I think most of us are hoping for a hero or heroes to save us from the oligarchs.

DU 2011 Duty to warn…

The people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1451854

just kidding, technically I was more than just alive, just wasn't as politically attuned or awake as I wish I had been. I have to repeat the wow though. So much fascinating info in your OP and that thread. Scary that so much of this was observed and foreseen and yet not stopped (was it even stoppable?) in its tracks. Why isn't info like this in our history books for public school these days (am assuming it's not)? We need a whole separate education on the history of politics here and worldwide. Who is writing (or banning) our modern textbooks for schools? Is there a better way to educate societies? Not expecting answers to my questions, just venting and thinking "aloud".

but not politically active, which date in the previous post were you referring to,? 1938 or 2011?

I would be an amazing person if I was referring to 1938 or 1933 for that matter.

My mother lived to age 90. One of my uncles lived to 92. He was strongly anti Republican and opposed to MAGA policies. I was glad that he lived to see Biden elected. His sister lived to 93. They were my father,'s siblings. My father lived to 88.

Maybe not likely that you are 88, but not impossible.

Anyway, I was just curious.

It was a good question, I hadn't considered that possibility of 1938 in my initial reply.

Sounds like your family has good longevity. Glad that your uncle made it to see Biden elected. Happily my mom lived to see Biden elected too, but only made it to almost 85. My dad's dad lived the longest of all of us. Pretty sure he was 93, maybe 94, I was young then. Don't know if I'll make it that long but one never knows.

DUty to warn 2015:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026954410

Some links have gone bad, but the Way Bac will drag up the info. Pop in the URL…

https://web.archive.org/

See her book "Prologue." "Prequel."

I wonder how many actually read it.

I need to read that myself.

When it came out I bought 2 copies and mailed one, which got lost, so I sent my copy to replace the gift before I got far into it myself. Now I need to hit the library to finish it. I am going to fix my earlier post. Thanks again!

Ultra.

Edited to remove an unneeded a.

Bookmarked, Rec'd and kicked.

In the streets. As someone who is not from a joint family here in India, but quite happy as a member of a nuclear family, I could never adapt to this large family dynamic.
These guys really see old people as disposable.

I lost 14.5 years from the prime of my life to pointless drivel driven by technodickheads and my field is punishingly hard, niche and jobs are rare to non-existent and I can’t really do a random job. wtf did I sink so much of my resources for then? But well..

I have to pushback and then go back and put my head down and work without thinking about the future. I have seen that work for people.
I want to give it all I have..complete a paper and then see.
Because this was stupid and I don’t buy it that these tech guys are anything but bullshitters.

is disposable. Always has been.

Main thing I see in there, "No one was prosecuted" seems tobe the main theme in all of this BS then and now, they are above the law, laws are for us peons.

The following paragraph from his essay touched on the evils of corporate media consolidation, a problem even at that time. Enstein's observations are even more true now than they were during FDR's day.

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/why-socialism/

Please. Guy was born on Pi day. When AI is gonna send the same "limitless" profits at the expense of an unemployed humanity to the Ellisons and their ilk, its message is something all should read and share.

These greedy selfish businessmen have been working on this for decades.

that is palatable to the "aristocrats". It works because it's no different really than the tactics used by the illicit drug "industry". Make friends with the young grommets on the street corner, give them some free narcotic, and then some more, wean them from the free stuff once they're addicted to expand their market and maybe even convince some to peddle for them, further and expanding their pyramid scheme. They just do it with nice stuff for cheap, i.e., within the limits of what they are willing to pay us for our labor.

Really -- this does not an iota of the attention it deserves ... in the media, educationally, or from our "leaders".