Fragments From Floyd

That's just a small part of his new book "Homegrown Democrat." There's another quote on my blog. At the top of each chapter there's an original limerick, all of them hilarious. It's a great book. Also check out "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Great writing.

Here's clip on "What's the Matter with Kansas" from Intervention Magazine...Colleen

What's the Matter with Kansas?
How the Republican conservatives took over the heartland of America.
Reviewed by Valerie Davison

At the Democratic National Convention in 1980, in what was to be the swan song of his presidential ambitions, Senator Edward M. Kennedy professed: “The work goes on, the cause endures, and the dream will never die.” But apparently it has. At least that seems to be the conclusion of Thomas Frank in his riveting analysis of his home state, What’s the Matter With Kansas? and by extension, the United States of America…

[W]hat appalls Frank is how middle-America and the working class, in particular, have been bamboozled into misdirecting their legitimate grievances toward bogus targets and consistently voting against their own interests…

In something akin to a wacked-out version of Country Mouse, City Mouse rewritten by The Simpsons, red-staters (i.e., conservatives) are reverent, humble, guileless, homespun, and virtuous, while blue-staters (i.e., liberals) are immoral, arrogant, all-powerful, condescending, and speak French. Such over-generalizations the author labels the “latte-libel” and remarks: “In my real-world experience liberals are nothing of the kind. They are an assortment of complainers -- for the most part impoverished complainers -- who wield about as much influence over American politics as the cashier at Home Depot does over the company’s business strategy.” On the other hand, he assesses, neo-conservatives have, “over the last three decades, smashed the welfare state, reduced the tax burden on corporations and the wealthy, and generally facilitated the country’s return to a nineteenth-century pattern of wealth distribution. Thus the primary contradiction of the backlash: it is a working-class movement that has done incalculable, historic harm to working-class people. The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, but they walk corporate.”…

I was just blocked from posting due to questionable content. Then I read this!

Neither party is worth voting for. One extracts a high price to stand for a few things, the other stands for everything which means it stands for nothing.

Political parties are an anachronism. With instant communications and proper use of technology, we can decide all issues by popular vote. Simply a participative democracy. Think about it!