AMERICAblog: Richard Cohen warns of the Cultural Depression that may be heading our way
maakuAB
· 1 year ago
The mindset that's being referenced is what I think of as anorexia nervosa conservatism: feeling better when everything else in life is out of control by seizing what little one can control and controlling with a death grip.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
dark times in all areas and facets of America.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Control requires responsibility. It's so much easier not to be responsible and to blame others for their control.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Let me get this straight. MSNBC is so scared of being called "unfair" they demote Keith Olbermann and allow David "Bush's 'stretch'" Gregory to man the campaign desk? Then why are they allowing Joe Scarborough to man the desk when Gregory is not around? I'm watching re-broadcast of "Race to the White House" and "Joe Scarborough" is now doing his best to help Republicans and John McCain while hosting the program. EVERYONE knows Joe Scarborough is a radical Republican so MSNBC is just proving they allow themselves to be played by the "game the refs" crowd.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
whoops Disqus screwed up on me sorry about triple post.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
Brokaw pulled a power play and got Olbermann and Matthews removed from the anchor desk.
MSNBC only SEEMS left compared to CNN and Fox. Maddow certainly is a liberal (thank god for her btw), Olbermann is as well, and thats the complete list of true liberals hosting cable news shows.
Scarbourough has 3 hours in the morning, Gregory gets his own show and sometimes hosts the Today show, Matthews isnt even really liberal (its debatable, but he isnt a liberal as I define the word), and the rest of MSNBC is littered with people like Andrea Mitchell and Pat Buchanan.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Chris Matthews is an opportunist who shouts out liberal shit every now and then because he has a bad case of Tourette's syndrome. Then he tries to claim he was right because he mentions liberal stuff by posing it as a question then follows with a conservative argument. When the liberal thing he spouted turns out to be true, then he claims the question he posed was a statement.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
Ok, can we STOP pretending that any of the "journalists" on TV are actually Journalists? They ARE PROPAGANDISTS.
bronco214
· 1 year ago
Had a journalism prof that said when you write a story and it doesn't piss off people on both sides of the issue, you haven't done your job throughly. I seem to remember that JFK brought in cabinet members from the other side so he could maintain perspective. Just because you think your opinion is correct or better, it doesn't mean it's true. Only by looking at all sides can you get to where you really should be. Because we know that the 30%ers get their news from "fair and balanced" (totally to the right) news sources, it follows that they don't want to hear anything but echoes of their prejudices. Viva 11/04/08!
irishdave3
· 1 year ago
Yep...probably the most Hi-Profile of those was DEFSEC Robert Strange McNamara...that sure worked out swell, din it?
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
Cohen's finally pulling his head out of his ass after, what, 12-15 years??? What did he think was going to happen? and does he see that HE's been part of the problem that he's talking about???
UncleGlenny
· 1 year ago
Being completely unfamiliar with Cohen, this seems, especially in the last paragraphs, to be rambling incoherencies. Why, in the third to last paragraph, if he hadn't mentioned "smut" I would have assumed that the referent to all the "these" and "them"s was "Republican National Convention," but they wouldn't be bringing smut into .... oh, wait...
At least he didn't blame Teh Gayz.
irishdave3
· 1 year ago
Do you think Cohen is guilty of Stupidity or Cupidity when he links Huey Long to Father Coughlin? I am guessing just insider "liberal" conventional wisdom brought to us by the "Village" people.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' " - Winston Churchill "Finest Hour" speech, June 1940.
Churchill predicted a new dark age if Hitler won. But he promised a new golden age if he failed.
Sure enough, under the exigencies of liberal political and economic policies, around the free world, from global economic productivity doubled in less than 30 years from 1945 to 1973. Yes, in 30 years of widespread liberalism, Human productivity increased more in 30 years than it had in the prior 10,000.
It's also worth pointing out that the policies that brought the world to the brink of a new dark age in 1940 were those of our own Republican party in the 1920s, triggering the great depression, paving the way to Hitler's rise.
Get that? Republican policies bring about dark ages. Democratic policies bring about golden ages.
The period from 1945 to 1973 was history's most golden of golden ages: in almost every field of human endeavor: Art, literature, science, music. To the extent we continue to thrive, it is in that era's after glow.
