Comments on: American Democracy has been strengthened https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/17/american-democracy-has-been-strengthened/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/17/american-democracy-has-been-strengthened/#comment-28019 Robert Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:30:20 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39680#comment-28019 Moved the subthread about bowser to Community Moved the subthread about bowser to Community

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/17/american-democracy-has-been-strengthened/#comment-27905 ER Fri, 18 Oct 2013 01:09:10 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39680#comment-27905 <blockquote>In its May 26, 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of "The 50 greatest conservative rock songs." "Won't Get Fooled Again" was ranked song number one. Pete Townsend responded on his blog as follows: "It is not precisely a song that decries revolution - it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets - but that revolution, like all action can have results we cannot predict. Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything.'' Townsend then goes on to explain that the song was simply ''Meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the center of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause.' http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1532</blockquote> Funny. I always thought it was a great leftist rock song. Or maybe it just doesn't matter. "And things still look the same And history ain't changed."

In its May 26, 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of “The 50 greatest conservative rock songs.” “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one. Pete Townsend responded on his blog as follows:

“It is not precisely a song that decries revolution – it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets – but that revolution, like all action can have results we cannot predict. Don’t expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything.” Townsend then goes on to explain that the song was simply ”Meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the center of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause.’
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1532

Funny. I always thought it was a great leftist rock song. Or maybe it just doesn’t matter.

“And things still look the same
And history ain’t changed.”

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/17/american-democracy-has-been-strengthened/#comment-27903 ER Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:46:03 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39680#comment-27903 You and I, we've been through that, we've seen this all before. We learned the hard way, a long, long time ago. This tale was written on the bones of the world long before we were born, its the same old story, and every generation has to learn it over and over again. I feel like grabbing them and slapping them silly and yelling in their face till they finally wake up. "Listen to the words, goddammit. All along we've been trying to warn you. Listen to the words. LISTEN TO THE FUCKING WORDS." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtHshBWFRyg [youtube id="rtHshBWFRyg" /] You and I, we’ve been through that, we’ve seen this all before. We learned the hard way, a long, long time ago. This tale was written on the bones of the world long before we were born, its the same old story, and every generation has to learn it over and over again.

I feel like grabbing them and slapping them silly and yelling in their face till they finally wake up. “Listen to the words, goddammit. All along we’ve been trying to warn you. Listen to the words. LISTEN TO THE FUCKING WORDS.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtHshBWFRyg

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]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/17/american-democracy-has-been-strengthened/#comment-27900 Robert Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:52:53 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39680#comment-27900 It feels like we had a near-death experience as a nation. "Default" means "bankrupt", and it's scary to think of falling so far from so high a position; from the world's strongest economy and and its standard currency to deadbeat in sixteen days. Somebody went off a cliff, but it wasn't America. <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1e3b6946a66e2b9480979ae74f28505/tumblr_mfx8uecQ6P1rwzsbso1_500.gif" /> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0sohbTXuH1rrd376o1_500.gif" /> <img src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%203/WileEandRoadRunner_zps5fd824fa.jpg" /> [youtube id="ymPpIzaanhY"]ymPpIzaanhY[/youtube] It feels like we had a near-death experience as a nation. “Default” means “bankrupt”, and it’s scary to think of falling so far from so high a position; from the world’s strongest economy and and its standard currency to deadbeat in sixteen days.

Somebody went off a cliff, but it wasn’t America.


[youtube id="ymPpIzaanhY"]ymPpIzaanhY[/youtube]

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