Political youth

Just thought I'd provide this link. I used to check Alternet more often than I do these days. I wasn't aware they had a site targeting and maintained by college-age voters. It's called Wiretap.

Ironically, conservatives have been actively reaching out to young people. They know that youth are this year's "swing vote." And they're dangerously ahead on college campuses. A recent study of college students found that 61% approve of the President's job performance, and 31% identify as Republicans, versus 27% as Democrats and 38% as Independent or unaffiliated.

Wait till they get drafted. Oh wait. That's the no-good-losers who didn't go to college.

Wiretap needs to reach more students and young people with relevant information to wake them up to the dangers of policies that affect their lives ... and to keep them from turning to conservative solutions.

Whoa, now. I can't go with you that far. I say educate them, wake them up. But they get to choose their own solutions. That's what freedom of choice is about.

Here's the thing. Liberalism is not compatible with today's American capitalist society. I think it is probably a thing of the past until this country goes belly up and starts from scratch. Liberals may need to try to form community-based economies within the larger structure of corporate capitalism, if that's even possible. (Maybe have a look at Solari again.) And realize that we are not going to run this country again for a long, long time. Corporate war profiteering will have to bleed the system dry, and people will have to become sufficiently desperate to become revolutionary. With any luck, it will happen sooner than later, but we have to realize that it is going to hurt.

Don't mean to be a wet blanket. But, let's open our eyes and be realistic about what America has become. I remember in the Democratic primaries when Bill Clinton was vying for the 1992 nomination that California's "unique" governor, Jerry Brown, in a televised debate listened to all the other candidates talk about how we needed to do this or that to tweak things. And Jerry said, rather stridently, I might add, which did not help his image I'm sure, in essence: All you guys are talking about going into Washington and modifying what is a totally corrupt system. We don't need modification in Washington. We need a crow bar.

He was right, too.

And look how much further down that same corrupt road we are today.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.