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DATE | 2016-10-05 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Hey, Ruben! Plastic bag initiatives!
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On 10/05/2016 12:36 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > It's telling that the electorate have not yet > felt the necessity.
No it is not. You always underestimate the principle of apathy.
Political systems need to be built to withstand the fact that 98% of the time, the public just couldn't give a damn and those that do are crazy and knee deep into a perverted world view.... like corporations, liberals and special interests, for example.
When the public is motivated, something is really fucked up and the result is usually Republican... but not always. FDR was such a protest vote.
So was Reagan, and Guilliani ... -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ hangout mailing list hangout-at-nylxs.com http://www.nylxs.com/
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