After spending 40 minutes composing my answer, I found the thread closed because of the prohibition on contemporary politics....

I do not think GWBush did anything except play his role as a presidential candidate.

From the ground up to the national stage, the Republican Party has been very aggressive in expanding their voter base through a series of strategies.

1.Being pro active on a local level using moral issues to create political divisions. ...

This is a repeat comment to your Chis Hedges piece from this morning..

Hedges, Elsberg, Chomsky and West are genuine heroes but the work is far from done. The higher courts, especially the Supreme court has already been subverted and will not strike down the NDAA so easily.

The economic downturn is much greater than we have been told and principals believe that we are in for social upheaval and possibly chaos.

Over the last 10 years, precipitating...

[B]Occupy May Day General Strike.[/B]

For the second time in half a year I made the 300 mile journey to New York City to stand with the Occupy Movement during the May Day general strike.

It was organized so that there would be a morning group in Bryant Park from 9am till 2pm. The second gathering would be formed in Union Square at 14th street and both groups would march downtown to Wall Street at 5:30..

I was not involved as organizer or as a member...

Occupy Brattleboro and Occupy Burlington, Vermont, December 2011


I have always liked Brattleboro.


Vermont's Senator, Bernie Sanders is one of the few in Washington with some guts to face down the forces that threaten to overwhelm us all. A small town on the Vermont Massachusetts line, it has always had a reputation of being fairly liberal, tolerant and it has a charm left over from another century.


There were the Whetstone Falls that provided...

[B]A report from Zuccotti Park, November 14th 2011[/B]
(This is my piece, not, cut and paste from other sources)
I have a bias so don't expect impartial reporting from me.
I am sympathetic to the core issues of Occupation Wall Street. If I was more youthful or homeless, I might be camped there with them.
I traveled 300 miles for a number of reasons, one of which was to go to Zuccotti Park and visit the with the protesters. What makes Occupation Wall Street different from...