[lbo-talk] Congress may not extend unemployment benefits for 3.8mil US workers

[Carrol Cox]

If you don't hit it, it won't fall. There is no cluster of orgnizations
(and it is a cluster that is needed in core capitalist  nations, not a
single party) to even make a feebvle gesture towards mobilizing that
anger -- and probably the degree of that anger is being greatly
overestimaged on this list. Without a coherent socialist left such
anger, if it existed, would probably flow into a fascist movement. (Bush
& Co are NOT fascist, even close to it. I'm talking about a fascist
_movement_, which doesn't exist now.)

Dennis is up to his usual daydream of getting to heaven in a rocking
chair.

Carrol

dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> 
> On Wed, June 11, 2008 7:27 pm, B. wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it's just me. Honestly, things look like shit
> > from my perspective, and I have this strange sense of massive,
> > unquantifiable, anger among everyone I meet these days.
> 
> It's not just you. I noticed the same thing at O'Hare airport recently
> (major hubs are wonderful social metrics). Things were already dour late
> last year, then they got worse this spring. This summer, the sullenness
> has spread to the TSA workers, who just waved us through. On the airport
> speakers, they were playing the usual horseshit about "Threat Level
> Orange". Noone paid the slightest attention. Gas prices were all over the
> Foxopticon.
> 
> The entire petro-fundamentalist underpinnings of the US Empire are
> unraveling. All the cheap plastic crap which made life in the Empire
> tolerable isn't cheap anymore. People can't afford their homes, can't
> afford their cars, can't afford seventy years of suburban sprawl. Whenever
> I fly out of any major Texas city, I see the doom of this Empire writ into
> real estate: millions of homes, but not a single one with a solar roof.
> 
> -- DRR
> 
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