JFK (4/7) Movie CLIP - A Meeting with X (1991) HD

Isaiah Berlin on Utopias

"Utopias have their value--nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities--but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal."

To Liberate the American Left, We Must Dismantle the Democratic Party

Pay attention to the gap between the things people say about themselves (and others) and what they actually do. 

Beyond all the liberal cant of the Democrats, there are things they support (like genocide in a distant land or the policing of the poor at home) that are, by any sane measure, antidemocratic. 

The Democratic Party FUNCTIONS in our two-party system as a check upon Leftist politics. 

It has made itself USEFUL to the Republicans and the military-industrial-complex to which both parties are ultimately beholden by reassuring the system that no expensive proposals like universal healthcare or free education will ever be seriously considered by our elected "representatives." 

In so doing, it has virtually guaranteed the Pentagon (and the Israelis and NATO, etc.) an open check-book for all of their murderously destabilizing adventures. 

I have nothing but words with which to challenge the Duopoly, so that is what I will use.

Occasionally, someone like Luigi Mangione will take up arms against a symbolic figure.

Neither words nor assassinations will bring about the desired result. 

But if history is any guide, sooner or later, enough people who are, at present, anxiously chewing the cud, will be roused to action. 

When that happens...We shall see...

Seen in Phoenix, Az.

 

Shine, Perishing Republic!

 

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother.
   
You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught — they say — God, when he walked on earth.

~ Robinson Jeffers

Liberals

 

Seen in West Village, NYC