The creator of the original list is no longer a member. We are just all the
leftovers. Roger helped us relocate and reassemble, but he didn't actually
create the list. As equal members, I think we are all equally complicit.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:18 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chris Hedges comments
Would being a member of the list be more hazardous than being the creator of
the list?
Richard
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:12 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This email list is as public as I'll ever go. Some day, even be a member of a
list of 15 might be dangerous.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:06 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chris Hedges comments
Miriam: Perhaps you should publish a ‘Miriam’s List’ ala Schindler!
Richard
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 27, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Me too. I'll keep doing it. But there are lines I won't cross. There are
people I won't vote for, no matter what. Not Joe Biden. Not Chuck Schumer
for my senator. I don't think I'd vote for Corey Booker, Camila Harris, or
O'Rourke, either.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:56 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chris Hedges comments
Exactly true. We are all infected to one degree or another. I have
coexisted and compromised my entire life, and do not blush in saying so. We
exist as best we are able. But that is no reason to not dream of better
times for our future generations. That's why I voted for Bernie Sanders and
Jill Stein. I knew neither of them could buck the System, but it was one
small protest by one slightly damaged man. I still waffle at times,
supporting the "lesser of two evils".
But as I've said before, if we do not find our way to victory over
capitalism, it will destroy democracy. Hard to compromise with someone
whose bent on destroying you. Obama learned that lesson quickly, and set
out to do the bidding of his Masters.
Anyway, it's all interesting...even though it's also sad.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/26/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been reading the book by the black woman who worked in his
campaign as outreach director to African Americans. She originally
met him when she was a contestant on The Apprentice. She is clearly
ambitious and self serving.
What attracted her, a black working class woman who got a good
education and made lots of money? She wanted material success. That's what
he represented.
That's what the American dream is. The Left can romanticize the
working class all it wants to, but the working class is infected
with the same values as the billionaires. Bill and Hillary Clinton
started out in the working class, as did Obama's American grandparents and
mother.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:17 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chris Hedges comments
The greatest threat to the American Working Class is the Wall that
stands between the People and those Profiteers busily stripping away
all our possessions and exhausting our entire planet. That Wall has
a name. Donald Trump. While the Media draws our attention to the
crazy antics of this Showman, the American Corporate Empire(ACE) has free
range.
None of us would hand over our wallets or purses to some fast
talking street entertainer, but that's what is happening. What
strange hold does Donald Trump have over the Working Class?
Carl Jarvis
On 3/26/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Chris Hedges
Mueller Report Ends a Shameful Period for the Press
Truthdig
The Mueller report's categorical statement that Donald Trump and
his campaign did not collude with Russia ends one of the most
shameful periods in modern American journalism, one that rivals the
mindless cheerleading for the Iraq War by most of the press. It
further erodes and may prove fatal to the credibility of a press
that has steadfastly rendered most of the country invisible and
functions as little more than an array of gossiping courtiers to the
elites.
" '[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump
Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in
its election interference activities,' " the report by special
counsel Robert Mueller says, according to a direct quotation given
in an official letter by U.S.
Attorney General William Barr.
The charge that Russia stole the 2016 presidential election, that
Vladimir Putin has secret "pee tapes" of Trump cavorting in a
Moscow hotel with prostitutes or that Trump has been a longtime
"Kremlin agent," repeated by reporters whose work I admired in the
past, is demagoguery as pernicious as the vile taunts and racist
tropes that come out of the White House. The press endlessly
repeated such allegations while ignoring the expanding social
inequality and suffering of a country where half the population
lives in poverty, as well as the collapse of our democratic
institutions. These facts, not Russian manipulation, saw enraged
American voters elect a demagogue who at least belittles the
elites, including those in the press, who sold them out. The charge
that Trump was a tool of Russia is entertaining. It attracts
billions in advertising dollars. It allows the press to posture as
a moral crusader. But over the past three years this obsession
blotted out most of the real crimes committed by this administration and
the reality most Americans endure.
The mainstream press, owned by the corporations that have
extinguished the democratic state and are fleecing the public, as
well as destroying the ecosystem on which we depend for life, does
not hold its employers to account. The empty chatter about Russia,
including in The New York Times, exposes the bankruptcy of the U.S.
media. MSNBC and CNN, which long ago abandoned journalism for
entertainment, have breathlessly clogged the airwaves with
ridiculous conspiracy theories and fantasies and used them to justify a
faux crusade.