A democratic victory can once again point history to new sun lit uplands.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Was this Cohen's Facebook entry? Resentment is an ugly vice. The Great Cultural Depression is ending and with Obama's election, there's a real possiblity of a Cultural Renaissance. Cohen and his enablers will be free to crawl back under the rock where they fret and stew.
dula
· 1 year ago
Just on Britain's The Mail Online and they are reporting that part of missing Couric interview was this: She called homosexuality a 'choice' that she has not made. 'I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships,' she said. One of her 'absolute best friends' was gay, she said, adding: 'She is not my gay friend, she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I have made, but I'm not going to judge people'
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
There's something on Huffpo about that... apparently she's got a gay friend, and this female friend has made a "choice" of lifestyle that Ms. Palin doesn't approve of and wouldn't make herself...
And quizzed about her position on gay-rights, Palin cited a homosexual friend whom she is close with before noting that she "made a choice" about her sexuality.
"I have," she said, "one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay and I love her dearly. And she is not my gay friend. She is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I would have made."
SCLiberal
· 1 year ago
A frightening number of Americans are already experiencing a Great Depression and have been doing so for decades. • How many people does our government say are homeless in the US on any given day? 754,000 are homeless. About 338,000 homeless people are not in shelters (live on the streets, in cars, or in abandoned buildings) and 415,000 are in shelters on any given night. • What percentage of people in homeless shelters are children? HUD reports nearly 1 in 4 people in homeless shelters are children 17 or younger. • How many veterans are homeless on any given night? Over 100,000. • In how many U.S. cities can a full-time worker who earns minimum wage afford even a one bedroom rental? ZERO. Sobering stats like this can be found at http://thepeacetree.blogspot.com/.
What little middle class we have now is frightened of having to live like thousands of their fellow Americans. This era of easy credit has masked the widening gulf between top and bottom and diverted attention away from the basic needs of our communities. Consider this economic "crisis" a wake up call.
via
· 1 year ago
All the more reason to elect Obama. We are going to need a person of hope and vision. Obama lights up a room when he enters. John McCain makes one feel that a dark cloud has passed over the sun.
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MSNBC only SEEMS left compared to CNN and Fox. Maddow certainly is a liberal (thank god for her btw), Olbermann is as well, and thats the complete list of true liberals hosting cable news shows.
Scarbourough has 3 hours in the morning, Gregory gets his own show and sometimes hosts the Today show, Matthews isnt even really liberal (its debatable, but he isnt a liberal as I define the word), and the rest of MSNBC is littered with people like Andrea Mitchell and Pat Buchanan.
I seem to remember that JFK brought in cabinet members from the other side so he could maintain perspective. Just because you think your opinion is correct or better, it doesn't mean it's true. Only by looking at all sides can you get to where you really should be.
Because we know that the 30%ers get their news from "fair and balanced" (totally to the right) news sources, it follows that they don't want to hear anything but echoes of their prejudices.
Viva 11/04/08!
At least he didn't blame Teh Gayz.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' " - Winston Churchill "Finest Hour" speech, June 1940.
Churchill predicted a new dark age if Hitler won. But he promised a new golden age if he failed.
Sure enough, under the exigencies of liberal political and economic policies, around the free world, from global economic productivity doubled in less than 30 years from 1945 to 1973. Yes, in 30 years of widespread liberalism, Human productivity increased more in 30 years than it had in the prior 10,000.
It's also worth pointing out that the policies that brought the world to the brink of a new dark age in 1940 were those of our own Republican party in the 1920s, triggering the great depression, paving the way to Hitler's rise.
Get that? Republican policies bring about dark ages. Democratic policies bring about golden ages.
The period from 1945 to 1973 was history's most golden of golden ages: in almost every field of human endeavor: Art, literature, science, music. To the extent we continue to thrive, it is in that era's after glow.
A democratic victory can once again point history to new sun lit uplands.
She called homosexuality a 'choice' that she has not made. 'I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships,' she said.
One of her 'absolute best friends' was gay, she said, adding: 'She is not my gay friend, she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I have made, but I'm not going to judge people'
• How many people does our government say are homeless in the US on any given day? 754,000 are homeless. About 338,000 homeless people are not in shelters (live on the streets, in cars, or in abandoned buildings) and 415,000 are in shelters on any given night.
• What percentage of people in homeless shelters are children? HUD reports nearly 1 in 4 people in homeless shelters are children 17 or younger.
• How many veterans are homeless on any given night? Over 100,000.
• In how many U.S. cities can a full-time worker who earns minimum wage afford even a one bedroom rental? ZERO.
Sobering stats like this can be found at http://thepeacetree.blogspot.com/.
What little middle class we have now is frightened of having to live like thousands of their fellow Americans. This era of easy credit has masked the widening gulf between top and bottom and diverted attention away from the basic needs of our communities. Consider this economic "crisis" a wake up call.