Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumManny Goldstein: Let us Resolve, this year.
I flipped on the radio and listened to story about a fellow who'd trained as a musician at New York City's elite Julliard school, but schizophrenia had taken a big bite of his ability to perceive and to reason, and the fellow had ended up homeless. On the streets, with demons screeching in his head.
That's how we love our fellow humans in this country. As it says in Matthew Reagan 25:36, "I was sick and you looked after me threw me into the street where lazy people like me belong, OK, OK, let me go, I'll get the @#$% away from your limo"
For decades we've been told by a savage Republican establishment that developing schizophrenia, like being born into poverty, is simply a poor life choice -- if these people would only get off their lazy asses and start a successful company that goes public, they'd be livin' large instead of choosing to freeze and die in the streets. The Third Way grifters who've led our Democratic Party during that time have been far more pragmatic: "Give bankers whatever they want, give the Clintons a commission on the deal, and then magic will happen to end the savagery, just keep those filthy unfortunates the @#$% away from my limo while we're waiting for the magic to happen, OK?" But their magic never happens, because it's bull@#$%, of course. They're grifters, and grifters spin yarns and grab money.
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jhart3333
(332 posts)Turn up radio!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)The wealthy are never crazy, they're eccentric. They never get committed, they just periodically need some rest from a bad case of "exhaustion".
First example was from some dialogue from "Cheers", the second was from a description of the guy who threw the big party in the novel "North Dallas Forty" by Peter Gent*.
And I don't begrudge those are wealthy, but suffering mentally, one bit of the care and consideration they get. Let's just admit we have double standards.
*Lots of good moments in his books. He has his protagonist in one of them (The Franchise, or North Dallas Forty) listening to the radio and there's a story of a 12 year old (black?) kid getting shot because he was near someone's garage. The Governor of Texas subsequently releases a statement warning people to "avoid looking suspicious".
Peter Gent really imparted a sense of the weird in those books.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)An ex boyfriend of mine in college had a copy. The TV went out or something when I was over there, so I picked it up and started reading it (I think he was at work). Couldn't put it down.
Haven't thought about that book in years. Thanks for reminding me of it!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)He's an "important American writer" and this was his second novel. College, Football, Global Thermonuclear Warfare, a beautiful girl using her extra weight as a shield, the visual poetry of college students engaging in imaginary gunfights and doing slow, graceful, unique, falls to their death.
One of those kinds of novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Zone
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-r-endzone.html
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)Once no one named Jones owns the team I might be a fan again!
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)because of mental illness (me) or disabilities (me) and are not officially homeless. The numbers of people who suffer and there is no help are way beyond just the homeless. We just aren't as bad off as the homeless...thank my stars for that. I won't say lucky stars...I don't believe in luck. If I hadn't worked at a good paying job for much of my life, I'd be homeless now too.
This country has failed it's needy in a very big way.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)I'm sorry for your difficulties and rejoice that you at least have a roof over your head.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)I know it's by the late, great Tony Auth - do you have a link for it?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)Big time
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Well done, Manny!
Duval
(4,280 posts)nilram
(2,893 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)FOR A WEEK.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Puglover
(16,380 posts)That's their job, clearly not mine nor yours. Nor theirs.
Or better yet post it in Ask the Admin.
Might have a bit of a wait however.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)And no alerter I will not lock this thread.
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)You're a little evil I just love the way you think
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)You tell it like it is.
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deepestblue
(349 posts)In American politics, there have been a total of two major shifts in the last 80 years; FDR's New Deal in 1932 (reigned for 48 years until President Reagan was elected in 1980) and the Reagan's Revolution in 1980 (reigned for 36 years until President Sanders is hopefully elected in Nov. 2016).
Bring on the Bern.