The problem I see is that this message was broadcast on CD. Anyone who reads CD is already engaged. This message needs to get to people that don't give a shit. The question is how do we do that? We need to be a force that can no longer be ignored by the national corporate media. I have no idea how to do that. They've done so well at ignoring us up until now. And why do we even give shit about Michael Jackson? Is that really news? How do we work with people that just don't care?

My advice to the younger generation is twofold:

1) Please vet your Presidential candidates. You just participated in your first Presidential election, and you f*cked up completely. We really ought to draft your asses.

2) Stop writing songs. We love you, but you can't write a good song to save your lives. ;)

The problem is Solomon will have the multi-millionaire heirs of Sonoma County, CA activate for their own personal interests, basically, in protection of their inherited privileges/advantages over world peasantry. Solomon is not addressing farm wage-slaves of the San Joaquin valley. This is the classic pseudo-left racket, stealth class warfare, perpetrated Solomon-style.

It's really hard to "get to work" with lesser-evilists, which is what almost every progressive who supported Obama is. That sort of calculating pragmatism is uninspiring and untrue to my principles.

BTW - I am just now reposting this comment, somewhat out of context, because the original comment I was replying to up-chain has been removed (probably because someone complained that it had multiple iterations of the "F U" sentiment"), and therefore I surmise that all comments that were in the reply series to the removed comment are also removed automatically by the software. THIS may help explain the occasional inexplicable disappearance of readers' comments - there isn't necessarily a nefarious ideological bent on the part of CD staff, censoring our comments here for their political content.

Yup, Norm engaged and voted for Obama. Now he wants to re-engage--perhaps to undo the damage.

I liked his message a great deal because as ubrew said, it was simply, elegantly put and oh so right.

I myself feel a little stymied about effecting change because the press is useless, the people are sedated by news of Michael Jackson and that the economy is showing "green shoots" and so there is this terrible feeling of lassitude.

But honestly, the only thing we have is each other. I tend to think a great deal about what I can do to make my corner of the universe better. I buy local when I can. I try to speak out even though living in Kansas, it is a very unpopular thing to do. The doorway to change is getting enough people to think about things another way. But it is amazing to me how complicit the press is at not asking so many pertinent questions.

Love is the answer.

sacrifice is the method.

politics is a lie. the personal is the political. resist.

"If we want to change things, we've got to engage and be active...that's just the way history works."

The man knows what he's talking about.

Notice, he didn't say that Obama has to engage and be active, or Nader, or Ish Kabibble, or him over there, or her over here. No, WE have to engage and be active! Notice, he also didn't say that we have to bitch and piss and moan about things. Not that there isn't reason or that we shouldn't, but WE have to engage, be active, and work for what we want.

That's just the way history works.

The man know what he's talking about.