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thenewgreen · 4913 days ago · link · · parent · post: Wrote this song election night 2008. -Does it seem naive now?
Fantastic stream of consiousness rant! "Machines of Loving Grace" has been on my list, I shall bump it up a few notches. The two party system is much like the big banks in the US, it is too large to fail and will always be bailed out by corporate America and sitting politicians. Any outside "grass roots" start-up party has to have equal financing etc to have a snowballs chance. We saw this with the tea party, which despite what you may think of their policy, started off as a real "grass roots" effort until they were co-opted by the GOP's financiers. Is it possible for a "grass roots" party to compete without being co-opted by the powers that be? I think it could be, it would just require a group of intelligent, thoughtful, well organized, computer savvy, fearless people that are willing to speak truth to power. What do you say? "If you will it, there is no dream"? What shall we call the hubski grass roots party?
If you have a link to the "Machines of loving grace" series, that'd be swell too. Thanks for the rant -look forward to more of them- hope the day went well. P.S. The Hubski grass roots "pizza" party is my vote.