thanks I was gonna post this too


BTW
too bad your toon got deleted........... I loved it......LOL

potentially sexist to me."

However, I was distracted by the attempts to shame the OP. After that ended, I typed the post, but, when I hit Post, learned that the OP had been hidden, so my post about the cartoon could not appear.

It can be disconcerting when something gets hidden because of something the OP never posted, but because OTHER things done by the same person are objectionable.

If that were the standard, none of the poetry of anti-Semite and all around nut case, but amazing poet, Ezra Pound, for example, would have seen the light of day.

Oh, well.

then voted by those outside this group

A person who is not a Sanders supporter was the only reason an indisputably objectionable cartoon appeared on the thread to begin with, but a group memeber got the hide.

I figured the toon would be attacked because of who drew it, and I was right. But I posted it anyway because the message, of a lack of enthusiasm for HRC, was spot on.

Maybe if someone 'acceptable' like Luckovich or Toles does the same toon, it will be allowed.

and of course neo'con policies, that has so decimated entire societies.

I think we are going through a really historical period, the people are recovering from the 'shock and awe' policies that ravaged nations with war and with Economic Terrorism.

And globally, the people are beginning to gain some ground and are fighting back.

History seems to provide leaders at times like these.

The US can either choose to be part of these global changes, or elect a member of the Status Quo and be left behind as the rest of the world moves forward.

We should be leading the way, since we led the way into the devastation that has destroyed so many lives. But will we?

I guess we shall see.

They probably wonder why we haven't responded sooner.

protest, occupying the public square. I believe it happened first in Spain. Then finally, the US joined in when they organized a similar kind of protest/movement with Occupy Wall St and it spread across the country and the world.

The rapid response from the Oligarchs, both here and in Europe, the brutal crackdowns that looked identical across Europe and here complete with militarized police, was a sigh of how determined they were AND ready as you said, to crack down on any uprisings against them.

Someone recently said that OWS was the 'seed' and that Bernie is the 'fruit' of this global movement against them.

They are frightened, that's for sure, but also brutal and will stop at nothing to win.

I hadn't read the thread before commenting, and so it was good to see that others are feeling the change as it begins to spread.

I believe it's no accident that these two people have risen to ascendance at this time in history. For the past 30+ years, we've experienced the ascendance of rightwing ideology which is immoral to the core and has nearly killed us. Rightwing propaganda oozes hatred and fear; it divides people and sets them against one another. It also elevates money and power for public veneration. These are some of the ways to recognize it.

On a smaller level, I think Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart were/are voices of peace, generosity, and inclusion. If we look around, we will probably find other such voices who are finding their way into public consciousness and helping to turn us in a more life-affirming direction.