If you and Sarah do a podcast I will patreon that immediately. I miss her voice so much and I can't think of anyone better for her to team up with than you. Yes yes and more yes.
“…but I also want to go more in-depth about the forces at play while also providing ideas and strategies that we can, as individuals, use to help ourselves and help others, as well as change the direction of things.”
I can’t tell you how often I come here seeking solace that I’m not insane. So, first off thankee for the therapy🤪😄. After calming down it’s easier to face this shit with a clearer head and stick to focusing upon taking action now and to sustain it. As you point out all the time, we’re not in a place where we reach a goal and rest. We are IN it. Maintaining participation is critical. Being a responsible citizen has taken on new meaning. Thank you for context, encouragement and possible directions!
Thank You Thank You for this, The Two Doctors in the House (and adults in the room). I feel horrible too! The DINO’s sucking up to the Cheney Crime Fam is revolting. America is founded on the concept of human beings as dispensable.
Thank you for this conversation! I'm curious (assuming I'm understanding you correctly) if you both think that a Harris administration would essentially be just like a third Bush Junior administration - do you also think that it doesn't essentially matter whether Trump or Harris is elected? And another question: if Harris is elected (and actually inaugurated) and her administration shapes up to be a neoconservative administration: what can we - collectively and as individuals - do about that? What are concrete actions we can take to fight for the actual implementation of a more progressive agenda? (I realize you might be addressing this in subsequent podcasts.)
I think, if I had to predict, and it's always hard with this stuff, that what we would see is a hybrid type administration that is moderate to progressive on some things and neoconserative/conservative on others. I do think it matters that Trump isn't re-elected, but I do also know that anything going forward is going to depend on individuals and coalitions fighting for it as the overall trajectory, in the United States and around the world, is angled toward this neoliberal authoritarian shift. I do think the election matters, but I don't think, by any means, that it stops there.
Thanks for this dialogue. When the Iraq war was being ginned up, my wife and our two young sons traveled to DC from Illinois and joined a lot of people demonstrating against what was coming. I recall thinking then that the people in charge of the ginning up couldn't care less how many hundred thousand of us were there to say "no". They let us 'protest', and did their thing. I suspect it's even worse now. That said, if there were to be organized protests again (your point about the George Floyd movement is valid - it unsettled The Man), I'll show up banging on my soup pot with a spoon (and my tire valve core removal tool for the Man's cars) (hope they brought a tire pump); But,
I've come to a place where I think the best way to interrupt The Man and his Machine is to stop feeding it. Stop being the good consumer. Stop chasing the great Return on Investment that'll make you into the Rentier Man of Leisure of some Jane Austen novel. Stop participating. Stop feeding The Machine. And let me know if there's a plan to gather with our pots and spoons and signs and something of our excess to throw on a heap and burn to make a point. I can tell you that it makes people who are 'comfortable' acutely NOT so comfortable to be faced with a Boomer who's choosing to Not Feed the Machine.
I really appreciate your willingness to continue to look at this awfulness, and re-describe it for us.
If you and Sarah do a podcast I will patreon that immediately. I miss her voice so much and I can't think of anyone better for her to team up with than you. Yes yes and more yes.
THIS! Thank you, Jared.
“…but I also want to go more in-depth about the forces at play while also providing ideas and strategies that we can, as individuals, use to help ourselves and help others, as well as change the direction of things.”
I can’t tell you how often I come here seeking solace that I’m not insane. So, first off thankee for the therapy🤪😄. After calming down it’s easier to face this shit with a clearer head and stick to focusing upon taking action now and to sustain it. As you point out all the time, we’re not in a place where we reach a goal and rest. We are IN it. Maintaining participation is critical. Being a responsible citizen has taken on new meaning. Thank you for context, encouragement and possible directions!
Thank you, Jared and Sarah. I appreciate you both and the important work you do.
Thank You Thank You for this, The Two Doctors in the House (and adults in the room). I feel horrible too! The DINO’s sucking up to the Cheney Crime Fam is revolting. America is founded on the concept of human beings as dispensable.
Thank you for this conversation! I'm curious (assuming I'm understanding you correctly) if you both think that a Harris administration would essentially be just like a third Bush Junior administration - do you also think that it doesn't essentially matter whether Trump or Harris is elected? And another question: if Harris is elected (and actually inaugurated) and her administration shapes up to be a neoconservative administration: what can we - collectively and as individuals - do about that? What are concrete actions we can take to fight for the actual implementation of a more progressive agenda? (I realize you might be addressing this in subsequent podcasts.)
I think, if I had to predict, and it's always hard with this stuff, that what we would see is a hybrid type administration that is moderate to progressive on some things and neoconserative/conservative on others. I do think it matters that Trump isn't re-elected, but I do also know that anything going forward is going to depend on individuals and coalitions fighting for it as the overall trajectory, in the United States and around the world, is angled toward this neoliberal authoritarian shift. I do think the election matters, but I don't think, by any means, that it stops there.
Thanks for this dialogue. When the Iraq war was being ginned up, my wife and our two young sons traveled to DC from Illinois and joined a lot of people demonstrating against what was coming. I recall thinking then that the people in charge of the ginning up couldn't care less how many hundred thousand of us were there to say "no". They let us 'protest', and did their thing. I suspect it's even worse now. That said, if there were to be organized protests again (your point about the George Floyd movement is valid - it unsettled The Man), I'll show up banging on my soup pot with a spoon (and my tire valve core removal tool for the Man's cars) (hope they brought a tire pump); But,
I've come to a place where I think the best way to interrupt The Man and his Machine is to stop feeding it. Stop being the good consumer. Stop chasing the great Return on Investment that'll make you into the Rentier Man of Leisure of some Jane Austen novel. Stop participating. Stop feeding The Machine. And let me know if there's a plan to gather with our pots and spoons and signs and something of our excess to throw on a heap and burn to make a point. I can tell you that it makes people who are 'comfortable' acutely NOT so comfortable to be faced with a Boomer who's choosing to Not Feed the Machine.
I really appreciate your willingness to continue to look at this awfulness, and re-describe it for us.
Two of my favorite political commentators in one podcast. Thank you for not making me feel quite as alone in my horror at well, everything.