here's todays ponder....

[callmeslick]

...which developed after two exchanges with anti-GMO food types without a clue and an ax to grind against 'corporatists', an economic exchange with a range of folks around how to deal with coming economic revolution, and the general level of what passes for informed discourse:

I wrote--you know......as I go through exchanges and debates with my Progressive friends, and my more Conservative friends, it strikes me that we may be entering a reality in which common ideologies don't have any real application. We are snowballing into a future with massive technological and industrial changes, a very interconnected planet with far too many people on it, to be blunt, and a thus-far unchecked rapid acceleration of the distance between the economic haves and have-nots. Simplistic 'conservative' solutions, or Progressive bleating about 'evil corporations', the Libertarian denial of a role for a strong central government that includes social safety nets, NONE of it can address that reality. We need innovation in thinking, or perhaps development of an entirely new ideology. Any deep details or such are not forthcoming from me, at the moment, but I'm being struck ever more that most major ideological players and political players in the US don't even show the capacity to deal with reality honestly.


another trigger for this rant was watching Jennifer Granholm(D-former governor of Michigan) on some discussion of how the Dems need to appeal to working Americans. Just more drivel about bringing Americans 'good paying jobs' and utterly no acknowledgment that the entire industrial, economic and labor landscape is about to undergo an upheaval of massive scale. Just the usual identity politics(this time to 'blue collar workers', a quantly 19th century term), no truth, no reality. I am pretty straight about the Trump camp and the right denying reality and fudging facts, but I am quite aware the left does it too, along with assuming things about the opposition that preclude any ability to see past black and white thinking.

[Pudfark]

Describes Trump well....about time you endorsed him.

[callmeslick]

you apparently missed the part about thinking. Did you misread that as 'tweeting'?

[Pudfark]

I wrote--you know......

This quote of yours ^^^^^^ says it all.