiobook of Rachel Maddow’s “Drift” this week (HIGHLY recommended!), and that leads to a convo on citizenship, the history of war, and money. Also, if Gawker outed Robin Roberts, did “Good Housekeeping” push her back in the closet? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
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I assume this is the classic Daily Show "Potato Day" clip Driftglass refers to:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-7-2009/baracknophobia---obey
Incidentally, The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac actually noticed the birth of a brand new third party called "Republicans" as early as February 2009:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-25-2009/a-new-republican-party
DG;
Those people are not re-programable. They're stuck where they're at.
But, they are humans. More specifically, they are authoritarians. They enable their fascist leaders.
That is why they aren't re-programable. They always look to the fascists in society for their beliefs. You can't change that.
That's a bit eerie - I just finished Doktor Maddow's book on the bus ride home this morning ... don't worry, I won't give away the ending for anyone who hasn't checked it out yet.
I think she's too sanguine about solving the "unmooring" of the military, & that a sequel is needed demonstrating the ways in which the Pentagon has become a vehicle for subsidizing certain high-tech corporations, & how much those corporations now run the show (including foreign policy).
That said, it's actually a hell of a worthy read ... & I love seeing the TeeVee shackles off so she can use cuss-words & go into detail in a way that a 10-15 minute program segment makes problematic.
Ms. Maddow's book would likely make for more enlightening reading material than the series of Star Wars paperbacks currently taking up my reading time!
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