Joe Bageant's Blog, page 6

Blogging toward the Kingdom

Hey Joe -- I know it's painful for you to observe what is happening here in America, and a lot easier to stay drunk and not think about it in Mexico, but some of us are still sticking it out here and we depend on you to help us feel less isolated.

There ain't no escape from collapse

There is really no "safe place" to run. For instance, the banking system may utterly fail; actually, it already has, yet no one is calling for an entirely new system. This shows you both the thoroughness of indoctrination of the American people, and the astuteness of the overlords who profit from the masses.

Anderson Cooper and Class Solidarity

Thanks to globalization, the American, Australian and European working classes are on their way to extinction, in terms of their traditional rights, and quality of life. Just like the workers being poisoned to death by circuit board toxins in Guiyu, China.

Joe, why did you crap out on us?

Did everything get so hopeless you just gave up? I liked your fighting spirit here, in 2004, and feel when you've got a voice, as you have, we'd appreciate hearing it as a call to arms instead of an old man's complaints.

Hope is for little kids and tooth fairies

It took me over fifty years to figure out there is no running away, or finding some perfect life. We just exchange one set of problems for another.

Cantina Tolteca

Those Americans who seldom give politics (or anything else) serious thought, simply accept whatever is spoon-fed by media and The Complex, an entity so omniscient as to be beyond their comprehension.

From Wall Street to Skank Street

Gunther on bailouts and stimulus money: "The stimulus money will work if enough suckers believe it will work. But it'll only work for a while, until we run out of stimulus money. Then somebody's got to print some more and get 'em to believin' again. It's like poking a frog in a frog race for one jump at a time. You ain't gonna ever see the finish line"

Canadian asks: Who you gonna bomb next, eh?

Greetings from one of the attic dwellers in Canada. We've been mocked as being eternally uninvited to the party going on downstairs. However, lately it seems more like someone has called in the cops to break up the bash.

Moon Over Gringo Gulch

Canuck and gringo alike, they all hated George W. Bush. For the most part, the Americans are staunch Democrats, even the retired cops here (who also smoke pot -- I've yet to meet one who did not). The big guy in the blue polo shirt asks Boob Loaf Woman: "Did you hear the one about the Republican senator who married a crack whore? Inside of six weeks he brought her down to his level."

Round Midnight: Tortillas and the Corporate State

Loathe as Americans are to believe it, the Mexican people and the American people are in the same situation of being mugged. However, they are robbed at a different rate and from different positions in the global pecking order.